Legal Technology

Legal Ops Red Flags: 6 Signs Your Spend Management System Needs an Upgrade
When it comes to legal spend management systems, you can't afford to "set it and forget it."…

How Tech Helps Teams Persist Amid In-House Legal Budget Cuts
As in-house legal teams contend with budget cuts, the benefits of legal technology have become clearer than…

Why PDF Invoices Cause Pain for Legal Teams, and What To Do About It
It takes time and patience to conduct a manual PDF legal invoice review. Learn how to automate…

What Comes First? How to Choose Your First Legal Tech Purchase
What’s the right legal tech roadmap for your department? Here are four things to consider when trying…

ChatGPT Offers Reminder of AI’s Rightful In-House Legal Role
What does the rise of ChatGPT tell us about the future impact of AI on in-house legal…

Artificial Hype: Practical Applications of A.I. Within the Legal Department
There have been real and practical applications of Artificial Intelligence happening within legal departments for some time. Come…

3 Objections Legal Ops Must Address When Making the Case for Spend Management Software
Here are three common objections legal operations hears when arguing for why legal spend management software is…

In-House Counsel Can Lead the Way to a More Diverse Legal Profession
Learn how in-house counsel can undertake law firm DEI initiatives to ensure the law profession takes strides…

Law Firms Don’t Have to Hate Your E-Billing Software
Using a few e-billing best practices can help law firms buy into using the software—even if they've…

Tighten Legal Cost Control With Brightflag’s New Budgeting & Forecasting Features
In-house legal teams have been under extraordinary pressure in recent months to strengthen financial oversight, clarify cost…

Brightflag’s Auto-Invoice Processing Functionality Eliminates Manual Invoice Review
Brightflag's A.I.-powered invoice review has always helped our customers to achieve significant savings on their legal spend…

How Much Automation Is Right For Your Legal Invoice Review Process?
Legal invoice review is one of those frustrating, recurring business processes that seems ripe for technical disruption.…

5 Ways to Put More Predictability Into Your Legal Budget
Are you frequently confronted by legal spend surprises? Is your finance team frustrated by the lack of…

New Brightflag Feature: Reduce Manual Work With Automated Tax Compliance
Automated invoice review has been an essential step in our customers’ legal e-billing processes (along with the…

3 Soft Skills You’ll Need With New E-Billing Software
Code alone cannot solve a process as sophisticated as e-billing (although our developers will continue trying). You'll…

How to Automate & Accelerate Your Invoice Approval Workflow
Open the bill, check for errors, forward to Finance, repeat. Invoice approval is one of those tedious…

5 Legal Operations Frustrations Solved by Better Billing Guidelines
Listen. We get it. Legal billing guidelines are hard to get excited about. So if your team…

5 Legal Tech Truths Companies Can Trust For The Next 5 Years
Editor’s Note: This post was inspired by a panel discussion on the topic of “In-House Lawyers of…

The Next Frontier: A.I. and the Efficiently Resourced Legal Department
On June 20th, 2019, Brightflag hosted a panel discussion in Melbourne which explored the future of the in-house…

3 Key Innovations in Invoice Review, Matter Management, and Analytics
Brightflag’s CEO Ian Nolan and Head of Product Sarah Scales presented at CLOC Las Vegas 2019. Their…

Improving Matter Management with Data
Executing legal work is the core function of corporate legal teams. The management of that work, including…

CLOC 2019 Key Themes: The Maturation and Evolution of Legal Operations
The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) brings a host of legal professionals together every year so they…

Optimizing Your Legal Invoice Review Process with A.I.
The legal invoice review process is part of the job description for corporate legal teams. Once outside…

Legal Operations Improving Relationships Between Law Firms and Corporate Legal Teams
Data and broader skill sets for new lawyers are driving factors

How to get Budget for a Dedicated Legal Operations System
Working with your CFO to provide trusted advice to senior leadership

CLOC 2018 – Dispatches from the Greatest Minds in Legal Operations – Part 3
This is the third of a three-part series on the key themes we took away from the…

CLOC 2018 – Dispatches from the Greatest Minds in Legal Operations – Part 2
This is the second of a three-part series on the key themes we took away from the…

The Startup Advantage in Legal Technology
Brightflag is a young company. But one of the benefits of legal technology startups like Brightflag is that…

How Text Analysis is Changing the Legal Industry
Of all the branches of machine and A.I., text and language analysis is likely the most relevant…

Legal Invoice Review: How To Do It Effectively
This is the second of a two-part Brightflag series on legal billing guidelines and invoice review, find…

How Data Can Drive Law Firm Panel Management & Review
Three trends influencing law firm panels Challenges of legal panel management Informing data-driven panel reviews