Liquid Legal: Transforming Legal into a Business Savvy, Information Enabled and Performance Driven Industry

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Introduction: “Run Legal as a Business!”....Pages 1-8
Masters of Ambiguity: How Legal Can Lead the Business....Pages 9-32
Globalization and the Changing Role of General Counsel: Current Trends and Future Scenarios....Pages 33-46
Legal Advisor–Service Provider–Business Partner: Shifting the Mindset of Corporate Lawyers....Pages 47-58
Shifting Client Expectations of Law Firms: Morphing Law Firms into Managed Services Providers....Pages 59-75
Legal Process Outsourcing: Redefining the Legal Services Delivery Model....Pages 77-88
LegalTech on the Rise: Technology Changes Legal Work Behaviours, But Does Not Replace Its Profession....Pages 89-109
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Run Legal with Business Metrics: Will the Legal of the Future Measure Everything It Does?....Pages 111-128
The Legal Entrepreneur: When Do Corporate Lawyers Act Entrepreneurially?....Pages 129-139
A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet: The New Legal Pro-Occupations in the Construction Sector....Pages 141-152
Liquid Legal: Organization 4.0: Using Legal Competency for Building Fluid & Innovation-Driven Structures....Pages 153-173
Change Management for Lawyers: What Legal Management Can Learn from Business Management....Pages 175-189
The Legal Department: From Business Enabler to Business Creator....Pages 191-209
Legal Tech Will Radically Change the Way SMEs Handle Legal: How SMEs Can Run Legal as Effectively and Professionally as Large Corporations....Pages 211-225
The Value of Everything: How to Measure and Deliver Legal Value?....Pages 227-235
The Value Add of Legal Departments in Disputes: Making a Business Case Rather Than Providing Pure Legal Advise....Pages 237-273
The Future of In-House Legal Departments and Their Impact on the Legal Market: Four Theses for General Counsels, and One for Law Firms....Pages 275-286
Procurement of Legal Services: How Customers Professionally Procure Legal Services Today....Pages 287-302
CLOC: Joining Forces to Drive Transformation in Legal: Bringing Together the Legal Ecosystem....Pages 303-310
Legal Information Management (LIM) Strategy: How to Transform a Legal Department....Pages 311-324
Technology Is Changing the Way Legal Works: A Look at How Technology Is Driving Better Business Practices in Legal....Pages 325-340
Look to the Moon: Managing and Monitoring the Legal Function....Pages 341-360
Building a Legal Department in a Metrics-Driven World: A Guide to Finding the Best Candidates for the Legal Departments of the Future....Pages 361-370
Business-Friendly Contracting: How Simplification and Visualization Can Help Bring It to Practice....Pages 371-396
Running the Legal Department with Business Discipline: Applying Business Best Practices to the Corporate Legal Function....Pages 397-421
LIQUID LEGAL Manifesto: Changing the State of Aggregation in Legal....Pages 423-454