Following a massive acquisition, this GC needed to quickly expand legal’s capability to support the company’s rapid growth and evolving business strategies. With support from Gartner, the client was able to objectively measure legal’s impact, secure buy-in to expand its capabilities to support decision making and help the company sustain double-digit growth.
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Future of legal: Six shifts by 2025
In this new era of persistent business disruption, general counsel must be able to deliver fast, risk-aligned guidance and decision support. Yet only 13% of legal leaders are confident in managing cross-functional risks. To effectively navigate disruption risk, general counsel will need to drive six important shifts in their legal operating model by 2025. Learn how to build a more flexible, resilient legal department.
Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)
Legal and compliance leaders are under pressure to ensure their organizations keep pace with the volatile third-party risk landscape. Identify, monitor and mitigate third-party risk in your organization with these insights.
Develop an Effective Corporate ESG Program
Systemic changes requiring ESG action are on the horizon, including new climate regulations and evolving trade standards aimed at easing supply chain pressure. Uncover the key components of a high-impact corporate environmental, social and governance program with this guide.
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Transforming Legal and Compliance to Support Double-Digit Growth
Optimizing Costs by Improving Outside Counsel Management
This organization’s CEO set firm-wide cost-cutting targets for all departments to drive profitability after a tough financial year. The VP of Legal turned to Gartner for support in developing a cost-cutting strategy without compromising quality of work. Gartner insights, tools and advisory support helped the VP right-size work for his department and reduce costs by more than 20%.
Deploying Smart Technology to Optimize Legal Operations
The CLO of a large, sophisticated legal department needed a new solution for its poorly used document and matter management systems to deliver real business impact. Using Gartner BuySmart™, our client validated a new tool and realized 20% savings off the vendor’s original proposal, plus an estimated $5 million in annual cost savings by freeing in-house counsel time to insource work from law firms.
