Liquid legal : transforming legal into a business savvy, information enabled and performance driven industry

This book compels the legal profession to question its current identity and to aspire to become a strategic partner for corporate executives, clients and stakeholders, transforming legal into a function that creates incremental value. It provides a uniquely broad range of forward-looking perspective...

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Other Authors Jacob, Kai (Editor), Schindler, Dierk (Editor), Strathausen, Roger (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
SeriesManagement for professionals,
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319458687
9783319458670
ISSN2192-8096
Physical Description1 online resource (xxxii, 454 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "run legal as a business!" / Roger Strathausen, Kai Jacob, Dierk Schindler
  • Masters of ambiguity: how legal can lead the business / Roger Strathausen
  • Globalization and the changing role of general counsel: current trends and future scenarios / Mari Sako
  • Legal advisor--service provider--business partner: shifting the mindset of corporate lawyers / Rainer Markfort
  • Shifting client expectations of law firms: morphing law firms into managed services providers / Lucy Endel Bassli
  • Legal process outsourcing: redefining the legal services delivery model / Mark Ross
  • LegalTech on the rise: technology changes legal work behaviours, but does not replace its profession / Micha-Manuel Bues and Emilio Matthaei
  • Key performance indicators (KPIs): run legal with business metrics: will the legal of the future measure everything it does? / Christine Pauleau (and others)
  • The legal entrepreneur: when do corporate lawyers act entrepreneurially? / Andranik Tumasjan and Isabell M. Weipe
  • A rose by any other name would smell as sweet: the new legal pro-occupations in the construction sector / Barbara Chomicka
  • Liquid legal: organization 4.0: using legal competency for building fluid & innovation-driven structures / Gerrit Mauch
  • Change management for lawyers: what legal management can learn from business management / Arne Byberg
  • The legal department: from business enabler to business creator / Isabelle Roux-Chenu and Elisa de Rocca-Serra
  • Legal tech will radically change the way SMEs handle legal: how SMEs can run legal as effectively and professionally as large corporations / Sven von Alemann
  • The value of everything: how to measure and deliver legal value? / Jan Geert Meents and Stephen Allen
  • The value add of legal departments in disputes: making a business case rather than providing pure legal advise / Ulrich Hagel
  • The future of in-house legal departments and their impact on the legal market: four theses for general counsels, and one for law firms / Markus Hartung and Arne Gärtner
  • Procurement of legal services: how customers professionally procure legal services today / Bruno Mascello
  • CLOC: joining forces to drive transformation in legal: bringing together the legal ecosystem / Connie Brenton
  • Legal information management (LIM) strategy: how to transform a legal department / Kai Jacob
  • Technology is changing the way legal works: a look at how technology is driving better business practices in legal / Ulf Zetterberg and Christina Wojcik
  • Look to the moon: managing and monitoring the legal function / Ivar Timmer
  • Building a legal department in a metrics-driven world: a guide to finding the best candidates for the legal departments of the future / W. Jon Escher
  • Business-friendly contracting: how simplification and visualization can help bring it to practice / Helena Haapio and Thomas D. Barton
  • Running the legal department with business discipline: applying business best practices to the corporate legal function / Liam Brown (and others)
  • LIQUID legal manifesto: changing the state of aggregation in legal / Dierk Schindler.