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Whether you have five minutes or five hours, we're here to support legal professionals at all stages of their careers.
Explore the courses below, sponsored by LawVu.
Productivity tips & tricks
Being a ‘productive’ legal team used to mean getting through as much work as possible - making sure deadlines are met, no matter the cost. But productivity today is all about giving you time back - time you can spend engaging with the business, being proactive, contributing to strategy.
In these courses, we give you the skills to optimize your productivity and free time up to focus on more impactful initiatives.
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Identify signs & symptoms of legal waste
Established processes are sometimes followed "because that’s just what we do"; rather than intentional and efficient design. In this course, complete a self-assessment identifying areas where you might be experiencing one of the 10 signs and symptoms of legal waste.
Develop a technology roadmap
A technology roadmap is a formal plan of how legal currently operates, how it would like to operate and the business goals it wants to achieve, ensuring you are making the best short and long term decisions when it comes to technology. It will also help to build your business case for LegalTech investment.
Set up the business to self-serve
Simple is not where legal adds value; there’s a lot the wider organization can do themselves, saving everyone a bunch of time. Learn how to establish self-service for the wider business.
Where to start with AI
The rise of AI has not only increased the speed and accuracy of legal analysis but has also freed up in-house lawyers' time to focus on more strategic and value-added tasks.There’s a lot of information out there, so it can be helpful to know where to start.
Collect & surface data
If you’ve been manually compiling reports, moving to a process that allows you to collect data on the go and then surface real-time reports will provide you with huge time savings and productivity gains.
Matter management 101
Managaing your matters - the nucleus of all your legal work - appropriately is crucial for not only productivity but also risk management, audit trails and team collaboration. Learn more in this lesson.
Engaging with the business
When there is not enough engagement with the business, the legal function remains disconnected and in a silo — an ‘untouchable’ team with a closed-door policy. Yet when your in-house legal team is engaged, there are healthy connections with the wider business and with other stakeholders, and the legal team can develop a deeper understanding of the needs of all business functions and organizational context.
Explore the essential soft skills required to be a business first legal team below.
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Map your stakeholders
Mapping your stakeholders helps legal become more visible within the organization, bringing a greater sense of mutual trust and aiding the success of business wide initiatives. Map your stakeholders with the provided template in this lesson.
Design your intake process
Implementing a formal intake process means the requests from the business will be received by the legal team in a streamlined and structured form and assigned to the most appropriate team member. Learn how to design an intake process to suit the way your team prefers to operate in this lesson.
Understand business functions and organizational context
You can have excellent relations and collaboration with the business but still not have a clear understanding of how those functions operate or of an organization’s strategy. Take a step further in this lesson and learn how to understand business functions and organizational context.
Create a business canvas
It’s important not just to understand how business unites operate but the business as a whole. Use the business canvas template in this lesson to help you map the business' strategies and priorities, opportunities and risks to help you engage with the business and provide the very best service.
Build the business's understanding of legal
In much the same way that the legal team needs to understand the functions of the wider business, it is also important that the business understands, to a certain extent, the environs of the legal team. Learn how to educate the wider business to get the most out of legal.
Change management 101
Whether it’s implementing a new way for the business to engage with legal, a new tool, or communicating a new regulation that people will need to comply with - this course will cover high level concepts of change management to help you effect change in your organization.
Impacting business outcomes
In these lessons you'll learn how to be an impactful legal team by being outcome-focused at the department and organizational level, and understanding the most effective ways for legal to contribute to and enable successful business outcomes.
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Prioritize internal customers, objectives and enabling outcomes
It’s possible to have a team of technically proficient legal experts but not be any further towards helping the business go in the direction it wants to. To have an impact in the business, it’s essential the legal team prioritizes its internal customers — the other business functions — and enables them to meet their objectives.
Align with business objectives
Learn five tangible ways to align legal work with business objectives in this lesson.
Showcase legal's value to the business
Learn why being an impactful legal team is not just about doing a good job and influencing outcomes — it’s also about being valued for doing so.
Report on business as usual
Tips for how to capture and report on the day-to-day, business as usual work of the legal team such as volume of work and time to complete work.
Report on legal's impact on larger business objectives
Where legal can have a real impact is often in the higher-profile strategic decisions. And reporting on this side of legal’s role is what will really elevate the impact legal has on the business. Learn metrics and ways of reporting to convey legal's impact.
Conduct NPS with the business
Measuring the satisfaction of other business functions, such as finance, sales, and marketing, with the legal department’s service provides the opportunity to improve processes and investigate the correlation between new legal-directed processes and the satisfaction of the wider business. Learn more about conducting NPS with your organization.
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The Connected Legal Certification
If you enjoy our courses for your team, string them together and get Connected Legal Certified. Designed to help in-house legal teams focus on the strategic work they came in-house to do, this Certificate will help you and your team their most productive, engaged and impactful selves.
Legal Tech Fundamentals Certification
In a digital world with remote work and growing pressure to do more with less, legal tech has become in-house legal’s day-to-day place of work, or ‘workspace’ if you will. But to achieve the right outcomes, it's crucial to have the right foundations set. So in this first of its kind certificate, you can become an expert on Legal Tech Fundamentals.
“It's critical for in-house legal teams to get beyond the day-to-day whirlwind of reactive work, and be able to assist their company to reach its strategic goals. This course will assist anyone in achieving those objectives and take their in-house team to the next level.”
“The Connected Legal Certification is a go-to manual for any in-house legal professional looking to take their legal team's contribution to a new level - becoming a truly valued business partner.”
“As an in-house Legal Operations Manager, staying up to date on industry trends is crucial, and LawVu enables this through their incredible resources, which helped me achieve the Connected Legal Certification by providing courses to identify and implement changes in technology, people, and processes.”