IT initiatives driven by clients’ in-house legal departments were once as rare as the mythical unicorn, but the past two years have seen a sharp turnaround, with many corporate counsel expressing a stronger interest in the benefits of specialist IT applications and collaboration technologies.
What’s more, there now appears to be a healthy number of initiatives underway to streamline the processes of a corporation’s legal function or to help lawyers more effectively benchmark and monitor the private practice firms they instruct.
