In-house legal departments are investing in technology to save legal costs, improve compliance and streamline processes. Some of the systems they are putting in place are even being adopted across their corporations because of today’s compliance-pressured environment.
Julia Chain is former general counsel for T-Mobile and a consultant with the Kite Consultancy, which specialises in advising corporate counsel. She says: “The biggest in-house legal departments’ systems are quite sophisticated and there is a big push into document management and precedent building. Ad hoc systems have been developed over time, but because of liability and risk issues, there is a need for more robust systems for collating information.”
