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Transform your legal function with GenAI
Explore the benefits of legal transformation, why it must be a priority for legal leaders and c-suite, and get practical steps to unlock success.
Optimising your legal function
To thrive, legal departments and law firms must improve service levels by thinking creatively about where and how legal services get delivered.
Legal departments and law firms are increasingly turning the spotlight on operations in a bid to increase innovation in delivery methods, control costs, and to improve quality.
Our team combines PwC consulting methodology, data analytics, in-depth knowledge of the legal market and delivery of legal services to provide a structured approach to identify improvement, effectiveness, time, and cost saving opportunities.
We can help you get to the heart of the challenges that your legal department and law firm face. By drawing on our market insights, we provide objective evidence-based solutions to create the optimal operating model.
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A law firm
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For in-house legal teams
In a world where in-house legal departments are facing budgetary pressures to reduce external spend and headcount, we can help you manage your finances to deliver more efficient legal services within your budget constraints.
In-house legal departments are increasingly being seen as value-enabler, and not just a value-protector or cost centre. It’s more important than ever to embed a culture of measuring performance and an ability to articulate value to the business. We can help you harness the power of data to demonstrate the value of the legal function and discover insights.
Where your business’s compliance and control is achieved through considerable manual effort, we can help you navigate an increasingly complex risk and compliance burden and be prepared for the future.
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the vast number of legal-specific technologies out there. As you look towards updating or better integrating your IT architecture, we can help you invest in the right LegalTech and integrate it into your wider ecosystem, uncovering efficiency where you did not know it existed.
Outdated, disparate and inconsistent processes can weaken synergies between systems and teams within your organisation. We can help you boost team collaboration and drive efficiencies across process flows and knowledge management.
How we can help in-house legal teams
- Legal department modernisation
- LegalTech consulting and implementation
- Contract solutions
- Document management and automation
- Outside counsel and vendor management
Legal department modernisation
Transforming what matters
When legal teams recognise the need for change, but don’t know where to start, NewLaw helps to establish a baseline of your current state and unlock new value that's better aligned with the strategic goals of your business.
Starting with a diagnostic of your legal function across people and external counsel, process and technology, and benchmarking against industry peers and global best practices, we co-develop your strategy and transformation roadmap. Leveraging our extensive experience, we can also help you implement these recommendations - including scoping, delivery and change management.
For law firms
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in legal budget cuts, embedded competitive panel pitches as the norm, and moved law firms into the same category as any other supplier. Clients' expectations are higher than ever and they're demanding more for less, which put pressure on law firms' return on investment.
Rising cost pressures and the need for efficiency from leveraging cutting-edge technologies and accessing specialised expertise are pushing organisations towards using new—and no longer 'alternative'—legal service providers. Law firms are facing mounting competition from these providers, as their growth accelerates in the wake of the pandemic.
Today's buyers are looking towards law firms to invest in and use new technologies to improve productivity, efficiency and service delivery. The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on remote and automated solutions, and the effective use of technology is now recognised as a key enabler for successful law firms.
The events in recent years have accelerated the adoption of online/remote working and virtual collaboration. Firms that settle for the status quo will miss out on the potential benefits of improved ways of working such as expanding their hiring pool beyond geographical borders and capturing data to unlock efficiencies. Agile law firms that embrace new ways of working will be most successful.
The lack of specialisation is a leading reason corporate clients switch out their legal service providers, and law firms are beginning to realise that a generalist approach to providing legal services is no longer sustainable.
How we can help law firms
- Law firm transformation
- Client experience development
- Capability development for lawyers
- Legal technology and digital strategy
- Crisis management and cloud for legal
Law firm transformation
Creating a unique value proposition in the market
Differentiated performance is underpinned by strategy execution at all levels to drive transformational change and deliver results that clients and employees value.
We specialise in optimising enabling functions for mid-sized, large and global law firms by helping you build a cohesive, service-oriented culture and an employee experience that differentiates your law firm. And we're able to do this because we understand organisational change and adopt an integrated approach to learning and development, employee engagement and capability-building to deliver your transformation initiatives.
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