The in-house legal department is uniquely positioned to be both a supportive business partner and the guardian of the law. Traditionally, it has been managed with a purely legal focus. Adopting a business mindset and leveraging practices from other disciplines can promote operational excellence and digitalisation. Process management enables legal departments to explore how the content, support systems and interfaces of their work interact to deliver quality outcomes and relate this to management processes. It is an essential prerequisite for digitalisation.
Experts from the Liquid Legal Institute e.V. believe that legal functions must be integrated or embedded as much as possible in the business functions they manage and serve. This requires defining a process landscape, identifying interfaces and determining inputs and outputs when interacting with the business.
The publication Legal In-house Processes guides you through the concept, benefits and practices of process management for in-house legal functions to enable a productive yet human-centred digitisation of the legal function.