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CLM: Keep It Clean!   Sharath Beedu, Allison Hart   It might sound strange to assess whether a CLM solution is “clean” or not, but the distinction matters. After all, the complete contract life cycle is critical to any organisation. The pre-signature process ensures proper communication, negotiations, exchanging, and tracking of drafts. The post-signature process safeguards any audits, obligations, and storage of contracts.   Read more   Just Grow Up? Understanding and Overcoming the Roadblocks to Law Department Maturity   Stephen Allen, Kunoor Chopra   How do you know if your law department does not meet industry norms? And if so, what should you do? The survey results from Elevate’s May “Getting Sh*t Done: Workshop Efficiency for Your Law Department” session at CLOC’s 2022 Global Institute help show how you stack up and what to do to boost your operational maturity.   Read more   Two Critical Factors in the Rise of Flexible Resourcing   Paula Forbes   No one doubts the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the flexible working model, including within the legal industry. The evidence of a shift is undeniable – but what does that shift look like “on the ground?”   Read more     The Generalist Counsel: My Conversation with Steve Harmon, GC and COO   Prashant Dubey, Steve Harmon   I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Elevate GC and Chief Operating Officer Steve Harmon to discuss his new role and overall philosophy and approach to executing his remit. I was particularly excited about this because of a book I co-authored a few years back called The Generalist Counsel(Oxford University Press).   Read More     Industry Standards for Legal Business Metrics Have Arrived   Pratik Patel   Working in a corporate law department, you likely have heard an executive or colleague outside your department declare, “Legal is a cost centre.” This attitude strongly suggests that lawyers haven’t made much progress proving law departments are business enablers that boost the bottom line. But help has arrived via the new, free Legal Metrics Portal.   Read More     Video: Elevate ELM   The Elevate ELM connects people, data, and systems in one platform. Improve decision making with data-driven insights, increase efficiency, and successfully communicate with internal and external parties. ELM software modules deliver independent and incremental value.   Watch Now     Legal Innovators California   Join us at Legal Innovators California on June 09, 2022. Examine and discuss different perspectives on innovation at the intersection of legal technology and the business of law with Elevate expert Kim Lanza-Russo as the keynote speaker.   Register now   Available on   Legal Metrics Portal Helps In-House Legal Teams Advance Their Use of Data and Analytics   This Legal Metrics Portal is free for use by the legal community globally and represents over a year of collaborative analysis and development by experts from Elevate, NetApp, Is Inspired, and LegalOps.com.   Read More   Elevate Becomes First Law Company to Subscribe to Legal Metrics To Boost Diversity Tracking and Transparency   Legal Metrics, a legal technology company focused on automating the calculation and benchmarking of operations data, formalized its subscription with Elevate. Elevate will now use Legal Metrics’ system to automatically calculate our diversity performance and share it with customers.   Read More     Technology – The newest release of Manage Contracts on the Elevate ELM platform has arrived! It accelerates contracting revenue by helping you identify risks, meet contractual obligations, and understand your entire portfolio of contracts.       We’d LOVE to hear from you! Questions? Suggestions? What would you like to learn more about in upcoming issues of the newsletter?   GET IN TOUCH     Elevate, 1711 W. Greentree Drive, Suite 108, Tempe, AZ 85284, United States