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The Year Past and the Year to Come   Liam Brown   As January draws to a close, it is a good moment to review the past year and consider the year ahead. 2022 was another year of growth and firsts for Elevate, and I believe 2023 will offer us many opportunities to help law organisations face new and growing challenges.   Read more   Doing Alternative Fee Arrangements the Right Way   Erica White   Using alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) doesn’t have to be a contentious experience for law departments and their law firms. In fact, AFAs can benefit both. To achieve harmony, taking the right approach makes all the difference.   Read more   How Law Firms Can Weather the Storms of 2023   Sarah Wilson-Ward   To survive an economic slowdown and hyper-cost-cautious clients, law firms must boost revenues without alienating clients or staff. Rather than rate hikes or layoffs, firms should instead focus on improved business operations.   Read more     Elevate Named Mid-Market Partner of the Year by Icertis   Contracts Lifecycle Management (CLM) software company Icertis awarded Elevate its 2023 “Partner of the Year” designation in the Mid-Market category, announcing the news at Icertis’s annual Sales Kick-Off event in San Diego.   Read More     Elevate Has a New Global Headquarters   Elevate’s Global HQ is now in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona! Adjacent to prime hotels and leading restaurants, and only five miles from the Sky Harbor International Airport, we invite you to visit to connect, create, and collaborate.   Read More     Invoice Review Will Bring Us Together   Jeffrey Klein   Looks can be deceiving. Take invoice review. It seems to be a zero-sum proposition for a corporate law department and its outside counsel. After all, any reduction in an invoiced amount accrues to the law department’s benefit at the expense (literally) of the law firm in question.   Read More     Time to Think Twice: Hiring Full-Time Attorneys Amid Today’s Uncertainties   Ruby Srivastava   With the end of the ‘COVID Boom,’ hiring full-time legal professionals is now riskier than any time in the past 15 years. As economic and geopolitical uncertainty persists, it is critical to reassess the wisdom of hiring more full-time employees (FTEs).   Read More     PODCAST   ‘Making Law Boring’ Is Incredibly Exciting   Elevate leaders discuss ten years of providing consulting, technology, and services in the legal industry, reaching US$100M in 2022 and attaining US$1BN annual revenue over the next decade.   Listen Now     PODCAST   The Evolution of Incident Response   Elevate’s James Manari talks with Melissa Ventrone of Clark Hill, Adi Elliot of Canopy Software, and Megan Silverman about data breaches from three perspectives – legal, technology, and services.   Listen Now     VIDEO   Manage Requests   Elevate’s ELM Manage Requests software provides a structured way to collect and manage work requests. It reduces dependency on email and provides transparency throughout the cycle of the request.   Watch Now     VIDEO   Manage Outside Counsel   Achieve consistent selection of appropriate outside counsel, and retain lawyers who understand and comply with Outside Counsel Guidelines with Elevate’s ELM Manage Outside Counsel software.   Watch Now       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, 2375 E. Camelback Rd., Suite 690, Phoenix, AZ 85016, United States