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| The Agenda System Overview > Mission |
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Driving Superior Legal Performance |
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| The Corporate Legal Standard, Inc.’s (CLS) mission is to create the industry standard in corporate and government law department and law firm practice by combining best practices in business process improvement, content and technology to enhance efficiencies and productivity as well as to promote consistent work quality. We are focused on developing, delivering, and partnering with legal executives to drive superior legal performance. |
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We work with forwarding-thinking organizations who desire to: |
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- Participate with an energized group of peers in the comprehensive and
integrated approach to managing legal services.
- Reduce costs by applying process improvement methodologies to daily
- Mitigate risk by having increased visibility and control of day-to-day
activities across the enterprise through business intelligence and metrics
- Increase the quality of work by having more time for their limited resources
to focus on the strategic work and initiatives.
- Increase the productivity of outsourced partners and internal administrative
team with easy to follow, automated workflows.
- Manage knowledge better by implementing intuitive taxonomies and easy-to-use
methodologies into existing processes.
- Shape the development of future industry standards, best practices, and enabling
technologies to meet an organization’s specific needs and requirements.
- Demonstrate a commitment to efficiencies and cost savings to their Board of
Directors and Senior Management Team.
- Become a revenue center for their companies by licensing their exemplary
business processsystems to CLS to offer to other legal organizations.
- Drive superior legal performance.
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| Industry Challenges |
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| CLS developed a solution framework to address the major challenges facing law departments as reported in a survey conducted by the Association of Corporate Counsel: |
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- Reducing outside legal costs (82%)
- Keeping apprised of company activities that may have legal implications(68.7%)
- Too much work for too little resources / legal budget (60.7%)
- Staying apprised of changes in the law (54.4%)
- Technology to improve internal efficiency of the law department and work with
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| What’s Your Agenda? |
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| Law departments and law firms who seek returns on investment for being innovative in leveraging best practices and technology to improve operations have the right agenda. If you’re interested in driving superior legal performance within your organization, contact us. |
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