Legal departments are increasingly being asked to prove their value to stakeholders in the same way as other business units: by using numbers and graphs. To do this, a smart legal department needs to start managing their work using time-tested project management techniques, like defining the scope of a project, monitoring its progress and budget, adjusting scope and budget as necessary, and assessing the overall performance after completion of the matter. By tracking these items along with legal spending, in-house counsel will arm herself with metrics and benchmarks that she can then use show the legal departments values to stakeholders in the language that business folks understand.
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