At Simmons Wavelength, our legal operations consultancy service can equip your team with optimal tools, data, information, and operational processes, we empower them to deliver exceptional outcomes. Through a comprehensive review of your legal operations, we identify opportunities for improvement that can drive greater efficiency, more effective risk management, and unlock untapped value.
What sets us apart is our unique positioning at the intersection of law, data, technology, and operations. With a blend of legal expertise gained from law firms and in-house roles, coupled with extensive experience in legal operations, we offer a multidisciplinary team skilled in business analysis, process and service design, project management, and data science. Our approach combines deep legal knowledge with an independent perspective on relevant technologies, enabling us to understand and cater to your specific legal operations needs.
Our legal operations consultancy can assist you in various areas, including consulting on the end-to-end contracting process, from request management to document storage. We can also provide guidance on the implementation and utilisation of legal technology tools, restructure your legal team for optimal performance, track key performance metrics, help you build a robust data strategy, and even act as an ad hoc legal operations team. Whether you have a large or small in-house legal team, we work with organisations of all types to optimise their legal operations and drive transformative results.
Now, more than ever, we know that legal teams are challenged to deliver against an increasingly complex operating landscape, with pressure to manage (and likely reduce) costs whilst concurrently improving outcomes and enhancing the overall experience of legal services for those who provide and receive them.
Against these pressures our goal is to support you in making the best decisions for your organisation, by providing comprehensive insights, strategies, and solutions tailored to the unique circumstances of your team and operating environment.
Through a comprehensive review of your legal operations, we identify opportunities for improvement that can drive greater efficiency, more effective risk management, and unlock untapped value; by equipping your team with optimal tools, data, information, and operational processes, we empower them to deliver exceptional outcomes.
We take a solutions-focused approach, using a combination of legal engineering, data science and industry know-how to deliver powerful, measurable results that will improve your legal operations and empower you to reach new levels of success.
Our support to in-house teams typically includes:
- Consulting on the end-to-end contracting process covering all aspects from request management to document storage;
- Guidance on the selection, implementation and adoption of legal technology tools and optimal structure of teams;
- Creation of a robust data strategy that enables tracking of key performance metrics; or
- Acting as an ad hoc legal operations team to help bridge resourcing or response gaps.
Our experience
Identifying the best vendor solution for the legal team
Our client had an outdated and labour intensive document management system that was difficult to navigate and led to duplication. Our client wanted all change undertaken to contribute to future innovations. By focusing on process and business requirements, we were able to ensure the client made the best technology choice that addressed their current challenges as well as enabling future activities such as automation and creation of a clause bank.
Creating a standard approach to raising, triaging and tracking requests for legal support
Our client needed a solution that gave them visibility of the volume and progress of legal work and to institutionalise approaches. We created tools that gave business stakeholders the ability to 'self-serve' on work that did not require input from the legal team. We repurposed existing client technology to create a portal that directs legal team requests, captures demand, made information requirements explicit and enabled triage to the right legal team member.
Key contacts
If you have any questions, contact a member of the Legal Operations Consulting team for assistance:
