Do I need legal software?

• Do you have a clear understanding of your business needs? Set out problem statements for each issue. Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to understand how they fulfil their roles. For standard processes, have them outline the exact workflows they follow, paying careful attention to the individual tasks they complete and the decisions they make along the way.

With these details clearly outlined, you can identify the specific must-have software features and capabilities that will solve your unique challenges. But without doing the hard work up front to identify the precise problem you’re looking to solve, you’ll likely end up spending a lot of time and money on an implementation that will probably fail.

All that said, let’s take a look at the software categories and vendors available to in-house legal teams.