Not sure if a survey of 86 people counts as enough of a sample size to ‘benchmark’ in-house legal teams, but hey, it’s a dataset and it does tell (or back up) well-beaten story…

GCs (of companies with 1,000 - 250,000 employees) have brought the majority of work in-house.

Why?

Because you can.

OK so our incredibly talented, ex-A&O lawyer and now fully-reformed Operations & Marketing Manager at Lexoo in London, has been shortlisted for the TechWomen50 Awards for emerging tech talent.

In her words:

So I quite liked this interview with AIG’s General Counsel, Chris Newby on tech they’ve pulled into their legal team.

Here’s a little grab bag of things they’ve done, from the usual suspects:

• eSignatures with Docusign
• eBilling
• automated NDAs
• a workflow and matter allocation tool
• a document management system (although he’s shopping for a new one),

to the not so usual – a legal centre in Manila where company queries go automatically 😧

Here’s some great data about remote work from 1,097 US-based respondents across all company sizes and industries, neatly broken down into:

• Remote Work Distribution by Department and Role
• Remote Work’s Impact on Hiring, Retention and Management
• Benefits & Challenges of Working Remotely
• Managing a Remote Workforce
• Remote Work and Job Performance

And then there’s this piece of kit, available only in the US (for now) 😥