Technology doesn’t stand still, and neither do corporate law departments these days. The COVID-19 outbreak has presented several key challenges to corporate attorneys, not least of which being the way they deal with some of the tools and solutions that have become integral to their work.
As legal departments attempt to come out the other side of the pandemic, they could be reevaluating their relationships with key tech providers, spending on tools that can buy them more independence from expensive outside counsel and favoring tools that are ready to use straight out of the box. Meanwhile, systems like records management likely won’t see any updates—even if they are in desperate need of one.
