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BRYTER TIMES

The 8 Top Legal Innovation Stories

of 2022 🌟

Hi there,

Welcome to another edition of BRYTER TIMES, your monthly dose of real-life stories, trends, news, and events from the world of legal innovation. 

This month, we’re doing something a little different. We’ll be back with a batch of new stories in January, but since we have just about a week left this year, we wanted to round up our top stories of 2022, as decided by you, our readers. 

Here are the 8 most popular stories we shared this year:

  1. πŸ’˜ Legal Ops: How to Bring Love to Legal 
  2. πŸ’™ Webinar: Getting the business to love the legal department 
  3. 🧠 Webinar: We need to talk about Knowledge Management 
  4. πŸ”Œ Clifford Chance Powers Second Innovation Academy with BRYTER 
  5. πŸ† Bird & Bird Wins Future of Legal Services Award for App Built on BRYTER 
  6. πŸŒ™ Our new report reveals what keeps GCs up at night 
  7. πŸ“Š 3 Legal Technology Trends You Should Know About Right Now 
  8. πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» How legal engineers are building the future of law
How to bring love to legal

1. Learn why legal ops is the cupid of the business

β€œSourcing love for the legal team is simple when it’s approached in the right way. It’s about giving the business what they need quickly, easily, and without tons of back-and-forth.” 
 
In our most popular piece of the year, our CEO Michael Grupp weighed in on how Legal Ops can help legal teams find love from the business, because a better reputation leads to tangible benefits like better engagement with the legal department, better alignment with business priorities, and reduced legal risk for all involved.

 

Love legal webinar

2. How legal can get the love it deserves: Leaders weigh in

Winning love for the legal department was a clear topic of interest for our readers this year! This summer, we hosted a webinar with legal ops expert Mark Cohen of Legal Mosaic and the Digital Legal exchange, with leading in-house counsel on how to build a better reputation and improve engagement with the business.

Knowledge management webinar

3. An honest conversation on KM with Nikki Shaver

Knowledge Management isn’t what it used to be. Once considered internal librarians, the department has transformed over time into the Swiss Army Knife of the firm, managing overall efficiency, technology, digitization, operations, and more. 
 
We recently hosted a direct, honest one-on-one conversation about the evolution of KM with Nikki Shaver, CEO and Co-Founder of LegalTech Hub, and now it’s available for you to check out on-demand!

Clifford Chance

4. Global Law Firm Clifford Chance Powers Second Innovation Academy with BRYTER
 

Following the success of their first Innovation Academy, Clifford Chance completed the training of a second cohort of legal professionals on app ideation, solution design, and prototyping.  
 
Running from February to May, the program provided lawyers and other professionals across multiple practice areas with skills and experience to identify challenges and their solutions using design thinking and user-friendly no-code app development β€” the skills of the future.

Bird and Bird

5. Bird & Bird Wins Future of Legal Services Award for App Built on BRYTER

For the firms that embraced legal tech, the awards followed! International law firm Bird & Bird won the prestigious Future of Legal Services Large Practice Award at the 2022 Legal Innovation Awards for their SCC Generator built on BRYTER! πŸ₯‚ 
 
The SCC Generator saves counsel’s time by fully automating standardized repetitive data transfer agreements. This way, organizations can quickly ensure full compliance with the revamped EU regulatory landscape.


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GC survey report

6. Our new report reveals what keeps GCs up at night

This fall, we debuted the results of our survey of GCs and legal leaders from across the Fortune 500 and discussed the findings in a webinar with partners from Ashurst, Simmons & Simmons, and KPMG Law. The report reveals: 

  • The #1 challenge shared by over 69% of GCs. 
  • The top opportunities GCs identified for improving efficiency in their departments β€” and how law firms can help. 
  • The new sweet spots for law firms looking to better service in-house legal. 
  • Real examples of how top firms are meeting GCs’ current challenges with bespoke digital solutions. 

The report is now available for download, so get your copy and we’ll send you a link to watch the webinar on-demand!

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Legal technology trends

7. 3 Legal Tech Trends You Should Know About Right Now

Need a quick rundown of just the must-know legal tech trends? We’ve got you covered.

From workflow automation to the continuing rise of legal ops and ALSPs, here are the top legal technology trends from 2022 to keep an eye on.


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Legal engineer

8. The Legal Engineer: Building the Future of Law

Does your team have a legal engineer? If not, it probably will soon!

We’ve compiled everything you need to know about the rise of legal engineering and how legal engineers are shaping the future of the industry
.

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