Citing the "trend from viewing litigation as a practice to viewing it as a business process" and increasing expectations of corporate management for their in-house legal departments to adopt a project-management approach to litigation, Lexis Nexis increases focus on tools and services to "putting processes in place to gain greater control and insight early and throughout the litigation process." Craig Bennett, Managing The Law Department With A Tighter Budget: How Integrating Legal Research And Litigation Tools Improves Risk Management, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, June 30, 2009, LINK.
As I've argued before, the attitude that legal work is somehow unique and insusceptible to process improvements, needs to be challenged. It is heartening to see that enough corporate counsel are making the mental shift that a company the size of Lexis Nexis sees a market for consulting lawyers on applying business-process improvements to legal work.
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