Elizabeth Bourlet

This key contracts risk management guide identifies five key priorities in relation to contract management and concentrates on the activities which need to be undertaken after a contract has been awarded and the service provision has commenced. It includes a series of mini action lists that suggest action points for each priority area, encourage you to record your organisation’s current level of compliance and signpost relevant Precedents in LexisNexis®.

This Practice Note is intended for lawyers taking up a new role in-house. It is aimed at sole in-house lawyers but will also be relevant to you if you are joining an established legal team. This Practice Note is designed to provide you with some practical tips about how to settle yourself into your role and suggests actions to take in your first week.

This Practice Note is intended for lawyers taking up a new role in-house. It is aimed at sole in-house lawyers but will also be relevant to you if you are joining an established legal team. This Practice Note sets out suggested actions to take in the second week of your new post. It should be read in conjunction with Practice Note: Finding your feet in-house—your first week.

This Practice Note is intended for in-house lawyers taking up a new role. It is designed to give you an overview of the basic induction meetings that you should be provided with in your first few weeks after joining your organisation and practical tips for getting the most out of them.

This Practice Note is designed to assist you to devise suitable performance measurement metrics to monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of your contract management framework and process.

This Practice note provides suggestions as to how to conduct an audit of contract management processes together with an indication of the topics you should investigate during your audit.

This Practice Note is intended for in-house lawyers of commercial organisations based in the UK. It aims to help you to understand what is meant by legal risk, the different types of legal risk and provides practical guidance on how to manage legal risk.

This Practice Note discusses ways for the legal department to manage contracts, the challenges of legal contract management, and why it is important for the legal department to develop and implement a contract management process. It covers developing and implementing a process and the extent to which technology can make legal contract management easier.

This Practice Note suggests some strategic ideas you could adopt to ensure that your human resources are aligned to provide efficient and high-quality legal services at the appropriate cost.

This key business assets risk management guide identifies five priority areas for key business asset risk management and gives the heads-up on why each one is important. It includes a series of mini action lists which suggest action points for each priority area, encourage you to record your organisation’s current position and signpost relevant content in LexisNexis®. It covers prevention and risk management as well as providing an explanation of the importance of keeping information confidential and how to implement appropriate measures. This key business asset risk management guide does not cover the relevant law in detail.

This Practice Note considers some fundamental areas of knowledge that your legal department should manage: regulatory compliance, contract compliance, organisational risk and compliance monitoring, together with how to ensure such knowledge remains accessible to emerging working methods.

This Practice Note suggests some practical ways in which you could measure a legal department’s performance and demonstrate how the legal department contributes value to your organisation.

This Practice Note defines the term ‘legal operations’ and explains the scope of the term.

This Precedent Contract audit meeting with director/head of function—agenda will enable you to ensure all the important topics you need to discuss with each of the organisation’s directors/heads of functions are covered. It is designed to enable you to capture as much information as possible to assist you to understand all the different procurement processes used in your organisation, understand the ways in which contracts are managed across your organisation, understand how the legal department can best support your organisation’s contract management processes, and enable the legal department to create an effective legal process to support your organisation’s contract management process.

This Precedent Contract audit process meeting with line manager—agenda will enable you to ensure all the important topics you need to discuss with your line manager are covered. It is designed to assist you to agree: the best method of conducting the audit, how your line manager can best support you, timescales for the audit, any further support needed, the means of communication of the findings of the audit and of the resulting legal contract management process, the need for a recurring review of contract management processes, and the most appropriate way for the legal department to create an effective legal process to support the organisation’s contract management process.

This Precedent allows you to document tasks to ensure that your human resources are aligned to provide efficient and high-quality legal services at the appropriate cost.

This Precedent details some fundamental areas of knowledge that your legal department should manage and suggests a way to document tasks related to this. Areas covered are: regulatory compliance, contract compliance, organisational risk and compliance monitoring and how to ensure such knowledge remains accessible to emerging working methods.

This Precedent Legal contract management process is designed to sit alongside your legal work process to explain to staff how to request the legal department drafts or reviews a contract. It is intended to ensure all the important topics you need to establish your contract management methods within your organisation are captured.

This Precedent Legal metrics and analytics—step plan suggests tasks you could undertake to measure the legal department’s performance and demonstrate how the legal department contributes value to your organisation. It suggests how to action and document these tasks.

This Precedent new supplier application form is designed to ensure that all relevant details about a new supplier are held by your organisation's finance team. This will ensure that payments can be made correctly and contact details are available to promote resolution of any issues regarding the product or service that has been contracted for.