A Guide for General Counsel and Legal Operations Leaders

The Strategic Counsel's Guide to Legal Excellence

How in-house legal teams can close the capacity gap, recapture value from outside counsel, and lead the AI transition.

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The mandate keeps expanding while the budget stays flat. For in-house legal teams, this is not a temporary squeeze but a structural shift, and the only lever that changes the math is AI applied to the right work. This guide gives General Counsel and Legal Operations leaders the data behind the capacity gap and a clear playbook for capturing the value of AI before outside counsel keep it for themselves.

What You Will Take Away

1. Where the AI value is actually landing
Firms are adopting AI, but 59% of in-house teams report no GenAI savings from their outside counsel. See who is capturing the efficiency gains today and how to recapture that value in your own department.

2. Four workflows you can target this quarter
From first-pass contract review to sharper outside counsel oversight, get four specific, high-volume starting points that deliver measurable ROI within weeks, not open-ended pilots.

3. How to build an AI-ready department
Tools are the easy part. Learn how to fix your data foundation, invest in your people, and build governance before you need it, so your team can operate well above its headcount.

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Litera brings the whole practice of law together on one connected platform, with specialist tools available for the complex work that transactional work requires. Your firm can start with the workflow that matters most today, then add more as your needs grow. It all runs where your lawyers already work, in Microsoft Word, Outlook, the web, Google Workspace, and on iOS.

The Practice Package

Master the craft of the document, from first word to final PDF.

Start from a first draft that is already right: build from approved templates, curated content, and numbering instead of a blank page
Redline and compare with confidence: a verifiable, readable redline across any file type, so you catch every real change and never rely on an AI summary
Move fast through negotiation: pull every reviewer's comments and markups into a clean next draft
Make done mean done: proofing that catches missed references, defined terms, and citation gaps
Deliver a polished document every time: advanced formatting, repair, and PDF workflows, including binders and court documents
Share securely: clean hidden data from attachments before they ever leave the firm
Bind quickly: convert to PDF, edit, redact, and collate to deliver client-ready work, faster

Jessica Davis
Director, Matter Performance & Service Innovation, McCarter & English LLP

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