The doing-more-with-less challenge
There’s almost universal pressure on corporate legal departments to demonstrate greater efficiency, handle bigger workloads, and, if they can manage it? Improve outcomes. At his own company, Greg has seen it at work: reduced or limited headcounts, demands for greater productivity, and mandated reductions in outside counsel spend.
“And of course,” he points out, “while all these reductions in head count and spend are being done, there’s the previously mentioned increase in demand and volume. And so do more with less is definitely the theme. I think at some point, though, there’s a physics equation that says there’s only so much you could do with what you have. And so part of the question that we’re faced with is what do we do, and what do we not do, and how do we be selective about what gets the best impact for the enterprise?”