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How to Optimize the Distribution of Legal Work?
Bart Louwerenburg Bart Louwerenburg

How to Optimize the Distribution of Legal Work?

At LawyerlinQ, we engage with the largest legal departments in the Netherlands regarding their legal challenges. In this article, we discuss how to optimally distribute legal tasks. There are various ways to distribute legal work within your own team and beyond.

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6 Handige tools voor zelfstandige juristen
Martijn Hoogewerf Martijn Hoogewerf

6 Handige tools voor zelfstandige juristen

Als (beginnend) zelfstandige jurist sta je voor diverse uitdagingen. Van het beheren van je administratie tot het managen van juridische projecten en het doen van acquisitie. De digitale wereld biedt een scala aan handige tools die specifiek zijn ontworpen om jouw werk gemakkelijker te maken. Hier zijn enkele nuttige tools voor zelfstandige juristen:

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Benchmark onderzoek - advocatentarieven 
Bart Louwerenburg Bart Louwerenburg

Benchmark onderzoek - advocatentarieven 

LawyerlinQ helpt juridische organisaties bij het optimaal inkopen en inhuren van advocaten en freelance juristen.

Als onderdeel van onze dienstverlening aan onze corporate klanten voeren wij jaarlijks onderzoek uit naar de tarieven van advocatenkantoren in Nederland door middel van enquêtes en interviews.

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How do General Counsel choose law firms?
Bart Louwerenburg Bart Louwerenburg

How do General Counsel choose law firms?

As a part of my role at LawyerlinQ, I’ve had discussions with over a hundred General Counsel (GCs) regarding the procurement of attorney services. In this blog series, I’ll share my learnings from these conversations. This third blog I will address how choosing a law firm usually goes for companies. It turns out that little to nothing has changed in that over the past few decades.

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Why Are External Legal Costs Not a KPI?
Bart Louwerenburg Bart Louwerenburg

Why Are External Legal Costs Not a KPI?

As a part of my role at LawyerlinQ, I’ve had discussions with over a hundred General Counsel (GCs) regarding the procurement of attorney services. In this blog series, I’ll share my learnings from these conversations. In this second blog, I will address the question of why reducing external legal costs is not a KPI in Dutch legal departments.

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Moving beyond the billable hour trap
LawyerlinQ Office LawyerlinQ Office

Moving beyond the billable hour trap

In-house teams are adopting a new process that emphasizes the true value of legal services. By segmenting legal matters into milestones and deliverables, and adding a reversed auction process, they are able to select firms based on insight into the value each firm can bring to the table, rather than on the price of billable hours.

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Fixed PRICING
Bart Louwerenburg Bart Louwerenburg

Fixed PRICING

From my role at LawyerlinQ, I've had discussions with nearly a hundred GCs over the past few months regarding the procurement of attorney services. In this blog series, I'll share my insights, or "learnings" as we call them internally. This first one focuses on 'fixed pricing'. While everyone claims that fixed pricing is challenging, it turns out to be easier than you think. In this blog I’ll share 3 tips:

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Podcast interview with LawyerlinQ founder Marijn Rooijmans
Moderator LawyerlinQ Moderator LawyerlinQ

Podcast interview with LawyerlinQ founder Marijn Rooijmans

LawyerlinQ founder Marijn Rooijmans was a guest in the dutch podcast series ‘De Bedrijfsjurist’ (ENG: the legal counsel). The podcast itself is in Dutch and features General Counsel and legal ops, professionals. Marijn talks about entrepreneurship in the legal sector. legal tech, and explains the how and why of the LawyerlinQ platform for sourcing external outside counsel.

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It's time
Bart Louwerenburg Bart Louwerenburg

It's time

when discussing ways to optimize legal spending, most legal departments still heavily rely on long-term arrangements they have made with their panel firms, which usually involve discounts on hourly rates.

It's been that way forever. But it doesn't make sense.

Sure, you work for a big company, so it doesn't come out of your pocket, but how would you feel if you were personally paying the bills?

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Where do you get your benchmark data?
LawyerlinQ Office LawyerlinQ Office

Where do you get your benchmark data?

As a legal manager, your performance is judged in a variety of ways. Often the satisfaction of your internal clients is decisive, and rightly so. But most legal managers we talk to also want to know how their department is doing compared to others.

But where do you get your benchmark data?

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Legal Tech in de polder (English below)
Moderator LawyerlinQ Moderator LawyerlinQ

Legal Tech in de polder (English below)

Blogpost in Dutch and English about starting and scaling a legal tech company in the Netherlands, the Dutch Legal Tech market, opportunities for legal tech entrepreneurs in the Netherlands

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