A statement from KPMG Law confirmed LOTS will utilise KPMG’s in-house technology capabilities, expertise and strategic partnerships with third-party technology providers, to help them with this goal.

“Businesses are engaging their internal legal teams earlier to minimise risk and maximise business opportunity. Essentially, in-house legal teams are moving from traditional back office functions to doing business at the front end. This means that in addition to their existing legal and compliance duties, in-house counsel are being challenged to not only support business activity but to make a strategic impact across the organisation,” said Jamie Levy, leader of KPMG’s Legal Operations & Transformation Services.

“Our new service can support in-house legal teams meet this challenge by partnering with them on their transformation journey. We combine former general counsel, legal project managers, business process engineers and applied legal technologists to assess current processes, define the future operating model, demystify ‘legal tech’ offerings and implement technology-assisted approaches to the delivery of in-house legal services.”

Commenting further on the roll out of the new service, Stuart Fuller, head of KPMG Law said: “With compounding headcount, technology and budget pressures, simply tweaking the existing model may not be sufficient to meet this challenge”.

“We can help stream-line the in-house function, freeing up capacity for more value-adding work,” he concluded.

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