ELM Advisory and Implementation
Improve efficiency, strengthen spend control, and enable legal to scale with the business through ELM strategy and implementation.
- Scale legal work with visibility into matters and workload, as well as risk and performance across the department.
- Increase visibility into outside counsel and provider spend and performance to make better resourcing decisions, improve matter outcomes, and control costs.
- Transition from legacy or fragmented systems to a unified platform that connects legal data and workflows.
- Drive adoption of AI and other technologies so legal teams deliver measurable returns.
- Operationalize legal data to support faster decision making and expand the impact of automation and AI.
- Align ELM capabilities to evolving business needs through continuous improvement and ongoing user support.
Key Features
Prepare the organization for a successful rollout and sustainable change from day one.
- Achieve the ROI you desire by defining success criteria based on your unique needs, legal operations objectives, spend management goals, and industry best practices.
- Strengthen planning by evaluating current state processes, data quality, technology stack, and operational maturity.
- Ensure a smooth implementation by developing a governance model for matter intake, e-billing, outside counsel, and service provider management.
- Uncover change management needs and process standardization opportunities before they become project challenges.
- Drive stakeholder alignment and organizational confidence with a shared vision for implementation.
- Create a phased roadmap that guides ELM adoption and translates implementation goals into measurable value.
Navigate complex technology decisions through structured requirements gathering and market evaluation in addition to service provider assessment and strategic recommendations.
- Translate business needs and challenges into ELM solution requirements.
- Identify technologies aligned to your future state legal operations strategy and maturity goals.
- Assess leading ELM platforms against business requirements with guidance from experienced legal operations and technology advisors.
- Reduce the time and effort required for ELM selection through a structured RFP process with market experience and industry benchmarks.
- Minimize risk by identifying the ELM solution best aligned to organizational needs and business goals.
Accelerate time-to-value through proven deployment methodologies.
- Transform requirements into solution design and user experience.
- Manage data migration of matters, suppliers, and billing records, along with integration and testing efforts.
- Drive successful transition through strategic change management, and stakeholder engagement, as well as communications, training, and adoption support.
- Coordinate legal, finance, legal operations, IT, and outside provider teams.
- Reduce project risk through disciplined governance and issue management.
- Guide the transition to ongoing operations with a focus on sustained adoption and long-term value.
Maximize adoption and ROI of your ELM technology.
- Increase user adoption and platform utilization.
- Extend the value of ELM through automation, workflow improvements, and AI capabilities.
- Strengthen visibility into legal spend and matter performance through executive dashboards and actionable reporting.
- Continuously align platform configurations with evolving technology and legal operations priorities.
Accelerate user adoption, minimize disruption, and realize the full value of technology investments through organizational readiness and lasting behavioral change.
- Help users successfully integrate new processes and ELM workflows into their daily work.
- Drive alignment and engagement by developing proven and innovative strategies.
- Guide teams through change and reinforce desired behaviors by preparing leaders and key users.
- Build user confidence through practical training and hands-on learning.
- Encourage consistent use and maintain data quality with ongoing support.
Keep ELM operating smoothly with responsive user support, proactive administration, and continuous enhancement services.
- Support users and administer the platform to align ELM with operational needs.
- Resolve issues, respond to user requests, and implement platform improvements.
- Properly configure, govern, and align your platform with evolving operational needs.
- Monitor platform health and address issues before they become operational challenges.
- Strengthen the long-term value of ELM investments through ongoing assessment, optimization, and enhancement planning.
Why Epiq for ELM Advisory
Leverage experience from over 300 consulting engagements with leading legal departments for benchmarking and advice on legal technologies.
Leverage experience from over 300 consulting engagements with leading legal departments for benchmarking and advice on legal technologies.Drive successful transformation through stakeholder engagement and organizational readiness planning, as well as implementation governance and measurable adoption outcomes.
Drive successful transformation through stakeholder engagement and organizational readiness planning, as well as implementation governance and measurable adoption outcomes.Connect With Experts With Hands-On Experience In:
Building strategic plans for legal department transformation.
Managing legal practices and operations.
Orchestrating technology selection processes and supporting data migrations and implementations.
Rescuing stalled implementations and driving technology adoption.
ELM Implementation Partners
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