Battle the Administration Dragon
January 15, 2021 | BY SHANNON Q
Client:
Alberta Oil and Gas Company
Their issues:
- In-house legal team efficiency was compromised due to an acute administrative burden.
How Simplex Legal helped:
- Performed a work study to identify all administrative tasks done in the department.
- Took each one and scored it based on its need to be completed by a lawyer and relative importance to business.
- Pushed tasks that scored low on both fronts to other departments and/or non-legal administration.
- Re-focused team on high-scoring tasks.
What Simplex Legal achieved for this client:
- Work flow aligned with skills and priorities.
- Increase in efficiency.
- Increase in morale.
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