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  • About You

  • What country do you reside in?*
  • Which best describes your current level of responsibility?*
  • Approximately how many people work in your own organisation?*
  • Which best describes your main current role?*

  • Legal Value Assessment

    How value, delivery, metrics, and future capability are changing.
  • Which 3 strengths do you believe to be most valuable for a legal professional today. Please rank them in order of importance.*

  • In-house lawyers

  • Sources of legal value

    How the business sees and works with your legal team.
  • Over the past 12 months, which outcomes has your legal team contributed most to? (Choose up to 3.)
  • Which outcomes do you think your business colleagues most value from your legal team? (Choose up to 3.)*
  • Which strengths do you believe your business colleagues value most from your legal team today? (Choose 3.)*
  • What most limits an in-house legal team's ability to deliver the business' desired outcomes? (Choose up to 3.)*

  • Assessing external counsel

    Questions about external advisers and how they support the business.
  • What most distinguishes an external legal adviser you would instruct again? (Choose up to 3.)*
  • Which capabilities do you value most from your chosen external legal counsel? (Choose 3.)*

  • Visibility and metrics

    How your legal function reports its performance.
  • Does your legal function report KPIs or performance metrics to the board or executive committee?
  • What type of metrics do you report on?
  • What, if anything, has changed since you started reporting these metrics? (Select all that apply.)

  • AI and Legal Tech: is it changing the work, or making the same work faster?

    How AI is being used, and what it is changing.
  • Which of the following legal tasks do you personally use AI for?*
  • If you have saved time using AI, how have you mainly used that time?*

  • Building the modern lawyer.

    Assessing the skills gap and predicted value proposition. .
  • Over the next 3–5 years, which combination of strengths do you believe will most distinguish a valuable in-house lawyer? Select up to three.*
  • What is the most important change your legal team should make over the next two years to deliver greater value to the business?*

  • Private practice lawyers

  • Sources of legal value

    How your clients see the value you bring.
  • Over the past 12 months, which outcomes do you believe your work has contributed most to for clients? (Choose up to 3.)*
  • Which outcomes do you think your clients most value from you as a legal advisor? (Choose up to 3.)*
  • Which capabilities do you believe your clients value most from you as a legal advisor. (Choose up to 3.)*
  • What most limits an the firm's ability to deliver the client's' desired outcomes? (Choose up to 3.)

  • AI and legal technology

    How AI is changing your work, your pricing and your clients.
  • Over the past 12 months, how has your firm's investment in AI and legal technology changed?
  • If you have saved time using AI, how have you mainly used that time?*
  • Are clients now using AI to do work they would previously have sent to your firm?*

  • Building the modern lawyer.

    Assessing the skills gap and predicted value proposition. .
  • Over the next 3–5 years, which combination of strengths do you believe will most distinguish a valuable in-house lawyer? Select up to three.*

  • Business professionals

  • Who mainly provides the legal support you receive?*

  • Sources of legal value

    What are your desired outcomes, actual experience, preferred capabilities and delivery frustrations.
  • Which outcomes do you most value from legal support? (Choose up to 3.)*
  • Which strengths do you value most from legal professionals today?*
  • When you ask a lawyer for input on a decision, what do you most want from them?
  • Where do you experience the most friction when working with legal? (Choose up to 3.)

  • Is legal's value visible?

    Assess where business professionals see legal’s contribution and what evidence would make it visible.
  • Do you receive information or metrics about your internal legal team’s contribution?
  • What type of metrics they report on?

  • Technology and the future of legal support

    Identify which work customers will accept through tools, when humans remain necessary and what will distinguish future lawyers..
  • Which of the following would you be comfortable using for routine legal matters?*
  • What, if anything, would make you reluctant to use legal self-service or AI-supported tools? (Choose up to 3.)

  • Building the modern lawyer.

    Assessing the skills gap and predicted value proposition. .
  • Over the next 3–5 years, which combination of strengths do you believe will most distinguish a valuable in-house lawyer? Select up to three.*

  • Legal operations and technology

  • Your role and environments you work in

    Your vantage point on legal work.
  • Where do you mainly work?
  • Which areas are you most involved in?
  • How mature are the legal operations environments you work with most closely?

  • Where value becomes visible

  • Which measures would best demonstrate legal’s value to a business? (Choose up to 3.)
  • In the legal environments you know best, which outcomes most demonstrate that lawyers are creating value?

  • AI and legal technology in practice

    What you see when lawyers adopt AI and technology.
  • Which benefits from AI and legal technology are being meaningfully realised in the environments you know best? (Choose up to 3.)
  • What most prevents legal teams from getting meaningful value from AI and legal technology today?

  • What future lawyers need to provide

    What lawyers need next, and where legal is heading.
  • Where do you see the biggest gap between what legal teams currently do and what they will need to do in the next 3–5 years? (Select up to 3.)
  • What is the most important change legal teams should make over the next two years to obtain greater value from legal operations and technology?
  • Over the next 3–5 years, which combination of strengths do you believe will most distinguish a valuable in-house lawyer? Select up to three.*

  • Thank you for your interest. This study is for people aged 18 or over who are professionally involved in providing, using or supporting legal services for organisations.

     

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