Liquid Legal

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. Introduction: “Run Legal as a Business!”

   • Roger Strathausen, Kai Jacob, Dierk Schindler

   Pages 1-8

3. Masters of Ambiguity: How Legal Can Lead the Business

   • Roger Strathausen

   Pages 9-32

4. Globalization and the Changing Role of General Counsel: Current Trends and Future Scenarios

   • Mari Sako

   Pages 33-46

5. Legal Advisor–Service Provider–Business Partner: Shifting the Mindset of Corporate Lawyers

   • Rainer Markfort

   Pages 47-58

6. Shifting Client Expectations of Law Firms: Morphing Law Firms into Managed Services Providers

   • Lucy Endel Bassli

   Pages 59-75

7. Legal Process Outsourcing: Redefining the Legal Services Delivery Model

   • Mark Ross

   Pages 77-88

8. LegalTech on the Rise: Technology Changes Legal Work Behaviours, But Does Not Replace Its Profession

   • Micha-Manuel Bues, Emilio Matthaei

   Pages 89-109

9. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Run Legal with Business Metrics: Will the Legal of the Future Measure Everything It Does?

   • Christine Pauleau, Christophe Collard, Christophe Roquilly

   Pages 111-128

10. The Legal Entrepreneur: When Do Corporate Lawyers Act Entrepreneurially?

    • Andranik Tumasjan, Isabell M. Welpe

    Pages 129-139

11. A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet: The New Legal Pro-Occupations in the Construction Sector

    • Barbara Chomicka

    Pages 141-152

12. Liquid Legal: Organization 4.0: Using Legal Competency for Building Fluid & Innovation-Driven Structures

    • Gerrit Mauch

    Pages 153-173

13. Change Management for Lawyers: What Legal Management Can Learn from Business Management

    • Arne Byberg

    Pages 175-189

14. The Legal Department: From Business Enabler to Business Creator

    • Isabelle Roux-Chenu, Elisa de Rocca-Serra

    Pages 191-209

15. Legal Tech Will Radically Change the Way SMEs Handle Legal: How SMEs Can Run Legal as Effectively and Professionally as Large Corporations

    • Sven von Alemann

    Pages 211-225

16. The Value of Everything: How to Measure and Deliver Legal Value?

    • Jan Geert Meents, Stephen Allen

    Pages 227-235

17. The Value Add of Legal Departments in Disputes: Making a Business Case Rather Than Providing Pure Legal Advise

    • Ulrich Hagel

    Pages 237-273

18. The Future of In-House Legal Departments and Their Impact on the Legal Market: Four Theses for General Counsels, and One for Law Firms

    • Markus Hartung, Arne Gärtner

    Pages 275-286

19. Procurement of Legal Services: How Customers Professionally Procure Legal Services Today

    • Bruno Mascello

    Pages 287-302

20. CLOC: Joining Forces to Drive Transformation in Legal: Bringing Together the Legal Ecosystem

    • Connie Brenton

    Pages 303-310

This book compels the legal profession to question its current identity and to aspire to become a strategic partner for corporate executives, clients and stakeholders, transforming legal into a function that creates incremental value. It provides a uniquely broad range of forward-looking perspectives from several different key-players in the legal industry: in-house legal, law firms, LPO’s, legal tech, HR, associations and academia. This publication is a platform for leading legal professionals that offers a new perspective on the accelerating transformation in legal. Combining expert contributions with editorial insights, it argues that the new legal function will shift from a paradigm of security to one of opportunity; that future corporate lawyers will no longer primarily be negotiators, litigators and administrators, but that instead they will be coaches, arbiters and intrapreneurs; that legal knowledge and data-based services will become a commodity; and that analytics and measurement will be key drivers of the future of the profession. A must-read for all legal professionals, this book sets the course for revitalizing the profession.

• Client expectations
• Law firms
• Best practices
• Metrics
• KPIs
• Organization 4.0
• Legal competencies
• Compliance

• SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany

  Kai Jacob

• NetApp B.V., Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands

  Dierk Schindler

• Dr. Strathausen Consultancy, Berlin, Germany

  Roger Strathausen

Kai Jacob is Head of Global Contract Management Service, SAP SE, and Board-Member of IACCM.


Dierk Schindler is Head of Legal Field EMEA & Worldwide Contract Management NetApp. A PhD in law from University of Augsburg, Dr. Schindler also lectures at the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI), Austria and Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.


Roger Strathausen, Ph.D. Stanford University, is a Consultant and Lecturer at Technical University (TU) Berlin and HWR Berlin. Dr. Strathausen was also an executive at Accenture. 

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