Lawyers and Legal Departments are excellent at juggling many different balls in the air, coming at them from a myriad of different angles with complex questions and multiple stakeholders. However, managing all these requests in your head and through multiple…

If you’ve made it to the Run phase of the ‘Crawl > Walk > Run’ roadmap, congratulations! Your legal team is no longer bogged down by scattered contracts or clunky workflows. By now, you’ve centralized your documents, streamlined approvals,…

Stepping It Up in Contract Management

Why Chaos in Contract Management is Costing You Big Time
Picture this: you’re sitting in a board meeting when someone asks, “What’s the renewal date on our biggest vendor contract?” Cue the awkward silence. Yep, it’s happened to the best…

Remember the days of printing off documents in duplicate or triplicate, tagging the documents with little sticky notes, arranging a signing meeting, and then sitting around while all the parties signed their name in the right place?…

In-house legal teams face daily pressures to manage risk, streamline operations, and deliver stellar results—all while navigating a fast-moving world. Yet, for too long, many legal departments have relied on disjointed, siloed tools that hinder rather than help. The future…

This month, Xakia CEO Jodie Baker muses on the state of contract management — why so many contract management projects fail and what can be done to fix the challenges.