The Legal Function as a System: Implementing Legal Operations to Drive the Transformation of Legal Teams

What happens when a legal function chooses a solution before understanding the problem?

A platform can be useful. So can a reorganization, a new metric or a change of provider. But none of these decisions, on its own, shows that the legal function can work, decide or learn differently.

In The Legal Function as a System, Daniel S. Acevedo Sánchez proposes understanding Legal Operations through the legal function as a whole: how it enables the business, protects the organization and delivers its services.

The starting point is capability: what the organization needs to be able to do deliberately and repeatedly. The LaitHaus Method brings this perspective together. Its corporate application, LTH In-House, encompasses four dimensions, fifteen development factors and eighty-two capabilities.

The book helps readers distinguish capabilities, processes and tools, understand their connections and govern transformation while the legal function continues to operate.

For those who lead legal teams and need more than a collection of good practices: a coherent way to understand what must change and how to sustain it.