Control Room of the Future
Legal Operations
Sia Partners’ Legal Operations professionals provide strategic planning, project management & execution, and technology expertise that many legal and compliance departments don’t have in house.
Today’s corporate counsels are under pressure internally and externally to provide value and advocate for their company’s interest with an ever-expanding list of responsibilities. Meanwhile, an uncertain business climate is putting legal departments under tough budgetary and personnel constraints.
Sia Partners’ Legal Operations professionals provide the strategic planning, project management & execution, and technology expertise that many legal departments don’t have in house.
We can help you do more …even with less.
- Our Legal Operations professionals act as force multipliers.
- Bringing efficiency and adaptability to Legal Departments.
- Enabling Lawyers to focus on providing legal advice.
Delivering Quantified Results for Legal Departments:
- 80% reduction in legal professionals’ contract review obligation through the application of AI-supported tech.
- 70+ jurisdictions are systematically monitored for regulatory changes through our proprietary tech.
How we can help…
Program Management and Strategic Services
- Project/portfolio/change management
- Operational and organizational design
- Regulatory framework assessment, gap analysis
- Maturity model and roadmap definition and implementation
Improvements to Technology and Processes
- Training and onboarding
- Privacy management
- Data Science services and data analytics
- Data Management software and technology assessment
- Regulatory Obligations monitoring and management
- Document/data preservation and e-discovery
- E-Billing
- IP/contract/NDA management
Legal/Compliance Project Management
We support companies in addressing new legal and compliance challenges. We define and build methodologies and frameworks to ease the collaboration between all the departments involved in the compliance process.
Regulatory Engagement process
Regulatory engagements are an important part of the compliance journey and require adequate preparation and planning. Our Legal PMO are dedicated to coordinate the preparation work and develop methodologies to help streamline and optimize the regulatory processes.
Document Analysis Automation
Our SiaGPT AI solution solution automatically identifies, extracts and structures essential information in your documents: contracts, invoices, briefing notes, etc.
The AI engine learns from your annotations and continuously improves results.
Transforming raw archives into valuable insights
Collects raw documents and data from unstructured sources and transforms it into structured data to make it readable and usable. Users can also isolate the most important elements according to their own criteria to build more robust reports based on extractions. We have used our AI solutions to decode, analyze and classify information contained in raw invoices in disparate formats, to restore them in clear, exploitable and scheduled data.
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Regulatory Monitoring and Review
We assist with the process of identification of regulatory obligations and implementation of compliance controls. Our Reg Review AI solution allows your compliance teams to deal with regulatory inflation, increased technicality, increased controls from regulators, and even take into account local specificities.
End-to-End Horizon Scanning and Reporting
Major financial institutions handle thousands of circulars from regulators every year. In the past, we implemented Reg Review to automate the regulatory circular management process by implementing AI combined with a workflow system to optimize the current process as well as to enhance tracking and management reporting to increase efficiency
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Where Sia Partners Has Helped Clients’ Legal Operations
- Regulatory watch: created a regulatory watch reporting function including a world-wide heatmap of e-commerce regulations for a global tech company’s legal policy communications team.
- Contract review: conducted an AI-assisted commercial supply contract portfolio review for the legal department of an international chain of convenience stores.
- Program management: provided program management support to the legal department of a tech company to perform strategic market entry and product launch preparations for a cryptocurrency and e-Wallet product.
- Policies and procedures review: led a corporate legal review to update procurement and finance policies and procedures of a middle-eastern national railway company.
- Government agency support: provided legal affairs support to a government agency in the Middle East.
- Environmental audit: helped corporate counsel design an internal audit processes centered around environmental policy and biodiversity preservation for a European national gas transmission operator.
- Performance management: worked with a top international law firm to re-design and implement a new performance management approach.
- Privacy compliance implementation: created GDPR governance procedures and helped to train and implement GDPR into corporate culture and operations for the legal department of a European online-only bank.
Legal Operations – Selected Credentials
Client: Major Tech Company
Sia Partners Approach
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End-to-end development of AI assisted CLM tool: Gathered product requirements and worked closely with engineering to develop AI assistant features for CLM; performed UAT on AI assistance for CLM; developed a POC for Beta users; developed a dashboard to control utilization of the features from logs
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CLM Launch: Led overall UAT on CLM workflow; performed audit of user permissions model
Sia Partners Value Add
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Legal knowledge enabling a thorough understanding of the needs of the Legal Department
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Our internal GenAI expertise through SiaGPT allowed us to show deep technical expertise in this process
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Successfully implemented AI tools to other clients to build an extensive knowledge of use cases
Client: Global Tech Company
Sia Partners Approach
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Used change management methodologies to implement Gen AI tools and display the advantages to a broad array of teams: compliance, litigation, corporate, and data privacy teams
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Identified gaps within legal teams and formalize a long-term plan to streamline operational efficiency
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Conducted both internal and external pilot tests to understand the best practice for implementing the Gen AI Solutions
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Implemented and tested two industry-leading tools (HarveyAI and CaseText CoCounsel)
Sia Partners Value Add
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The pilot team performed 1,000+ queries, with 100+ legal users
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Leveraged our expertise in Gen AI & Legal processes for effective pilot
Client: International Tech Company
Sia Partners Approach
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DSA / DMA Compliance Program Establishment: Oversaw the implementation of a DSA/DMA Compliance program, ensuring adherence to the latest regulations.
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Fintech Compliance Process Restructuring: Supported the Fintech Compliance team in establishing and implementing a new Operating Model to increase efficiency and transparency in communication between Compliance and Product Teams.
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Coordination Hub for Regulatory Inquiries: Supported the operationalization of an internal coordination center and system to track and manage regulatory inquiries throughout the company
Sia Partners Value Add
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Led projects from start to finish, providing key project management deliverables including project charters, RAID logs, status reports, leadership materials, stakeholder analyses, communication plans, etc
Client: Global Tech Company
Sia Partners Approach
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Conducted a strategic assessment of the regulatory readiness process and product compliance process; Conducted a full-scope study of current-state effectiveness of legal and compliance processes, documenting procedures and interviewing senior legal team leads
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Combined qualitative interview findings with a custom-designed quantitative pulse survey to elicit requirements for improved compliance capabilities.
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Delivered a full narrative analysis report detailing the project’s findings and recommendations.
Sia Partners Value Add
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Recognized practice experience with compliance and regulatory change program design and management.
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Extensive project management addressing specific regulatory changes and compliance remediations.