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Legal insights

Exploring the impact of geopolitical change, business model evolution and increasing department digitalization on legal departments.

Future of legal


Multiple forces, from geopolitical change to business model evolution to increasing department digitization through innovative technologies and artificial intelligence, are having an impact on business strategy and operations, and increasing the demands on legal departments today. Facing pressures to reduce risk, improve efficiencies, increase productivity, drive economic growth and enhance the customer experience, the opportunity now exists for legal, risk, regulatory and compliance teams to respond to these forces and reimagine the way in which they deliver services. They can achieve this by modernizing, simplifying and digitalizing their processes and functions, freeing up resources from focus on routine tasks and enabling their teams to focus on value-adding activities.

Here you will find a series of articles, publications and podcasts created for in-house legal leaders, delving deeper into these forces that are having an impact on businesses, and the opportunities in-house counsels have to evolve and reimagine their roles and functions for success.


Our insights

In an increasingly complex business environment, how are legal departments ensuring they are structured for success? The proliferation of technology and automated solutions along with geopolitical shifts in the business environment is driving business to change how they work. In turn, legal departments not only need to understand and adapt to shifting structures, but also change their own models in ways that allow them to focus more on higher value work and opportunities to drive value to the business. 

Three Forces Driving Change in Legal Services

How are changes in supply and demand, business models, and the workforce impacting legal services?   

10 predictions: The legal department of the future

How might technological trends reshape the legal functions of the future? 

10 predictions: The future of workforce law

How might technological trends reshape the legal functions of the future? 

Podcast series for legal leaders

Podcasts addressing some of the most pressing business issues and opportunities facing legal leaders and their departments

Our People

Stuart Fuller

Global Head of Legal Services

KPMG International


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