Gone are the days of a legal department being called the “department of ‘no.’” Beyond legal expertise, today’s GC may be expected to add diversity of thought to C-suite discussions, assemble a diversity and inclusion panel, provide ethical advice on recruitment and staff training, and provide insight and expertise into activities impacting the overall performance and financial health of the company. As workloads proliferate and pressures on budgets and resources intensify, GCs must find new ways to create time. Re-engineering the space-time continuum and hopping in a time machine works, but there’s a far more accessible way to create more of it — using great, existing technology to sustain and future-proof data-driven tasks. If GCs truly want to evolve their role and status, they must get savvy with modern legal technology. Taking an active role in understanding how it can transform the way the legal department works – even down to the most tactical processes – will uncover opportunities to save precious time.You don’t have to do this alone – lean on your legal ops people and yourIT department to help.