Legal Information Management (LIM) Strategy: How to Transform a Legal Department

Abstract

Using both, his personal experience as a Lawyer, Contract Manager and Intrapreneur, and empirical data gathered in interviews, panels and private conversations, the author, together with his team, developed a framework concerning Legal Information Management (LIM). The article will describe LIM as a continuum, moving us from the pre-digital phase to a state of full information-enablement. In doing so, the article aims to de-mystify the digital revolution. The reader will be faced with practical examples of digitalization and should feel motivated to reflect his own situation. LIM does not require in depth knowledge of information technology (IT), but curiosity and openness to change—qualities best exemplified by Faust, the main character in Goethe’s play, and his quest for wisdom: So that I may perceive whatever holdsThe world together in its inmost folds (Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s play “FAUST”)