As General Counsel, you need to be able to define and track efficiency opportunities, and communicate the value the legal department is generating for the company. Metrics can help… Read More

As an in-house lawyer you need to be in control of your company's legal information and provide insights to your CEO or CFO to inform important business decisions Read More

One of the key features to aid legal departments in processing their incoming documents is the Document Booker. It allows you to collect and process multiple documents in effacts ef… Read More

As General Counsel, you’re often required to provide credible and dependable assessments of legal risks facing the organization. However, more often than not, it’s diffi… Read More

When businesses have large contract portfolios, managing each contract lifecycle from initiation though award, compliance and renewal can become a burden without the proper tools… Read More

Risk management is a growing responsibility for legal departments and in-house counsel.  While the responsibility to protect the company’s value and assets has always fal… Read More

On July 3rd 2016 the new EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) came into force, effectively replacing the former EU Market Abuse Directive to provide more clarity and guid… Read More

The role of General Counsel and legal departments is changing. Not only do legal departments need to understand the law, draft legal documents and conduct litigation, but General Co… Read More

After the tremendous success of last year's User Day, this year we also wanted to offer our users the opportunity to connect with each other. This year's User Day, held at Jamie Oli… Read More

Wolters Kluwer is a sponsor of the Dag van de Bedrijfsjurist, organized annually by the IBJ, the professional association for corporate lawyers in Belgium. The one-day event will ta… Read More

As the business world has changed at a rapid pace, so has the role of the in-house lawyer. They are now expected to be strategic advisors and shape the the business strategy Read More

Effacts has developed a new feature, Transfer Dossiers, which allows you to efficiently transfer multiple dossiers to other users. This feature is useful if there is a change i… Read More

Effacts took their first steps into the Nordic legal market as the main sponsor of the In-house Legal Tech Day in Stockholm. The event was organized by LegalWorks, a legal service… Read More

Artificial Intelligence doesn't belong in the realm of science fiction anymore. From virtual personal assistants to self-driving cars, the technology is here to stay. But how does it help in… Read More

We are pleased to announce that effacts by Wolters Kluwer is a sponsor of the Corporate Counsel Exchange in Berlin on October 10-11. The two-day event brings together general counsel from ac… Read More

The importance of risk mitigation planning and different approaches to reduce or mitigate risk is becoming a popular topic in industry events and reading Read More

We are proud to announce that effacts by Wolters Kluwer is the main sponsor of the In-house Legal Tech Day in Stockholm on September 29th. The event is hosted by LegalWorks, a leading legal… Read More

We are pleased to announce that Effacts B.V. and Wolters Kluwer Nederland B.V. have been successfully merged, effective August 9, 2016. The merger also applies to affiliates Effacts Holding… Read More

Whether they are a multinational or a startup, all companies have to deal with compliance issues. According to a survey conducted by The Risk Advisory Group among more than 200 compliance pr… Read More

In order to be successful and advance in their careers, General Counsel need to demonstrate their value within the company and change the perception that their function is merely ad… Read More

 ZyLAB, a leading provider of eDiscovery and Intelligent Information Governance solutions, today announced that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory’s Effacts legal management so… Read More

Contracts are the roadmap of your business: the vast majority of business transactions are indeed determined by a contract. Any mistakes in this process can increase the company&rsq… Read More

Corporate legal departments once viewed technology as an obstacle that only made their day-to-day operations more difficult. Today, they’re realizing that it can help them to… Read More

Contracts are the roadmap of your business: the vast majority of business transactions are indeed determined by a contract. Any mistakes in this process can increase the company’s liab… Read More

Staying on top of your organization’s legal structure is not considered part of daily operations. Legal departments have had other priorities: operating in an unstable global economy… Read More

The majority of business transactions are supported by legally binding contracts and agreements. Most organizations end up storing them in a filing cabinet during the agreement period until… Read More

In-house counsel believe their data stored more safely than it really is. Kroll Ontrack's 2016 Corporate Risk Survey of 170 in-house counsel, 76% of respondents reported that the company has… Read More

Over the years we’ve seen the amount of data managed by clients increase. At the same time effacts is being used in more different legal domains than ever (to name a few:&nbsp… Read More

Despite all the reports demonstrating that sophisticated cyberattacks have reached record levels, the top threat to an organization is its own employees. Milions have been spent on… Read More

Achieving robust, yet cost-effective regulatory compliance is a challenge for general counsel. Several high profile leaks (such as the recent Panama Papers) have pushed further refo… Read More

America isn’t the only country where lawyers are pampered at legal events with lavish locations and high-profile speakers. This year, the first edition of Lexpo was held in Am… Read More

Legal departments suffer from what is known as the “more-with-less” syndrome – they are being asked to deliver work at a faster pace while maintaining the same lev… Read More

In the first week of April, we joined Wolters Kluwer in hosting our first event together for corporate lawyers. Last year we joined the Legal & Regulatory division of Wolters Kl… Read More

In the first week of April, we joined Wolters Kluwer in hosting our first event together for corporate lawyers. Last year we joined the Legal & Regulatory division of Wolters Kl… Read More

Data breaches don’t build trust, but many companies are skeptical of the parties with which they share their data. In an independent study, the research think tank Ponemon Ins… Read More

A recent survey of compliance professionals found that 83 percent of respondents felt that compliance had become more complex in the past two years. With the pace of regulatory changes and t… Read More

Along with the growing complexity of regulatory compliance across the globe, the demand for legal counsel specializing in privacy has also grown. Worldwide, there has been a 33 perc… Read More

The Document Booker feature allows users of Effacts to process incoming documents and emails. Since the launch a few months ago, we received a lot of positive feedback along with some sugges… Read More

Time has shown that corporate legal departments are wary of using cloud-based tools, because of possible data breaches and compliance issues. According to a recent study, 88 percent of busin… Read More

Events around the world remind organizations that they operate in an increasingly risky world and how important it is to have a grip on risk management. A newly released survey by consulting… Read More

Do you know exactly where your organization’s information is stored, and how? If you answered “no” or “not sure,” you have some work to do. Protecting… Read More

Entity management can be an overwhelming task, especially when international borders are involved. A central task for legal departments is to manage the flow of information associat… Read More

Despite the fact that the first EU e-signature Directive has been in place since 1999, the adoption of e-signatures has been slow across all industries. Many organizations prefer to… Read More

Each month, the Effacts Academy hosts two webinars about modules and new features in Effacts (in Dutch). The webinars allow users to learn the ins-and-outs of the system and stay up… Read More

You can ensure that you and your organization are using Effacts optimally by following a Certified User Training from the Effacts Academy. The next sessions will take place on Wednesday, Apr… Read More

Legal departments often have to deal with information that is of (temporary) confidential nature. This could be a project concerning an acquisition, minutes from a board meeting or… Read More

While the ability to access data on-the-go is becoming a “must-have” in the business world, security is often not the top priority.  Currently, a trending topic is adaptive… Read More

Meetings are a common tool that are widely misunderstood. We’ve all sat in a meeting that never ended on a Friday afternoon, the meeting where nobody pays attention, and the m… Read More

Legal departments today face high demands handling more legal matters without significant growth, while reducing their spend on outside counsel, otherwise known “more-with-les… Read More

A common belief in the legal profession is that frustrated lawyers leave their firms for corporate legal departments in search of more job satisfaction. The 2016 Evers Legal Career… Read More

It’s not surprising that lawyers are skeptical about legal technology – rumors have been swirling around for years that robots and Artificial Intelligence are going to replace th… Read More

A company’s board of directors is given the responsibility to oversee all aspects of the company’s efforts regarding risk management, which includes minimizing the company’… Read More

Corporate legal departments are overcoming their fears and shifting to cloud-based tools, according to a new survey. The report, which Recommind conducted among 25 CLOs from Fortune… Read More

Wolters Kluwer launched Effacts officially in Germany at the Unternehmensjuristen Kongress 2016 (convention for corporate lawyers) in Berlin. Wolters Kluwer was an official partner… Read More

In addition to being a regulatory issue, data privacy is also a revenue issue. A company can lose out on revenue if consumers decide the company doesn’t have sufficient privac… Read More

Today volumes of electronic data are being generated faster than it takes to print out a contract. Discussions about what data is created, where it is stored, who is responsible and what its… Read More

Data privacy has become a legal technology buzzword as organizations have realized it is a matter of corporate survival. When an organization becomes a victim of a data privacy breach that c… Read More

While contract management is a necessity these days, adoption across the organization remains a challenge. At a time when data breaches and increasingly complex regulations are becoming the… Read More