netLex VisionAn agile legal department that brings security and autonomy to operations
It is the beginning of disruptive thinking about how legal engages with the business areas. You do not need to be with the areas all the time to have legal security. You can make that available in a smarter way without losing security.”
About MRV
One in every 150 Brazilians owns a property built by MRV, which operates in more than 160 cities and 22 states. The legal department of this construction giant faced the challenge of becoming even more efficient and closer to its internal clients.
The thesis behind the case is an uncomfortable one for the department itself: closeness is not measured in presence. You can be alongside the business without being in every conversation, as long as legal security is available at the moment the area needs it.
Key points
- Requests for opinions and reviews centralized in a single channel
- Contracts drafted from interactive questionnaires
- Contractual deadlines and obligations managed on the platform itself
- More autonomy for the business areas to seize opportunities
An overloaded legal team, a slowed-down business
The main pain was the disorganization of the query flows for contract drafting. Interaction with the requesting areas created friction and inefficiency, and the result fell on both sides: overloaded lawyers and delayed business areas.
There was also uncertainty about whether the most current versions of templates were in use, and insecurity about changes made by the requesting areas themselves — on top of a lack of visibility into the obligations contained in contracts already signed.
- Disorganized interaction with the requesting areas, creating friction and inefficiency;
- Uncertainty about the use of the most current template versions;
- Insecurity about changes made to documents by the requesting areas;
- No visibility into the management of all obligations contained in contracts;
- Little autonomy for requesting areas to seize business opportunities.
How netLex helped MRV
With netLex, the company made its workflows faster, safer and more precise. Today the entire lifecycle of MRV's documents is simpler and more secure.
- Centralization of all requests for legal opinions and contract review;
- Contract drafting from interactive, intelligent questionnaires;
- Management of contractual deadlines and obligations directly on the platform;
- More speed and autonomy to seize business opportunities;
- More security over versions and over the changes made to each document.
Autonomy for business units
The result legal leadership names is about the model, not a metric: the department proved it does not need to be present all the time to guarantee legal security. The interactive questionnaire is the mechanism: it delivers legal's criteria at the moment of the request, without requiring a lawyer in the room.
Operationally, centralizing requests ended the friction at the front door, and managing deadlines and obligations on the platform solved the blindness about what had already been signed. For the business areas, the effect is direct: autonomy to seize opportunities without waiting.
Conclusion
The MRV case poses a question most corporate legal departments avoid: how much of the lawyer's presence is necessary and how much is habit? When legal criteria are embedded in the flow, the answer changes and the department gains scale and relevance at the same time.
