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Leading the Way in Client Satisfaction and Lawyer Quality
Leading the Way in Client Satisfaction and Lawyer Quality
In a recent client survey, 96% of clients told us they believe Axiom lawyers are as good or better than other legal service providers.
How to Build a Resilient Legal Team with Flexible Talent
How to Build a Resilient Legal Team with Flexible Talent
Legal Budgeting in the New Normal
Legal Budgeting in the New Normal
How to Benchmark and Strengthen Your Privacy Program
How to Benchmark and Strengthen Your Privacy Program
Axiom Diversity Report
Axiom Diversity Report
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2021 General Counsel Survey Report on Department Values
Guides and Reports
Axiom’s survey of 220 GCs finds those with department mission statements adhere better to the department and corporate values when faced with risk mitigation priorities.
2022 Legal Budgeting Strategy Amid Ongoing Uncertainty
Guides and Reports
This playbook is for GCs to leverage new budgeting models to reduce fixed costs and improve legal outcomes. Learn how to implement a modern model for budget planning –Agility-Based Budgeting (ABB).
How to Reduce In-House Legal Spend by Using Flexible Lawyers
Guides and Reports
Today’s GCs struggle with increased demands and smaller budgets. Learn how flexible talent powers high-performance legal departments.
The Definitive Playbook for Building Legal Departments at Growth Companies
Guides and Reports
How flexible resourcing drives smarter budgeting and better legal outcomes
Axiom Client Satisfaction Survey
Info Sheets and Checklists
In a recent client survey, 96% of clients told us they believe Axiom lawyers are as good or better than other legal service providers.
2020 Axiom Diversity Report
Guides and Reports
Our report indicates Axiom’s lawyer bench continues to be more diverse than industry standards and introduces Diversity by Design, Axiom’s programmatic framework for addressing systemic inequities.
Legal Budgeting in the New Normal
Guides and Reports
To meet this moment, GCs must challenge business precedent and fundamentally reexamine how they build, and spend, their legal budgets.
How to Build a Resilient Legal Team
Guides and Reports
Sam Miller, legal consultant and former DGC of Intel, shares best practices to strategically utilize flexible counsel that legal leaders can start using today.
Ten Steps to Build an Impactful and Measurable Diversity Program
Guides and Reports
A dozen legal leaders, including legal COOs at F100 companies, share actionable strategies they employ to drive true diversity within their organization.
Legally Disrupted: Technology, Digitization, and Disruption
Articles
Zach Abramowitz’s key takeaways from his webinar interview with Coca-Cola’s GC Bradley Gayton.
A Post-Pandemic Survival Kit For The Legal Industry
Articles
Mark A. Cohen discusses how the legal industry must embrace the digital transformation and customer-centricity to thrive post-pandemic.
Why Can't the Legal Function Prove Its Value?
Articles
Mark Cohen explores why the legal function has difficulty proving its worth to business.
How to Support and Identify Distressed Loan Portfolios
Guides and Reports
Actionable advice and step-by-step guidance from legal experts to help legal leaders approach workouts and restructuring.
Virtual Employment Investigations: Expert Advice to Navigate Today’s Biggest Challenges
Employment experts discuss how the pandemic has changed employment investigations, how to manage your investigations program, and the most common mistakes to avoid when creating a virtual investigations process.
Practical Advice for Supporting Distressed Loan Portfolios
Webinars
On-demand webinar featuring experts on workout, loan restructuring, and special assets management and how to address this growing issue.
Why Strategic Use of Flexible Talent Should Be Part of a GC’s Toolkit
Articles
Sam Miller, legal consultant and former Deputy General Counsel of Intel, discusses why flexible counsel can be a powerful tool for legal department leaders in part one of our series on building a resilient legal organization.
Integrating Flexible Legal Talent into Your Team: Implementation Best Practices
Articles
Sam Miller, legal consultant and former Deputy General Counsel of Intel, discusses how to successfully incorporate flexible talent into your legal resourcing strategy.
A Strategic Approach to Utilizing Flexible Counsel
Info Sheets and Checklists
Sam Miller, a former DGC at Intel and pioneer in the use of flex counsel, outlines practical steps to help you develop a strategic approach to utilizing flexible talent and ensure you are using your time, resources, and budget most effectively.
Legally Disrupted: An Interview with Microsoft's Jason Barnwell (Part 2)
Articles
A conversation with Jason Barnwell, Microsoft's AGC for Modern Corporate External and Legal Affairs, interviewed by Zach Abramowitz, lawyer turned legaltech entrepreneur and angel investor.
How to Integrate Flexible Legal Talent into Your Team
Info Sheets and Checklists
Ensure you’re set up for success to work with flexible legal talent by following the guidance of Sam Miller, former DGC at Intel, who has pioneered implementing and maintaining successful flex counsel programs.
How to Benchmark and Strengthen Your Privacy Program
Info Sheets and Checklists
Actionable steps you can take now to implement data privacy best practices and common pitfalls to avoid from privacy professionals.
How Does The Legal Function Demonstrate Value To Business?
Articles
Mark A. Cohen examines why the legal function has difficulty proving its value to business and proffers how it can make its case.
Rethink Your Legal Resourcing
Info Sheets and Checklists
Learn how Axiom matches dynamic, highly credentialed lawyers to help you solve your
business challenges.
What Works: Strengthening Your Privacy Program
Webinars
Privacy professionals share actionable advice about steps legal teams can take now to ensure an effective data privacy program.
Axiom Structured Team: Large Pharmaceutical Acquisition
Case Studies
A team of Axiom lawyers supported due diligence for a large pharmaceutical acquisition, post-merger integration, and drove millions of dollars in savings in outside counsel spend.
Axiom Secondment Programs: FTSE 100 Technology Company
Case Studies
Learn how Axiom provided cost-effective, scalable legal talent via our secondment programs to support rapid business growth, and generated $900,000 in savings.
How to Prepare for the Phase-Out of LIBOR
Articles
The broad scope of the LIBOR transition calls for clear protocol and specialized financial and regulatory knowledge. Here's how to prepare for the transition despite industry uncertainty.
2020: The Year of Legal Hindsight
Guides and Reports
Three Axiom leaders tackle the legal industry’s new normal and how GCs must rethink how they use and deploy talent – not only as reputational guardians of their companies – but as drivers of change.
Diversity and Inclusion at Axiom
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom is an industry leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement. Learn about our 2020 statistics and employee initiatives.
Rethink Your Legal Spend
Info Sheets and Checklists
In this volatile environment, legal leaders face unprecedented challenges, including frozen or reduced budgets and headcount, and must rethink how they resource work.
Axiom Secondments: Top Ten Global Pharmaceutical Company
Case Studies
Learn how a top ten global pharmaceutical company saved over $9 million via strategic, flexible legal partnership working with Axiom secondment lawyers.
Remote Work During a Crisis: Guidance for Lawyers and Leaders
Articles
Remote working: For 20 years we’ve been learning, honing, and sharing the things that make remote workforces work well.
Axiom Structured Team: Global Fortune 500 Professional Services Firm
Case Studies
Learn how a team of Axiom lawyers drove $1.5 million dollars in savings for a Fortune Global 500 professional services company.
Axiom Secondments: Bankruptcy Support for Major American Retailer
Case Studies
Learn how Axiom quickly assembled a team of six lawyers to provide real estate and bankruptcy expertise to amend over 2,100 leases within sixty days to maximize a major American retailer’s real estate investments when they filed for bankruptcy.
Maintaining a Resilient Legal Function During a Downturn
Webinars
Guidance from leaders who’ve successfully led teams through downturns, hiring freezes, workload surges, and budget cuts.
Axiom's Guide to Data Privacy
Guides and Reports
A free guide that outlines how to operationalize privacy in order to build and maintain an effective privacy program as regulations evolve.
Rethink the Work You Send to Outside Counsel
Info Sheets and Checklists
73% of GCs say they are spending too much for outside counsel. Learn how to drive greater value from your spend and use your budget more effectively.
Axiom Talent Partnership at Change Healthcare
Case Studies
How Axiom lawyers helped drive efficiency and cost savings at Change Healthcare, a leading healthcare technology company.
Regional, Flexible Legal Support: Yext
Case Studies
When Yext, a cloud-based SaaS technology company, expanded into the European market, it needed legal support in numerous languages and jurisdictions. Axiom delivered a regional expertise solution to support their international growth and drive revenue.
On Diversity
Articles
Diversity in teams and businesses brings enhanced creativity in problem-solving, innovation, and leadership.
Axiom Secondments: Driving $400,000 in Cost Savings at a Global Investment Bank
Case Studies
How an experienced funds lawyer from Axiom seamlessly integrated into the in-house team at a global investment bank to supply critical expertise, Brexit support, and drive $400,000 in legal cost savings.
2019 Axiom Diversity Report
Guides and Reports
Diversity is core to our values and our business, and we’re proud to report that the lawyers who work for us reflect this.
Rethink Your Legal Department
Info Sheets and Checklists
Reimagine your legal department: Axiom provides access to the right legal expertise and client support to help achieve your business goals.
The Emerging Role of Product Counsel
Webinars
Key learnings on serving, and building a career, as a product counsel, from Axiom’s recent webinar.
Fiscal End of the Year Legal Budget Checklist
Info Sheets and Checklists
Our tips and tricks to effectively utilize your remaining budget and ensure a strong start to the new fiscal year.
Two Steps to Optimize Your Legal Work Allocation
Articles
Break out of legal workflow inertia by taking two simple steps to match the right resource with the task at hand.
Axiom Structured Team: Global Bank
Case Studies
Learn how Axiom’s team of 50+ lawyers supported a global bank's employee investigations team to drive $1.5 million in savings.
CCPA: Not Just For Californians
Articles
The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) has wide-range implications for all businesses—no matter where they are located.
IR35: The End of Gig Economy Lawyers in the UK
Articles
IR35 will change how self-employed lawyers and their clients work together. The legal industry must start preparing now.
Privacy Regulations and Business Operations
Articles
How legal departments can effectively implement and maintain compliance-facing privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA.
Axiom Secondments: Investment Management Firm
Case Studies
How Axiom provided a flexible, cost-effective legal support solution for an investment management firm and delivered $1 million in cost savings.
Make Privacy Central to Your Business Operations
Articles
Lawyer Angelo Basu examines the business impact of privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, and why companies must act.
Privacy Program Management
Webinars
IAPP and Axiom discuss practical advice for privacy program management. Watch the webinar online.
Axiom CCPA Readiness Checklist
Info Sheets and Checklists
We've put together a checklist highlighting the actions you need to take before CCPA goes live on January 1, 2020.
Your CCPA Readiness Checklist
Articles
California’s new consumer privacy act, CCPA, goes live on January 1, 2020, but many companies are still scrambling to prepare.
Building an Effective Data Privacy Program
Articles
Axiom lawyer Sue Gomez draws from extensive experience in Silicon Valley to outline the nuances of building a privacy function.
Strategies to Make the Most of Your Q4 Budget
Articles
At the end of each year, here’s how you can effectively utilize your remaining budget to ensure a strong start to the new year.
Contracts: Banish End-of-the-Quarter Dread
Articles
Axiom’s lawyers can help empower legal teams with flexible, effective contract support despite the large, uneven volume of work.
Rethink Your Legal Career
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom empowers you to choose how and when you work, gain access to innovative clients, and balance your life and legal practice.
IR35: Navigating Flexible Legal Talent After April 2021
Guides and Reports
Download our free guide to learn how Axiom can help you prepare and handle for all the changes to IR35.
Legal Work Preferences Checklist
Guides and Reports
As you plan your law career, use this checklist to assess what is important to you, in order to reflect on, and record, your work preferences.
COVID19: Preparing Your Legal Department
Info Sheets and Checklists
Download our checklist on steps legal departments must take to manage coronavirus-driven risk and uncertainty.
Reimagining Remote Work and the Future of Legal
Webinars
Download Axiom's webinar for practical guidance on navigating the changes COVID-19 has brought to the legal industry.
Cramming for the CCPA Webinar
Webinars
Helping in-house counsel and legal departments learn what they need to know about the implications of the new law.
It's Time to Rethink Your Legal Career
Articles
As the realities of work evolve, Axiom empowers legal professionals to reshape their careers and engage with their purpose.
It’s Time to Reimagine Your Legal Team
Articles
Axiom can help your department forge a “third path” between law firms and hiring in-house—here’s how.
The Shift Towards Legal Services
Articles
Karl Kong, SVP of Product at Axiom, shares insights about the evolution of the legal industry during Legalweek 2020.
Recruiting the Best Attorneys to Practice Law
Articles
Axiom’s innovative approach to law attracts talented lawyers who want to do high-quality legal work with industry leaders worldwide.
Creating an Inclusive Workplace at Axiom
Articles
Learnings from Beck Bailey and the HRC’s workplace climate survey about how to foster an inclusive environment for LGBTQ employees.
Remote Work: Why It May Become the Norm in the Legal Industry
Articles
How working with remote lawyers can enable in-house departments to find legal talent who are the best fit for their needs.
Your CCPA Questions Answered
Articles
Axiom lawyer Sue Gomez outlines what companies need to know now that the California Consumer Privacy Act is live.
Axiom for Commercial Contracts
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class legal talent with legal departments to address spikes in contracts workloads and subject matter expertise needs.
Axiom for Corporate Governance and Securities
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class legal talent to the corporate governance, public reporting, and capital market needs of legal departments to manage seasonal workloads and transactional overflow.
Axiom for Derivatives
Info Sheets and Checklists
World-class legal talent with experience across the full range of over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivative products.
Axiom for Labor and Employment
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class Labor and Employment legal talent with legal teams to help navigate the complexities of L&E law and compliance.
Axiom for Litigation
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class talent with legal teams to help manage the complexities of corporate litigation.
Axiom for Mergers and Acquisitions
Axiom matches world-class talent with legal teams to help manage the complexities and high pressure of M&A.
Axiom for Real Estate
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class legal talent to the design and construction, portfolio management, and due diligence needs of legal departments.
Axiom for Regulatory and Compliance
Axiom matches world-class regulatory and compliance talent to the complex needs of today’s businesses.
Axiom for Trademarks
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class talent with legal teams to help manage the complexities of trademark management.
Axiom for the Consumer and Services Industry
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class legal talent to the needs of consumer and services businesses, empowering them to adapt quickly to company and market fluctuations.
Axiom for Financial Services
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class legal talent to the complex needs of Financial Services, enabling rapid adaptation to unpredictable fluctuations in the industry.
Axiom for Industrials and Oil & Gas
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class legal talent with the complex needs of industrials, energy, and oil & gas legal and compliance teams, empowering them to adapt quickly to market fluctuations and company priorities.
Axiom for Life Sciences
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class legal talent to the complex needs of Life Sciences legal and compliance departments.
Axiom for the Technology Industry
Info Sheets and Checklists
Axiom matches world-class legal talent to the complex needs of Technology businesses, enabling them to embrace innovation and mitigate risk.
Axiom Talent Partnership with Enlivant
Case Studies
How a leading private senior living service provider leverages flexible talent to grow its business.
How to Get Started with Axiom for Data Privacy
Guides and Reports
New regulations and COVID-19-related privacy
needs are impacting companies across jurisdictional borders and putting tremendous pressure on resource-constrained legal teams.
How to Get Started with Axiom for Labor & Employment
Guides and Reports
Axiom matches world-class Labor and Employment legal talent with legal teams to help navigate the complexities of L&E law and compliance
How to Get Started with Axiom for Real Estate
Guides and Reports
Axiom matches world-class legal talent to the
design and construction, portfolio management, and due diligence needs of legal departments.
Global Pharmaceutical Company Saves $100,000
Case Studies
Global pharmaceutical company saves $100,000 with flexible cure for surging legal workload.
Axiom Partners with Law Firm
Case Studies
Renowned law firm wins GDPR compliance without losing billable hours.
Medicine Company Gets Axiom Help
Case Studies
Aesthetic medicine company gets injection of legal support, reducing templates by 84%, and boosting their bottom line.
Technology Company Gets Transformative Results
Case Studies
Tech titan transfers time-sensitive GDPR compliance project and gets transformative results.