Maintaining legacy software is more expensive 

Obviously, dedicating the majority of your budget to maintenance  is not ideal, but then the negative effects of obsolete software also  compound over time. Avoiding digital transformation for cost-savings makes you less  competitive in your industry. If you’re allocating say, more than half  of your allocated budget to maintenance, you won’t have much left  for innovation. Again, outside firms don’t want to work with clunky,  outdated systems. As your tech becomes more and more  frustrating to work with, you can also miss out on valuable  partnerships and consequently lose revenue.

Employees get frustrated with outdated tech 

Worldwide, 75% of legal department employees think that their  workplace technology is unnecessarily complicated. What’s worse  — more than one-third of those employees feel that legacy  technology makes their job harder. Workplace technology used to be cutting edge, but now, consumer  tech is more intuitive. Wouldn’t you love to preview documents like  you can preview shows on Netflix? Your staff sure would. In fact,  48% of employees wish their office technology worked like their  personal technology. 

Legacy systems limit access to (in)valuable data 

Legal departments often need to explain and justify their spends to  finance and accounting. If all your data is spread out across  multiple systems or buried in complex spreadsheets, you’ll have a  really hard time making your case. Workers working on old systems spend almost 20% of their  workweek searching for and gathering data. Chances are, your  legacy system forces your team to move between multiple  applications to round up information — wasting even more time in  the process. 

Obsolete systems force you to waste time on low value work 

Antiquated systems often lead to highly-paid legal employees  getting bogged down with mundane administrative tasks. Legacy  systems just don’t have many of the time-saving and smart  features that allow your team to avoid basic admin work.

So, it can be safely concluded that…. 

It’s always recommended to stop wasting time and money on  legacy systems in your legal department. Investing in upgraded  legal enterprise software like Beveron’s Smart Legal Counsel, for  instance, can help you become more competitive, keep your  employees more engaged, and give you better visibility into and  control of your budget.

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