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Lexion and Docusign Join Forces: A New Era for Intelligent Agreement Management

Lexion Announces GPT-Based AI Contract Assist for Word

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A New Era for Intelligent Agreement Management

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Lexion and Docusign Join Forces: A New Era for Intelligent Agreement Management

Getting buy-in from your organization for a new CLM is about showing them the platform's ROI. Follow these steps to make a compelling case for new legal tech.

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ROI = Stakeholder Buy-in for a CLM

Learn the right questions to ask and potential pitfalls to look for when evaluating new AI-powered legal technology for your company.

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3 Red Flags to Look For When Vetting AI Tools (Including CLMs)

Accelerate your sales cycle by driving CLM adoption from your Sales team. Learn more about the benefits of implementing a CLM and how to get Sales excited.

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The Magic Word is Acceleration: Empowering Sales Teams with CLM

Ensure CLM adoption from Finance by focusing on process improvements and ROI before, during, and after implementation. Here's how.

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The Magic Word is Approvals: Getting Finance Invested in Your New CLM

Lexion’s new integration with Salesforce CPQ is the fastest path from quote to contract, accelerating deals and increasing visibility at every stage. See how.

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From Quote to Contract in No Time with Lexion and Salesforce CPQ

Lexion is so easy to implement, learn, and get value from quickly that we’re proud to offer a 60-day implementation guarantee. See why.

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Guaranteed implementation? Count on it.

Here are the five key sections of a data processing agreement (DPA) you should review as in-house counsel and the red flags you don’t want to miss.

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5 key clauses to review in a data processing agreement (DPA)

Allowing business users to interact with their CLM by email means minimal change management, higher efficiency, and fast adoption and ROI. Learn why.

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Drive quick adoption and ROI with email

A breach of contract costs businesses a lot of time and money. Prepare your agreement for success with these three preventative steps.

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How to prevent a breach of contract for in-house teams

Optimizing your contract workflow tasks can speed up contracting. Learn 6 steps for automating your process.

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6 Ways to Optimize Your Contract Workflow

Congratulations to our CLO, Jessica Nguyen, who was recognized by the Washington State Bar as the winner of the APEX Legal Innovation Award.

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Celebrating Innovation in Law: Jessica Nguyen Receives the 2023 APEX Award

Lexion was recognized in G2’s Fall 2023 reports for its implementation, support, usability, ROI, and more—all fuel the company’s momentum. See how.

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No surprises, just gratitude: Lexion's Fall 2023 G2 Awards

Lexion welcomes Cassie Pless as VP of Sales and Craig Sadowski as VP of Finance.

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Lexion welcomes new VPs of Sales and Finance

Forget about the third-party converters or tedious workarounds and save time by converting PDFs to Word documents directly from inside Lexion.

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Convert & Edit Your PDFs in Word with Lexion

Learn about the differences between organizing your documents with folders and tags. Get both with Lexion to find contracts faster and with ease.

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Folders vs Tags: Why Choose?

No, generative AI is not the same as AI or ChatGPT. And the technology is already helping legal teams get work done faster. Let’s talk about the differences.

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AI, ChatGPT, and Generative AI — what’s the difference for legal teams?

Learn about all the disadvantages of redlining contracts with CLM in-app editors and see why the vast majority of legal professionals prefer Microsoft Word.

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Why In-House Legal Teams Prefer Word to In-app Editors

Legal teams need an effective process in place to monitor and measure their in-house legal team's performance. Learn how on the Lexion blog.

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How to measure contract performance to close deals faster

A complex negotiation process can severely hamper business operations. Simplify the process and close deals faster with better contract negotiation strategies.

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How to simplify the contract negotiation process and close deals faster

Jessica Nguyen, CLO at Lexion, chatted with two experienced GCs to talk about leadership development and managing up. Read their advice to general counsel.

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How to succeed as General Counsel: Advice from real GCs

These seven common hiccups can strain in-house contract creation and slow deals processes. Learn how to streamline contracts by overcoming these challenges.

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Streamlining contract creation to close deals faster

How to use legal spend management to track and control your expenses, reduce risk, and get the most value for your business. Read to learn more.

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Legal Spend Management: How to Optimize Your Expenses

As in-house counsel, it’s critical you get limitation of liability (LOL) clauses right. Learn how.

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What In-House Counsel should know about Limitation of Liability

Contract lifecycle management (CLM) software is an important part of optimizing your contract workflows. Learn more here.

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An Introduction to Contract Lifecycle Management Software

Less budget, more contracts. You know the feeling. Learn how to empower your legal ops team to scale with your business.

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Do more with less: How legal ops teams are increasing contract volumes against decreasing budgets

As Pride month wraps up, we wanted to share Lena’s story—an attorney turned account executive, and a member of the Lexion team.

Women in Legal: Meet Lena, Account Executive

Lexion’s updated integration with Salesforce accelerates sales, increases visibility, and automates more to help sales and legal close deals faster.

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Lexion + Salesforce: The Fastest Way for Sales and Legal to Get Deals Done

In-house legal teams can accelerate organizational growth. Learn how to scale your GC and corporate counsel.

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How to structure your in-house legal department for efficiency and growth

Ever had a deal get stuck in the "legal black hole?” Here are 6 ways to improve collaboration between sales and legal, so you can close deals faster.

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6 ways to close deals faster by getting legal on your side

From forming customer success teams to investing in software, here are 6 tips for improving your contract renewal strategy and retaining more clients.

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How To Optimize Your Contract Renewal Strategy

We asked legal ops professionals what advice they would give to other women in order to be successful on an in-house team. Here’s what they said.

8 ways to be successful as a woman in legal ops

Knowing which type of vendor contract to use can protect your business. Learn about seven different vendor agreements and when to use them.

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Breaking Down Types of Vendor Contracts and When to Use Them

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are enforceable when they’re clear and concise. Learn how to make NDAs work for your company.

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Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs): What In-House Counsel Should Know

As an autistic woman and legal professional, here are my three suggestions that legal teams and coworkers can support neurodivergent folks.

3 ways to support neurodiversity on your legal team—and support everyone else too

A clause library organizes pre-approved clauses for your company’s contracts and streamlines drafting. Learn the what, why, and how of clause libraries.

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Clause Libraries for In-House GCs: What, Why, & How

We’re thrilled to announce a $20 million Series B funding round, enabling us to help every department streamline operations and close deals faster. Learn more.

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Lexion raises $20M Series B to help every department close deals faster

These ten tips will help you make one-on-ones more effective within your legal team.

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10 tips for highly effective one-on-ones with your legal team

Lexion was born at the Allen Institute for AI. Now, we’re helping operations teams close deals faster—here’s our story, as told by our founder, Gaurav Oberoi.

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The only contract solution built at an AI Research Institute

Lexion was named a Leader in Contract Management in G2's Spring 2023 reports, and earned recognition for outstanding support, customer experience, and more.

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Lexion recognized for its leading product (and outstanding relationships) in G2’s Spring 2023 Grid Reports

Contract redlining is a demanding part of negotiations. Learn how to handle it with these four best practices.

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Improve your contract redlines with these best practices

A contract management system will help your legal team collaborate, negotiate, and track agreements. Here are our top tips for your CMS—from an actual lawyer.

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5 questions to ask to find the right contract management system

Only 1 in 4 law firm partners is a woman. Follow these five tips to create more inclusive and gender-equal legal teams and workspaces.

Tips to my male colleagues on creating gender equity in your legal department

A contract repository is an important solution that keeps all of your contract information stored and accessible. Learn more about the meaning, use, and types.

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What is a contract repository and why do you need one?

Lexion allows you to use your clause library in Lexion from inside Microsoft Word to accelerate contract drafting and redlining. See how.

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Your Lexion clause library, now inside Microsoft Word

As you set in-house legal department goals and objectives for your company, remember to drive towards business outcomes and moral imperatives. Here’s how.

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Setting and hitting in-house legal department goals

Does your company need a Chief Legal Officer or General Counsel? Learn what the difference is between these two roles and get our tips for success.

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Chief Legal Officer vs. General Counsel: Why It Matters for Your Business

How can you stand out as a procurement specialist? When it comes to managing goods and services, here are seven secrets to success.

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7 skills you’ll need to be a successful procurement specialist

Staying current with global data protection and privacy laws can be a full time job. Here are free resources to help in-house counsel stay up-to-date.

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What in the world is going on with privacy and data protection laws?

Sales teams want contracts signed quickly. Legal teams want to protect the business. Here’s how you do both.

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5 ways sales can get legal on their side and close deals faster

It's Women's History Month and Lexion's proud to say 55% of our employees are women. Meet Shima Salimi, Staff Software Engineer.

Women's History Month: Meet Shima, Staff Software Engineer

For Women's History Month we interviewed Krysta Johnson, Senior Legal and Business Operations Manager.

Women's History Month: Meet Krysta Johnson, Senior Legal and Business Operations Manager

In our Women's History Month series we present Jane who took a non-traditional legal career journey to land at Lexion as customer success manager.

Women’s History Month: Meet Jane, Senior Customer Success Manager

The transition to in-house counsel can be daunting. To make your new GC role easier, review our checklist of 10 things to do today.

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The checklist every new GC needs

Level up your legal team with project management. Whether you’re in-house or client-facing, these principles will help you scale your team.

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Legal Project Management: A Simple Framework To Follow

In commercial contracts, do the terms actually need to be mutual to be fair? Here are a few things to consider.

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When mutual doesn’t equal fair in commercial agreements

Legal teams and contract managers experience a host of contract lifecycle management challenges. Learn how to overcome them with CLM solutions.

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How to overcome 5 contract lifecycle management challenges

Lexion is a powerful contract lifecycle management platform that helps every team come together to close deals faster. Learn how we help legal, sales, everyone.

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The Fastest Way to Get Deals Done Right

There are many ways to allow your customer’s affiliated entities to leverage your master service agreements (MSAs)—here's what you need to consider first.

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It’s all in the family: Three issues to consider when affiliates tag along on a master agreement

Want to reduce contract-related risk? Then you’ll want to understand the standard and non-standard language across your contracts. Lexion can help.

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Reduce Contract-Related Risk By Reducing Non-Standard Language

Lexion's No-Code Workflow Automation gets contracts done faster by automatically gathering approvals, assigning ownership, routing for signature, and more.

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Lexion's No-Code Workflow Automation is Contract Automation for Everyone

Customer feedback is the foundation of a great product experience. Feedback clauses set expectations for how that information will be used. Here are some tips.

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Beyond the Boilerplate: Feedback Clauses

Lexion's CEO, Gaurav Oberoi, walks through the progress, new releases, and community news from 2022.

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Thank you for a great 2022

Lexion's AI Contract Assist brings GPT technology to Word for to generate clause language and suggest redlines

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Lexion Announces GPT-Based AI Contract Assist for Word

As in-house counsel, knowing the “why” behind your terms and conditions is crucial to the success of contract negotiations.

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In-House Lawyer Negotiation Tip: Know Your Why

G2 named Lexion a Leader in Contract Management, CLM, and Contract Analytics, and Best Support & Easiest to do Business With for Enterprise CLM—and more.

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Lexion is a Leader in G2’s Winter 2023 Reports

Cart.com chose Lexion as the highest-value CLM with powerful AI for document intelligence.

Customer Spotlight

Cart.com’s legal team has a secret weapon for tackling acquisitions and its name is Lexion

D4C found the right-sized CLM to meet their needs and return a high ROI with Lexion

Customer Spotlight

With Lexion, D4C Spends an Hour on Tasks That Used to Take a Week

Lexion is an Intelligent Applications Top 40 Winner for AI

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Lexion is an Intelligent Applications Top 40 Winner

Lexion’s integration with HubSpot CRM accelerates sales, increases visibility, and automates more to help sales and legal close deals faster.

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Lexion + HubSpot: The Fastest Way for Sales and Legal to Get Deals Done

How Staci VanderPol leveraged her experience to forge a non-traditional legal career

Corporate Counsel Spotlight: How I Got Here — Staci VanderPol, Corporate Counsel and Solutions Specialist at Lexion

Streamline redlining, simplify versioning, and collaborate seamlessly with Lexion’s powerful contract management platform inside Microsoft Word.

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Streamline Redlining and Collaboration with Lexion for Word

Lexion's Fall 2022 G2 Awards include Leader in CLM, Easiest to Use CLM tool, and Easiest CLM to do business with

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G2’s Fall 2022 Awards: Lexion really is that easy to use — for everyone

Hear from Natasha Giuffre how she became GC and CLO and what advice she’d give to others looking to take the next step on their path.

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GC Spotlight: How I got here - Natasha Giuffre, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Thentia

Lexion helps you unlock the data and visibility you need to turn your contracts and legal team into strategic assets. Here’s how.

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Prove Your Value and Optimize Your Contracting Workflow with Data

AI-powered legal tech startup Lexion adds Laura Reigel to its all-star leadership team as the company continues to grow.

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Lexion Welcomes Laura Reigel as VP of Marketing

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Lexion Delivers 8 Document Understanding AI Models with up to 94+% Accuracy for UiPath in 1 Week

Lexion makes it easy to accelerate your contracting processes with flexible notification settings that work the way you do.

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Streamline Collaboration with Flexible Notifications

In order to streamline sales contract management and close more deals, sales and legal teams must collaborate. Here's how they can.

Sales and Legal: A Crucial Collaboration for Sales Contract Management

Manually tracking key dates across a large number of contracts is a nightmare. Here are three ways Lexion helps make sure you never miss a thing.

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Master Renewals and Other Key Dates with Lexion

A legal ticketing system works to streamline legal requests and help in-house legal teams prioritize. Invest in a solution today.

Developing and Implementing an Effective Legal Ticketing System

We asked Jason a few questions about his path to CLO and what advice he’d give to aspiring legal professionals looking to take their next steps.

Customer Spotlight

GC Spotlight: How I got here - Jason Knapp, Chief Legal Officer of InMarket

Is your in-house legal team up to their knees in legal service requests? Don't fret. Use this five step guide to help optimize your current workflow.

Legal Service Requests: Process More in Less Time

We asked Brie Buchanan, General Counsel of Relay Payments, a few questions about her journey and any advice for aspiring GCs. Read her answers.

GC Spotlight: How I got here - Brie Buchanan, General Counsel of Relay Payments

Lexion’s improved integration with DocuSign keeps your repository current by retrieving and filing every agreement you sign, whether it’s your envelope or not.

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Improved DocuSign Integration Goes Beyond Your Envelopes

Is your legal team caught up in redundant task management preventing them from focusing on more strategic and complex projects? Check out this solution.

How To Make Legal Task Management a Breeze

Lexion’s document generation with conditional logic helps you automate more complex agreements, accelerating deals and freeing up time for more valuable work.

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Next Gen Doc Gen: Automate More With Conditional Fields

Lexion earned six new awards from G2 for Summer 2022, including Fastest Implementation of any Mid-Market Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution.

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Lexion Wins 6 Awards for Excellence in CLM

A contract management dashboard simplifies the day-to-day workflow of your legal team and provides important visibility for the rest of your company.

The Value of a Contract Management Dashboard

Lexion’s clause library helps you save clauses, standardize agreements, reduce risk, and simplify reporting.

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Move over, clause-library.docx: Introducing the Lexion Clause Library

Version control has many uses across the contract lifecycle. Find out how you can transform your contract management process.

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The Advantages of Version Control in CLM

Unlike cumbersome enterprise systems and other CLMs, Lexion’s Workflow and Repository are ready fast, and with key integrations and configuration you can do you

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"Easy to use" should be easy to implement

Lexion’s email-driven workflows, key integrations, and simple setup make it a contract lifecycle management solution your business will actually use.

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How to solve poor CLM adoption

In this recap of CLOC 2022, we share what we learned, what legal ops professionals actually care about and show lots of pictures from the event.

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CLOC Recap: No One Wants to Learn Another Tool

Lexion’s seamless integration with Microsoft Teams helps stakeholders track down documents and find answers to their contract-related questions—all with a simpl

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Lexion’s Microsoft Teams Integration Means Simpler CLM Adoption

All types of contracts have different important details you should be sure to watch for. Learn about them here.

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What You Should Look for in Different Types of Contracts

The contract procurement process can take some getting used to. Here are some basic steps to help get you started.

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Breaking Down the Contract Procurement Process

Lexion’s Instant Contracts help sales and other teams generate, prepare, sign, and file high-volume, low-value contracts—all without involving legal.

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Lexion’s Instant Contracts Help Sales Help Themselves

Lexion’s in-app document comparison makes managing contract review and negotiation simple, accelerating deals and eliminating errors.

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In-App Document Comparison Accelerates Deals & Eliminates Errors

Streamlining your contract review process can empower you to scale your business while managing risks. Learn more here.

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What You Should Look for During the Contract Review Process