Hi there 👋

Welcome to the latest edition of The InsideVu! We’re excited to give you a summary of features we have shipped in the last few months. Don’t miss our upcoming events where you can learn how to make the most of them.

PS: Previous versions of The InsideVu are available in the Help Center. Please give us 5 minutes of feedback here to help improve our communications and announcements.

Kind regards,

The LawVu Team

In the last 3 months we have delivered loads of new features to help you automate tasks, control costs, access more legal data to demonstrate value to stakeholders, and optimize legal operations with less effort. Watch the video below, join the feature update webinar or keep scrolling to check out the highlights!

Learn what’s new in LawVu and how to make the most of it! Our Product and Customer Success teams will walk through the latest features and show you tips and tricks to adopt them.

If you can’t make it to the webinar, simply register and we will send you the recording after the event.

Eliminate time consuming, manual approval processes and increase compliance with internal business policies and procedures with LawVu’s new automated contract approval workflows. Read this blog or visit this help article to learn more about how to use it.

And don't forget the mobile app! Everyone in the contract approval process can approve contracts using LawVu's app, keeping contract approvals moving from anywhere and improving turnaround times, working relationships, and collaboration.

Remove guesswork and have a clear, real-time view of contract turnaround times that will help you identify bottlenecks, monitor efficiency and progress, and make informed decisions. Read this blog to learn more about the new contract turnaround time reporting.

Save time, meet your reporting obligations with efficiency, and get accurate, real-time insights into legal spend with automated, easy-to-use accruals management – the latest feature to be added to LawVu’s Spend Management capabilities. Read this blog to learn more about the new accruals management feature, or get in touch with your CSM to learn more about managing spend and collaborating with outside counsel using the LawVu legal workspace.

Discover the updated suite of legal and business tools that seamlessly integrate with LawVu to centralize more data, speed up processes and make collaboration a breeze. Salesforce, SharePoint, Google Drive and BlackBoiler have all been enhanced. Read this blog to learn more.

If you're managing spend and invoices in LawVu, you can now move invoice approvals forward from anywhere to reduce bottlenecks, collaborate on the go and get invoices processed faster - with the latest feature added to the all new LawVu mobile app. Read this blog and visit this help article to learn more about the new mobile invoice approvals on the app.

Download and try it out for yourself: For iOS, click here. For Android, click here. Get more folks to use the mobile app to get more value! Simply forward the app store link to other LawVu users involved in your approval processes.

Reduce manual tasks and quickly extract valuable information from your contracts with new AI features to enhance contracting efficiency. Read this blog to learn more about how to action contracts faster with AI. The new AI features are currently in early access. Get in touch with your Customer Success Manager for more information.

Sometimes the “small” features make a big difference! Here are some more things we’ve recently shipped to address common feature requests from our customers:

Now you can easily see which record your notification relates to in your in-app notifications, making it easy to get context and decide how to take action at a glance.

We've enhanced the LawVu “create” menu to make it faster for you to upload contract documents. Now you can save time and upload contract documents to LawVu in just 2 clicks!

Users now have the option to disable notifications for contracts set to expire within 30 days or those already expired. To customize these settings, simply navigate to My Profile > Notifications. Additionally, Org Admins can disable these notifications for new users by going to Settings > Manage Notifications.

Good search techniques help you get better results and find what you need faster. Using the Boolean techniques will help you widen or narrow your search so you can get more relevant results. Here are some tips on how to enhance your keyword searches:

In a recent webinar hosted in collaboration with In-House Connect, LawVu legend David Lancelot discussed the advantages of leveraging impactful data and metrics as a legal leader.

Watch the webinar below to hear from David Lancelot, CLO and EVP Advocacy at LawVu and Hayley Day, Director at Morae, and get practical information to guide your mindset, skillset, and ability to use data to run your legal department and engage with the business.

AI is a powerful tool for legal teams facing evolving demands and higher workloads. There’s a lot of information and advice out there — but how can you make it actionable? Watch this workshop with Daniel Broderick, CEO atBlackBoiler, and Alison Meredith, Director of Product Partnerships at LawVu, to go beyond the guides and explore proven use cases, see AI in action, and get practical tactics for safe adoption that have a real impact on your team.

We value your feedback and would appreciate you sharing your experience with your peers. Please take a moment to review LawVu on G2. It’s safe, quick and you can review anonymously if you prefer.

Your authentic insights help us continue to optimise LawVu to support legal teams, and enables others to find the right solution too. We’d like to show you our appreciation by sending you a US$25 Amazon gift card. If you want to receive this, simply contact us with a link to your review.

How to review LawVu on G2

Do you know another in-house legal team who would also benefit from using LawVu?

Join our LawVu Referral Program and you’ll receive a $5,000 credit to use towards next year’s LawVu subscription for every company you successfully refer. Even better, they’ll also receive $5,000 to use towards their LawVu subscription too.

Thank you for reading and we hope you enjoyed this edition of The InsideVu.