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Welcome to The InsideVu Q1 2025 wrap up! In this edition we’ll highlight key features we have delivered so far this year to make sure you know how to take advantage of them and unlock even greater value from your legal workspace.

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In the last 3 months, we have delivered loads of new features that automate manual tasks and deliver more of the data and information you need, so you can save time and further optimise your legal operations. The highlights are listed below, but our feature update webinar is the best way to get the details you need!

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.

As a LawVu customer, you already know the LawVu workspace is a powerful tool for your team, but have you ever considered how to extend that into more workflows for both your legal and business teams? Join legal solutions engineers Nick Raffey and David Webb to learn how to crawl, walk, and run in extending your workspace using Power Automate. In this session, we’ll discuss:

New Workspace Intelligence AI features are now available to help you move through core workflows faster.

Read this help article to learn more about the new AI features and join the webinar to get more insights into how they work.

The new AI features are now available at no additional cost for customers on the Essentials, Matters, and Ultimate plans. If you have any questions or need assistance, reach out to your Customer Success Manager.

We’ve added more features to automated contract approval workflows to give you more flexibility and better compliance with internal approval processes. What’s new:

Once you’ve experienced the power of managing all your legal work in one place, it’s natural to want to connect your legal workspace with specialized tools and the systems your business relies on to improve collaboration, centralize more data and unlock extra efficiencies.

And it’s now even easier to discover the many ways you can improve your legal operations with the LawVu Ecosystem. Explore seamless integrations, workflow automation templates and get a taste for our API and partner services as you continue to optimize your legal operations and harness the full power of LawVu.

Explore the LawVu Ecosystem

Goodbye context switching and duplication! Use the Word Desktop integration to seamlessly open, edit and save documents, without leaving LawVu. Enjoy automatic version detection, one-click saving, and seamless updates to prevent lost edits or merges. Read this help article to learn how to edit documents using Word Desktop

Legal teams can gain a lot from implementing billing guidelines with outside counsel – but monitoring compliance can be a real challenge. Now in early access, we’re exploring an innovative approach to automating billing guideline review with AI, so you can save time, control costs, and have instant access to the data you need to manage compliance without administrative overhead. Read this blog to learn more about AI-powered billing guidelines review.

We've introduced a new button that lets you easily preview and explore your standard users' view of the Business Portal when you’re in the admin site. This makes it easier to train your business users, create documentation and check in on their experience. Click here to learn more about how to easily navigate between the workspace and Business Portal

We’ve streamlined your Files view for efficiency: emails are now organized into their own tab, and files are on their own, making it easier to focus and find what you need. Read this help article to learn more about the enhanced view.

UTBMS codes are now included in LEDES invoice previews, making it easier for approvers to identify and analyze tasks and expenses using standard categorizations.

We’ve enhanced file access management in LawVu to give legal teams more flexibility and control over file access. These enhancements are designed to streamline document management and collaboration with business users, making the process faster and more efficient.

With the enhanced file access management:

We've put together some help articles to help you learn more about the enhanced file access management:

Are you leveraging everything LawVu has to offer? Our expert Customer Success team is here to help you do just that with exclusive 30-minute webinars. These sessions are packed with tips, tricks, and best practices designed to help you get the most out of LawVu and deliver exceptional value to your organization.

You’ll learn:

At InView Connect Conference '25, join peers from across the global in-house community for tailored panels, presentations, and even entertainment. From driving business velocity to blending human and AI intelligence, you’ll leave equipped to tackle legal challenges, seize opportunities, and adapt in 2025.

Have you secured your ticket to InView Connect London? Tickets are 80% sold out and we would really love to have as many of our customers there for the day. As a valued LawVu customer, simply use the code CUSTOMERLOVE100 at checkout to secure your free ticket today. We look forward to hosting you.

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