Sharing Technology Across Teams: Expert-Tested Strategies

Today’s legal ops teams do more than manage process improvements or legal spending. They are now expected to lead projects that create value for the entire company.

With rising demands around data privacy, AI governance, and economic pressure, their involvement is no longer optional – it’s essential. One of the most powerful opportunities we’ve seen to date? Technology investment and adoption.

Gone are the days where each department needs their own tech stack. According to a recent poll by CIO, 95% of senior IT executives intend to consolidate their vendors within a year. This move aims to make IT simpler, improve security, and make operations smoother. It shows a wider trend in the industry towards combining technology systems.

By identifying overlaps, legal operations can champion cross-functional investments that streamline workflows, reduce costs, and enhance organizational agility.

At Interact 2025, one message was clear: the legal field must engage in digital transformation. As cross-functional collaboration becomes essential for scaling automation, improving workflows, and driving smarter decisions, legal operations must have a strategic seat at the table. The technologies your department champions — and how you share them — can make a measurable impact far beyond legal.

And at events like the CLOC, these conversations will continue to take center stage, spotlighting how legal can shift from department-specific enablement to true enterprise collaboration. Building the business case for sharing technology, gaining organizational buy-in, and positioning legal ops as a strategic leader are all becoming essential parts of the modern legal playbook. And nowhere is that leadership more urgently needed – or more impactful – than in championing shared technology that cuts across departments and drives smarter, scalable solutions.

This is especially important because as teams are expected to deliver more with less, drawing on vast amounts of data to drive intelligent business decisions, they often find themselves pulled into the allure of new, quick-fix point solutions.

They’re fast, easy to get up and running, and solve for an immediate pain point — but long term? Don’t expect these solutions with features that don’t work well together, custom code, and no API integrations to keep up. In fact, this one-and-done approach is often what we consider to be a top pitfall of legal technology adoption.

In other words, tech bloat happens when problems are solved by investing money in solutions that could be addressed with existing applications. Always reaching for “one more solution” can do the opposite of what is needed — and legal operations professionals have a unique ability to see that coming.

Legal Ops Professionals Bring More Than Efficiency, They Bring Alignment

With a cross-functional view, they understand not just how tools operate, but why they matter in a broader legal and regulatory context. It doesn’t matter how innovative your tech stack is — if Legal isn’t looped in, you could be trading speed for exposure. Legal ops ensures the right people are involved, the right risks are accounted for, and the right solutions are scaled.

More importantly, legal ops understands how to turn collaboration into action in a secure and compliant way. They don’t just observe gaps — they map them to solutions, gather support, and guide implementation. That’s what makes them ideal champions for sharing technology: they know where the value is, who it impacts, and how to bring people to the table.

By championing cross-functional tech investments, legal operations can:

• Reduce redundant systems and licenses: Identify overlapping tools across departments and consolidate to avoid unnecessary spending.
• Maximize ROI from existing platforms: Expand legal tech tools (like ELM) to support Finance, Procurement, Compliance, and other teams.
• Standardize workflows and boost collaboration: Align departments on consistent processes and tools to reduce friction and improve teamwork.
• Improve reporting and decision making: Use unified systems to deliver accurate data that supports business-critical decisions.
• Simplify vendor oversight and audit prep: Centralize data and activity tracking to strengthen compliance and streamline audits.

When legal ops lead the charge in sharing technology, they not only help the business avoid duplicative solutions, but also strengthen data consistency, accountability, and governance across the enterprise.

To see this approach in action, join Mitratech’s Liz Lugones, and Honeywell’s Sarah Sawvell at CLOC as they share how to leverage legal technology as an enterprise-wide asset for cost savings, better spend visibility, and enterprise-wide impact.