Legal Transformation

What EY can do for you

Legal transformation modernizes how legal services are delivered amid rising cost pressures, growing regulatory complexity, and rapid legal technology advancement. By aligning talent, technology, data and operating models, it helps legal functions reduce risk and cost, improve productivity and more effectively support enterprise growth. 

Designing a cost-efficient and technology-led legal transformation hinges on answers to key questions: 

• How are you leveraging technology and alternative delivery models to address workload and talent constraints while controlling costs? 
• What opportunities exist to reduce reliance on outside counsel and strategically bring work in house – enabling your legal team to demonstrate greater value and productivity with fewer resources? 
• How are you equipping your legal function to support revenue growth by modernizing operations and enabling integrated, decision-ready data? 
• How does your legal spend compare to peers, and what is your approach to benchmarking, governing and adjusting costs in line with your strategic vision?

Our Legal Transformation teams help legal departments unlock long-term value through detailed assessments that identify opportunities for transformative change, technology enablement and meaningful innovation.

We help create value for our clients by:

Enabling enterprise growth and strategic alignment 
Act as a trusted business advisor, helping legal functions identify priorities, align with the business, and sequence initiatives effectively to drive innovation and sustained impact. 

Driving efficiency, innovation and cost predictability 
Create measurable efficiencies and sustainable cost reduction through technology-enabled platforms, generative AI (GenAI) and clear roadmaps that translate insight into action. 

Elevating talent to operate at the top of their license 
Streamline routine work through automation and AI, freeing legal professionals to focus on high-value, strategic activities that improve performance and career development.

EY Legal Transformation services and solutions support clients broadly – from advising through transformation and operation – facilitating cost‑effective, innovative legal delivery through scalable, law‑based services including Contract Operations, Entity Compliance and Governance, and Third‑Party Risk Management. 

The services offered include:

• Strategy and benchmarking 
• Legal operating model and organization design 
• Process reengineering and workflow design 
• Spend analysis and strategic sourcing 
• Contract transformation 
• AI and digital transformation 
• Talent development and upskilling 
• Program and change management  
• “Future of” visioning sessions - facilitated, collaborative workshops provided in‑person, virtually, or in a hybrid format, leveraging EY’s purpose‑built spaces, digital collaboration tools and experienced facilitators to align stakeholders on a clear future‑state vision. 

Why EY

Our legal transformation professionals bring together deep legal, strategy and AI‑enabled digital capabilities to provide detailed practical transformation. By integrating people, technology and innovation across the assess, design and operate journey, we help organizations build agile, compliant and future‑ready legal functions.