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A survey of this year’s digital trends in over 800 global legal teams.

Organizations all over the globe rely on legal resources to manage a majority of contracting responsibilities. To keep up with the demand, in-house legal teams are looking for innovations that can improve today’s contracting workflows with an eye toward interoperability and automation. As the speed of business and the need for functional remote work increased in 2020, it became even more important to solve modern agreement problems in a way that set the stage for sustained, scalable digital transformation.

To study the way modern, in-house legal teams operate, DocuSign conducted a survey of more than 800 global corporate legal professionals, focusing on their contracting responsibilities and the tools they use to manage their work. This report summarizes the research, highlighting key trends in the way legal teams prepare and manage contracts today. You’ll also see predictions about the future of contract automation and details of the robust, interconnected contracting processes that legal professionals are central to building and implementing.