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Let teams move forward without losing control
Teams wait for your green light, even for routine matters.
- A standard contract waits days for your sign-off.
- Teams don’t know what they can sign on their own.
- You review documents the teams could approve themselves.
Work piles up at the same checkpoint.
2025 · French industrial mid-size company · 5 lawyers · 11 business units
Almost every decision with a contractual element went up to legal. 47% of requests could have been handled by the teams, and 32% concerned cases already covered by a rule. Two units approved the same type of contract in two different ways. The general counsel put it this way: “We have a delegation policy. It just lives in five people’s heads.”
We wrote a delegation matrix covering the twenty situations that make up most of the volume: who decides, within which limits, with which template, when to escalate. Three risk levels were enough. Built into the existing circuits, it cut unnecessary escalations from 32% to 9% in six months, and approval routes from four to one.
Business teams can move on part of their matters alone when the frame is written down: what they can sign, what they must flag, what belongs to legal. Control then sits on the rules rather than on every matter.
Delegation rules, self-service templates, thresholds above which legal steps in.
32%9%
of requests escalated although a rule already covers them
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