Legal OperationsLegaltech and artificial intelligenceLaw firm managementLegal Project Management
Managing legal work.
Which matters to take on, how to budget for them, who does the work and which technology to use. Daniel addresses these management decisions in his books, teaching and work with law firms and legal teams.
Books
Two books on planning legal projects and organising a company's legal function.
Legal Services Management
Using Legal Project Management to plan, budget, and lead legal work
How to scope, plan, budget, deliver and monitor legal projects, and learn from their results.
Daniel has written a book that meets the profession where it is today while helping prepare it for where it is going next. By connecting management discipline, client value, technological change, and professional sustainability, he has made a significant contribution to one of the profession's most pressing challenges.
Acevedo’s work also serves as a reminder that the English-speaking segment of the legal industry is often provincial. This book demonstrates that much can be learned from other regions and legal systems—especially when examined by a thoughtful guide.
This is an important contribution to a debate that law practitioners cannot afford to treat as peripheral, and one that brings a much-needed civil-law perspective to a discussion too often dominated by the Anglo-American experience.
Legal Services Management is ultimately about making legal work more intentional, connected, and manageable. For anyone interested in moving legal service delivery from individual heroics and disconnected tools toward a more integrated system of performance, this is a valuable guide.
Endorsement in the 2026 edition
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The Legal Function as a System
Implementing Legal Operations to Drive the Transformation of Legal Teams
How to organise people, processes and technology within a legal department and implement Legal Operations.
For anyone responsible for transforming a legal function, this book is a reminder that the opportunity extends far beyond Legal. Build the right capabilities inside the legal function, and their impact can reach across the entire enterprise.
Daniel challenges a persistent problem in legal transformation: the reflex to buy before understanding. I have written and spoken about this phenomenon for years. A shiny demo can be very persuasive, but it is still not a strategy.
This book stands out as a primer on the how, not just the what, of rendering the legal function into a strategic partner in business. Daniel Acevedo’s dynamic capability-driven approach is rigorous, highly implementable, and a must read for those aspiring to digitally transform their legal function.
By highlighting an approach based on the “capabilities” of the corporate legal function, the author helps demonstrate the strategic role this function must play. He does so with a highly structured approach, which shows that the practice of law in business can benefit from proven business and management methods.
The great strength of Daniel Acevedo’s insightful book, The Legal Function as a System, is that he brings strategy, governance, talent, knowledge, process, data, technology and service delivery together into a coherent system of capabilities, rather than treating them as separate initiatives or disciplines.
Daniel has worked in Legal Operations, business transformation and technology at EY, vLex, ECIJA Tech Colombia, Galicia and Gómez-Pinzón. He now leads Bredia.
Fastcase 50, class of 2023
Recognition of professionals contributing to innovation in the legal sector.
Heidi K. GardnerDistinguished Fellow, Harvard Law School; CEO, Gardner & Co.; bestselling author of Smart Collaboration and Smarter Collaboration.
Mark CohenCEO and founder, Legalmosaic; Distinguished Scholar, Singapore Academy of Law.
Cornelius GrossmannGlobal Head of Solutions Development, Dentons.
Catherine Alman MacDonaghCEO and founder, Legal Lean Sigma Institute LLC.
