Case Study: Archer Daniels Midland achieves a one-third reduction in outside legal spend and enterprise-wide legal visibility with Onit

Partnering To Extend Each Of Legal Operations Innovations

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), a global agricultural processor operating in 160 countries with 35,000 employees and an 80‑lawyer legal department across 16 countries, struggled to see matter counts, law‑firm usage, and aggregate legal spend. To gain the data and controls needed for better risk management, fee negotiation, and operational discipline, ADM selected Onit and its legal operations platform to provide enterprise‑wide matter and spend visibility, process enforcement, and analytics.

By deploying Onit’s technology alongside focused change management, ADM standardized processes, automated low‑value administrative work, and built dashboards and reports for real‑time insight. The Onit implementation helped ADM shift to more fixed‑fee and other AFAs, improve law‑firm selection, and reduce outside legal spend by more than one‑third while delivering measurable ROI and sustainable operational improvements.

Archer Daniels Midland

David Cambria

Global Director of Operations Law, Compliance and Government Relations