Many legal teams responding to Deloittes annual Legal Operations

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Many legal teams responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey indicate they are improving their management, performance, and tracking of legal work, as they had  an opportunity to develop data-driven strategies to further enhance these efforts and drive greater value for the business.

A. Many legal teams responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey indicate they are improving their management, performance, and tracking of legal work, as they had

B. Many legal teams are responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey indicates they are improving their management, performance, and tracking of legal work, but they have

C. Many legal teams responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey indicate that they are improving their management, performance, and tracking of legal work, as they had

D. Many legal teams are responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey indicates that they are improving its management, performance, and tracking of legal work, but they have

E. Many legal teams responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey indicate they are improving their management, performance, and tracking of legal work, but they have

satyarthsaluja · Answer

Can anyone explain why C is incorrect?

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  satyarthsaluja ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, Option C is incorrect because the use of the simple past tense "had" is incorrect; since the action of "improving" is taking place in the current time frame, it logically follows that the teams have the opportunity to do something related to this improvement in the current time frame, as well, meaning the simple present tense "have" is the appropriate usage here.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

AndreMarchan · Answer

Why is option A incorrect? In this case, AS acts as SINCE does.

tusharsadawarte · Answer

I think both options C and E are missing something.
In Option C, the structure is correct, but in the end we have "as they had" which is wrong. 
However, in Option E, "Many legal teams responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey indicate   that   they" should be the correct structure.

Kindly let me know if I am wrong here.

SnehaVinod9289 · Answer

Hello experts,

Can anyone please clarify this?

C. Many legal teams responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey  indicate that  they are improving their management, performance, and tracking of legal work, as they had

E. E. Many legal teams responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey  indicate they  are improving their management, performance, and tracking of legal work, but they have

Shouldn't INDICATE take THAT ?   I also noticed the difference between 'HAD' and 'HAVE' in options C and E, but I chose E because of the usage 'INDICATE THAT'

Thanks in advance!

Oppenheimer1945 · Answer

Which options are correct now?

C. Many legal teams responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey indicate that they are improving their management, performance, and tracking of legal work, as they had

E. Many legal teams responding to Deloitte’s annual Legal Operations Survey indicate  that  they are improving their management, performance, and tracking of legal work, but they have

arya251294 · Answer

I don't think it is a good question.
Even if we ignore the 'that' in option E (which we can't), how is the use of 'but' justified?
Logically I don't see any contrast here.

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  arya251294 ,

We hope this finds you well.

To provide a bit of clarity here, the contrast is between the fact that the legal teams are already improving certain metrics and the idea that they can still improve much further.

A much simpler version would be - "I am trying hard, but I can still work harder.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

arya251294 · Answer

Okay, so I feel that the use of comparative degrees is a giveaway for us to use contrast . 'further' / 'greater' / 'harder' or anything which tells me that but but can we still choose option 'E' as IMO 'that' is required?

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