As a result, many corporate legal departments are
investing in legal operations, and this field has grown from a handful of individuals in 2009 to thousands of professionals today.
Join us, along with more than 2,000 attendees, for four days of interactive sessions on the latest trends, technologies, and
services in legal operations.
It's composed of movers and shakers technically
in the legal operations field although many of the attendees are in house counsel, IT folks, innovation officers etc in the legal space.
In his legal operations role at JPMorgan Chase, Sweet was responsible for improving outside counsel value through setting up alternative fee arrangements (AFAs), value - based fees, strategic pricing, rate negotiations, competitive selection (RFPs), and for supporting in - house counsel with firm selection, resource augmentation, and maximizing value added services.
She has also been a key participant
in legal operations management, including budget and strategic planning and reporting on outside legal expense and settlement costs — the ideal mix of leadership skills and legal experience for Wellesley.»
As I previously mentioned in a earlier post about CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) generally and the state of the legal profession, CLOC is made up of movers and
shakers in the legal operations field, IT representatives, innovation officers, and in house counsel who work for some the world's largest corporations.
Liquid Legal was an intense collaboration of over 30 authors: professors, legal counsels of multinationals, CEOs and COOs of leading legal process outsourcing providers, co-founders of legal search firms,
pioneers in legal operations, attorneys and entrepreneurs.
The most common stepping stone to a director of legal operations is a general legal role or general counsel (54 per cent) or paralegals (10 per cent), while 24 per cent have previously held a role of director of legal operations in a different company or have been promoted from a position of senior
manager in legal operations.
10:25 am The next session looks at why
collaboration in legal operations is critical to success — in years to come, what will the relationship between in - house teams, their external advisers and legal vendors look like?
Attendees will hear from a panel of
experts in legal operations who will share the latest knowledge in this area — even some of the highlights from the recent 2017 CLOC Conference.
ELM Solutions is proud to partner with these Legal Innovators, and we are grateful for their insights, partnership, and drive for
excellence in legal operations.
To date, the greatest
advances in legal operations have occurred in legal departments, yet the same inventive methods and mindsets are cropping up in traditional law firms and sophisticated «New Law» companies funded by nonlawyer investors.
You can partner with Legal Files Software and benefit from our nearly three decades of experience and knowledge of the best
practices in legal operations.
Harmon also commented on the growth of the role generally, noting that some attendees at CLOC 2018 have been
in the legal operations role less than two years.
Transforming Legal Service Delivery: The highly anticipated event will bring together legal operations managers and administrators with leading Industry Experts and Solution Providers in a highly interactive forum focused on success
in legal operations and performance management.
In legal operations, we can adapt this model to provide a useful framework for legal spend management.