The conference also featured a panel discussion of
legal operation managers on «leading lawyers without a license» and a human - centered design boot camp in which attendees worked in teams.
As we head into the new year, what advice would you offer to general counsel or
legal operations managers who want to improve their legal spend programs?
The Association of Corporate Counsel estimates that at least a third of Fortune 500 general counsels have hired
legal operations managers in the last ten years.
Vodafone's global
enterprise legal operations manager Matthew Paterson has given an inside view of a transformation programme underway at the telecoms giant that has seen it enter deals with DocuSign and more recently Riverview Law and send 34 % of its contract work offshore.
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.
I have discussed this idea with a number of general counsels and
legal operations managers.
Over the past several years, more and more corporate legal departments have either hired or explored the idea of hiring
a legal operations manager / director.
Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) co-founders Connie Brenton and Stephanie Corey recently told Bloomberg BNA that
these legal operations managers have been «gaining significantly more clout» inside corporate legal departments, including reporting directly to general counsels and earning senior management titles within their companies.
Legal departments with large staff tend to add a business analyst (for greater focus on process improvement), technology specialist (for management of legal technology), and
legal operations manager / director to drive strategic initiatives for the legal operations team
One legal department is looking to the future with plans for a law firm scorecard and an objective means of evaluating outside counsel, according to
a legal operations manager at a biopharmaceutical company.
More and more companies with large in - house teams now have
legal operations managers and directors responsible for managing outside counsel, budgets and creating efficient processes.
The number one priority is to protect the company, according to
the legal operations manager at a communications company however it's beginning to examine whether or not value it receives from their legal vendors aligns with the cost.
A biopharmaceutical company is just getting started with vendor management according to
the legal operations manager.
In order to better describe these factors, we will use a hypothetical, but realistic, project defined and run by
a legal operations manager.
Discussions may occur among others beyond the law firm and client: legal service providers include inside counsel and
legal operations managers.