The rise of the corporate
legal operations professional in corporate legal departments has increased in popularity over the past two years and is set to continue going forward.
This groundbreaking global study of salaries and total compensation will provide in - house counsel and
legal operations professionals with the data they need to benchmark pay and benefits.
The stated mission according to its website is: «To
help legal operations professionals and other core corporate legal industry players (e.g. tech providers, law firms, LPOs, law schools, etc.) optimize the legal service delivery models needed to support the needs of small, medium, and large legal departments.»
At the Corporate Legal Operations Institute conference going on this week in San Francisco,
legal operations professionals from companies such as Yahoo, NetApp, Cisco, and others met to discuss how to use data and technology to achieve more efficiency with their spending, especially as it pertains to outside counsel.
I was reviewing the results of The Ninth Annual Law Department Operations Survey (Blickstein Group / Consilio), which found that 33 percent of responding companies added their
first legal operations professional in 2008.
There were
certainly legal operations professionals in attendance, joined by a couple thousand colleagues from general counsel, in - house legal departments, eDiscovery professionals, law firms, and wide array of others who were simply curious to see what all the excitement was about at this young but quickly growing consortium.
A new LexisNexis CounselLink study conducted in partnership with the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), indicates corporate
legal operations professionals rank financial metrics as most important to the legal department.
Legal operations professionals play a critical role in shaping in - house practice, and are increasingly charged with driving significant efficiencies, controlling costs, and scoping out the best way to perform legal services in alignment with the priorities and goals of the company and the business units they serve.
Based on defined objectives, these tools provide insight across all matters
so legal operations professionals can easily track the progress of cases, counsel and legal bills in real time, evaluate pricing models, technology options and staffing decisions, reuse data for efficiencies, and use data to inform any number of strategic decisions.
On May 23, 2018 at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT, attend Legal Operations Discuss: Maximizing Legal Hold Efficiency, Exterro's client spotlight webcast with NetApp, so you can learn directly from two
legal operations professionals about how they applied legal operations strategies to assess and improve NetApp's legal hold process.
Catherine is also the director of the section of ACC
for legal operations professionals, and the ACC Law Department Executive Leadership programs for the heads of operations of very large legal departments.
This change could include the evolving role
of legal operations professionals, further segmentation to serve the business needs, and the increased role of knowledge management in the legal department.
The stated mission according to its website is: «To
help legal operations professionals and other core corporate legal industry players (e.g. tech providers, law firms, LPOs, law schools, etc..)
Learning the ideas behind legal operations can be a big help, but for many people, there's nothing better than learning through example.On May 23, 2018 at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT, attend Legal Operations Discuss: Maximizing Legal Hold Efficiency, Exterro's client spotlight webcast with NetApp, so you can learn directly from two
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When he first hired
his legal operations professional, he thought the role would mainly revolve around efficiency, but quickly realized how integral that role positively and invaluably impacted their excellence and economy.
In one panel, the general counsel described the role of
the legal operations professional as a «chief of staff» for the legal department.
Anna is
a legal operations professional with extensive experience in selection and implementation of tech tools and process improvements for legal departments.
And whether you are
a legal operations professional in a legal department or at a law firm, are you aware of management trends and best practices...
CLOC is the «go - to» organization for information about legal operations and connections to the best
legal operations professionals in the business.Last year over 2,000 legal operations professionals attended the Second Annual CLOC US Institute in Las Vegas.
In our new book, Best Practices for using UTBMS Codes for Merger & Acquisition Transactions, well - respected legal project manager Jenny Anne Horst - Martz and I provide practical guidelines for attorneys,
legal operations professionals, and e-billing specialists.
CLOC is a non-profit organization of
legal operations professionals that focuses on strategic planning, financial management, vendor management, data analytics, technology support, governance, litigation support and cross-functional alignment.
These legal operations professionals are under intense pressure to drive efficiencies and keep costs down while maintaining valuable relationships with outside firms.
I first heard that joke at a seminal legal operations conference in Chicago, and it captured nicely the frustration
the legal operations professionals there (both lawyers and businesspeople) expressed throughout the conference.
One benchmark: the Association of Corporate Counsel last month launched a new section for
legal operations professionals, the folks — many of them not lawyers (but not non-lawyers)-- who help general counsel bring creative and business - minded practices to the management of law departments.
Legal operations professionals have heard a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) recently.
During his tenure at Corporate Counsel, he initiated surveys on legal process outsourcing and
legal operations professionals, and he managed various high - profile projects such as the Best Legal Departments awards.
I would also say that the current rise of
legal operations professionals (not just lawyers) is going to continue.
With human centered design at the core of our design process, we rely on the subject matter expertise of attorneys and
legal operations professionals to design user experiences that solve real problems.
Corporate counsel and
legal operations professionals can now get reports automatically emailed to them daily, weekly or monthly in a mobile - friendly dashboard.
Legal operations professionals will start to become the norm in Fortune 500 companies.
It's an exciting time to be
a legal operations professional, with many opportunities to push forward and manage change.