In our e-conversationfor National Magazine, she said: «I've never heard anyone say that they regret establishing
a Legal Ops role or that they are not sure if it is successful.
Law departments can have legal ops without a formal
legal ops role.
And law department can have
a legal ops role without any real legal ops.
As a result, a lot of GCs see the value of
a legal ops role.
The GC was based there and knew that
the legal ops role was emerging in Silicon Valley.
More than half of law departments now report having
a legal ops role.
Not exact matches
Collaboration is a key component of the
role, said Lisa Konie, senior director of
legal ops at Adobe, adding that the art of multitasking and being adept at juggling many things is indicative of most professionals in operations
roles.
The chief justice and individual members of the court play a public
role, making the case for
legal aid funding by giving speeches, visiting with individual legislators, meeting with newspaper editorial boards and authoring
op ‐ ed pieces.
Previously RBS's GC for corporate and structural activities doubled up as the director of
legal ops, but Shaw removed the extra burden of that
role after he was trying to do the additional work «off the side of his desk».
Since then, the total firm count of Shell's global panel firms has been reduced by more than 50 %, the majority of its matters have been transitioned to AFA's, external
legal spend has been cut by more than 20 percent, and the ROI has been so significant that Shell has already created an additional
legal ops support
role.
The rise of cloud - based technology has both made it easier to tackle things in - house that were once farmed out to outside firms and necessitated the
role of
legal ops, with a new set of security requirements like GDPR that companies and their
legal departments have to monitor and comply with.
Those who are in control of law departments, law firms, professional regulatory structures, as well as the media, persist in viewing the world though a lens which suggests that while «non-lawyers» are helpful to
legal work, their contributions and
roles are not as important as the ones played by lawyers in providing excellent client service and results; professional staff on
legal ops teams remain second - class citizens, at least in the eyes of many lawyers.
These new and existing
legal ops personnel fill an increasingly important
role within the
legal department, implementing the
legal department strategy and helping organize and meet goals and deadlines.
As the
role and dynamics of
legal departments continue to change over the next few years, the
legal ops department will become a more formalized
role in every
legal department regardless of size.
This year: while
ops teams are indeed of diverse composition and include those with many disciplines who work well together, I'm still not seeing lawyers take the mental and emotional leap toward overruling the predominate
legal class system — both in departments and in the larger profession via regulation — that discriminates between the
roles and value of «lawyers» vs «non-lawyers.»
Denis, whose current
role consists of managing the department's strategic plan, budget and outsourcing strategies as well as finding ways to better enable the corporation's
legal counsel through the addition of new technologies and processes improvement, says he's noticed a lot of
legal ops people are not lawyers — large corporations have moved to procurement - background types for the job, which he calls unfortunate.