Sentences with phrase «legal ops teams»

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.

While many large departments look to legal ops teams for efficiency and ideas for doing more with in - sourced resources that cost less money than law firms, that's a strategy that places their teams in direct competition with ALSPs, which can effectively demonstrate to executive management that they offer less expensive and more flexible outsourcing arrangements that provide more efficient, agile and effective solutions for cost conscious companies.

Several of the legal ops team are non-lawyers.

Not exact matches

This week, The Wall Street Journal published an op - ed by Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. and Joshua S. Lipshutz, two lead members of the legal team behind Vergara v. California and the new federal education equality lawsuit, Martinez v. Malloy, in which the attorneys make the case for a constitutional right to education and federal legal protections for disadvantaged students.

While it starts out as a great story about secret agents and special ops teams, about double crosses and not knowing who to trust, it quickly evolved into a laundry list of ways that different government agencies with obscure acronyms had the technological means and the legal ability to spy on every single citizen.

The site includes the texts of his court filings, biographies of his legal team, news articles and videos about the case, and Lay's own articles and op - ed pieces.

He also singled out the work of Barrett - Vane, labelling her a «legal ops pro who has done a lot of good work in a number of areas and who recognises the importance of meaningful data to help in - house teams make properly considered, evidence based decisions».

However, rather than looking to law firms as they once did, today sophisticated in - house teams led by their legal ops function drive service delivery.

She co-founded and has been a member of the executive team of CLOC and recently co-founded a legal operations consulting firm, UpLevel Ops.

ops team professionals speak the language of business and thus are aligned with the «majority» skill sets that clients value (because business, not legal, acumen pays the in - house counsel's salary), and 3.)

Or might an industry - wide reduction in department size actually lead to even greater growth for the ops community (given that many of us would argue that one really good ops person added to a legal team can exponentially multiply the output of 10 lawyers doing great legal work; the addition of another lawyer to that department simply adds a lawyer to the team, making them an 11 - lawyer department).

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.»