Sentences with phrase «of legal operations»

I was called by a recruiter about a year ago regarding a position where a 50 - person compliance team reports into the newly formed head of legal operations role.

In one panel, the general counsel described the role of the legal operations professional as a «chief of staff» for the legal department.

The multidisciplinary teams and the integration with the top technology remind me of the rise of legal operations.

These core competencies and expected outcomes should form the basis of a business case for developing, expanding, and managing performance of a legal operations team.

This year, the awards recognise the emergence of legal operations as a discipline.

The emergence of legal operations roles in corporations has changed the way in which companies hire their law firms.

Build relationships with the world's premier group of legal operations experts.

In those sessions, we discussed technology solutions, the future of in - house legal counsel, and the growth of legal operations.

, and we have found that there are eight steps to a successful implementation of legal operations.

He will be the keynote speaker and addressing the topic of legal operations in more detail.

By identifying these activities, you can get a better understanding of how people work and what aspects of a legal operations system might be most beneficial to them.

He spoke with us about his new role at ACC, the growth he's seen in the field of legal operations and where he thinks it's going next.

Our team also provides the implementation, training and support services to help you make the most of your legal operations system.

«Our basic objective is to survive throughout the year,» said a senior vice president of legal operations support for a financial institution.

As such, it points to similar growth in the sophistication of legal operations solutions and sensitivity to ongoing client engagement and development challenges within the industry.

There's a big piece of legal operations that relates to technology but there's so much more of it that doesn't.

A provider with a deep understanding of legal operations and management will demonstrate a commitment to the industry by offering multiple options and allowing you to base your selections on your organization's needs.

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.

The event focuses on operational strategies and issues for legal technology professionals working in law departments or as part of legal operations.

Instead, the challenge is changing the mindset of practitioners of legal operations so that they know they need to optimize.

Technology in the back office of legal operations (infrastructure and foundational) has been quite successful in taking tasks off of legal professionals that were administrative and tedious.

We have collected the essential principles and disciplines of legal operations into a core curriculum that can be taught and passed on.

It is an exciting time to be developing the technology that supports the growth and evolution of legal operation, and I expect the landscape will look very different in a few years.

The rise of legal operations is the most significant new innovation in the way legal services are delivered, with the potential to impact a massive portion of the global industry.

This is the fundamental truth driving the growth of legal operations.

Two trends that are not getting much press, and are transformational in our view, is the consolidation of legal panels and the emergence of the legal operations group inside large legal departments.

From your perspective as someone with your background and expertise, what have you been most surprised by in the evolution and emergence of legal operations as a field?

The role has also evolved to be an executive member of legal departments and organizations, said Connie Brenton, president and CEO of CLOC and senior director of legal operations at NetApp.

The core functions of a legal operations professional currently include the following responsibilities:

The rise of legal operations functions, the introduction of procurement disciplines into the acquisition of legal services, the formation of groups like the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), the creation of the ACC Value Challenge, extraordinary pushback on pricing and staffing decisions — all are dramatic responses to these perceived shortcomings.

LAS VEGAS: Nearly three - quarters of legal operations leaders are lawyers who have successfully transformed their skillset and 59 per cent are held by women, a new study into the role has revealed.

The recent Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker ™ (formerly Serengeti Tracker ™) Market Watch survey provides insights into key criteria that either cause or correlate with the size of a legal operations team.

CLOC, LawGeex analysis of titles shows three - quarters of legal operations leaders are lawyers while one quarter hold MBAs

Royal Mail director of legal operations Sarah Barrett - Vane on how the law firm - client relationship is changing

In many cases, this means analysing how they can improve the efficiency of their legal operations.

Coupled with the growing maturity and sophistication of the legal operations profession within in - house departments, we are already beginning to see these changes manifest.

This Institute is about deep dives in critical areas of legal operations that we face daily.

Find out why the CLOC Institute it the largest, most popular, most respected gathering of legal operations professionals.

PwC have been slowly increasing the size of its legal operations with expansion in Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia, bringing the total number of PwC Legal's offices worldwide to 85 and the number of employees to 2,500.

2017 is a critical year within the recruitment sector as most organisations seek to grow and re-invest, the expansion of their Legal operations is fundamental in achieving this growth and maintaining a competitive advantage.

At LegalWeek CONNECT, which will take place in London later this month, Sarah will be part of a panel of legal operations experts discussing innovative strategies for aligning legal operations objectives and optimising processes that bring together outside counsel and legal departments.

Part 1 (February — March 2010): Abu Hamdan worked with a group of young people to pursue the premise that the voice and its mode of delivery are the principal means of legal operations.

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.

But if the energy and forward movement keeps up at the current pace, it seems that 2018 may be the tipping point for law firms to start to become more than just aware of legal operations.

I think of legal operations as the function within an organization that marries all the different fields that legal can touch and makes sure that they're working most efficiently together.

The scope of legal operations (or the management of legal departments) has ballooned over the last decade, while at that same time the pressure is rising to contain and reduce waste and inefficiency — and this shows no signs of slowing.