Leadership

Legal Department Operations (LDO) Index: Dedicated legal operations comes home

The pace of change within corporate legal departments has not been swift. Indeed, over the course of several years’ worth of analysis of these departments…

Thomson Reuters Institute August 25, 2020

UPFRONT & PERSONAL: Recruiting individuals with a high EQ will give you a diverse team, says Seth Weissman, CLO of Marqeta

We continue our regular feature, Upfront & Personal, a column created by Rose Ors that brings “the person behind the title” to the forefront in interviews with…

Rose D. Ors August 24, 2020

Why collaboration is (usually) doomed to fail — and how to buck the odds

The economics are straightforward: Those law firms that are able to serve corporate legal buyers in more work types and across more geographic areas can…

Jen Dezso August 24, 2020

CURIOUS MINDS: “How can we equip the next generation of lawyers with the tools they will need?”, asks Betsi Roach, CLOC’s executive director

We continue our monthly column, “Curious Minds”, created by Rose Ors to tap into the minds of legal innovators, disrupters, and out-of-the-box thinkers to learn…

Rose D. Ors August 19, 2020

The Am Law 200: “Envy and its Discontents”

This 3-part series was written by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. In the previous installment of this three-part series analyzing the recently…

Thomson Reuters Institute August 19, 2020

“We all live in the same house”: Remembering US. Rep. John Lewis

“Happy Pride Day. Enjoy this day. Celebrate the day. Celebrate our diversity. We are one people. We are one family. We are one house. We…

Outspoken: Advancing LGBTQ+ Professionals August 18, 2020

CLOC Core Functions: Using business intelligence to make better decisions & increase legal department influence 

Most legal services organizations have not reached the stage of using data analytics to their fullest extent. Indeed, the current reality is that in-house departments…

Marc Jenkins August 18, 2020

Law Firm Partner Profits: What really stands in the way of profit growth?

Even before the onset of the global pandemic, law firms of all sizes were concerned about how to continue growing their bottom line into the…

Bill Josten August 17, 2020

Economic upheaval is an opportunity for “reimagining law firms,” panel says

A months-long pandemic, the largest protest movement in U.S. history, an uncertain economic outlook — or in other words, the perfect context in which to…

Peter Neal August 14, 2020

The power of networking for LGBTQ associates looking for a position in Big Law

As I mentioned previously, many of the biases against hiring LGBTQ associates in Big Law have fallen by the wayside in recent years. And thanks…

Ru Bhatt August 11, 2020

How will legal operations teams shape the “New Normal” for legal?

The “new normal” is something more to be guessed at than completely understood at this point, as there remains a high degree of uncertainty around…

Bill Josten August 11, 2020

Using Your Platform for Good: Unleashing leadership

In our ongoing blog series, Using Your Platform for Good, author Irene Liu, General Counsel of Checkr, expands on crucial topics of corporate and workplace culture. A few…

Irene Liu August 10, 2020