Legal Operations

Reimagining legal operations: The business infrastructure of legal services

It’s strongly evident now that legal operations are taking a more important role in how the delivery of legal services are conceptualized and executed. Indeed,…

Joshua El-Bey August 31, 2020

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…

Legal Executive Institute August 25, 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

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

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

Legal Geek’s Uncertain Decade: The future of legal technology & digital transformation

By 2030 we will see significant lawyer work being done by machines. As exponential growth of technology consumes to world, the legal industry is especially…

Joseph Raczynski August 03, 2020

Law department procurement: Is buying legal services the same as buying laptops?

For years now, corporate law departments have been asked to work with their companies’ procurement or purchasing departments. Most general counsel (GCs) and chief operating…

Audrey Rubin July 29, 2020

App development platforms as a legal service offering

To some within the legal technology field, the value of enterprise software vendor app development platforms is not widely appreciated. This is a function of…

Kenneth Jones July 20, 2020

What’s happening to RFPs during the pandemic?

There has been a recent market uptake in the utilization of Request for Proposals (RFPs) and bids during the pandemic, and I wanted to find…

Nancey Watson May 26, 2020

Forum magazine: Legal ops implementation — How we fell in love with a legal tool & had our hearts broken

This article was written by Irene Liu, General Counsel, and Neta Hamou, Director of Commercial Legal Affairs, at Checkr, and originally appeared in the Spring…

Legal Executive Institute May 19, 2020

U.S. Bank Legal Operations: Key to Achieving Success Is an Expansive Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Caren Ulrich Stacy, CEO of Diversity Lab, earlier this month urged law firm leaders to “double down on diversity” as part of her “recession advice.”…

Natalie Runyon April 27, 2020

The Mission Continues Post-Launch: Measure and Engage to Optimize Legal Operations (Part 2)

On August 25, 2003, a McDonnell Douglas Delta II rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its’ payload, NASA's Spitzer telescope, was the size of a…

Marc Jenkins March 24, 2020