Legal Operations

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

Forum Magazine: New CLOC President Talks about the Importance of Legal Ops 2.0

Undoubtedly one of the most significant developments in the legal industry over the past several years has been the changing face of the corporate legal…

Gina Jurva November 12, 2019

Oh, the Places You Will Fail! A Letter From Failure Camp

NASHVILLE — It’s tough to admit failure. It’s easier to pretend it didn’t happen, to walk away, to blame something or someone else. It’s tougher…

Jen Randolph Reise August 12, 2019

General Counsel Q&A: Training and Education Help Us Support Our Business Partners, says Kelly Mahon Tullier of Visa Inc.

Kelly Mahon Tullier, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Visa Inc., recently spoke with Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law The Journal: Transactions & Business (PLJ)…

Legal Executive Institute August 09, 2019

AI: Where the Rubber Hits the Road

A Common Refrain: Artificial Intelligence Will Replace Lawyers in the Next Five Years! Thought no one to themselves: Or, maybe it will just force them…

Ryan McClead July 26, 2019

CURIOUS MINDS: A Talk with Mark Cohen, Founder & CEO of Legal Mosaic

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

Rose D. Ors July 22, 2019

The Need (or Not) for A+ Work from Your Law Firm, and How ALSPs Move Upstream

We hire law firms regularly to support our in-house legal team’s need to service our in-house business clients. The law firm expects that our assignment…

Connie Brenton June 26, 2019

Securing Your Practice’s Future: Making a Strategic Plan

In the inaugural post in this series, I argued that creating an effective strategic plan is central to achieving overarching financial health. Long-term business stability…

Mark Haddad June 25, 2019

CURIOUS MINDS: A Discussion with Margaret Hagan of the Stanford Legal Design Lab

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

Rose D. Ors June 24, 2019