Legal departments are prioritizing workflow efficiency, cost controls, and technology use. These are among the findings of the 2023 Legal Department Operations Index, which noted legal departments are facing growing workloads, shrinking budgets, and a need to increase their use of technology. Legal Current shares top takeaways from the report. Legal departments are under pressure …
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CLOC Preview: Predictive Spend Management
About 2,500 legal professionals will converge in Las Vegas next week for the CLOC Global Institute to focus on legal innovation and transformation. Among the conference highlights will be the May 17 session, Shift From Proactive to Predictive: Get More Sophisticated With Spend Management. Kelsey Nicol, director, Go-To-Market Strategy & Planning, Corporates, Thomson Reuters, will …
- May 11, 2023
- Carrie Brooker
#CLOC2018: A Conversation with Cisco Systems’ Mark Chandler
The 2018 Annual CLOC Institute recently concluded and there were many takeaways and conversations over the course of four days. I was fortunate to co-moderate, along with Susan Lambreth, principal at Law Vision, an engaging conversation with Mark Chandler, general counsel for Cisco Systems. The session opened with CLOC Board Member Jeff Franke detailing the …
- April 30, 2018
- Alex Cook
#CLOC2018: Building a Mature Legal Operations Function
The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) states that legal operations is a multi-disciplinary function that optimizes legal services delivery to a business or government entity by focusing on core competencies, which are broken into three levels: foundational, advanced and mature. Regardless of where your legal department stands in relation to these competencies, the session titled …
- April 26, 2018
- Jeff McCoy
CLOC 2018: Leveraging Data and Insights to Drive High Performance
The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, maybe better known as CLOC, has developed a list of Legal Operations Core Competencies. At the 2018 Annual Corporate Legal Operations Institute, a workshop focused on three of those core competencies: financial management; vendor management; and data analytics. The workshop, Legal Ops Dashboard Workshop: Leveraging Data and Insights to Drive …
- April 24, 2018
- Leonard Lee