Functional Areas of Legal Operations
Defining Legal Operations
Legal Operations is made up of a number of different disciplines. Traditionally these disciplines have focused on the in-house corporate legal team. However, we have broadened out what we consider to be ‘legal ops’ to law firms and consultancies too.
So far we have added some definition to the consultancy and law firm settings – but have
based the in-house setting disciplines on the CLOC Core 12. However, we will be reviewing this as part of the defining the legal ops career path project.
Feel free to look at the mural board here to see our current work.
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What is Document Automation?
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