The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium has taken another step toward opening its ranks to law firms by forming a new “community” for law firm operations professionals.
The move is a recognition that firms have grown their legal operations staffs—and by extension, their IT, legal technology and innovation teams. It also signals that in-house ops staff at firms face the same challenges as corporate legal teams, which have been viewed as earlier tech adopters than their outside counsel.
CLOC, which was incorporated as a nonprofit in 2016, has traditionally been a resource for corporate in-house legal teams to collaborate and share ...