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Increasing Efficiency: A Look at Legal Operations Around the World

Legal operations began in the United States, however as the practice spread to companies across the globe there appears to be a different approach in what the focus is and how the U.S. model for legal operations has been interpreted.

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It is only in the past 10 to 15 years that legal departments began to ponder ways to reduce spend and maintain a high level of efficiency in their departments and from their firms, though they didn’t use the term “legal operations” to describe what they were doing.

Catherine Moynihan, the associate vice president of legal management services at the Association of Corporate Counsel in Washington, D.C., says that when she started working at the ACC there was a concerted effort to convene and chief operating officers of legal departments to find ways to cut down costs.

“These people seemed to be prevalent in companies that are heavily regulated. If you think of legal operations as being focused on people, process and technology; the other piece that drives operations is regulation,” Moynihan explains.

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