A show of hands indicated that a majority of audience in attendance at the “Leveraging Contract Data for Data Driven Decision-Making” panel would have been reluctant to board a plane without any instruments in the cockpit — even if that plane was headed to Las Vegas for this year’s Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) 2019 institute, where the panel took place on day one.

In this case, airplane instruments were a handy metaphor for contract data and all of the various ways a corporation and it’s legal department need to be thinking about how they can leverage that intelligence to keep their bird in the air.