Organizations like the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium and the legal operations arm of the Association of Corporate Counsel have made it possible for the speedy evolution of the function, according to a white paper recently published by Onit and SimpleLegal.

The paper states a legal operations survey in 2008 only had responses from 34 individuals and the only organized events for legal operations professionals were informal roundtables. However, since that time, the role has become more mainstream with the efforts of groups such as CLOC and the ACC.