General counsel increasingly see investing in legal ops as crucial to free up their time to be effective leaders in an era where workloads are increasing but budgets are not.

That was a key finding of the newly released fourth chapter of the “The General Counsel Report 2024,” from FTI Consulting and the compliance tech company Relativity. Earlier chapters focused on the “regulatory tsunami” sweeping through legal departments, the risks and opportunities of generative AI, and legal teams’ increasing ESG responsibilities.