As head of ops at a major legal department and chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Legal Operations Group, Reese Arrowsmith has a pretty unique vantage point on how law departments are evolving to grow more efficient and spend conscious.

Arrowsmith, who has been vice president and head of legal operations at Camden, New Jersey-based Campbell Soup Co. since 2016 and was formerly ops director at Lincoln Financial Group in Radnor, Pennsylvania, believes the relatively young legal ops field still has plenty of room to grow. He says those in legal ops have to learn from their past successes and mistakes to usher the function into the future.