Legal professionals who can marshal new technologies, products and processes to improve business are in the catbird seat in today’s market, legal operations leaders at Google and Square, Inc. said at a panel discussion this week.

The panel, “Where Legal Technology is Headed (for better or worse),” hosted by Mountain View-based legal operations startup SimpleLegal, featured Mary O’Carroll, head of legal operations at Google, Stephanie Lamoureaux, legal operations lead at Square, and Nathan Wenzel, CEO of SimpleLegal. James Maguire, a senior managing editor at Datamation, moderated the discussion.