A new webinar from the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium engaged in a fair amount of myth-busting on Thursday. “Building the Future of the Legal Function” was part of CLOC’s ongoing “Innovation Series,” designed to fill the hole in the calendar left by the organization’s annual Las Vegas Institute, which was canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Panelists talked for over an hour on the challenges facing legal operations professionals trying to drive change within legal departments and the danger of innovation for the sake of innovation. “Too often it is the case that many movements towards change are led by technology, and that doesn’t always make sense to lead with technology as a silver bullet or a push-button solution,” said Ed Sohn, a panelist and writer at Above the Law.