Last month, I spent the better part of a week at the inaugural CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations) Institute in San Francisco. CLOC is a grassroots organization of law department operations professionals, and the Corporate Legal Operations Institute was their first effort at a conference. It was a big success, with legal operations leaders from more than 130 companies getting together for three days of networking and education.
One of the sessions I was most interested in was one of those forward-looking sessions, titled “ELM Redefined: Beyond Traditional Legal & Spend Management—Law Department Operations for the 21st Century.” The main speaker on the session was David Cambria, global director of operations, law, compliance and government relations at Archer Daniels Midland Company. David and I collaborate on the annual Law Department Operations Survey, and he’s about as knowledgeable as they come in this area.
