The general counsel role is one that’s evolved immensely in the past few years, and that’s in no small part due to the growth of legal operations, according to three top in-house lawyers at major tech companies.

At the final panel discussion at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium’s 2018 institute, Yahoo’s legal ops leader Jeff Franke got NetApp Inc. GC Matt Fawcett, Cisco Systems Inc. GC Mark Chandler and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. CLO John Schultz to open up about the changes they’ve seen due to the rise of legal ops.