Law Department Operations

Providing a Place for Law Department Operations

The Law Department Operations Survey was first created to give legal departments a consistent platform to benchmark themselves and shed light on the emerging profession of law department management.

Gauging the impact, trends and priorities of 21st century law department operations is the purpose of The Law Department Operations Survey and this online portal. Now in its fourth year, this unique survey focuses solely on the operations function and seeks to provide benchmarks that are useful to the largest law departments.

Created and supervised by InsideCounsel and Blickstein Group, in consultation with an eight-member advisory board from Fortune 300 companies and headed by David Cambria, Senior Director, Enterprise Information Management, CDW, Huron Legal has contributed as the name sponsor since the inaugural survey.

For more information on the full survey or to purchase the full results package, please contact Brad Blickstein at brad@blicksteingroup.com.

Read about the 2012 Roundtable:
Incremental change still path to success, say law department operations managers

Special Thanks to ILTA for allowing us to host the discussion at their 2012 conference!

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Featured Articles

2012

Based in Legal, with Enterprise-Wide Influence
When executives in the C-suite need knowledgeable, experienced people to help develop corporate-wide initiatives, they are increasingly turning to legal department operations managers.

Above and Beyond
An Expanded Job Description Has Many Law Department Operations Managers Providing Input, Expertise Organization-Wide, Latest Survey Finds.

View the Full 2012 Law Department Operations Survey Report Online

2011

Business Pressures Put the Onus on Operations
When we launched the Law Department Operations Survey in 2008, indications were that law department operations managers were reaching beyond their own departments to take on new roles in other facets of the business.

Playing the Hand They're Dealt
Lean Times are Testing Law Department Operations Managers, Forcing Them into Tough Trade-Offs and Out-of-the-Box Strategies, Latest Survey Findings Show

View the Full 2011 Law Department Operations Survey Report Online

See photos from the 2011 LDO Roundtable

2010

Demonstrating Value in a Challenging Environment
This survey, once again developed with Blickstein Group and our advisory board, gives us a consistent platform to benchmark ourselves as a profession.

When the Only Constant Is Change
Since the first Law Department Operations Survey was launched in 2008, LDO directors have seen many changes.

2009

Law Department Managers

When the First Law Department Operations Surveys were tallied last year, the results could have been summed up as "incremental improvement, exponential results."

Amid the Crises, a Chance to Shine
For law department operations managers, 2009 may be looked upon as one of the most challenging years of their careers, but also one of the most exciting.

2008

Coming of Age: The Changing Role of the Law Department Operations Director
Incremental improvement, exponential results: That could be the future gains for proactive law department operation directors, according to the First Law Department Operations Survey.

A Position and a Survey 20 Years in the Making
In the early 1990s, there was no single answer to the question: Who buys technology in corporate law departments?