Legal work is full of sensitive information about people who never hired the lawyer. That makes privacy a custody problem, not just a compliance problem.Lawyers are trained to ask a threshold question: Who is the client?
Life sciences M&A is back, but not as a free-for-all.Goodwin positions itself around a clear 2026 market signal: Life sciences M&A has reemerged as a competitive arena after a quieter period. The firm says strategic buyers are competing for next-generation innovation and
The ABA’s 2026 media and arts awards honor work on jailhouse lawyering, social media harm, debt, appeals, birthright citizenship and same-sex marriage—a revealing map of where legal authority now meets public scrutiny.
The American Bar Association’s 2026 Silver Gavel Awards
What began as a tightly knit legal ops movement is becoming something larger and more structured. At CLOC this year, the language of community increasingly shared space with governance, operational discipline and organizational scale.
Built on CLOC’s Core 12 framework, Compass signals a growing push to operationalize legal maturity standards as legal departments face mounting pressure to scale AI adoption, prove efficiency gains and manage rising organizational complexity.
Gabriel Buigas says AI may widen the opening for ALSPs, but only if managed-services providers can move beyond discrete task execution and help legal departments prove operational change in business terms.For alternative legal service providers, artificial intelligence is becoming both
CLOC board member and legal operations executive Stacy Lettie discusses the evolution of legal operations from a tightly defined in-house function into a broader ecosystem spanning technology, consulting, education and strategy.
As the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) broadens—and steps into a more formal phase of governance—we spoke with its inaugural chair, Laura Dieudonné, about what it takes to grow without losing focus.
At ACC Legal Ops Con in Chicago, the introduction was deliberate—more signal than splash.
Legal work rarely arrives neatly packaged. It appears in fragments—an email chain forwarded without context, a contract that surfaces late in the business process, a question that begins as routine and slowly reveals larger implications. Lawyers interpret, sort and translate
