About Us

The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) is a global community of experts focused on redefining the business of law. By helping legal operations professionals collaborate with each other and with other industry players, including law firms, technology providers, and law schools, CLOC works to help set industry standards and practices for the profession.

Global Institute

Connect | Learn | Collaborate

The CLOC Institute is designed to lead the industry in the latest concepts, trends, best practices, and technologies for the legal operations profession. Our global Institute takes place each year in Las Vegas or virtually online with regional Institutes in London and Sydney.

By bringing practicing legal ops professionals, industry leaders, new members, students/academics, technologists, and service providers together in one place, the CLOC Institute is the world’s foremost event focused on legal operations and the business of law.

Online Community

Emerging | Developing | Leading

Because CLOC focuses on sharing across our community, materials, resources, regional activities, and community member forums are at your fingertips making it easier for you to access the very best thinking from some of the world’s leading legal operations leaders.

CLOC works across the legal community to curate content and thought leadership to help progress legal departments from the early stages of an emerging department to leading global enterprise legal departments. The CLOC Core 12, CLOC's industry standard for all legal department functional areas and competencies, enables departments to grow while developing the role professionally.

CLOC Mission

CLOC is a global community focused on redefining the business of law. We are a member-based organization of legal operations professionals and others dedicated to improving the delivery of legal services. Through information sharing, collaboration, and innovation, we seek to make the legal value chain more inclusive, transparent, and responsive.

CLOC Pillars

  • Educate
  • Optimize the Business of Law
  • Change the Industry
  • Connect the Ecosystem
  • Network

Thought Leadership

Collaborating to help define industry standards across a variety of operational and legal practice areas through surveys, metrics, reporting, and forums for Members and Law Firm Participants to exchange ideas and best practices for success. CLOC brings the legal ecosystem together to address industry challenges and create change.

CLOC Leadership