Join your CLOC SF Bay Area regional peers for the latest installment in our virtual roundtable series. Our topic this month will be 2025 priorities and initiatives. What are you focused on for the next 12 months? Bring your priorities (cost savings, AI implementation, OC management, or something else) and expertise and let’s learn from one another. We will be limiting the number of attendees to ensure group participation, so register early.

This session will be moderated by Deborah Haile, Associate Director, Legal Operations at Gilead Sciences, Inc.   

Associated with San Francisco Bay Area

Please join the CLOC Higher Ed Affinity Group for our kickoff meeting to organize and strategize on Higher Ed Legal Ops event planning in 2025.

AGENDA

• Introduce 2-3 General Counsels from HE Institutions that will share insights on what to expect in the legal arena in 2025
• Identify and develop 2-3 ideas on how legal ops professionals might address the emerging needs
• Share future plans on what is scheduled for Higher Ed legal pros in 2025, including:
  • Quarterly Zoom Meetings
  • Professional learning opportunities for Higher Education Legal Managers

It’s hard to believe, but we are nearing the end of 2024 and hosting our final CLOC So-Cal Regional meeting for the year! This one will be done virtually as a community Round Table. Let’s review how we are doing, get a pulse of where our minds are at as a group, and get set up to have a successful year end. So, grab your lunch, close your office door and let’s connect!

Registration is available to CLOC members only.

The CLOC Australia November 2024 event will be a hybrid community event with options to gather in-person (in Sydney or Brisbane) or join virtually. This event is open to all ecosystem members in Australia.

AGENDA

1. Welcome and acknowledgement of Country – Tuna Kutsal (5 minutes)
2. Session 1: Nam Truong & Gihan Wijeratne: Transforming Enterprise Legal Operations with Microsoft 365: The Ingenico x Law Squared Story (40 minutes)
3. BREAK
4. Session 2: HSF Case study: Collaborative Experimentation – A pathway to innovation in in house legal teams (40 minutes)
5. Session 3: Harbor Law Department Survey 2025 (15 minutes)
6. CLOC News (10 minutes):
   • 2024 APAC Summit – recap
   • New brand!
   • Other events/conferences/groups of interest
7. Wrap Up (5 minutes):
   • Any other business
   • Poll for session topics for 2025
   • 2025 Calendar

Sydney in-person location: HSF, 161 Castlereagh St, Sydney, NSW 2000

Brisbane in-person location: HSF, 480 Queen St, Brisbane, Qld, 4000

Associated with  Australia

Join the CLOC Community Team to learn how you can get the most out of your membership. Learn about the resources available to you and how to leverage the CLOC Community to support your professional development.

During this session, we will explore Community Connect – CLOC’s exclusive online community – and discuss key functionality to ensure you are making the most of this digital platform connecting you to your global peer members. We will also provide an overview of CLOC’s content and resources, provide some insights about new resources coming soon, highlight some ways to develop your leadership skills through volunteer opportunities, and more.

Join us for a comprehensive session on mastering Legal Operations KPIs, designed specifically for legal professionals eager to elevate their department’s strategic impact. This workshop targets common challenges, such as unused dashboards, misaligned KPIs, and difficulties in communicating value to senior management. Attendees will gain insights into creating KPIs that resonate with C-suite priorities and drive measurable improvements across legal operations.

Hosted by Mori Kabiri, a seasoned expert in legal data analytics and strategy, the workshop provides a clear, actionable framework for defining KPIs that matter. Participants will learn to assess readiness in areas like People, Process, Technology, and Data, and to create a roadmap tailored to their organization’s unique needs. Whether you’re struggling to engage stakeholders or looking for quick wins, this session will help optimize time and resources while maximizing the ROI of your KPIs.

Designed for Legal Ops Managers, Department Leads, Data Analysts, and even law students, this workshop offers hands-on guidance to enhance storytelling through data, aligning metrics with strategic goals for impactful results. Don’t miss this chance to reshape your department’s approach to KPIs and position yourself as a data-driven leader in the legal field.

This is a hybrid event offering – with options to attend virtually or in-person at Pedregal 24, 23rd Floor, Molino del Rey, 11040 Ciudad de México, CDMX.

Join this dynamic session with guest speaker, Harrison Underwood of GoTo Foods, speaking about spend management for corporate legal departments. He will discuss key critical KPIs and will have a raffle for an electronic version of Legal Operations KPIs – The Professional’s Handbook to Operational Experience.

Hosted by CLOC Atlanta, this virtual event is open to all CLOC Members.

Associated with Atlanta

Join your CLOC San Francisco Bay Area regional peers for the latest installment in our virtual roundtable series. This month’s discussion is all about legal intake. We’ll address input channels (email, Slack, forms), sources of requests (internal, external, firms, partners), automations, and a variety of request types that need to be triaged, routed, and resolved. Bring your questions and expertise and let’s learn from each other. We will be limiting the number of attendees to ensure group participation, so register early.

This session will be moderated by Deborah Haile, Associate Director, Legal Operations at Gilead Sciences, Inc.   

Associated with San Francisco Bay Area

The members of the CLOC Legal Project Management Committee are excited to play an active part in the CLOC Community.  Our intent is to provide educational opportunities (through regular Committee meetings) and tangible industry work product (through  Workstream workshops).  Whether you desire to just “be in the loop” or help problem solve, there is a place for you as a member of the LPM Committee.

Attend this meeting to learn more about workstream development for LPM Committee projects and to provide your insights and input to further refine the scope of the committee’s work.

Join this CLOC Mexico group event exploring innovative spend management approaches in the legal sector. Discover how legal ops teams can enhance cost-effectiveness through strategic spend management initiatives.

Learn from Fran, an expert in regulating budgets, rate increases, and managing relationships with external firms. Explore the benefits of fixed fees and competitive bidding, including a trial with Pursuit’s specialized software. Understand how to facilitate live auctions among multiple firms and the advantages of outsourcing with ALSPs.

We’ll cover various budget types, such as hourly, fixed fees, phase payments, and outcome-based contracts. This session is tailored for in-house legal teams in Latam and includes practical tips on enforcing outside counsel billing guidelines. Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your legal spend management and drive substantial cost reductions.

Associated with Mexico