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CLOC Member Spotlight: Dorothy Cullen
The CLOC Member Spotlight series profiles the incredible individuals within our community who are driving transformation in legal ops. Each spotlight provides inspiration, fosters connections, and gives readers a chance to learn more about their peers. By sharing these stories, we celebrate the diverse voices and talents that make CLOC a vibrant and connected community.
January 2025 Member Spotlight: Dorothy Cullen
Dorothy Cullen is the Senior Director of Legal Operations at Salesforce, as well as a community leader for the CLOC San Francisco Bay Area. Keep reading to learn more about Dorothy.
About me:
I’m incredibly grateful to be a member of the Legal Ops community, and a part of the exciting transformation happening in the legal industry today. I joined Legal Ops 5 years ago after a long career in IT, and have now fully embraced the pleasure of working in a business function, side by side with our legal stakeholders, delivering high value solutions. I’ve been at Salesforce for over 19 years, experiencing massive change, growth, product innovation, acquisitions, and technology disruption.
As a Legal Ops leader, I have managed eDiscovery, data science, CLM, and our broad portfolio of projects. I have an exceptionally talented Innovation Delivery team that delivers next gen solutions for Legal and Corporate Affairs. We build on our own platform, integrating with partner apps and other cloud providers.
I am now fully focused with that Innovation Team to accelerate our business into an AI-Agentic way of working, leveraging our Agentforce technology and data to architect the future of legal within a digital workforce.
Simply amazing and fun!
Why I love being a CLOC member:
I was introduced to CLOC through my manager at a local holiday event, then at CGI in Vegas post-COVID. I was immediately impressed by the warm welcoming, friendly attitude and sharing environment. It was simply incredible to be in a room with like-minded professionals, facing the same challenges, having the same questions, evaluating the same technologies and operational improvements that we were also going through. I found I could easily “geek out” on legal tech for hours with other legal ops colleagues at all levels, industries and tenure. I love having CLOC as the home base for all things Legal Ops. It’s the place to share, learn, network, advance your career and have fun!
My advice for other legal ops professionals:
Get out there and be active on the community. Attend events. Network with people. Volunteer to speak or facilitate a session. It’s the broad perspectives and backgrounds that make this a rich, interesting and valuable place to engage. It’s also a great way to stay abreast of trends, technologies, and news in the industry.
A fun fact about me:
I recently took a 10-week sabbatical in October-November of last year, a benefit that is supported by our company based on years of service. I decided to stay involved in my profession, so took a GenAI for Legal course at Berkeley, attended Legal Ops webinars and forums, and kept an eye on the industry.During that pause, I traveled with my husband for a month, re-landscaped our yard and spent quality time with family and friends. Priceless.
CLOC Member Spotlights provide an opportunity to showcase members within our community who are making a difference in their organizations, in their CLOC groups, within the CLOC community and/or the industry as a whole. Do you know of a really cool thing a CLOC member is doing? We invite you to nominate a member of the CLOC Community for a future feature in the CLOC Member Spotlights Series.
