CLOC Talk

This episode is the final in a 3-part series we are releasing in collaboration with EY Law titled “The Art of the Possible”. In this conversation CLOC Talk Host, Jenn McCarron is joined by Eric Elfman, CEO at Onit, and Duc Tran, Senior Manager, EY Law – Legal Function Consulting, where the discuss they evolution of matter management and how legal teams can successfully implement and leverage it across departments.

This is episode 2 in the 3 part mini-episode series CLOC is releasing in collaboration with EY Law, titled The Art of the Possible.

In this episode, CLOCTalk host, Jenn McCarron is joined by Barb Rogers, Vice President Global Contracts at Honeywell, and Kyle McNeil, EY Americas CLM Leader, where they discuss strategies for implementing an enterprise contract lifecycle management system including including how to have impact, where to start, and common roadblocks.

A special thank you to EY Law for developing and supporting this series.

This is episode 1 in the 3 part mini-episode series CLOC is releasing in collaboration with EY Law, titled The Art of the Possible.

In this episode, CLOC Talk host, Jenn McCarron discusses how the delivery of legal services has evolved throughout 2020 and 2021 with guests Kristi Gedid, Managing Director at EY Law - Legal Function Consulting and Alex Su, Head of Community Development at IronClad.

A special thank you to EY Law for developing and supporting this series.

This special episode of CLOC Talk includes a sample of the hit 2021 Virtual EMEA Summit Session, How to Fail Fast and Pivot: Lessons from the Legal Ops Front Lines. In this honest and impactful session, CLOC Talk host Jenn McCarron, Michael Grupp, Dan Yi, and Maurus Schreyvogel all shared a key moment of failure and how they learned and grew from it.

The legal ops profession has gained a reputation for being the scrappy, “make it happen” role within a legal team. This can have a major impact on small legal departments. In this episode of CLOC Talk, we explore challenges, opportunities, and advice for Legal Ops leads on demonstrating value. Join host Jenn McCarron in conversation with Stephanie Sciullo, Vice President & Chief Legal Officer at MSA Safety and Mateo Sanchez, Legal Operations Specialist at Clorox as they discuss inspirations, failures, and wins while driving change in their small legal teams.  

This special episode includes a sample from the 2021 CLOC Global Institute State of the Industry session. CLOC Talk Podcast Host, Jenn McCarron, leads a discussion with CLOC board members Aine Lyons and Lisa Konie to discuss trends, thoughts, and insights from the state of the industry annual survey recently concluded with CLOC members.  You can catch the full session on the CLOC YouTube channel.

In Febraury 2021, CLOC launched a major transformational initiative inviting the entire legal ecosystem to join CLOC and be part of the movement to progress the business of law. Jenn McCarron, Director of Legal Operations & Technology at Netflix sits down with Mary O'Carroll, CLOC Board President and Director of Legal Ops at Google and Betsi Roach, Executive Director at CLOC to dig into what this means, how it came about, and why it matters.

In this episode, we are speaking with global leaders to hear their stories on how they got started in the Legal Operations field. A field that is multidisciplinary and draws professionals from various industries, roles, skills and educational backgrounds. Listen as Aine Lyons from VMWare and Kamala Vasagam from NBC Universal dive deep with Jenn McCarron from Netflix, sharing stories of light bulb moments of career success, how different their paths are from their childhood dreams, overcoming challenges, keeping balanced, and reflecting on the skills needed to drive success not only in ops but the entire legal industry. 

Legal operations is a fast-moving, evolving, and varied discipline. To be effective, legal operations leaders must engage in various areas – from setting budgets, to selecting priorities, to leveraging technology, and others. Listen as members of CLOC’s Board of Directors (Jason Barnwell, Mike Haven, Jenn McCarron, and  Mary O’Carroll) discuss our revised framework for practicing legal operations - the CLOC Core 12. Given that every company and team has its own unique needs, listeners will not only learn about the new core areas like project management, practice operations and business intelligence, but will also take away how the Core 12 can help develop and advance your strategy and tactics to create more value for your organization.