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Legal Operations Specialists

Advancement Prospects

With experience, a LOS can advance to the position of director of legal operations (DLO), the highest-ranking member of the legal operations team (often in a large corporate legal department). DLOs report to their company’s general counsel and oversee the entire operations team and focus on issues such as resource allocation, budgeting, and short- and long-term operations improvement initiatives. At smaller companies, the legal operations specialists may be the only operations employee. They advance by receiving pay raises and bonuses, as well as by being assigned managerial duties if there employer hires more operations professionals. Some highly experienced and skilled specialists and DLOs launch their own consulting businesses and provide advice to companies and other organizations that want to create an in-house legal operations department or improve an existing one.

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