Bloomberg Law
July 27, 2018, 5:18 PM UTC

Legal Operations Helps Firms Measure Effectiveness

Seth Stern

The field of legal operations has experienced “enormous growth” over the past decade, but figuring out how to measure success remains a challenge, according to Reese Arrowsmith, vice president and head of legal operations for Campbell Soup Co.

In a previous role as a consultant, Arrowsmith looked at a bloc of similar legal work being done for a client by several different law firms and examining the minimum, maximum and average; outside counsel spend; settlement cost; and total case cost by firm and geography.

“There was a stark difference between the results, the total case costs of one ...

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