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How AI Will Make Legal Operations the New Control Tower and Define Hiring Trends
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How AI Will Make Legal Operations the New Control Tower and Define Hiring Trends
In his third Today’s General Counsel column, Jared Coseglia explains why legal operations is becoming the control tower for AI adoption inside corporate law departments.
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If you want to understand how AI will change in-house legal over the next three years, Jared argues that you should not start with attorneys. You should start with legal operations.
Legal ops is where strategy becomes execution. It is where budgets become controls, vendor promises become measurable performance, and AI adoption either becomes real ROI or window dressing.
In this article, Jared breaks down why legal operations is becoming the function responsible for translating AI experimentation into systems, governance, workflows, spend controls, and measurable business outcomes. He writes that legal operations is the function that turns AI from an experiment into an operating model.
What the Article Covers
This article explores how AI is expanding the mandate of legal operations across spend management, CLM, analytics, workflow design, outside counsel management, vendor controls, and governance.
Jared identifies several areas where legal ops talent is becoming increasingly valuable, including:
- Spend intelligence and vendor controls
- CLM and workflow design
- Analytics and dashboarding
- AI enablement and governance operations
- Automation across routine legal ops work
The article also explains why outside counsel transparency around AI usage is becoming more than a nice-to-have. As legal departments gain better tools to evaluate spend, outcomes, and workflow efficiency, AI usage will increasingly become a scoring criterion and pricing lever.
Why It Matters
Legal operations is no longer just a coordination function. It is becoming a systems, governance, and business enablement function.
That shift is changing hiring priorities. Legal departments need professionals who can implement platforms, translate legal needs into workflows, operationalize AI safely, drive adoption, and connect technology to measurable outcomes.
The legal ops professionals who can do that will be central to the AI-enabled law department.
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About TruLegalTruLegal (formerly TRU Staffing Partners) is an award-winning global leader in delivering bespoke AI-enabled talent solutions for modern legal teams. With a network of relationships reaching over 100,000 legal professionals across 75+ countries, TruLegal has successfully placed thousands of attorneys, legal operations, litigation & eDiscovery, data privacy, cybersecurity and other legal professionals who focus on the intersection of technology and the law. For over fifteen years, TruLegal has provided flexible contract talent, direct hire contingency staffing, and executive level search services to the Fortune 1000, AmLaw 200, and the community of providers that support the legal industry.
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