It is only in the past 10 to 15 years that legal departments began to ponder ways to reduce spend and maintain a high level of efficiency in their departments and from their firms, though they didn’t use the term “legal operations” to describe what they were doing.

Catherine Moynihan, the associate vice president of legal management services at the Association of Corporate Counsel in Washington, D.C., says that when she started working at the ACC there was a concerted effort to convene and chief operating officers of legal departments to find ways to cut down costs.

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