{"id":4324,"date":"2025-02-22T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T09:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/how-a-big-company-launched-a-legal-ops-team-that-won-over-skeptics\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T09:48:59","slug":"how-a-big-company-launched-a-legal-ops-team-that-won-over-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/how-a-big-company-launched-a-legal-ops-team-that-won-over-skeptics\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Big Company Launched a Legal Ops Team That Won Over Skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>For in-house legal and external affairs teams, proving value is just as important as delivering it\u2014especially in large organizations where competition for resources is fierce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>That\u2019s a lesson that the external affairs operations team at Australia-based mining giant BHP has learned firsthand. Speaking in a Corporate Legal Operations Consortium webinar this week, Gabrielle Ahern, principal of external affairs operations, and Lauren Ziegelaar, manager of legal operations, discussed how the company&#8217;s legal ops team evolved into a broader function supporting more than 500 employees across external affairs\u2014and how they\u2019ve had to work just as hard at articulating their value as they have at creating it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For in-house legal and external affairs teams, proving value is just as important as delivering it\u2014especially in large organizations where competition for resources is fierce. That\u2019s a lesson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[434,413,4764,136,4765,4766,929,623],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-big","tag-company","tag-launched","tag-legal","tag-ops","tag-skeptics","tag-team","tag-won"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}