{"id":108991,"date":"2025-02-21T13:23:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/21\/how-a-big-company-launched-a-legal-ops-team-that-won-over-skeptics-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:23:45","slug":"how-a-big-company-launched-a-legal-ops-team-that-won-over-skeptics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/21\/how-a-big-company-launched-a-legal-ops-team-that-won-over-skeptics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Big Company Launched a Legal Ops Team That Won Over Skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen you’re standing up a legal ops or transformation team, it’s easy to get distracted by AI or other sexy’ tech projects, said Lauren Ziegelaar, manager of legal operations for Australian mining giant BHP. \u201cBut the biggest wins come from foundational improvements\u2014understanding budget cycles, optimizing headcount and getting processes in place.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you’re standing up a legal ops or transformation team, it’s easy to get distracted by AI or other sexy’ tech projects, said Lauren Ziegelaar, manager of legal operations for Australian mining giant BHP. \u201cBut the biggest wins come from foundational improvements\u2014understanding budget cycles, optimizing headcount and getting processes in place.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you’re standing up a legal ops or transformation team, it’s easy to get distracted by AI or other sexy’ tech projects, said Lauren Ziegelaar, manager of legal operations for Australian mining giant BHP. \u201cBut the biggest wins come from foundational improvements\u2014understanding budget cycles, optimizing headcount and getting processes in place. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWhen you’re standing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/legal-news-ACXdJ2.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}