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What a legal operations consultant actually does, what the first 90 days should produce, when a General Counsel should hire one instead of a Head of Legal Operations, how fractional models work, and how to evaluate one.
How legal work is sourced, structured, delivered, governed, and measured: the components of a legal operating model, the structures departments use, what drives team size, and how to redesign one.
What legal intake covers, how to triage and route requests, which tools support it, and the metrics that show whether the business is actually using it.
What a legal engineer does, what a legal technologist does, how the roles differ, and how both relate to forward deployed engineers.
A forward deployed engineer works inside a customer's organization to make a product work there. The role, how it compares, and the legal version.
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