Ep 78: Blueprint for the Ultimate Legal Ops Team with Steph Corey, CEO UpLevel Ops & Co-Founder LINK

How can general counsels and legal operations leaders work better together? How do you cultivate a high-performance culture across your legal team? And what makes for a thriving community of legal ops professionals?

Join Steph Corey, CEO and Co-founder of UpLevel Ops and Link, the Legal Innovators Network, as she unpacks her career leading legal operations, starting at HP in the 90s, leading operations at Flex and VMware, co-founding the game-changing CLOC and Link conferences, and launching her own consultancy.

Listen as Steph discusses how she built community in an isolating legal role, whether or not you need a law degree to work in legal ops, how to hire the best talent for your team, and merging with The L Suite to bring general counsels into the legal operations conversation.

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Topics:

Introduction: 0:00
Switching to legal ops from finance: 2:50
Building trust with HP’s general counsel: 5:33
Co-founding CLOC, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium: 11:21
Do you need a JD to break into legal operations?: 15:47
Tips for finding the right talent: 18:55
How can legal operations professionals and general counsels work better together?: 23:03
Co-founding Link: 28:44
Merging Link with The L Suite: 31:54
The future of her consultancy: 38:23
Connecting with Steph and LINK: 40:27
Rapid-fire questions: 41:11
Book Recommendations: 45:46
What you wish you’d known as a young legal ops professional: 49:30

Connect with us:
Steph Corey - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephcorey-ulo/
Tyler Finn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhfinn
SpotDraft - https://www.linkedin.com/company/spotdraft

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