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Here you’ll find various Legal Operations Thought Leadership resources, including a collection of white papers with our analyses of key topics in the world of Legal Operations.

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Podcast | The Agile Attorney Podcast | September 2026

What Business Clients Want From Their Law Firms

Stephanie Corey joins John E. Grant on what business clients expect from outside counsel beyond excellent legal work—for in-house teams under budget pressure, the experience of working with firms matters as much as expertise.

Host: John E. Grant, The Agile Attorney · Guest: Stephanie Corey, Co-Founder & CEO, UpLevel Ops

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What Business Clients Want From Their Law Firms

AI Without the Burnout: Helping Legal Teams Absorb Change

The Future of Legal AI Isn't About AI

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What Business Clients Want From Their Law Firms

AI Without the Burnout: Helping Legal Teams Absorb Change

The Future of Legal AI Isn't About AI

Outside Counsel Scorecard QBR Template

The Second Enlightenment: How AI Could Spark a Human Renaissance

What's Next for Legal Ops? Staying Ahead Through the Next Wave of Change

The New Economics of Enterprise AI (Part 1)

What Comes After the Billable Hour?

AI Doesn't Need Your Data. It Needs Your Workflow.

Beyond Billable Thinking: Leading Legal Like a Business

AI ROI and Mental Health

The Bell Curve Strategy: Giving the Right AI Tools to the Right People

Building a Legal Function That Can Scale

Legal Operations Was Built For The AI Era

Mastering Legal Operations Excellence: 8 Must-Have Skills

The Leadership Side of Legal Operations

AI Has Arrived

Why You Should Choose Legal Ops Tools You Can Build On (Part 2)

Why You Should Choose Legal Ops Tools You Can Build On (Part 1)

The 20% Problem: Why Outside Counsel Budgets Keep Breaking, and Why More Discipline Will Not Fix It

AI Use Cases for Legal Operations: 4 Workflows Worth Building First

The Great Convergence

The Forward-Deployed AI Model Is Real. Most Legal Teams Aren’t Ready for It.

Value-Based Pricing Strategies for Law Firms

Contractually Speaking: AI Governance, ROI, & Use Cases in Legal Operations

If You Can't Explain Legal Spend, You Can't Defend It

The Gap Is Closing: Why AI Is Breaking the Billable Hour Model

The AI Productivity Paradox

AI Doesn't Fix Messes, It Inherits Them: Garbage In, Garbage Out in the AI Era

ULO Maturity Model 2026

The New Economics of Legal Work

What Mature Prompting Looks Like in Practice

Leading Legal in a Product-Led Company

The $285 Billion Warning: Why Legal Departments Must Move Beyond the Billable Hour Now

The $3,500 Hour vs. The $500 Contract

A 'Seat At The Table' For Law Departments Isn't Enough Anymore

The Agent Era Is Here

How Agentic AI Is Reordering Legal Work: Why Claude Cowork Is a Signal, Not the Story

The Moment Legal Found Out What 'Ready' Really Means

The New Standard for Legal Leadership

2025 Was the Year Prompting Had to Grow Up

Legal Operations Manager Job Description 2026

Legal Operations Senior Director VP Chief of Staff 2026

eBilling Administrator Job Description 2026

Legal Operations Director Job Description 2026

Stephanie Corey Named to CCBJ's 2025 Class of 50 Women to Watch

AI Is Killing the Billable Hour. The Real Question Is What Comes Next

The End of the Billable Hour: AI, Value, and the New Economics of Expertise

Legal Tech's Predictions for Legal Ops and In-House in 2026

AI Is Forcing Legal to Modernize (But Not in the Way You Might Think)

When AI Becomes Infrastructure

The Operational Signal Legal Leaders Should Pay Attention To In 2026

The Dysfunctional Legal Tech Cycle: Why Legal Tools Keep Failing and Why AI Will Break the Pattern

The Hidden Cost of Falling a Step Behind the AI Base Models

AI Adoption That Actually Works: How Hanna House Went from Pilot to Playbook

Lawyers Don't Need to Fear the Verification Paradox

The Smart Start to Legal AI: Inside Enstar's Legal Ops Revolution with Peter Calleo and Nick Giuliano

AI That Works In The Real World: Lessons From A Legal Ops Playbook

Cracking the Code on AI Contract Redlining

Inside Copilot Studio: What Worked, What Broke, and Why Legal Teams Should Care

From Firefights to Fixed Fees: Strategic Pricing in High-Stakes Legal Work with Katie Armistead

The 5 Levers Legal Leaders Can't Afford To Ignore

AI Year In Review

The AI Domino Effect, Part 2: Keeping the Dominoes Falling

More Than a Retainer: Value-Based Pricing for Ongoing Legal Advice with Collin Smyser

How Legal Leaders Optimize Legal Spend to Protect Capacity and Business Value

The AI Domino Effect, Part 1: Tipping the First Tile

Future-Proofing Legal - Aligning with Business Goals with April Miller Boise

Future-Proofing Legal: What It Takes In 2025

How Legal Teams Can Ride the AI Current

Leadership, Culture, and Community in Legal Ops: A Greatest Hits Episode of UpLevel View with Heather Reid