Roundtable Series
We're hitting the road to bring together legal leaders from across the country for exclusive, off-the-record roundtable discussions on the transformative power of AI in legal departments.
On May 12, CLOC and Neota Logic co-launched CLOC Compass: legal ops’ maturity framework turned from playbook into product. Compass is built on the Core 12 Legal Ops Maturity Framework, fifteen years of practitioner insight, now interactive and actionable for CLOC members.
Available now to CLOC members in beta at cloc.org/compass.
“Legal departments across industries told us the same thing: more work, tighter budgets, flat headcount. That’s the reality our members are living every day. Compass gives them a place to start and a clear path forward, built on the Core 12 framework that this community created together.”
Oyango Snell, President and CEO, CLOC
Watch Compass in action
CLOC CGI 2026 made one thing clear: AI adoption among legal teams has moved from experimentation to expectation. The conversations at our booth weren’t about whether to use AI. They were about what comes after the pilot. Are outputs governed? Auditable? Something you can actually stand behind?
That’s the pressure legal ops leaders are operating under right now. More demand, flat headcount, frozen budgets, and a growing expectation from the business that legal can demonstrate AI ROI in concrete terms.
AI bolted onto existing processes isn’t enough. Legal teams need an orchestration layer: structured, auditable, logic-driven, before they can stand behind the outputs.
Teams accumulating tools that don’t talk to each other aren’t transforming outcomes. They’re automating tasks and creating new governance risk in the process.
Legal ops leaders are hungry for a framework to assess where they stand. Compass addresses exactly this: a structured path forward grounded in the Core 12.
Boards and GCs are asking harder questions. The teams that can demonstrate governed, measurable AI ROI are the ones pulling ahead.
Most legal functions have the expertise. The frameworks exist. The playbooks are written. What’s missing is the infrastructure to make that knowledge operational: governed, repeatable, and deployable at scale.
That’s what governed AI means in practice. Not a chat interface, but structured workflows with audit trails and outputs you can stand behind. Compass is one example. The same engine runs contract triage, compliance workflows, intake-to-resolution, and more.
If any of this resonates, that’s the conversation we’d like to have.
