Building Legal Operations From the Ground Up

Legal operations is still a new enough field that many of those in high-level positions have fascinating stories about how they broke into a department that didn’t exist when they first arrived at a company.   One of those pioneers is Frances Pomposo, Senior Director of Legal Operations and Chief of Staff to General Counsel at Workday, who joins us for the latest episode of Modern Business Operations. Frances leveraged an IP specialist paralegal position at Adobe to make the leap into a legal operations position that she didn't have formal experience in but was enthusiastic about diving into.   Host Sagi Eliyahu starts the conversation by asking Frances about her educational background and where she saw her career going before she landed at Adobe.   Sagi and Frances also discuss: What it takes to start a legal operations department from scratch How some might consider a job in legal operations despite not having a legal background How legal operations teams can gain more visibility within companies You’ll also hear what Frances did to transition into the legal operations field before having traditional experience. Enjoy! This episode is brought to you by Tonkean Tonkean is the operating system for business operations and is the enterprise standard for process orchestration. It provides businesses with the building blocks to orchestrate any process, with no code or change management required. Contact us at tonkean.com to learn how you can build complex business processes. Fast.