Ops Make Way for Version 3.0 of CLOC MIKE HAVEN CLOC organization in 2016, and that year we hosted our first
CCBJ sat down with Mike Haven, recently introduced CEO of CLOC, the leading membership organization for legal operations professionals. In this interview, Mr. Haven discusses the future and culture of this highly influential organization.
Institute with five hundred people attending in San Francisco. That was an amazing start. The next year we moved it to Vegas and doubled attendance. In 2018, we doubled attendance in Vegas yet again and added institutes in London and Sydney. That was phase one of becoming an industry-leading organization.
CCBJ: CLOC has a model of core competencies for gauging the maturity of corporate law departments.
In CLOC 2.0, the last two years under Mary O’Carroll’s
As you settle in as the new president of the
leadership, we added a staff and executive director to
organization, talk about CLOC’s evolution and its own
run CLOC’s day-to-day business. We also added law firm
maturity arc.
membership, and then brought in the entire ecosystem. These were major leaps forward. Throughout,
Mike Haven: It is a relatively young organization, but
membership has increased steadily and CLOC is now a
the growth trajectory has been off the charts. CLOC
well-known and reliable resource for the entire legal
1.0 essentially was us standing up. That started almost
ecosystem. It's been a really crazy ride. It shows how
10 years ago as a book club of in-house operations
much the industry craved the transformation that our
professionals blazing a trail. CLOC became an official
members are driving.
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