🎧 The Advocate Next Door: Janine Dixon: Legal Ops as the Bridge between Legal and Business

Janine Dixon, legal operations manager at Meta, joins The Advocate Next Door to break down the world of legal operations—the business side of law that keeps legal departments running efficiently behind the scenes. She explains how legal ops professionals support attorneys through budgeting, vendor management, billing, technology, project management, and cross-functional collaboration so lawyers can focus on practicing law.

Janine also shares her career journey from legal IT and computer science into legal operations, and discusses how the field has rapidly evolved over the last decade. From building strong relationships with law firms and internal business teams to exploring how AI and data analytics may reshape billing and efficiency in the legal industry, Janine offers an insightful look into one of the fastest-growing areas of the legal profession.

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00:00 Recording Mishap

00:49 Show Intro

01:26 Janine's Path Into Legal Operations

03:26 Legal Ops versus In House

04:35 What Does…