I partner with legal leaders to build practical, scalable operations—aligning financial management, outside counsel, technology, contracts, data, and people so the legal function can operate with greater clarity and impact.
Engagements can be focused projects, fractional legal operations support, or strategic advisory work—designed around what your department actually needs.
Build the operating model, priorities, metrics, and roadmap your legal team needs to scale.
Create financial discipline and visibility without making the process harder for the team.
Turn external relationships into a managed program with clearer expectations, better data, and stronger value.
Move from tool selection to implementation, workflow design, adoption, and measurable improvement.
Make legal work easier to run and easier to explain to the business.
Experienced legal operations leadership for teams that need senior support without a full-time hire.
Examples from in-house legal operations leadership across technology, retail, and global legal communities.
Scaled legal financial management as department spend grew, introducing quarterly reviews across outside counsel, matters, contracts, consultants, subscriptions, technology, and travel.
Reduced annual legal spend through all-in fixed-fee arrangements with key preferred firms across litigation, commercial, and corporate governance work.
Saved IT support time through a two-year contract management transformation, while reducing support tickets by more than 50% and expanding self-service.
Eliminated recurring analyst work by building reporting dashboards that increased transparency for legal executives.
The scope changes. The discipline does not.
Understand the current state, stakeholders, pain points, data, and business priorities.
Build a right-sized solution, clear roadmap, success measures, and decision points.
Turn the design into workflows, tools, documentation, communications, and training.
Make the change sustainable through adoption, ownership, metrics, and a clean handoff.
LaTrece is a legal operations leader with more than a decade of experience driving enterprise transformation, financial strategy, technology implementation, process optimization, and executive-level initiatives for global legal departments.
Her in-house experience includes leading Legal Operations at Palo Alto Networks and roles at Ross Stores and Adobe. She has managed legal budgets at scale, led enterprise contract-management transformation, built outside counsel programs, negotiated alternative fee arrangements, created executive reporting, and led cross-functional change initiatives.
She also led education and content for the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), supporting a global community of more than 2,500 legal professionals and developing programs that shared practical legal operations practices across the industry.
Whether you need a focused project, an operational reset, or experienced fractional support, start with the problem you are trying to solve.