In collaboration with Neota Logic, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) launched the CLOC Compass, a new interactive and dynamic application designed as a companion to its Core 12 maturity assessment playbook, at the CLOC Global Institute on May 12.
In 2024, CLOC released the maturity assessment toolkit as a structured guide for its members to progress through four maturity stages. According to CLOC’s news release, operators from within its community built both the Core 12 and the maturity assessment playbook.
The committee of legal operations practitioners who shaped the maturity assessment toolkit “spent considerable time defining what maturity really looks like across each of the Core 12 functional areas – the nuances, the progression, what good actually looks like at each stage,” said Lindsay Staples, Beta Technologies’ head of legal operations, in the news release.
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“By powering CLOC’s industry vision with our deterministic platform, we’ve built an intuitive experience that gives legal ops teams instant, data-driven clarity to benchmark their progress and secure buy-in on their path to maturity,” added Vinay Varma, Neota Logic’s chief customer officer.
CLOC said it plans to ask members for input to help improve future features of the application, which is currently in its beta period.
Goals of Compass
Oyango Snell, CLOC’s president and chief executive officer, explained that Compass enables legal departments to commence using the Core 12 framework and find a clear path forward.
In its news release, CLOC noted that the platform seeks to help legal operations professionals:
- Transform the Core 12 framework, established in 2016, into practical, measurable action
- Benchmark their organization’s maturity across the 12 key functional areas
- Identify their organization’s strengths, gaps, and growth opportunities
- Advance their organization’s capabilities
- Plan their next steps for improvement with actionable guidance
CLOC added that the application aims to drive engagement across its global community and promote wider adoption of shared industry standards.
State of the industry
CLOC’s 2026 report on the state of the industry, developed in partnership with Harbor, found that legal departments from various industries are facing demands to deliver more with the same or fewer resources and struggling with budgets that cannot keep pace.
“Legal departments across industries told us the same thing: more work, tighter budgets, flat headcount,” Snell said in CLOC’s news release. “That’s the reality our members are living every day.”
CLOC shared that 80 percent of legal departments surveyed identified technology strategy as a top priority amid their current challenges.