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Oyango Snell

Oyango Snell

President & CEO of Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC); attorney and association executive with nearly 20 years of experience in legal operations, government affairs, and nonprofit leadership.

Jul 7, 2026

6:18
Yeah.
6:18
Yeah, what I'm seeing is this.
6:19
First, I'll tell you my thought process and opinion on it.
6:22
I'll tell you what I'm seeing.
6:23
I think from the legal ops professional side of the coin, if you think about it, the goal initially was to be more efficient.
6:31
It started off as administrative work and thinking about how you can scale processes, automate things, be more efficient.
6:38
And technically, if you think about that, if your goal is to be efficient, you could become so fast as you work your way out of a job, right? Because that's how effective you are.

19 MINS LATER

25:58
Right.
8:13
We naturally default to avoiding doing that, finding reasons not to.
8:17
Our first process as lawyers-- Oh, you said so many impactful things.
8:20
Our first process as lawyers [chuckles] is to look for that precedence when facing any matter.
8:25
How has this been handled in the past? That's part of the first examination.
8:30
If it's a litigation, how would a court view this? How would a court interpret this clause or this issue or this matter? We're looking for that precedence because we're hoping that it tells us some way how to handle the matter, that it dictates the path forward in addressing that matter.
8:47
Some instances it doesn't.
8:48
Courts have not dealt with every issue under the sun.

9 MINS LATER

17:27
You missed the hoop, right? So any disciplines that you use there? Is it just about practicing and being aware when those thoughts are coming in and in some way dealing with them?

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