Extract from Doug Austin’s article “eDiscovery isn’t in the CLOC Core 12. Here’s Why”
The CLOC Core 12 infographic is one of the best infographics in legal. But eDiscovery isn’t in the CLOC Core 12. Here’s why.
If you’re not familiar with it, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Core 12 infographic (available here) provides guidance in 12 functional areas – known as the “Core 12” – and applies to many environments and requirements towards operational excellence for legal operations. It’s a terrific maturity model that promotes organizational and functional maturity for legal operations. The Core 12 are:
- Business Intelligence
- Financial Management
- Firm & Vendor Management
- Information Governance
- Knowledge Management
- Organization Optimization & Health
- Practice Operations
- Project/Program Management
- Service Delivery Models
- Strategic Planning
- Technology
- Training & Development
As you can see, eDiscovery isn’t in the CLOC Core 12. I was discussing this with someone recently and they asked why it isn’t in there. Here’s why I think it isn’t there.
