Flexible Engagement
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Designed to fit your team’s immediate capacity and long-term goals.
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Capabilities & Deliverables
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Strategic Assessments & Audits: Fixed-scope reviews of your technology, spend, or operational maturity with actionable deliverables.
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Project-Based Execution: Hands-on leadership for specific rollouts (e.g., Legal Front Door implementation, AI strategy roadmap, outside counsel program design).
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Advisory & Interim Leadership: Fractional legal operations leadership and strategic advising for ongoing execution.
Operational Infrastructure & Strategic Roadmaps
Build scalable legal ops foundations aligned with recognized industry benchmarks.
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Capabilities & Deliverables
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Operational Maturity Assessment: Benchmarking your legal function against industry frameworks (CLOC Core 12, ACC Maturity Model).
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Strategic Roadmapping: Building prioritized 12-to-36 month operational roadmaps aligned with corporate business objectives.
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Legal Ops from the Ground Up: Establishing core metrics, KPI dashboards, and foundational processes for growing or newly formed legal operations functions.Â
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What I Do
Strategic Legal Operations & Technology Consulting
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Outside Counsel & Vendor Management
Gain visibility into legal spend, optimize panel relationships, and drive cost predictability.
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Capabilities & Deliverables
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Panel Management & Tiering: Structuring outside counsel selection, panel consolidation, and preferred provider frameworks across domestic and global regions (AMER, EMEA, APJ).
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Billing Guidelines & Governance: Crafting and enforcing outside counsel billing guidelines and automated fee review processes.
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Rate Negotiations & AFAs: Implementing alternative fee arrangements (AFAs), rate caps, and structured annual rate review processes.
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Legal Front Door & Workflow Optimization
Centralize incoming business requests and streamline routine legal operations.
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Capabilities & Deliverables
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Legal Front Door Design: Building centralized intake, routing, and self-service portals so business stakeholders know exactly how to engage Legal.
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Workflow & Process Mapping: Streamlining high-volume processes (NDA workflows, contract lifecycle management, matter intake) to reduce cycle times.
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Self-Service & Automation: Implementing automated triage, standardized templates, and self-service workflows to free up attorney bandwidth.
Legal Technology &
AI Strategy
Evaluate, select, and deploy tools that drive actual adoption and measurable ROI.
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Capabilities & Deliverables
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Tech Stack Audit & Selection: Unbiased evaluation of your existing technology and vendor selection (CLM, matter management, e-discovery, intake tools, etc.).
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Generative AI Strategy: Identifying high-impact AI use cases, vendor risk assessment, and safe deployment strategies.
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Implementation & Adoption: End-to-end management, RFP, workflow configuration, training, and change management to ensure internal team adoption.
1. Assessment
We evaluate where your department stands today—analyzing existing workflows, spend patterns, core systems, and operational gaps to establish a clear baseline.
2. Strategic Roadmap
You receive a prioritized execution plan tied directly to what your business needs first—not a generic package or what’s easiest to sell.
3. Hands-On Build
From vendor selection and workflow design to system implementation and change management, we execute the work directly—delivering real solutions, not just a slide deck.
4. Sustainable Handoff or Ongoing Support
We ensure your operational improvements stick. Your team either takes full ownership with robust training and documentation, or we continue providing fractional operational support as you scale.
My Story
Operational Leadership & Industry Expertise
MidoriVasquez@outlook.com
Midori Vasquez is a legal operations leader and strategist with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building, scaling, and modernizing legal functions. Having served in roles including Legal Operations Manager and Head of Legal Operations, she specializes in transforming complex, manual legal workflows into agile, technology-driven operations.
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Midori’s expertise spans enterprise legal technology implementation, Generative AI vendor strategy, global outside counsel and spend management strategy and action plans, and building legal operations infrastructure from the ground up.
Industry Leadership & Credentials​​
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Executive Leadership: ACC Legal Operations Network Executive Leadership Team
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Advisory & Certification: Customer Advisory Board Member & ACC Legal Ops Certification Contributor
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Academia: Adjunct Instructor, Technology in the Law Office at Duquesne University's Paralegal Institute
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Thought Leadership: Frequent speaker at ACC events on AI adoption, outside counsel management, and legal ops strategy