Trudy Knockless is a reporter at ALM Media's Business of Law desk. She specializes in law and legal affairs, legal technology, and business economics, with a focus on topics such as legal software, corporate finance, and human resource information systems. Trudy's work has been featured in notable publications including Online Personals Watch, PropertyCasualty360.com, The American Lawyer, Treasury & Risk, and FeedBlitz, LLC.
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Trudy's coverage predominantly focuses on the legal and compliance sector, particularly corporate legal matters and in-house hiring trends. She seems to favor articles that feature insights from general counsels (GCs) and delve into private sector announcements.
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By: Trudy Knockless
Research and advisory firm Gartner identified rising AI disputes and changing U.S. regulatory priorities as just two factors that will fundamentally change how legal departments operate and how general counsel contribute to their businesses.
By: Trudy Knockless
New research from Harmonic Security, based on analysis of 1.9 million classified AI-session minutes across enterprise organizations, found legal and governance teams account for 19.5% of all AI use.
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“Legal ops is actually the secret sauce to becoming a business partner,” said Lucy Bassli, a former assistant general counsel at Microsoft and the first head of legal operations at Snowflake.
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"We're able to take a large data set, classify it, understand the topics, understand the categories of data in it, and that's going to allow us, even before we say what's relevant and what isn't, to see what we're dealing with," said Esther Birnbaum, executive vice president of data intelligence at HaystackID.
The rapid spread of AI, cloud computing and data sovereignty rules is forcing corporate lawyers to become involved in product development much earlier than they once were.
By: Trudy Knockless, Dan Roe
While clients are warming to law firms' use of their data to improve service delivery, many still have reservations about privacy and competition.
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"We've seen really strong demand for leaders who can really operate as true business partners, and those are sometimes hard to find. They're looking for people beyond just technically excellent lawyers," said Allison Rosner, managing director in Major, Lindsey & Africa's in-house counsel recruiting practice.
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Bruce Tobey earned $4.49 million for the fiscal year ending March 31. 3 minute read July 29, 2026 at 01:46 PM
"Every individual contributor ought to have an agentic span of control. They ought to be managing agents. They ought to be ultimately orchestrating the work, the AI, the agents," said Salesforce CLO Sebastian Niles.
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Julie Fraser served in leadership roles at Axiom, Thomson Reuters and CT-Moms Online before joining Protos as its first in-house attorney.
