Legal Operations: AI Strategy and Future Skills for Leaders

To mark UpLevel Ops’ 10th anniversary, Stephanie Corey sat down with her longtime friend Reese Arrowsmith, EVP for legal operations at Fox Corp., to trace the profession from its earliest days to where it’s headed next. The conversation turned practical: why document management remains the unglamorous prerequisite for real AI strategy, how to find the trigger moment that drives adoption, and the skills that legal ops leaders need to stay essential as AI reshapes the department. Confronting Biglaw’s ‘snake eating its own tail’ problem.