Building a legal operations business case the CFO will approve

Legal operations business cases fail in finance review for a predictable reason: they are written in the language of effort saved rather than cash, risk and capacity.

Reframe the same programme in three lines a CFO already models — avoided outside counsel spend, deferred headcount, and quantified risk reduction with a stated probability and exposure — and the conversation changes.

The underlying programme does not need to change. The unit of measure does.