About Our Guest:
Akshay Verma is the Chief Operating Officer of SpotDraft and spent years running legal operations at Facebook and Coinbase. We talk about what AI actually changes for in-house lawyers, why legal operations is an operational discipline first and what contracts can tell a business once someone looks at the data inside them.
Akshay explains why law school trains us to spot risk when the business needs a decision, and why a general counsel he admires spent her first legal hire on legal ops. He also talks about losing half his team in a reduction in force at Coinbase, and what his son’s sixth grade book project reveals about using AI badly.
You will leave with a clearer way to separate your tasks from your judgment, and a harder question to sit with about how junior lawyers will build that judgment once the drudgery is gone.
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