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I am an experienced litigator and the founder of Digitory Legal (now part of BigHand), an award-winning cost analytics company that helps law firms and legal departments leverage data to succeed in an evolving legal market. Digitory Legal was purpose-built to reduce tension between lawyers and clients through data-driven pricing, cost transparency, and effective project management. With that goal in mind, I help our customers - both law firms and legal departments - bridge the divide between the practice of law and the business of law, facilitating legal service delivery models that serve business needs without sacrificing quality of service. I am also passionate about data-driven DEI and have designed programs and analytics that leverage data to promote inclusive allocation career-advancing work.Before founding Digitory Legal, I practiced law at top-tier firms - first at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and then at Orrick, where I was a litigation Partner. I am an accomplished trial lawyer with extensive experience representing global corporations in a wide variety of high-stakes litigation matters. I am also a frequent speaker and recognized thought leader on legal technology, litigation practice management, cost analytics, and the use of artificial intelligence and data in law. Since founding Digitory, I have received a number of accolades recognizing our groundbreaking work in legal technology and the advancement of the legal industry. In 2022, we were recognized by CLOC as a Legal Innovation in Operations project recipient. In 2021, Digitory Legal was awarded the InnovAction award for our work with Kaiser Permanente on data-driven diversity and inclusion programs. In 2020, I was elected to be a fellow of the prestigious College of Law Practice Management, and Digitory was named 2020 Disrupter of the Year by the Changing Lawyer. In 2019, I was an American Bar Association "Women in Legal Tech" honoree and was named to the Fastcase50 list "honoring the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, & leaders." I also received CloudNow's 2019 Top Women Entrepreneur in Cloud Innovation award and was the 2018 winner of "The Pitch", an international legal technology competition.

Listed skills include Leadership, Trial Practice, Team Management, Product Liability, and 16 others.