Whether you are at a law firm or legal department, legal tech — and specifically Contract Management Software (CMS) — helps create that alignment. This article outlines five skills that CMS enhances that will help ensure your continued job security and career growth in an ever-changing legal market.

Using contract management software (CMS) gives you a leg up in analyzing increasingly complex business environments. Like a surgeon’s scalpel or laparoscopic lens, it’s a powerful tool that enhances your overall technological competence. Here are three easy ways you can develop more creative and modern business solutions with CMS.

For the last few years, we've been hearing a lot about “artificial intelligence” or “AI.” How will it affect the practice of law? How will our jobs change? And how will these changes affect the legal departments?

While many strive to be pioneers in their fields, few can say they are breaking new ground in not just one, but two industries. Linda Selker is one of those few. Selker is poised at the intersection of emerging technology and the frontiers of law.

How can professionals break into the blockchain industry? As someone who has made many career changes, here are the five steps that have guided my various career transitions, including my most recent pivot to blockchain.

As attorneys, we are naturally risk-averse and resistant to change.

If you know me, you know I love to talk tech — and in fact, I've made a career of it. Recently, however, I've branched out to discussing cutting-edge technology with legislators.

In Silicon Valley, we don't often consider our important neighbors to the north: the legislators in Sacramento, California who have the power to help promote new technology and rising industries.

What makes a good lawyer? While we've all spent many years in law school and beyond pondering the question, there are a few accepted metrics

It is up to you to develop these important, mutually-beneficial relationships and leverage them in your professional growth. Focusing on forging lasting relationships is the best long-term strategy.

Public speaking, whether it’s in front of a small meeting or a large audience, can be intimidating. To be a great public speaker, you need to engage with an audience, command their attention, and leave them with a lasting message.

If you’ve been following this series on blockchain, you now know about blockchain’s capabilities beyond Bitcoin and how to keep up with the disruption.

From women, to scientists, to millennials (and professionals who are all three!), more and more diverse groups are getting involved in government.

Employees come and go — it’s a part of corporate life. One thing that should absolutely not leave with a departing employee is your company’s intellectual property (IP).

As I have discussed in numerous posts, I love startups. They are vibrant places, full of learning and growth opportunities. Startups challenge everyone involved — including those in the legal department.

Because in-house counsel are trusted advisors, key decision-makers, and know their CEOs and chairpersons best, they are particularly positioned to advocate for board diversity in their companies. But once you have a seat at the table, what do you say? These 14 compelling arguments can be used to convince your company to pursue board diversity.

As an in-house lawyer, it can be easy to get into a reputational rut at work. After working at one company for a while, you become known merely as “so-and-so, from legal.” But there are great career benefits to building a reputation in your own right at work.

Many recent law school grads and lawyers in transition ask me the same question: What will give my legal career an edge? How can I best succeed?

Jill Hoffman, the co-founder, former general counsel, and CEO of Qorkz Wine, didn’t set out to change how consumers buy and sell wine.

Linda Mayer has served as an executive or board member with several privately-owned companies. Mayer has a deep understanding of consumer behavior and how to strategize to meet market demand.

John Suh, CEO of LegalZoom, presides over a business that has evolved from providing self-help software to offering a full range small business and personal products.

In the wake of the Equifax security breach, it’s hard to find any in-house counsel who isn’t reviewing their respective company’s data security breach management response plan.

Marie Oh Huber, SVP and general counsel at eBay Inc., loves stretch goals and finding the opportunity in change.

Mentoring relationships are everywhere in Silicon Valley, but we have never seen one as dynamic and inspiring as the one between Veronica Abreu and Jennifer Lam.

To say Rachel Barnett knows contracts would be an understatement. As general counsel of Travelzoo, a global internet media company that publishes travel deals, Barnett combines her practical business sense and legal knowledge to manage all aspects of the company’s domestic and international legal affairs.