FOR GENERAL COUNSEL WHO THINK LIKE CEOS
DR. NO
The thinking your outside counsel doesn't want you to read
Most legal departments are busy.
Very few are influential.
Ideas on influence, leverage and the operating models of modern legal teams — for General Counsels who want to change that.
Legal departments are under more pressure than ever.
More regulation. More complexity. More expectations from the business.
But the operating model hasn't really changed.
Most teams are still designed around headcount.
Which creates a simple problem.
Demand grows faster than legal capacity.
The best General Counsels have started solving this differently.
Not by growing the team.
By redesigning capacity.
That is where leverage begins.
Recent thinking from Dr. No
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Manuel Deó
EX-BIG LAW PARTNER · CO-FOUNDER, AMBAR
I used to be a partner at a large international law firm. My job involved negotiating complex deals, advising boards — and correcting an unreasonable number of typos in 200-page agreements.
After enough late nights doing that, I started wondering if the legal industry had a design problem.
So I left the dark side.
Today I co-founded Ambar, a global community of top independent lawyers helping companies access legal capacity in smarter ways.
Dr. No is where I write about influence, leverage and how legal teams actually shape companies.
Still allergic to unnecessary typos.
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