Must-Read Books for Legal Professionals in 2025 | Bonus Episode

From Career Break to CLO: How Shanti Ariker Rebuilt Her Legal Career

Building Outside the Box: Monica Zent on Legal Ops, AI, and Bold Bets

Tackling Change: Emmanuel Smith’s Journey Beyond Football

Risk, Reward, and Reinvention: Viraj Joshi on Law, Policy, and Startups

Lessons from Ola’s Former GC: Leadership, Risk, and Reinvention

From Product Counsel to Privacy Leader: Tina Hwang’s Journey

Books That Stay With You: Legal Leaders Share Their Shelf

Reimagining Law Firm Pricing: Ken Callander on Value, AI & In-House Strategy

From Big Law to GC Before 35: Andrew Epstein’s Journey on Navigating Modern Legal Careers

Scaling Legal at Speed – Lessons from Carta, Cockroach Labs, and More

Punishing the Victim: What’s Broken in Cybersecurity Law with Andy Lunsford, CEO of BreachRx

Jack of All Trades, Master of Risk: How Joon Park Navigates Modern Legal Work

Building What Doesn’t Exist Yet: Inside the Legal Career of Tommie Tavares-Ferreira

What Comes After Legal Ops? A Conversation with David Cowen

How Legal Ops Became the Center of Strategy with Adam Becker, Cockroach Labs

Community as Strategy: Your Guide to Growth with Tyler Finn

Resilience, Wellness, and the Law: Keita de Souza on Building a Sustainable Legal Career

Breaking the Silence: Legal Leaders Talk Mental Health

From First Legal Hire to EMEA GC with Volker Weisshaar, Sonos

Scaling Teams from 80 to 800 with Jordan Hatcher, Co-Founder, CLO, and COO of The Grid

How Adidas Is Scaling Legal Ops with Alex Herrity, Director, Global Legal Solutions

Why Legal Teams Break and How to Fix Them with Manu Kanwar, CEO LexSolutions

Legal’s Crisis Stories: SVB, Uber & More

Why I Left the Big Firm Life to Feed Dogs with Tim Hirsch, GC of Mars Science and Diagnostics

Why Legal Work Will Never Be the Same with SpotDraft’s Shashank Bijapur and Akshay Verma

From Engineer to Top Lawyer at Adobe and Microsoft with Dana Rao

From Hackathon to Legal Game-Changer with Hannah Konitshek, Founder, Legal.io

From Prosecutor to Security Leader – Joe Sullivan (ex-CSO: Uber, Facebook, Cloudflare)

Building a Culture of Integrity with Rob Chesnut, former Airbnb Chief Ethics Officer

Why In-House Lawyers Need Each Other with Shai Mehani, CEO In-House Connect

From Coding to the C-Suite with Ryan Nier, GC Nova Credit

Why Lawyers Struggle with Communication with Briefly CEO Adam Stofsky

The 2025 Legal Ops Playbook with Brightflag’s Kevin Cohn & Priori’s Matt Wheatley

How Carta Built a Legal Team from Scratch & Scaled 10X with April Lindauer, GC

What Every GC Should Know About Working With Founders with Sarah Irwin

Insights on Privacy with Ron De Jesus, the Industry’s First Field Chief Privacy Officer

Understanding the Future of Patent Law with Patsnap’s Matt Veale

Blueprint for the Ultimate Legal Ops Team with Steph Corey, CEO UpLevel Ops & Co-Founder CLOC

Thriving Through Change: Insights from Ron Bell, Collective Health CLO and Former Yahoo! GC

Lawtrades Co-Founders on Creating a Gig Economy for Lawyers

Advice to Young Lawyers | Bonus Episode

All Things Contracts with Laura Frederick, CEO of How to Contract

Lobbying for Better Telehealth Regulations with GC Adam Greenberg

Privacy, Facial Recognition, and Semi-Pro Football with DPO Paul Collier

Why GCs need to care about ESG with Christine Uri, Founder ESG for In-house Counsel

Leading Teams Across Borders with Manuel Martinez-Herrera, BetterCloud GM

From Litigator to Spin Instructor to Chief Legal Officer with Jasmine Singh

The Future of Crypto Regulation with Heath Tarbert, Circle CLO and Former CFTC Chair

Tennis & Entertainment Law with Peter Steckelman, SVP, Tennis Channel

Why GCs Need to Understand Geopolitics with Sean West

How to build and scale legal teams?

From Prosecutor to GC at Enfusion with Matt Campobasso

From Serving in the Army to becoming a CEO with Ethena CEO Roxanne Petraeus

How to lead Legal without a JD with Zoe McMahon, HP, Head of Legal Ops

Sharing Legal Secrets Onstage with Playwright and ex-Etsy and Vroom GC Sarah Feingold

From Lawyer to Angel Investor, Advisor & Dealmaker with Sunjay Mathews

How a lawyer built an AI company with Cecilia Ziniti, founder GC AI

Bridging the gap between politicians & companies with Jules Polonetsky, CEO, Future of Privacy Forum

Poker helped me negotiate contracts, says Andrew Woods, GC @PubMatic

Why Upwardli CEO Aaron Gregory Took the Leap from GC to Founder

Lyft’s Kristin Sverchek on Expanding Beyond Legal into Corporate Leadership

What it takes to lobby for Apple, Google & Intel with Matt Tanielian

How Vanessa Wu, GC @Rippling tackled Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse

How Rachel Olchowka, balanced the role of GC & CPO @ Fetch

How beating cancer twice helped him become the “Zen” GC: Dan Haley, GC, Guild

Will AI change Legal Work Forever?: Joe Green, Chief Innovation Officer, Gunderson Dettmer

How a Pilot turned into a CEO: Ben Klein, CEO at Aero

Steering Companies Through Crisis: Chelsea Grayson, Managing Partner at Pivot

What You Wish You Had Known at the Start of Your Career | Bonus Episode

What Executive Recruiters Need from GCs: Joelle Khoury, Consultant at Egon Zehnder

How an Opera Singer Became a Legal Ops Pro: Cory Clines, Legal Operations Consultant

Why Foreign-Trained Lawyers are Essential: Flavia Naves, Of Counsel, Hathaway & Kunz, LLP

Legacy Legal Ops v. Start-Up Legal Ops: Susan Packal, Head of Global Legal Ops at Atlassian

Building Legal Ops at Google: DeAnna Papedis, ​​Head of Legal Contracts & Operations, Google

Leveraging Social Media to Build a Legal Brand: Matt Margolis, Partner at Margolis PLLC

Legal Process Orchestration: Sagi Eliyahu, CEO & Co-founder, Tonkean (w/ cohost Akshay Verma)

Product Counseling at Nest, Apple, and a Climate Change Startup: Vineet Shahani, GC, Mill

IPO, Acquisitions & Board Membership: Nithya Das, Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, Diligent

From Paralegals to Legal Ops Leaders: Tommie Tavares-Ferreira, Cedar, and Tom Stephenson, Legal.io

Growing Your Personal Brand and Legal Network on LinkedIn: Brittany Leonard, GC at Civix

From Prosecuting to Leading In-house at a Tech Startup: S. Michael Lee, GC & COO at Engaging.ai

Legal Issues in the Gene Editing Space: Lisa Taylor Ash, General Counsel at Shape Therapeutics

From Product Counseling at Apple & Meta to the Crypto World: Nguyen Vu, DGC, OKX

Peak Legal Efficiency: Siddharth Manchanda, IndusLaw Partner & Unacademy External GC

Leading Legal in Complex Regulatory Environments: Hardeep Singh, GC, CRED

What’s Next for Legal Ops: Jenn McCarron, President of CLOC

From Law Partner to Top Recruiter: Richard Hsu, Managing Director at Major, Lindsey & Africa

Taking Businesses & Legal Teams Global: Sarah Binder, General Counsel, Lime

Finding Empowerment in Disability: Raj Mahapatra, Senior Counsel at Wilson Sonsini

Data, Privacy, and Podcasting: Andy Dale, GC & CPO, OpenAP

Building, leading, and scaling legal teams | Bonus Episode

Expanding Beyond the GC Role | Bonus Episode

GCs in the Boardroom: Lisa Harrington, Board Director, Consultant, and CLO

From FBI Dreams to Big Tech Legal: Alice Bisgrove, VP & Associate General Counsel, Procore

Championing Inclusion, Ethics & Compliance: Junna Ro, Head of Strategic Legal Initiatives, UC Office of the President

Taking the Helm as an Interim Executive: Vanessa Gage, General Counsel, Cedar

Defining Ethical Use & Dealing with Law Enforcement: Mark Kahn, Partner and Head of Legal/Tech at Protégé Search

Big Risks and Big Rewards: René Paula, GC & SVP of Legal & Business Affairs, Vaxxinity

Privacy, Ad Tech, and AI: Julia Shullman, GC and Chief Privacy Officer, Telly

Navigating Public Scrutiny & Adversity as a GC: Mark Marin’s Candid Insights