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Chief Legal Officer, Perk
Change, Demystification, Happiness
I build high performance teams with a scalable impact, facilitated by technology. I grew up on a farm, with no lawyers in my family. While this outsider positioning was a significant hindrance on arriving in the world of Big Law - a place where everyone but me seemed to have a very clear idea what they were doing, and where I once got thrown out of the office for wearing the wrong shoes - it has been a superpower in my in-house life.
Billing review tools exist, and some of them are good. But they're typically designed for legal departments with hundreds of firms and millions in annual spend. Plus: law is a human business! I don't want to mediate my relationships with counsel through a third-party platform. I don't want a dashboard. (I really despise dashboards.) I want to understand what I'm paying for, I want to work more harmoniously with our partner firms, and I want to have an informed conversation about it when the numbers don't look right. So I set out to build a tool to help with that: Eden. A Loom video showing Eden's capabilities is here: https://www.loom.com/share/e063a1080a874b348dfb20b5eaf24dd8
Lessons I Learned In Law
Andy shares a grounded, refreshingly practical look at what it means to build and lead an in-house legal team inside a high-growth tech company. Drawing on his experience at Perk and his earlier career in private practice and in-house, Andy unpacks three lessons centred on product thinking, influence and culture. He explains why lawyers should view their work as a product used by internal customers and why simplicity, clarity and usability matter more than long memos. Andy also reflects on the real source of influence inside a business: not job titles or hierarchy, but delivering outcomes that genuinely move the needle. His final lesson focuses on culture as a strategic asset. From hiring curious, low-ego team members to designing processes that scale, Andy shows how the right cultural foundations help legal teams operate as enablers, not gatekeepers, in fast-moving organisations.
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