The Abstract

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Episodes: 102

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Savvy and strong legal leadership is only becoming more critical in a complex world.On The Abstract, we'll be interviewing leading legal executives about how they’ve nurtured their careers, grown in their roles, and become true operators within their businesses. At some points, we’ll deal with the pressure of leadership.We care deeply about helping in-house counsel grow alongside each other. Join us for insightful and interesting conversations with legal leaders.

Episode Date
Ep 101: How Legal Ops Became the Center of Strategy with Adam Becker, Cockroach Labs
May 29, 2025
Ep 100: Community as Strategy: Your Guide to Growth with Tyler Finn
May 27, 2025
Ep 99: Resilience, Wellness, and the Law: Keita de Souza on Building a Sustainable Legal Career
May 22, 2025
Ep 98: Breaking the Silence: Legal Leaders Talk Mental Health
May 14, 2025
Ep 97: From First Legal Hire to EMEA GC with Volker Weisshaar, Sonos
Apr 30, 2025
Ep 96: Scaling Teams from 80 to 800 with Jordan Hatcher, Co-Founder, CLO, and COO of The Grid
Apr 24, 2025
Ep 95: How Adidas Is Scaling Legal Ops with Alex Herrity, Director, Global Legal Solutions
Apr 17, 2025
Ep 94: Why Legal Teams Break and How to Fix Them with Manu Kanwar, CEO LexSolutions
Apr 15, 2025
Ep 93: Legal's Crisis Stories: SVB, Uber & More
Apr 10, 2025
Ep 92: Why I Left the Big Firm Life to Feed Dogs with Tim Hirsch, GC of Mars Science and Diagnostics
Apr 03, 2025
Ep 91: Why Legal Work Will Never Be the Same with SpotDraft's Shashank Bijapur and Akshay Verma
Mar 27, 2025
Ep 90: From Engineer to Top Lawyer at Adobe and Microsoft with Dana Rao
Mar 21, 2025
Ep 89: From Hackathon to Legal Game-Changer with Hannah Konitshek, Founder, Legal.io
Mar 13, 2025
Ep 88: From Prosecutor to Security Leader – Joe Sullivan (ex-CSO: Uber, Facebook, Cloudflare)
Mar 11, 2025
Ep 87: Building a Culture of Integrity with Rob Chestnut, former Airbnb Chief Ethics Officer
Mar 06, 2025
Ep 86: Why In-House Lawyers Need Each Other with Shai Mehani, CEO In-House Connect
Feb 27, 2025
Ep 85: From Coding to the C-Suite with Ryan Nier, GC Nova Credit
Feb 25, 2025
Ep 84: Why Lawyers Struggle with Communication with Briefly CEO Adam Stofsky
Feb 20, 2025
Ep 83: The 2025 Legal Ops Playbook with Brightflag's Kevin Cohn & Priori's Matt Wheatley
Feb 14, 2025
Ep 82: How Carta Built a Legal Team from Scratch & Scaled 10X with April Lindauer, GC
Feb 06, 2025
Ep 81: What Every GC Should Know About Working With Founders with Sarah Irwin
Jan 31, 2025
Ep 80: Insights on Privacy with Ron De Jesus, the Industry's First Field Chief Privacy Officer
Jan 28, 2025
Ep 79: Understanding the Future of Patent Law with Patsnap's Matt Veale
Jan 23, 2025
Ep 78: Blueprint for the Ultimate Legal Ops Team with Steph Corey, CEO UpLevel Ops & Co-Founder LINK
Jan 21, 2025
Ep 77: Thriving Through Change: Insights from Ron Bell, Collective Health CLO and Former Yahoo! GC
Jan 14, 2025
Ep 76: Lawtrades Co-Founders on Creating a Gig Economy for Lawyers
Jan 09, 2025
Ep 75: Must-Read Books for Legal Professionals in 2025 | Bonus Episode
Jan 03, 2025
Ep 74: Advice to Young Lawyers | Bonus Episode
Dec 30, 2024
Ep 73: All Things Contracts with Laura Frederick, CEO of How to Contract
Dec 23, 2024
Ep 72: Lobbying for Better Telehealth Regulations with GC Adam Greenberg
Dec 18, 2024
Ep 71: Privacy, Facial Recognition, and Semi-Pro Football with DPO Paul Collier
Dec 09, 2024
Ep 70: Why GCs need to care about ESG with Christine Uri, Founder ESG for In-house Counsel
Dec 05, 2024
Ep 69: Leading Teams Across Borders with Manuel Martinez-Herrera, BetterCloud GM
Nov 26, 2024
Ep 68: From Litigator to Spin Instructor to Chief Legal Officer with Jasmine Singh
Nov 21, 2024
Ep 67: The Future of Crypto Regulation with Heath Tarbert, Circle CLO and Former CFTC Chair
Nov 19, 2024
Ep 66: Tennis & Media Law with Peter Steckelman, SVP, Tennis Channel
Nov 14, 2024
Ep 65: Why GCs Need to Understand Geopolitics with Sean West
Nov 07, 2024
Ep 64: How to build and scale legal teams?
Oct 31, 2024
Ep 63: From Prosecutor to GC at Enfusion with Matt Campobasso
Oct 29, 2024
Ep 62: From Serving in the Army to becoming a CEO with Ethena CEO Roxanne Petraeus
Oct 24, 2024
Ep 61: How to lead Legal without a JD with Zoe McMahon, HP, Head of Legal Ops
Oct 17, 2024
Ep 60: Sharing Legal Secrets Onstage with Playwright and ex-Etsy and Vroom GC Sarah Feingold
Oct 10, 2024
Ep 59: From Lawyer to Angel Investor, Advisor & Dealmaker with Sunjay Mathews
Oct 03, 2024
Ep 58: How a lawyer built an AI company with Cecilia Ziniti, founder GC AI
Sep 26, 2024
Ep 57: Bridging the gap between Politicians & Corps. with Jules Polonetsky, CEO, Future of Privacy
Sep 19, 2024
Ep 56: Poker helped me negotiate contracts, says Andrew Woods, GC @PubMatic
Sep 17, 2024
Ep 55: Why Upwardli CEO Aaron Gregory Took the Leap from GC to Founder
Sep 12, 2024
Ep 54: Lyft's Kristin Sverchek on Expanding Beyond Legal into Corporate Leadership
Sep 05, 2024
Ep 53: What it takes to lobby for Apple, Google & Intel with Matt Tanielian
Aug 29, 2024
Ep 52: How Vanessa Wu, GC @Rippling tackled Silicon Valley Bank's collapse
Aug 22, 2024
Ep 51: How Rachel Olchowka, balanced the role of GC & CPO @ Fetch
Aug 15, 2024
Ep 50: How beating cancer twice helped him become the "Zen" GC: Dan Haley, GC, Guild
Aug 08, 2024
Ep 49: Will AI change Legal Work Forever?: Joe Green, Chief Innovation Officer, Gunderson Dettmer
Jul 31, 2024
Ep 48: How a Pilot turned into a CEO: Ben Klein, CEO at Aero
Jul 24, 2024
Ep 47: Steering Companies Through Crisis: Chelsea Grayson, Managing Partner at Pivot
Jul 17, 2024
Ep 46: What You Wish You Had Known at the Start of Your Career | Bonus Episode
Jul 10, 2024
Ep 45: What Executive Recruiters Need from GCs: Joelle Khoury, Consultant at Egon Zehnder
Jul 02, 2024
Ep 44: How an Opera Singer Became a Legal Ops Pro: Cory Clines, Legal Operations Consultant
Jun 26, 2024
Ep 43: Why Foreign-Trained Lawyers are Essential: Flavia Naves, Of Counsel, Hathaway & Kunz, LLP
Jun 19, 2024
Ep 42: Legacy Legal Ops v. Start-Up Legal Ops: Susan Packal, Head of Global Legal Ops at Atlassian
Jun 12, 2024
Ep 41: Building Legal Ops at Google: DeAnna Papedis, ​​Head of Legal Contracts & Operations, Google
Jun 04, 2024
Ep 40: Leveraging Social Media to Build a Legal Brand: Matt Margolis, Partner, Margolis PLLC
May 28, 2024
Ep 39: Legal Process Orchestration: Sagi Eliyahu, CEO & Co-founder, Tonkean (w/ cohost Akshay Verma)
May 20, 2024
Ep 38: Product Counseling at Nest, Apple, and a Climate Change Startup: Vineet Shahani, GC, Mill
May 13, 2024
Ep 37: IPO, Acquisitions & Board Membership: Nithya Das, Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, Diligent
May 06, 2024
EP 36: From Paralegals to Legal Ops Leaders: Tommie Tavares-Ferreira, Cedar, and Tom Stephenson, Legal.io
Apr 30, 2024
Ep 35: Growing Your Personal Brand and Legal Network on LinkedIn: Brittany Leonard, GC at Civix
Apr 23, 2024
Ep 34: From Prosecuting to Leading In-house at a Tech Startup: S. Michael Lee, GC & COO at Engaging.ai
Apr 19, 2024
Ep 33: Legal Issues in the Gene Editing Space: Lisa Taylor Ash, General Counsel at Shape Therapeutics
Apr 16, 2024
Ep 32: From Product Counseling at Apple & Meta to the Crypto World: Nguyen Vu, DGC, OKX
Apr 12, 2024
Ep 31: Peak Legal Efficiency: Siddharth Manchanda, IndusLaw Partner & Unacademy External GC
Apr 09, 2024
Ep 30: Leading Legal in Complex Regulatory Environments: Hardeep Singh, GC, CRED
Apr 04, 2024
EP 29: What's Next for Legal Ops: Jenn McCarron, President of CLOC
Mar 29, 2024
Ep 28: From Law Partner to Top Recruiter: Richard Hsu, Managing Director at Major, Lindsey & Africa
Mar 26, 2024
Ep 27: Taking Businesses & Legal Teams Global: Sarah Binder, General Counsel, Lime
Mar 15, 2024
Finding Empowerment in Disability: Raj Mahapatra, Senior Counsel at Wilson Sonsini
Feb 28, 2024
Data, Privacy, and Podcasting: Andy Dale, GC & CPO, OpenAP
Feb 22, 2024
Building, leading, and scaling legal teams | Bonus Episode
Feb 08, 2024
Expanding Beyond the GC Role | Bonus Episode
Jan 31, 2024
GCs in the Boardroom: Lisa Harrington, Board Director, Consultant, and CLO
Jan 19, 2024
From FBI Dreams to Big Tech Legal: Alice Bisgrove, VP & Associate General Counsel, Procore
Jan 09, 2024
Championing Inclusion, Ethics & Compliance: Junna Ro, Head of Strategic Legal Initiatives, UC Office of the President
Dec 22, 2023
Taking the Helm as an Interim Executive: Vanessa Gage, General Counsel, Cedar
Dec 15, 2023
Defining Ethical Use & Dealing with Law Enforcement: Mark Kahn, Partner and Head of Consumer at Protégé Search
Dec 08, 2023
Big Risks and Big Rewards: René Paula, GC & SVP of Legal & Business Affairs, Vaxxinity
Nov 29, 2023
Privacy, Ad Tech, and AI: Julia Shullman, GC and Chief Privacy Officer, Telly
Nov 22, 2023
Navigating Public Scrutiny & Adversity as a GC: Mark Marin's Candid Insights
Nov 10, 2023
Being a Business-Minded Lawyer: Kathy Zhu, Co-founder, CEO & GC @Streamline AI
Nov 03, 2023
Leading Teams in High Growth, High Pressure Environments: Seth Weissman, Executive Coach
Oct 27, 2023
Navigating Ownership Transitions From PE to Public Holdings: Brian Chase, GC, ServiceChannel
Oct 05, 2023
From NASA to HR Tech: Evan Ferl, Chief Strategy Officer & GC, Bambee
Sep 28, 2023
Becoming a True Business Partner as an In-House Lawyer
Sep 06, 2023
Going Beyond the GC Role: COO Genessa Stout on Organic Growth
Aug 22, 2023
Navigating IPOs and Acquisitions: GC Gary Spiegel Takes Us Behind the Scenes
Aug 09, 2023
Brand Building for Legal Teams: With Lydia Cheuk, GC at Away
Jul 20, 2023
Navigating the Legal-Security-Privacy Relationship: Celaena Powder's Experiences at Seismic
Jul 06, 2023
Riding Tech Booms and Busts as a Lawyer: Perspectives from David Lancelot
Jun 22, 2023
Mapping Your Career in Law: Akshay Verma's Blueprint for Success
Jun 14, 2023
Becoming a Customer-Centric GC: Adam Glick's Mindset
May 25, 2023
Unlocking Success in In-House Legal Roles: Lessons from Doug Luftman, ex-DGC @DocuSign
May 04, 2023
The Limits, and Limitlessness, of the Legal Function
Apr 17, 2023
Dive into The Abstract
Mar 17, 2023