The modern office of General Counsel is built around real-time decision-making and business partnership.
I work with General Counsel on the elevation that makes those outcomes real. People, process, technology, data, and AI, aligned to how the business operates. From risk manager to business enabler.
Managing Director, Swiftwater & Company · Twenty years across Mitratech, Morae Global, Huron
Modernizing the Office of General Counsel
The modern office of General Counsel runs on the team behind it. Real-time decision-making, business partnership, and measurable outcomes are products of an elevated function, with people, process, technology, data, and AI aligned to deliver. The essay names the work of building one.
Over twenty years across Mitratech, Morae Global, Huron, and now Swiftwater & Company, I have worked alongside General Counsel as the role has changed. The challenges are modern. AI is making them more modern still. The work I do is helping General Counsel elevate the legal function from risk manager to business enabler. What follows is the essay that names the work.
Recent Writing
Seventy articles and counting. The through-line is a modern, elevated legal function and the team that runs it.
What Is Legal Operations Consulting?
Legal operations consulting is the design of how a legal department actually operates. This piece unpacks what a serious engagement should deliver and how to tell a legal operations consulting partner from a legal technology vendor.
How Do You Build a Legal Spend Management Program?
Most legal departments have spend tracking. Very few have spend management. A roadmap for moving from reviewing invoices after the fact to controlling what will be spent before it is incurred.
10 Contract Lifecycle Management Best Practices for 2026
Most organizations treat contract management as a storage problem. The programs that actually work treat it as a governance problem with a technology layer on top. Ten practices that separate functioning CLM programs from platform graveyards.
No Objections Podcast
A podcast with General Counsel about the work of advising at the frontier, where business models are emerging and legal has to help the business step into the unknown, often with little or no precedent to lean on.
Conversations with General Counsel navigating AI agents, autonomous systems, synthetic biology, and business models that did not exist when the law was written. First season features General Counsel from global companies across mobility, energy, industrials, and media.
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