#8 - General Counsel Shana Simmons Describes Her Impressive Career in Law and LegalOps

On this episode, Shana Simmons, General Counsel at Everlaw, joins Mary to talk about Shana's career journey. From how Shana got a job as a law firm associate in London to why she left that job and moved to California to work as a contract manager at Google. Shana waxes lyrical about her deep love for Google and what it was like to work at a company that was growing so rapidly. She also shares the tools and skills Shana learned at Google and why she didn't learn them as a lawyer, such as building and managing a diverse team. She then goes through how she worked her way up at Google, and why she ultimately left. Lastly, Shana goes into detail about why it's so important to hire talent that is different from you and how to manage them effectively as well as how to use technology to modernize legal operations.

Resources:

Shana Simmons: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shana-simmons-02295498/

Everlaw: https://www.linkedin.com/company/everlaw/  

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