Mary O'Carroll

Issued by Financial Times and recognized for role in helping in-house legal teams adopt the new technology, and better support their companies’ strategic goals. Their achievements are laying the foundations for the use of generative AI in reshaping the legal industry.
https://www.ft.com/content/0138bbd5-4266-48a2-a81f-c04549fa4f00

LTRC’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology.

Created in 2011, each year the Fastcase 50 award honors a diverse group of lawyers, legal technologists, policymakers, judges, law librarians, bar association executives, and people from all walks of life. In many cases, honorees are well known, but in many others, the award recognizes people who have made important, but unheralded contributions.

http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/legal_rebels_2016

Once again celebrating those women and men who are remaking their corners of the legal profession, the ABA Journal and its readers have found ample evidence of innovative thinking and forward action.

Google's Head of Legal Operations talks finding the optimum balance between cost, quality and speed, and what's ahead for department operations

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Google's Head of Legal Operations talks finding the optimum balance between cost, quality and speed, and what's ahead for department operations

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When Mary O'Carroll arrived at Google roughly seven years ago to take the newly created position as head of legal operations, "there was basically no job description. It was like, 'We're growing like crazy, please come in and fix this.'"
O'Carroll and her roughly 12-member team have gone way beyond playing repairman. Late last year, the group rolled out its long-in-the-works project: The Outside Counsel Dashboard. The online tool gives Google's in-house attorneys access to almost-live… Show more

When Mary O'Carroll arrived at Google roughly seven years ago to take the newly created position as head of legal operations, "there was basically no job description. It was like, 'We're growing like crazy, please come in and fix this.'"
O'Carroll and her roughly 12-member team have gone way beyond playing repairman. Late last year, the group rolled out its long-in-the-works project: The Outside Counsel Dashboard. The online tool gives Google's in-house attorneys access to almost-live tracking of matter spend, budget, the number of attorneys and what firms are working on what matters.

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