In-House
In-House
Podcast Description
The best in-house legal teams aren’t just legal. They help their organizations solve complex issues, make the right decisions, and even grow their businesses. That’s right, legal isn’t just a cost center.
In-House is a podcast featuring top leaders in the legal industry.
Tune in as Jessica Nguyen, award-winning Deputy General Counsel of AI Innovation and Trust at Docusign and former Chief Legal Officer of Lexion, interviews leading in-house counsel and legal experts. Our guests navigate the ever-shifting landscape of the latest issues, current events, and regulations - while balancing the needs of their organizations.
Whether you’re new or highly experienced, In-House is here to help you enhance your career.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as legal strategy, organizational growth, compliance challenges, and industry trends. Episodes may cover topics like AI in legal practices, navigating regulatory changes, and case studies of successful in-house legal teams that foster business growth and development.
The best in-house legal teams aren’t just legal. They help their organizations solve complex issues, make the right decisions, and even grow their businesses. That’s right, legal isn’t just a cost center.
In-House is a podcast featuring top leaders in the legal industry.
Tune in as Jessica Nguyen, award-winning Deputy General Counsel of AI Innovation and Trust at Docusign and former Chief Legal Officer of Lexion, interviews leading in-house counsel and legal experts. Our guests navigate the ever-shifting landscape of the latest issues, current events, and regulations – while balancing the needs of their organizations.
Whether you’re new or highly experienced, In-House is here to help you enhance your career.
Jessica and Hemma of DocuSign speak with Nada Alnajafi, founder of Contract Nerds. They all emphasize how important community is to building support and connections in the legal world. Nada shares the origin story of Contract Nerds and the impact that online platforms had on scaling her business.
The three also discuss the acquisition of Contract Nerds by DocuSign and the value of community-driven insights for product development.
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Key Quotes:
HEMMA: People don’t like the networking word, but really just enjoying the community is enough. You don’t need to need anything. What I find is being generous yourself, coming to the community with a service mentality, offering to help people when you can. You’re not doing that conditionally. You’re not looking for something in return. But boy, does it pay dividends sometimes.
NADA: It all starts with relationships and having a community allows people to come congregate in a platform, in a place, around a certain topic that they’re all interested in. To build relationships and you never know what a relationship can do for you beyond just the genuine part of having that relationship where five years from now, it could lead to an acquisition. It could lead to a new job like it did for you, Hemma. It could lead to a speaking opportunity. It could lead to you winning that negotiation when otherwise you might have been stuck and showing up for the community and for the people in your life. Just genuinely without having those expectations or trying to steer it in a direction. But just come and be yourself. And give to others what you know, your knowledge, your experiences, and share. And that’s how we build trust and that’s how we build relationships.
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Time stamps:
05:20 – Meet our guest
18:20 – Selling Contract Nerds
21:35 – Building a presence in compliance
33:00 – Learning from your community
38:48 – Keep or Redline
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Links:
Find Nada Alnajafi on LinkedIn
Find Jessica Nguyen on LinkedIn
Find Dr. Hemma Lomax on LinkedIn
More about Docusign
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