Assessing the Impact of Accelerated Adoption of Technology on Legal Departments

Nancy is an experienced corporate attorney with over ten years working at reputable and iconic consumer products companies and approximately eight years at multi-billion dollar financial services firms.

In her current position as Associate General Counsel at Jelly Belly Candy Company, she is responsible for handling and advising on a wide range of legal topics. They include reviewing and negotiating contracts, corporate governance, insurance, real estate, finance, global subsidiary management, compliance, insurance, and general corporate matters. In addition, she has successfully streamlined processes and procedures to help the company become more efficient and effective.

Nancy supports and advises operations, human resources, finance, retail stores as well as other business units. Prior to Jelly Belly Candy Company, she was Corporate Counsel at Big Heart Pet Brands (formerly Del Monte Corporation) and Director of Compliance at AXA Financial.

Jonathan Sickler is the Chief Legal Officer for AE2S, a specialized civil/environmental consulting engineering firm that provides professional services. Prior to joining AE2S in 2013, Jonathan developed his legal expertise from more than eleven years of practicing at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Clifford Chance.

Jonathan is highly experienced in various aspects of corporate law, including antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, and federal and state litigation. He holds a JD from Harvard and a BA in Political Science.

Karen Gally is the GC of Otsuka America Pharmaceutical and an interdisciplinary team leader with 20 years supporting global and U.S. leaders in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare. She is also an active nonprofit board member and executive adviser. Before joining Otsuka, Karen was a healthcare lawyer at the AmLaw 100 law firm Epstein Becker & Green.

Karen has an extensive background in business alliances and commercial transactions, product R&D, clinical trial programs, regulatory compliance and risk management, business operations, corporate governance, litigation, and law department management.

Jerry Ting is the CEO and co-founder of Evisort, the leading AI-analytics company for legal and business documents, which he built out as a student at Harvard Law School with data scientists from MIT. As the CEO of Evisort, Jerry is on a mission to change how companies interact with their most important legal documents by using artificial intelligence to help companies organize, manage, and understand their contracts without manual review.