Best Practices for Building and Maintaining Your Legal Team

Betty Jang is an executive leader with extensive experience in private and public companies. With a keen focus on strategy and results, she has played a crucial role in driving success for companies from seed to growth to exit. With deep experience in fast-paced environments, she has a proven ability to evaluate, negotiate, and execute in various areas, such as buy-side and sell-side transactions, raising non-dilutive funding, post-IPO requirements, commercial contracts, and complex investigations with FINRA, DOJ, and federal/state OIG.

Through her change management initiatives, Betty has revolutionized operations, spearheading a company-wide compliance program that resulted in a 90% reduction in inefficiencies. Her innovative contract management program eliminated a $16.1 million backlog, streamlining business prioritization and accountability.

In her role as a proactive collaborator, Betty has been instrumental in driving cost savings of approximately $2 million by fostering strong partnerships with business stakeholders, implementing innovative fee structures, developing a proactive employment and risk management program, and deploying effective litigation strategies.

Nathan Leong is a technology attorney and leads the legal and government affairs team for Microsoft’s U.S. health business on a variety of matters including complex AI/ML strategic alliances, regulatory policy and compliance, and overall legal strategy and execution.

Nathan speaks regularly on technology innovation, cloud and AI, digital health, and diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. Nathan has served on numerous boards and substantive law committees including the AABA Chicago Law Foundation, the LCLD Fellows Executive Council, CABA Greater Chicago, NAPABA’s Health Law Committee, and the Health Care Cloud Coalition.