How Legal can Leverage Agreement Data to Drive Organizational Strategy

Caroline O’Connor, Deputy General Counsel, leads the legal team at GoCardless, a rapidly growing fintech, with responsibility for all legal matters across the globe, including management of Legal Operations which focuses on the creation of scaleable legal and operational processes. Prior to GoCardless, she lead the global Commercial Transactions legal team for Rackspace Technology based in San Antonio, Texas with a specific expertise in complex technology agreements. Caroline spent ten years as an in-house lawyer at British Telecommunications plc where she supported many of the business units including the consumer, procurement and television lines of business. Caroline originally practiced criminal and family law as a barrister at Maidstone Chambers.

With 24 years of corporate and legal industry and technology experience, the Spaulding Ridge DocuSign group is excited to welcome Rebecca Yoder and the value her experience across the entire DocuSign Agreement Cloud product set will bring to the practice. Her knowledge of the technologies beyond CLM will help us continue to expand our capabilities and further our goal of building a leading DocuSign consulting business.

Most recently, Rebecca was a director in DocuSign’s Agreement Cloud Strategy Practice where she served as DocuSign’s subject matter expert on corporate legal departments and legal operations. Previously, Rebecca spent 20 years at Accenture, most recently as the Director of Legal Technology and a Contract Manager, where she was responsible for technology deployed to Accenture’s legal professionals, as well as technology solutions deployed across Accenture on behalf of Legal.

Jim Wagner is the Vice President of Agreement Cloud Strategy at DocuSign. Jim earned his JD from the Duke University School of Law.