Optimizing Legal Ops Outcomes with Technology: A Decision Framework with a Focus on Data Management and the Importance of Contract Data

Kelly has 10 years of experience working with external counsel and internal legal teams. In previous roles at Axiom and Knowable, she’s worked alongside clients to implement parts of the ACC Maturity model and has a unique view of the challenges that legal teams and law firms face when it comes to implementing new technology for legal operations.

Kelly is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Onna, the world’s first Knowledge Integration Platform. At Onna, she works directly with corporate clients and partners, like Slack, Dropbox, and Facebook, to make data accessible, useful, and private, for use cases like compliance, information governance, and more.

Nicholas (Nik) Reed is the senior vice president of product and research & development at Knowable. Nik was the co-founder of Ravel Law, a start-up that transformed case law into analytics. LexisNexis acquired Ravel in 2017 and Nik became vice president of product strategy developing solutions like Context at LexisNexis. Prior to Ravel, Nik worked in investment banking and strategy consulting. Nik is a Stanford undergraduate and law school alumnus.

Emily Teuben is the Director of Legal Operations at PayPal, Inc., a Fortune 500 digital payments platform. As the head of Legal Operations at PayPal, Ms. Teuben leverages her legal and business background to identify efficiency opportunities across the enterprise. She has developed a global legal technology strategy, implemented workflow automation solutions and developed the team’s first monthly metrics scorecard.

Prior to PayPal, Ms. Teuben served as Senior Legal Operations Manager at NetApp, Inc., a Fortune 500 data management and storage provider. During her 9-year tenure at NetApp, she led programs to create, redesign, streamline and simplify operational processes, and managed complex projects focused on globalizing and unifying the department, as well as the enterprise.

Ms. Teuben graduated cum laude from Santa Clara Law and is licensed to practice law in the State of California. She also graduated cum laude from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.