Christine Hasiotis. Free (Handout).

Enterprise legal services provider UnitedLex Corp. shook up the legal industry in late 2017 with the announcement that it had inked a deal with tech conglomerate DXC Corp. that has been called the largest-ever managed services transaction in the legal space. That deal reimagined DXC's legal department by adding more than 250 senior-level professionals from UnitedLex.

This week, UnitedLex announced another significant move—the hire of a high-level General Electric Co. in-house attorney.

The Overland Park, Kansas-based legal services provider announced Wednesday that Christine Hasiotis, who was most recently executive counsel and director of GE's Legal Support Solutions, has joined UnitedLex as senior vice president and deputy general counsel.

Hasiotis, who began her new position in late December, is quite familiar with UnitedLex.

“UnitedLex had been working with GE for over 10 years and in the last eight I was involved in managing that relationship,” Hasiotis told ALM, explaining why she made the transition. “I had the opportunity to really see how focused they were on their clients and on making a business impact.”

In her new position, Hasiotis will help legal teams optimize their business performance and cut costs. Her experience at GE will likely be crucial—particularly because she'll continue to work with the company frequently.

At GE's Electric Insurance Co., where she worked for 15 years, Hasiotis led the creation of GE's Discovery Center of Excellence, part of a discovery simplification initiative, which led to cost savings in the legal department and centralized the team's processes, bringing them in-house. The center was honored with an innovation award from the Association of Corporate Counsel in 2016.

Hasiotis oversaw litigation dockets, managed outside counsel and provided legal support to litigation and investigation teams for GE divisions around the world. Before joining the company, she spent more than six years at Peabody & Arnold, where she was a partner, according to her LinkedIn profile.

“While at GE I drove cost savings and delivered impact to my internal clients, the litigation and investigation teams, and my goal is to replicate that on UnitedLex's platform, which has greater resources and technology and processes for us to leverage,” Hasiotis said.

Hasiotis' hire seems to signal a continued drive by UnitedLex, which was founded in 2006, to expand and push for further disruption in the legal market.

“UnitedLex is at the forefront of an extraordinary transition, whereby the legal industry is rethinking the relationships between law departments, outside counsel and external services providers,” said Dan Reed, CEO of UnitedLex, in the announcement that Hasiotis had signed on.

“I'm very excited to be part of the UnitedLex enterprise, very energized,” Hasiotis told ALM. “I can't wait to see what comes next.”

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