Chris Young, general counsel at Ironclad, believes the pandemic has blown open a window of opportunity to transform the legal profession. “It’s time to move past our pandemic mindset and adopt a maker mindset,” he says in an interview with Bloomberg Law. “This shift requires creative thinking, resourcefulness and tenacity to build the right solution, at the right time. For anyone who went to law school, a maker mindset might feel like the antithesis of your work. In many ways it is. Law school teaches you all about precedent, which is the opposite of creativity.” One area ripe for such transformation is contracting, particularly through standardization. “Standardizing contracts will not only free up your legal team, it will also empower the whole business,” he says. Check out the full interview here.
Published August 2, 2021.
