Extract from Chris O’Malley’s article, “Involving Legal Early in Product Design Is Recipe for Success, Tech Lawyers Say.”
Contrast that to the “age-old process” where “the product is built and then they say to legal, ‘Come in and look at this.’ Then you’re bootstrapping things on top. It’s not right, and there’s a lot of friction, usually,” said Kirupa Pushparaj, CLO of Mews.
Tight collaboration between in-house legal and product design and marketing teams is of necessity in the technology space, where innovation often outpaces legal precedent and regulatory fiat.
But some of these companies offer lessons applicable across all industries for streamlining their product releases and improving adoption by end-users.
One corporate legal department that’s sought to harmonize disparate teams to that end is Boston-based LinkSquares, which develops AI-powered contract life-cycle management tools for in-house legal and other corporate departments.
