Open Door with Somya Kaushik
by Checkbox
Open Door is a podcast exploring the future of in-house legal leadership. Hosted by Somya Kaushik, each episode features candid conversations with general counsel, chief legal officers, legal operations leaders, and other executives shaping the modern legal function. Together, they discuss the decisions, challenges, and opportunities that come with leading through transformation, embracing new technologies, and building legal teams equipped for what's next.
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From Hollywood to Legal AI: Legora's Mark Allen on Courage, Identity, and the Future Lawyer
Mark Allen’s career is one most lawyers wouldn’t dare to plan. He went from Berkeley Law to the IP group at Fenwick & West, then quit to attend USC Film School and spent five years working on TV shows in Hollywood. Netflix then brought him into its legal department as it launched Original Film…
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Jasmine Singh: The Profession of Perfection
Jasmine Singh had a very specific picture of what a successful lawyer looks like: how one dresses, talks, persuades, leads. Then she built a career by letting most of that picture go. The General Counsel of Ironclad joins Somya to trace the pivots from BigLaw litigator to legal leader at one of...
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Ed Walters: The Blockbuster Model in a Netflix World
Ed Walters has lived several lives: White House speechwriter (he wrote the Presidential Medal of Freedom citations for Ella Fitzgerald and Johnny Carson), BigLaw lawyer, startup founder, law professor, and now Vice President of Legal Innovation & Strategy at Clio. In 1999, Ed left BigLaw to take…
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Welcome to Open Door
Open Door is a podcast for general counsel, chief legal officers, and legal ops leaders navigating change. Hosted by Somya Kaushik, Chief Legal Officer at Checkbox, each episode is an honest conversation about career pivots, fear, identity, and where the legal profession goes next. No scripts. No...
About this show
Open Door is a podcast exploring the future of in-house legal leadership.
Hosted by Somya Kaushik, each episode features candid conversations with general counsel, chief legal officers, legal operations leaders, and other executives shaping the modern legal function. Together, they discuss the decisions, challenges, and opportunities that come with leading through transformation, embracing new technologies, and building legal teams equipped for what's next.
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