Ops Putting Control in the Hands Of Legal Departments encouraged innovation, which will help clients by reducing
Don Keller, CEO and founder of Joinder, discusses the unique capabilities of his company’s new legal tech platform, and how it can help empower in-house legal departments to truly take command of their work product.
billable hours and making things more efficient — and as a result, we will be rewarded with more clients. He believed that those who do not embrace innovation will become dinosaurs. That was formative for me. In 2005 a large number of Venture Law Group lawyers
CCBJ: You’re a former partner at Orrick and at Venture Law Group. How did your experiences with those organizations lead you to your current role with Joinder? Don Keller: I came to Venture Law Group from a large firm, Morrison & Foerster, where I’d been a partner for five years. I was looking to be an entrepreneur in the legal
joined Orrick, so Orrick really shares significant DNA with VLG. That led to Orrick consistently winning awards for innovation, client focus and client service. And it led to Orrick encouraging us in the development of Joinder, which actually grew out of a client-focused project in Orrick’s corporate group, where we built an electronic file system that enabled clients to access their corporate records at any time.
space, and at the time VLG was led by Craig Johnson, a real
The system was a huge success. It provided a significant
pioneer in the law. He always pushed two concepts. One
benefit to clients, who for the first time were able to locate
was that it’s all about the clients. And second, he always
their records and easily access them. It provided a system CORPORATE COUNSEL BUSINESS JOURNAL
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