I ended up at EY Japan in their forensics investigation support, and now I’m at JERA where I head up the first legal ops team, one of the few in Japan for a large corporation.

I didn’t have the ability to communicate effectively, to deal with high amounts of stress, to see myself, my worth and value. The more I spoke to my peers, I realized there was a whole raft of lawyers who were feeling the same.

I have the opportunity to kind of do over and CLM and AI tools allow me to thrive in this chapter of my life where I'm balancing my career and my family.

It’s the people who don't know anything about legal that usually hate working with legal. But that doesn't need to be the case.

I knew I wanted to help represent others, speak the language and try to help people just like my family, navigate the legal system.

I knew I was a better lawyer than those getting promoted above me. I realized that I needed to really change things if I was going to move ahead and be a better asset to my clients.

I wanted to bring my successes and thinking to a wider audience. I wanted to get other lawyers thinking, “how can you have maximum impact?"

I needed a break from the corporate environment. I've made so many connections throughout the years and even though I'm not an attorney, I do have a lot of experience, especially with contracts.

Individual businesses all have slightly different problems, but everyone has process inefficiencies. And all of this got me very interested in transformation and innovation.

I had the opportunity to work with Lyft as they launched across the US and that was the first time I started to think as a lawyer.