Lucy Bassli
Lucy Bassli is an attorney, author of CLM Simplified and The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation, and Founder and Principal of InnoLaw Group.
Previously, Lucy was a former Assistant General Counsel of Legal Operations and Contracting at Microsoft. While at Microsoft, she redefined how legal work is done and created one of the first managed service engagements with a law firm. She was tapped to teach the Legal Operations course for Suffolk University Law School’s Legal Innovation & Technology Certificate Program. Lucy has a partnership with Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, to deliver operations consulting to corporate legal departments.
Lucy is a highly sought-after legal industry expert who works with corporate legal departments and law firms on legal service delivery, automation, smart risk-taking and alternative resourcing models. She educates and consults with lawyers to take best practices in the legal industry to a new level. Lucy is also a strategy advisor for LawGeex, an AI legal start-up that automates contract review services.
Professional Associations:
COLPM, Liquid Legal Institute, Suffolk Law Certification Lecturer
Guest Lecturer at the Following Law Schools:
Contributed Chapters to Industry Books:
- “Relationship Management Redefined Through Data” in Horizon Scanning: Modernizing Legal Service Delivery, 2020
- “Selling Innovation to Clients – You can’t sell what you don’t understand” in Business Development for a New Legal Ecosystem, 2020
- “Shifting Client Expectations: Morphing Law Firms into Managed Services Providers” in Liquid Legal: Transforming Legal into a Business Savvy, Information Enabled and Performance Driven Industry, 2017
- “Legal operations – Moving innovation from the back office to the front” in Building the Law Department of Tomorrow, 2017
- “Forward: Reinventing the Legal Profession to Advance Women in Law” in Liquid Legal: Towards a Common Legal Platform, 2020