What the business wants from legal in 2023

What do business leaders want from their legal team? We decided to ask them. Top-level executives from Trustpilot, Cazoo, GoCardless, USV and more share their thoughts on how legal can enable them to do their best work.

Download now

What's inside?

C-suite leaders with experience at companies like Trustpilot, Cazoo, GoCardless, Funding Circle, and more share their thoughts on what makes a strong legal team, what they expect from their legal colleagues - and how to avoid poor collaboration.

Intro

What does the business need from legal?

Michael Haynes, General Counsel at Juro, introduces this eBook with a look at the ever-evolving legal role, and the things he's learned from his experience at scaleups like Cazoo, RVU and Zoopla Group.

Michael Haynes

General Counsel at Juro

Find out more

Heading

×
Chapter 1

How legal can enable sales

One of many tasks that may fall into legal’s in-tray include enabling sales to close deals faster. How can lawyers get started? In this section we get the latest from leaders in high-powered sales teams at Funnel and Farewill, to learn about what they really want from legal.

James Ireson

Chief Revenue Officer at Funnel

Jenny Zhao

hief Operating Officer at Farewill

Find out more

Heading

×
Chapter 2

How legal can enable finance

Legal and finance often end up working closely together at a high-growth scaleup - especially when it comes to funding rounds, contracts, and negotiations with customers or merchants. How can legal empower finance to work as effectively as possible? We asked CFOs at GoCardless and Topi.

Catherine Birkett

Chief Financial Officer at GoCardless

Keji Ajayi

Chief Financial Officer at Topi

Find out more

Heading

×
Chapter 3

How legal can enable marketing

Marketing teams at scaling businesses need to move fast - so what can in-house lawyers do to support them? We quizzed marketing leaders with experience at Cognism and Spendesk on their thoughts around effective legal and marketing collaboration.

Alice de Courcy

Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism

Stephanie Bowker

CMO at Defacto

Find out more

Heading

×
Chapter 4

How legal can enable people and talent

As the business grows, they ramp up hiring. More hires equal more contracts - and that’s just one area where legal and people & talent work together. What other projects do they collaborate on? And what do people & talent professionals at world-class businesses, like Truspilot and Cazoo, want from legal?

Donna Murray Vilhelmsen

Chief People Officer at Trustpilot

Veronica Sharma

Former Group Chief People Officer at Cazoo

Find out more

Heading

×
Chapter 5

How legal can enable engineering

Behind every SaaS scaleup, there’s a product and engineering team, working tirelessly to build the best product for their customers. How can legal enable engineering to work more efficiently? And what does that collaboration look like?

Mark Flowers

Chief Technology Officer at Juro

Find out more

Heading

×
Chapter 6

How legal can enable investors and the Board

Legal teams sit at the heart of most funding rounds - managing relationships between founders, the wider business, and of course investors and the Board. What do investors at Eight Roads and Union Square Ventures expect from legal at a scaling business? Find out in this section.

Alston Zecha

Partner at Eight Roads

John Buttrick

Partner at Union Squares Ventures (USV)

Find out more

Heading

×
Chapter 7

How legal can enable the CEO

What impact can legal have on the top-level execs of the business? We asked the CEOs at Super Payments, Yoto and Juro. In this section, they share their top tips on how legal can enable them to scale their businesses successfully.

Ben Drury

Co-founder and CEO at Yoto

Samir Desai

Founder and CEO of Super Payments

Richard Mabey

CEO and co-founder of Juro

Find out more

Heading

×

Your privacy at a glance

Hello. We are Juro Online Limited (known by humans as Juro). Here's a summary of how we protect your data and respect your privacy.

Read the full policy
(no legalese, we promise)