Mistakes I made as a legal leader (and how to avoid them)
In-house legal leadership has a critical role to play for legal teams to create positive impact within a business. But taking on a leadership role can be more difficult than you might think. And, let’s be honest, most of us don’t like to dwell on our mistakes. But learning from times when we haven’t performed at our best is a hugely valuable resource to become better. Mark Kahn is an incredibly experienced lawyer, with in-house experience with the likes of WhatsApp, Yahoo and Segment. And having taken on important leadership roles during his career, Mark’s no stranger to the challenges that leadership responsibilities present. In fact, Mark has a very refreshing take on his past experiences. And in today’s conversation, he openly shares the mistakes he made as a legal leader - as well as how he went on the overcome them - and thrive, in future roles.
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Mark Kahn is a tech lawyer with over two decades of experience. As Deputy General Counsel of WhatsApp, he then led Segment's legal function as General Counsel and VP of Policy, steering the $3.2 billion acquisition by Twilio. A graduate of Berkeley Law, he now works at Protégé Search and co-founded the Oakland Ballers. He speaks at the Silicon Valley In-House Counsel Summit on ethics and legal scaling in tech companies.
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