Sarena Straus, Outside General Counsel and Legal Innovation Consultant

Sarena Straus, Outside General Counsel and Legal Innovation Consultant

Counselling innovation

In-house counsel turned external consultant Sarena Straus talks to GC about her time founding an internal legal incubator at Boehringer Ingelheim and gives an outside perspective on how in-house teams can leverage innovation.

Not the usual route

I started my career as a prosecutor, working with government for several years before I accidentally fell into an in-house role. I started my in-house career as counsel at a mid-sized medical management company that was working off a technology-based platform. Because I’d worked there first as a lawyer, I got interested pretty early on in process optimisation and streamlining.

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