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Goodwin COO: ‘I want to disrupt not just scale a law firm’

Goodwin COO: ‘I want to disrupt not just scale a law firm’
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Will Lewallen
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5 December 2025
AI and techLeadership

When Goodwin’s Silicon Valley-based chief operating officer, Mary O’Carroll, first received a call about the firm she had no interest, dismissing law firms as ‘dinosaurs’.

With a background at tech companies including Google and IronClad, O’Carroll met with around 40 people before she was finally convinced to join Goodwin in August 2024. 

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