Cecily M. Lard

I am a Legal Operations professional with 5+ years of experience building and running legal operations functions from the ground up. I currently serve as the legal operations owner at a multi-state proptech company, managing several active commercial agreements, 20+ corporate entities across four states, and outside counsel relationships across 10 firms, all without a dedicated team. My expertise spans the full legal operations lifecycle, contract review, drafting, and negotiation, corporate governance and entity compliance, outside counsel and spend management, AI-powered workflow automation, and cross-functional training and stakeholder enablement. I have reduced contract turnaround time by 35% and document retrieval time by 60% through CLM redesign and AI implementation. I am a daily user of AI tools including Spellbook and Claude, not as a novelty but as operational infrastructure that makes legal teams faster and more effective. I am seeking fully remote Legal Operations, Contracts, or Paralegal roles with tech-forward, mission-driven organizations in the $85K–$100K range. I am available immediately and bring a builder's mindset. I do not just maintain what exists, I make it better.