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The single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health. Yet it is ignored by most leaders even though it is simple, free, and available to anyone who wants it.
— Patrick Lencioni,
A good leader doesn’t just marginally improve a team’s performance; a good leader can add an order of magnitude to a team’s results.
— Tom Peters & Robert Waterman, In Search of Excellence
The greatest waste in America is failure to use the abilities of people.
— W. Edwards Deming,
If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.
— Linus Pauling,

ABOUT:

JAY D. HULL

Jay D. Hull is a recognized leader in legal innovation and change management. His focus is on deploying people, processes, and technologies that help his clients work more efficiently, at less cost, and with greater impact.

Jay most recently served as Chief Innovation Partner for Davis Wright Tremaine and was the founding partner and leader of the firm’s innovation initiative, DWT De Novo. Under Jay’s leadership, Davis Wright Tremain was named, “Innovative Law Firm of the Year” by the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) an unprecedented two times in a row in 2015 and 2016.

Having served as in-house counsel for many years, Jay understands the pressures faced by in-house legal teams. It’s with this understanding and his many years practicing as a business transactions lawyer in the technology field that Jay looks for creative solutions to clients’ business and legal challenges.

As an attorney, Jay has negotiated deals worth more than $5 billion in recent years, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and commercial agreements, with particular focus on telecommunication and technology transactions.

Education

  • B.A. Reed College 1978
  • M.A. University of Chicago Divinity School 1979
  • J.D. Lewis and Clark Law School 1984

Experience

  • Chief Innovation Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine 2013 – 2017
  • Davis Wright Tremaine 2003 – 2017
  • Assistant General Counsel XO Communications 1998 – 2003
  • Davis Wright Tremaine 1987 – 1998
  • Keynote Speaker “Legal Tech and Innovation Summit”, London, England 2017
  • ILTACon “Thought Leader”, 2017
  • Keynote Speaker “Legal Innovation and Tech Fest”, Melbourne, Australia 2016
  • ILTACon Planning Committee, 2015 – 2016

SERVICES:

Law Firm and Law Department Support Services

Process Improvement and Efficiency Assessments
Solution Design and Implementation
Developing a Culture of Innovation
Organizational Health
Team and Leadership Development

Direct Legal Services

Outside General Counsel
Telecommunications Infrastructure Transactions and Commercial Contracts
Contact Jay Today!

MEDIA:

What is Design Thinking?

How can design thinking help lawyers improve the way we serve clients? As John Alber explains in his article (on page 42), design thinking is:

A human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s toolkit to integrate the need of people, the possibilities of technology and the requirements for business success.

For lawyers intent on improving service, this process begins by thinking about what clients really want, need and value, and then deliberately building service delivery around that input. Read More.

‘We are constantly in an adversarial state’

On Sunday, the Times published a harrowing account of a Silicon Valley attorney who dies of a bacterial infection connected to intravenous drug use. The article, which is titled “The Lawyer, The Addict” and unfolds as a first person narrative written by the attorney’s ex-wife, is a compelling and tragic read.

It is also an indictment of the high stress, antagonistic culture that defines many corporate law practices.

A few months ago I wrote this package story about Oregon law firms and how they are adapting to market, technology and demographic trends. So I was particularly interested in the Times article. I called a few attorneys to get their reaction. Read More.

BLOG:

What in the World is “Organizational Health”?

In his book, The Advantage, business consultant and author Patrick Lencioni writes: “The single greatest...Read More
August 14, 2017

RESOURCES:

Here are links to some of the firms, companies and thought leaders I really like and pay attention to:

International Legal Technology Association

Dan Katz

Ralph Baxter

CodeX

EvolveLaw

David Curle

Katie Debord and her colleagues at Bryan Cave

Have any questions?

Contact Jay today.

(503) 703-0900

jay@jaydhull.com