Steve Harmon, general counsel of Elevate Services.
“When I was under the gun, I found myself leaning toward saying, ‘Let’s suck this up and use this [outside firm] again,’” said Elevate founder and executive chairman Liam Brown. He said Elevate's general counsel, Steve Harmon, gave him the nudge he needed to use Elevate's software to unbundle legal work in a high-pressure M&A and close the deal on time and under budget.
February 22, 2019 at 01:55 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Corporate Counsel
As founder and executive chairman of Los Angeles-based legal services and technology company Elevate Services Inc., Liam Brown is in the business of helping legal departments leverage tech to streamline transactions and reduce costs.
Yet when Brown was faced with ballooning invoices from outside counsel and a high-pressure 30-day deadline to close Elevate’s acquisition of Yerra Solutions earlier this year, his knee-jerk reaction was to turn back to outside counsel for help.
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