Marla Crawford may not have set out for the stars to align so that her role as general counsel at Cimplifi would be the perfect fit for her, but she says “it just happened this way.”

After 22 years working as a litigator at Jones Day, and another 11 as in-house counsel at Goldman Sachs, Crawford has seen the evolution of legal technology from many sides of the game—as a lawyer, a client, and since last year, a provider.