The former top lawyer for Bark.co and an ex-in-house legal leader for Sotheby’s, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Scholastic Inc. has joined estate planning tech startup Vanilla as general counsel. 

Karen Nachbar announced in a LinkedIn post that she’d decided to “return to GC life with one of my clients,” after having most recently founded a solo private practice advising e-commerce and tech companies.