What are some of your proudest achievements from the past year? In addition to the near completion of the first year of Weil Legal Innovators Program, and the subsequent launch of the second year of the program, my team and I also helped launch the Summer of Service Program, placing 130 Weil summer associates across 50+ nonprofit organizations as seconded volunteers for a four-week period. This program helped nonprofits organizations across the U.S. gain critical resources and human capital they needed during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the summer of racial reckoning.

What, if any, obstacles stood in the way of your innovation, and how did you overcome them? One of the greatest obstacles in the way of my innovation has been related to stakeholder buy-in, and in particular, helping to educate senior leaders, including attorneys and administrative staff, as to the vision for the Weil Legal Innovators Program, and how the program can help to benefit the firm and the future of the legal profession. I have overcome those challenges by engaging senior leaders in the development of the program—ensuring that they have a window into the process, and are included in important decisions relevant to the program and its overall success.