With a background at tech companies, Mary O’Carroll met with around 40 people before she was finally convinced to join Goodwin in August 2024. Before joining she needed to believe that the partnership was truly bought into the change she wanted to enact. ‘I had no interest in running or simply scaling a law firm. I want to disrupt a law firm,’ she explains. O’Carroll spent 13 years at Google where she cut her teeth and built the tech giant’s legal operations team. Here, she embraced the ‘move fast and break things ethos’ of the West-coast tech culture that she is now putting in action at Goodwin. ‘At Goodwin, it’s a culture of continuous improvement, launch and iteration,’ she says, ‘We want to move fast, whereas I think some firms just aren’t ready for that mindset.’
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