The Legal Department of the Future: Developing a Legal Ops Team

Moneet Kohli is an attorney with more than a decade's experience in discovery and litigation management. As product evangelist for Logikcull, she is responsible for Logikcull's video and podcast initiatives—and is always looking to connect with innovators changing the practice of law. 

As director of legal support at Veolia, Katie Lynch relies on her more than 14 years of in-house legal experience to manage the litigation portfolios of Veolia’s four North American business groups. In that role, Lynch is responsible for discovery, litigation holds, and records management and has pioneered innovative strategies for reducing data, speeding discovery, and collaborating with outside counsel as part of a nimble, strategic in-house legal team.

Julie has more than 30 years of experience across multiple industries. She’s been a coder, a book editor, an international trade expert and an entrepreneur.  Her current focus is on driving innovation in the legal
ecosystem of a hypergrowth Silicon Beach tech startup that she helped build.

Jolene Yee, Vice President and General Counsel of Delicato Family Vineyards, leads a small but fierce Legal Department, including alcohol beverage trade practices compliance. Her practice encompasses all aspects of winery operations, including legal strategy, M&A, domestic and cross-border commercial transactions, trademark, employment counseling, policy analysis and development, and general corporate representation. Prior to joining Delicato, she spent over a decade advising E. & J. Gallo Winery, the world’s largest winery, following a short stint with a tech firm in the Silicon Valley and a slightly longer stint as a Foreign Legal Consultant representing American and European clients in general business matters and acquisitions of financially distressed companies with a large law firm in Seoul, Korea.

Jolene is a member of the Professional Faculty for the Sonoma State University Global Executive MBA in Wine Business, and is a member of the team who developed the innovative and experiential curriculum that includes a hybrid of online learning and residential intensives.

Jolene holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal and more recently served on the Hastings Employer Advisory Counsel. She was previously an adjunct instructor at Hastings.

Jolene has a history of supporting women in education and in business, and in building programs at work that help support, mentor, and advance women in the workplace. She strongly believes that a more diverse leadership means a more successful company, and is a founding member and Chair Emeritus of the Delicato Women’s Leadership Initiative.

Jolene lives in Napa, California with her husband John, two children, large lab Moonshine, and a couple chickens. When she’s not working, teaching, or chasing her two kids, you’ll likely find her having a glass of rose with her husband or writing music with her band The Sirens.