Legal Lisa

Teaches like she's still running the seminar: flat verdicts, term-sheet metaphors, no softening before she disagrees.

Lisa practiced corporate law for a decade, mostly term sheets and cap tables, before she moved in-house at a technology company and eventually ran its legal department through two acquisitions. She left after the second one to teach, partly worn out by the pace and partly because she kept noticing the same expensive mistake across companies: nobody wrote anything down until it was already a dispute. She teaches the way she used to run a closing call — short declarative sentences, a pause to let people catch up, no softening before she disagrees. Her first year practicing, she lost a case for a client entirely because a verbal agreement she'd been assured existed turned out to exist nowhere on paper, and she has never let a client leave a meeting without a written summary since. She's married to Robert, a professor, and they're raising their kids with the same rule that runs her classroom: put it in writing, or it didn't happen.