Perfect timing, given the fascinating reporting in The New York Times about Amazon’s workplace culture, with some distressing tales about how women were treated after returning from devastating medical issues, such as delivering a stillborn child or enduring breast cancer.

For Bloomberg BNA’s Big Law Business, I’m doing a series of profiles of women in our legal technology arena (lawyers and other professionals). My second story went up yesterday. Lucy Bassli, a mom to three children, is assistant general counsel at Microsoft Corp.’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters, managing the company’s global contract repositories and supporting the process of e-signatures and storage.

Bassli was recently at Stanford for the American Bar Association-Stanford Law School National Summit on Innovation in Legal Services.

Her story is inspiring! Read it here!

(The first portrait was Julie Pearl).

Monica Bay is a CodeX Fellow and a member of the California Bar. She also is a freelance reporter for Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business. Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.  Twitter: @MonicaBay.