Update on Nov. 9:  Want more about Amy Sellars? Read “5 Questions for Amy Sellars: Walmart Legal Dives into Artificial Intellegence, Innovation, and e-Discovery.” It’s on Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute.  – Monica Bay.

AMY SELLARS: WOMEN OF LEGAL TECH (Legaltech News: ALM.)

Amy Sellars is lead counsel in the Discovery Operations Group for Walmart Legal, with roots in off-Broadway theater. She learned how to work with people above her level — with grace,  which helped her rise as she became a lawyer.

“Passion for your work doesn’t mean you’re ’emotional'” says Sellars in ALM’s Legaltech News August 29 “Women of Legal Tech” series.  Read it here.

CODEX EXTRAS

Here are three bonus questions exclusive to CodeX:

Dress codes?  Read your surroundings. You know you will be judged. So, whatever you decide, be ready to disregard the judgment. I stick with basics most of the time, but I have some pieces that scream “girls just want to have fun (damental rights).”  Cyndi Lauper, singer songwriter.

Favorite charities:  Code for America, (disclosure, founded by my sister) and which goes right to the heart of improving citizen interaction with government through technology, especially for the disenfranchised.

Favorite vacation venue:  Ocean Grove, New Jersey. It’s a family tradition, the town is fantastic, and you can walk to the Asbury Park boardwalk where “Bret Bret the Yoga Man” teaches yoga on the beach and the pinball museum lets you play all the best machines from the past eight decades of pinball.

Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX. She is also a freelance journalist (Alchemizing Law LLC with Sean Doherty). Bay is a member of the California Bar. Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu. Twitter: @MonicaBay.

Photo: Courtesy of Amy Sellars.
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