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Lauren Ford
Legal Specialist with experience in agreements, risk, compliance, negotiation, and business enablement. Practical work includes Contract review, Legal research, Clause negotiation, Privileged document handling.
Experience
Applied Intuition
Sunnyvale · United States
Legal Specialist
Mar 2022 - now
- Reviewed commercial SaaS agreements with sales, separating acceptable fallback language from terms requiring approval; documented data-use, liability, and renewal positions before negotiating changes.
- Created a compliance handoff for contract commitments, identifying the operational owner and evidence needed for each obligation; surfaced a service commitment that the delivery team could not support.
- Reviewed a commercial agreement against the approved clause playbook, negotiated liability and data-use provisions, and explained unresolved legal risk to the business approver.
- Owned a commercial-agreements review using a clause matrix, resolved conflicting liability terms and completed the escalation memo for counsel approval.
- Designed a negotiating playbook from reviewed sales contracts, reduced repeat legal queries by 24% in a quarterly sample and published approved fallback language.
JPMorgan Chase
New York · United States
Legal Specialist
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
- Trained 85 commercial employees on claims, confidentiality, and escalation triggers. Prevented the same exception from recurring in the next review.
- Reconciled document versions and referenced exhibits before counsel review, marked privileged material for restricted handling, and checked filing or response deadlines against the case calendar.
- Prepared a chronology linking dated correspondence to the relevant agreement or case issue, identified a missing exhibit before counsel review, and requested the source document through the approved collection channel.
Selected project
Legal Specialist — independent case study
Project owner
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
- Implemented intake triage by value, data sensitivity, and nonstandard terms
- Used public sample agreements and invented correspondence to build a case chronology, marked unresolved facts and privilege questions, and linked every issue to the source paragraph instead of supplying an unsupported legal conclusion.
- Prepared a document index and citation-check log, tested a missing attachment and a superseded version, and kept review questions separate from the attorney’s final decision.
- Owned the public-record research exercise using verified citations, resolved an outdated authority reference and completed a source table separating facts from legal questions.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
Juris Doctor
Sep 2014 - Jun 2017
Relevant coursework: Contracts, civil procedure, legal research, professional responsibility
Skills
Role expertise
Contract review · Legal research · Clause negotiation · Privileged document handling
Publications
- Published an independent research-method note using public decisions, explaining citation checks, document provenance and the limits of non-advisory case summaries.

