Legal practitioner,
before Pills.
I learned to produce law in private practice. And to make it work in-house.
These are not
the same job.
In private practice, the priority goes to the quality of the advice and of the legal work. That is the craft, and it is demanding.
In-house, a second responsibility appears: making the function work. Absorbing requests, prioritising, allocating, documenting, retrieving, measuring, reporting, equipping the team, automating what can be. And protecting legal judgment everywhere it is needed.
That second problem is what led to Pills.
Four things,
seen from the inside.
The law is usually not the problem.
Legal teams know how to do legal work. What jams is almost always around it: how requests come in, how they get prioritised, how contracts move, how knowledge gets found again.
What you cannot see, you cannot steer.
Volumes, workload, turnaround, costs, request types. Without that data, prioritising, allocating and improving are guesswork. And proving what the function actually produces is impossible.
The tools are often already there.
Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, the CRM, the ERP, sometimes a CLM already signed. Before adding a tool, we look at what the existing stack can already do. We don’t buy, we architect. And we take no commission on anything we recommend.
Everything is connected. Not everything needs rebuilding.
A tool problem is often a process problem. A process problem often starts at intake. A reporting problem often starts with data nobody captures. We look at the whole, then we step in where the leverage is highest.
That is where
Pills. came from.
Not to add a layer of consulting on top of legal. Today, we design the system that lets legal work.
Process. Tools. Data. Knowledge. Automation. People. Not as separate topics. As one system.
From practising law
to operating it.
- 2011-2015 · 2018-2020Private practice
Matters in heavily regulated sectors: pharmaceuticals, medical devices, cosmetics, e-health. Legal craft and rigour. I also moved early to flat fees rather than billable hours.
- 2015-2018In-house legal
The function held single-handedly, with no team. Everything went through me. That is where I saw the gap between producing law and making it usable. The tools were missing. So were the indicators.
- 2020 →Pills.
Building the system that was missing between the two.
- 15+years in law
- 30+structuring engagements
- 3territories: Europe, Middle East, Africa
The full CV lives on LinkedIn. What matters here is what each role taught.
Reach me,
directly.
The first conversation is with me. So is the engagement.