Laurie Ehrlich is Chief Legal Officer at Dioptra, the most accurate and reliable AI-powered contract review tool, trusted by in-house teams and law firms. Laurie has a passion for creation and transformation. She focuses on creating value and better solutions for her business partners through cross-functional and intradepartmental collaboration while protecting against potential risks. Prior to joining Dioptra, she was Chief Commercial Counsel at Datadog, where she implemented processes and technology to scale better and close contracts faster. Earlier in her career, Laurie realized her passion for legal operations and established the Legal Operations function at Cognizant so that she could focus on her passion projects, knowledge management and process optimization to drive more efficient legal support for commercial transactions powered by common sense and data analytics. Prior to running the LegalOps function at Cognizant, Laurie was Chief Counsel for Cognizant’s North America Insurance vertical where she served as a business-savvy, trusted advisor to her business teams and a mentor for many of Cognizant’s junior attorneys. Laurie also served as the Executive Sponsor for Women of Datadog and the NYC Regional Lead for Cognizant's Women Empowered. Before going in-house, Laurie was the first US intellectual property specialist at Allen & Overy after starting her career on the IP team at Schulte, Roth, and Zabel. Laurie received her J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.S. from Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations, where she focused on organizational behavior.