Jessica Nguyen is the Deputy General Counsel of AI Innovation and Trust at Docusign, the market leader in e-signature and intelligent agreements. Her role at Docusign focuses on building AI technology that actually solves pain points and ensuring that the technology is built responsibly. She’s formerly the Chief Legal Officer of Lexion, the AI-powered legal intake and contract lifecycle management system, which was acquired by Docusign in May 2024.



She has an extensive in-house legal career at innovative tech companies of various sizes and stages and has been the first legal hire that built out the legal function of a company 3 times. Prior to Docusign and Lexion, she was the General Counsel and first in-house attorney of PayScale, a Microsoft Office 365 attorney, and the first in-house attorney at Avalara.



Jessica is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and is an award-winning General Counsel, including, the: 2023 Washington State Bar Association Legal Innovation Award, 2020 “Startup GC of the Year” by Corporate Counsel magazine, 2019 Top 100 Legal Influencers by The Business Journals, 2019 Best Under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and 2018 Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40.