Full Name
Jason Winmill
Job Title
Chair
Company
Buying Legal Council
Speaker Bio
Jason is the Chair of the Buying Legal Council (BLC), a global educational organization for in-house legal professionals, law firms, and other legal service providers. He leads the BLC in providing education and knowledge-sharing to in-house legal and procurement teams on best practices for buying legal services and legal technology. Jason is also Managing Partner of Argopoint, where he has extensive experience advising general counsels and corporate legal departments on their most important management challenges. He has supported a range of industries, including healthcare, technology, retail, consumer products, financial services, media, manufacturing, insurance, education, non-profits, and utilities.

Jason has worked with some of the world’s largest legal departments to optimize their legal technology and processes, manage law firm relationships, and provide high-impact insights from benchmarking. Jason has been the “outside architect” of law firm partnering panel programs at many of the largest legal department in the United States and EMEA – optimizing the use of thousands of law firms. His groundbreaking programs improved quality and established industry models for outside counsel management programs and RFPs. Jason’s work spans litigation, commercial law, intellectual property (patents and trademarks, copyright, etc.), employment, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, government investigations, compliance, privacy, eDiscovery, claims defense, and regulatory law.

Jason's pioneering work has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case on legal efficiency, and he was recognized as a legal services business authority in a whitepaper commissioned by the American Bar Association. Jason’s work and insights have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The ACC Docket, and more.
Jason is an honors graduate of Harvard College and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Jason Winmill