What if Tariffs Go Away – or Don’t? Navigating Uncertainty with Contract Intelligence (Presented by Above the Law)

Portfolio of experience includes industry mergers and acquisitions, contract drafting and negotiating of all forms, government license and permit management, business operations counsel, new business lines, new market entry, geopolitical risk management, regulatory compliance counsel and enforcement defense, claims, and dispute resolution.

Hal studied law at the University of Michigan Law School and is a licensed attorney. His combination of legal practice, in-house general counsel service, and product leadership underpins his work translating complex legal technology for corporate, government, and law firm audiences.

At DocuSign, Hal served as the company's Global Legal Evangelist and acted as subject-matter expert for the launches of Docusign Click and Remote Online Notarization. He briefed senior Capitol Hill staff in Washington, D.C. in support of the passage of the 21st Century IDEA Act. Earlier, as EVP and General Counsel of LiveNote, he opened the company's new San Francisco headquarters, recruited its first COO, devised a licensing strategy that secured control over a key IP portfolio, and helped the company acquire a top competitor.

Hal is a frequent presence in the legal technology community, having delivered hundreds of webinars, user conference sessions, advisory board briefings, podcast episodes, and industry presentations over the course of his career. He has advised general counsel, law firms, and government agencies on eSignature legality, and he writes regularly for industry publications. His podcast, Meeting of the Minds — The Legal AI Podcast, is available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.

Hal joined Workday through its acquisition of Evisort, the pioneering AI-native contract intelligence and lifecycle management provider, where he was VP of Product Marketing. At Workday, he led product marketing for Workday Contract Management — including Workday Contract Lifecycle Management and Contract Intelligence, powered by Evisort AI — guiding Evisort's post-acquisition assimilation into Workday and its global go-to-market expansion. In his current role, he leads product marketing for Workday AI agents, including solutions leveraging Workday CLM and Flowise.

Before Workday, Hal spent more than four years at DocuSign as Senior Director of Product Marketing, holding progressive leadership roles across AI, security, and admin products and the ISV ecosystem, leading go-to-market strategy for the acquisition of Seal Software, and launching Docusign Insight, Monitor, and Analyzer. Earlier, he headed product marketing for legal and security products at OpenText, covering Recommind and Guidance Software following their acquisitions, including the EnCase forensics suite, and consulted with litigators and litigation-support teams from AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 500 companies as a litigation consultant with Evolve Discovery (now FRONTEO).

Hal's earlier career includes eight years with Thomson Reuters, where he was VP of Product Management & Marketing for litigation products and, prior to the acquisition, EVP and General Counsel of LiveNote, a leading adopted litigation software provider. He also held sales and business development leadership roles at Law.com (American Lawyer Media), LegaLink (now Merrill Legal Solutions), iCyte, and LexisNexis, where he managed a 27-person team selling across nine law schools, including Stanford and UC Berkeley Law. He began his career as a litigation attorney at Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon in New York, practicing IP and antitrust litigation for the firm's top client team and drafting appellate briefs, pleadings, and jury instructions.