
Donovan Bell
Senior Director, Head of Global Legal Operations at Intel; CLOC board member; legal ops transformation leader with 20+ years in operational excellence across Fortune 500 companies.
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Jun 11, 2026
You Can’t Buy Maturity: Legal Ops from Startup to Global Scale | Legal Soundings EP10
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Donovan BellGUEST
heard our new leader, Perna Bawa, who's our head of chief legal and people, had made a statement that really stood out to me in terms of If people aren't asking questions of you, you know, then then you have to question your value.

Donovan BellGUEST
So so, you know, getting pulled into, you know, product go to market conversations, you know, before a crisis, not after, you know, is is is really a key there, you know.

Donovan BellGUEST
reusing instead of reinventing, right? So can you know, are there things that we already have established? But when I first came into the company, my focus was around this area of contracts.

Kevin ClemHOST
So how should legal leaders think about whether initiatives are just adding maturity to the function or just yet another piece of tech?