Daniel Doktori Contributor More posts by this contributor What It Means When Law Firms And Startups Give Away Legal Documents Why Startups Hire Their Own Lawyers In a working environment obsessed with metrics dashboards, key performance indicators, and objectives and key results, the legal function presents an elusive target. Compared to sales, marketing and product, “legal” in a growing tech company can seem an inaccessible alchemy of risk, contracting and policy. But interviews with general counsels at tech companies and a survey conducted by TechGC — a private community of top lawyers at technology companies across the United States — reveal how innovative in-house attorneys measure both productivity and quality and position their teams as central to advancing enterprise-wide goals. The Status Quo Legal lags behind other departments in the metrics game.