Marty Finestone
I’m a lawyer, legal designer, artist, playlist-maker, husband, and dad.
My work combines 15+ years of legal practice together with a background in technology, operations, and legal design to help legal departments simplify, innovate, and thrive. Over my legal career, I have worked in government, in-house and at a national and then international law firm.
As the head of Legal Adjacency, I help legal departments thrive by doing more with less.
MORE ABOUT MARTY
- Law Society of Ontario – Member of the Bar, 2005 call
- Legal Creatives, Certified Legal Design Expert Practitioner, 2021
- IBM – Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner, 2021
- Legal Creatives – Legal Design UX Research certification, 2021
- Legal Creatives – Visual Contracts By Design certification, 2021
- Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC)
- Plain Language Association International (PLAIN)
- World Commerce & Contracting
- Canadian Bar Association
- Legal Operators
- International Business Communications Standards
- Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion – individual practitioner
- I love, love, love, listening to music, going to live shows, crate digging, and collecting records.
- I hosted and produced a couple of live radios shows during my undergraduate days. Even better, my daughter and I co-hosted a live how when she was 5 and 6.
- The first website that I designed, which was hardcoded in HTML, was done in 1994.
- I built the Legal Adjacency website myself.
- I think Lego is one of the best inventions ever.
- I love houseplants and ice-cream cake.
- Hockey and Formula 1 racing are the sports that I follow.
- Some people might think that I have too many sneakers. Others, might think that I don’t have enough.
- Business and commercial advice
- Contract drafting and negotiation
- Technology and IP licensing
- Cross-border commercial arrangements
- Sales channel agreements and arrangements
- Value-added reseller arrangements
- White-label/private-label arrangements
- Service agreements
- Joint-ventures
- Technology contracting
- Software development agreements
- Source code escrow
- Complex confidentiality arrangements
- Privacy (private sector)
- Outsourcing and managed services arrangements
- Company formation
- Intercompany agreements and indemnification
- Corporate governance
- M&A
- Negotiation strategy
- Early and mid-stage financing
- Institutional reputation matters
• Creative problem-solving
• Plain language contract translation/reformatting
• Contract visualization
• Contract simplification
• Strategy design and implementation
• Coming up with ideas, lots of ideas
• Legal project management
• Service design
• External legal cost containment
• Managing relationships with external counsel
• Change management
• New technology integration and implementation