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Olga V. Mack

(She/Her)
San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, Silicon Valley
As seen in: Medium, MSN, Forbes, Newsweek, Stanford University, TechCrunch, Flipboard, VentureBeat, Corporate Counsel, Legaltech News and
Covers:  I cover contracts, AI and data governance, legal operations, institutional design, and risk allocation, focusing on how legal systems allocate power and shape decisions under uncertainty.
Doesn't Cover: I do not cover breaking legal news, litigation reporting, consumer legal advice, celebrity law, or purely academic legal theory disconnected from real-world decision-making.
CEO and tech lawyer. I build legal systems for real life. Power, trust, and decision-making under uncertainty.
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When Edge Cases Become Everyday: Lessons from Waymo and the Limits of Legal Forecasting| Law.com

When Edge Cases Become Everyday: Lessons from Waymo and the Limits of Legal Forecasting| Law.com

Edge cases are no longer statistical outliers. In complex environments, they are inevitable. And when they oc…

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From Cost Center to Command Center: The Future of Litigation is Being Built In-House | Stanford L...

From Cost Center to Command Center: The Future of Litigation is Being Built In-House | Stanford L...

Litigation isn't going away, but who leads, drafts, and drives it is rapidly changing. Empirical research sho…

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How AI Broke Traditional Contract Workflows and Made Analytics Essential| Law.com

How AI Broke Traditional Contract Workflows and Made Analytics Essential| Law.com

Contract review queues backed up. Escalations increased. Turnaround times stretched. Legal ops leaders found …

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Who Owns Your Digital Twin? Not You-and Here's Why That's a Massive Problem

Who Owns Your Digital Twin? Not You-and Here's Why That's a Massive Problem

Right now, after you click "I agree," companies face almost no legal limits on what they can do with your per…

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Politicized "Gig Economy" May Make Changing Status Quo More Difficult | TechCrunch

Politicized "Gig Economy" May Make Changing Status Quo More Difficult | TechCrunch

The so-called "sharing economy," which some affectionately (or pejoratively) describe as the "gig economy," i…

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Bridging The Gap: Why In-House Counsel Must Be Fluent In Both AI And The Law - Above the Law

Bridging The Gap: Why In-House Counsel Must Be Fluent In Both AI And The Law - Above the Law

Reviewing AI systems only at the end of development is too late.

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Emojis and Visual Literacy: A Guide for Lawyers

Emojis and Visual Literacy: A Guide for Lawyers

Emojis can be funny, but they also can be used in court to prove a crime was committed. Olga V. Mack, CEO of …

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'AI Is A Public Health Intervention': Kara Peterson On Why Access To Law Is A Justice Issue, Not ...

'AI Is A Public Health Intervention': Kara Peterson On Why Access To Law Is A Justice Issue, Not ...

Legal tech can not only intervene to reduce time or cost but also to reduce the harm of delayed understanding.

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Big Tech Is Undermining Democracy. This Ukrainian American Has Had Enough

Big Tech Is Undermining Democracy. This Ukrainian American Has Had Enough

The justified backlash against tech giants here in Silicon Valley is a visceral reaction to the ongoing attac…

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INSIGHT: General Counsel Advising in Unfamiliar Areas-Collaboration is Key

INSIGHT: General Counsel Advising in Unfamiliar Areas-Collaboration is Key

Sixty-four percent of general counsels are giving more guidance on unfamiliar business opportunities and unfa…

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Thanks for Your Lawsuit. Let's Keep Talking About Women on Corporate Boards

Thanks for Your Lawsuit. Let's Keep Talking About Women on Corporate Boards

Judicial Watch is suing California for requiring female representation on corporate boards, and I'm feeling g…

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Software developers need an independent ethics body

Software developers need an independent ethics body

This piece argues that software developers routinely face ethically questionable requests and have almost no …

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