Full Name
Rachel Dooley
Job Title
Chief Innovation Officer
Organization
Kirkland & Ellis
Speaker Bio
Rachel Dooley serves as Chief Innovation Officer at Kirkland & Ellis, helping to shape strategy around AI and the future of legal service delivery.
Prior to joining Kirkland, Ms. Dooley was Chief Innovation Officer at Goodwin, leading a multidisciplinary team on developing the firm’s strategies around Generative AI, the next generation of legal apprenticeship and the future of the office programs. Before Goodwin, Ms. Dooley served as the Global Managing Counsel of McKinsey Digital, a McKinsey & Company growth platform that delivers technology-enabled services to clients across all geographies, sectors and technology use cases. Rachel is an experience technology lawyer who is lit up by emerging technology - including quantum computing, AI, cloud infrastructure and transformation, and data and ethics - and taking a design thinking approach to complex problems. As a lawyer, Rachel regularly advised clients on cutting edge issues in emerging technology, including AI/ML and Cloud, and future-facing technology like Quantum Computing.
Rachel is passionate about Legal Design and how lawyers embedded in a business and technology problem create solutions. She founded and led McKinsey Legal Lab, a first-of-its-kind innovation incubator and accelerator for a global in-house legal department. She also co-founded McKinsey Digital’s Center of Risk Excellence, which focuses on agile risk management in technology. Previously, Ms. Dooley was an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Kenyon & Kenyon.
Rachel also is the founder and sole creative director for fashion accessories brand GEMMA REDUX. As a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) who has shown her designs at fashion weeks in New York, Milan and Paris, she is uniquely situated to counsel clients with both her legal and business experience. Rachel’s training in mechanical engineering and experience with complex technology transactions lends to my skills as a trusted thought partner and counselor.
In her free time, she makes anything that makes a mess – casted metals, resin jewelry, concrete furniture, and desserts with her kids.
Prior to joining Kirkland, Ms. Dooley was Chief Innovation Officer at Goodwin, leading a multidisciplinary team on developing the firm’s strategies around Generative AI, the next generation of legal apprenticeship and the future of the office programs. Before Goodwin, Ms. Dooley served as the Global Managing Counsel of McKinsey Digital, a McKinsey & Company growth platform that delivers technology-enabled services to clients across all geographies, sectors and technology use cases. Rachel is an experience technology lawyer who is lit up by emerging technology - including quantum computing, AI, cloud infrastructure and transformation, and data and ethics - and taking a design thinking approach to complex problems. As a lawyer, Rachel regularly advised clients on cutting edge issues in emerging technology, including AI/ML and Cloud, and future-facing technology like Quantum Computing.
Rachel is passionate about Legal Design and how lawyers embedded in a business and technology problem create solutions. She founded and led McKinsey Legal Lab, a first-of-its-kind innovation incubator and accelerator for a global in-house legal department. She also co-founded McKinsey Digital’s Center of Risk Excellence, which focuses on agile risk management in technology. Previously, Ms. Dooley was an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Kenyon & Kenyon.
Rachel also is the founder and sole creative director for fashion accessories brand GEMMA REDUX. As a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) who has shown her designs at fashion weeks in New York, Milan and Paris, she is uniquely situated to counsel clients with both her legal and business experience. Rachel’s training in mechanical engineering and experience with complex technology transactions lends to my skills as a trusted thought partner and counselor.
In her free time, she makes anything that makes a mess – casted metals, resin jewelry, concrete furniture, and desserts with her kids.
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