I’m passionate about accelerating business growth through collaborative digital transformation.

Heather Deane

Managing Director, Law, Ernst & Young LLP

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Areas of focus

Heather is a managing director in the EY Legal Transform and Operate practice, where she is focused on helping corporate legal departments improve the way they practice law and deliver value to the enterprise. She advises clients on digital transformation and innovation initiatives, legal operations, legal talent strategy and help resource optimization.

Heather has 20 years of experience in the legal services sector, including legal operations, litigation technology, commercial contracting, contracts intelligence in transactions and regulatory contexts, legal talent strategy and the design and implementation support of legal department operating models.  She has spent the past decade working predominantly with the in-house legal leadership of Fortune 500 technology companies to support their innovation initiatives.

How Heather is building a better working world

“Law departments play a critical role in both protecting organizations from risk and supporting critical business operations that generate revenue. I am committed to helping law departments get the most out of new technology advancements and ways of working so that they can achieve their goals and provide the reasonable, most efficient guidance to their organizations.”

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