I help legal teams use the technology they already have.
I’m Theodore Rand. For twenty years I’ve worked on the seam between corporate IT and the people who do legal and business-affairs work — the place where enterprise systems meet how lawyers actually operate, and where most of them quietly fall apart.
Most recently I was Director of Technology at the Producers Guild of America (2021–2025). Before that I built the rights engine at Yahoo Media Group, worked on rights and business-affairs systems at Fox Sports and FX, and spent seven years at The Walt Disney Company embedded in corporate legal on privacy compliance — working directly with attorneys to build processes they’d actually use instead of routing around. I also teach and advise in the executive-education world through UCLA Anderson.
That path taught me one thing over and over: companies buy legal software for procurement, security, and control, then assume the work will follow. It rarely does. The document system, the contract platform, the e-billing suite get provisioned — and the real work stays in spreadsheets, inboxes, and people’s heads. The gap between what’s owned and what’s used is where deadlines slip, ownership blurs, and risk hides.
How I work. I’m vendor-neutral — I don’t resell anyone’s software, so my only interest is what fits your team. I start small and concrete, usually with a fixed-scope assessment, and I’m direct about what’s worth fixing and what to leave alone. I’d rather tell you a project isn’t needed than sell you one.
I was also a working journalist earlier in my career, which is probably why I care about explaining technical things in plain language — and why I still curate a long-running film discussion group on the side.
If your legal or legal-ops team has the tools but not the workflows, that’s exactly the problem I solve.