Acumen Trail

Investing, Founding, and Advising. We look for opportunities to leverage our unique experience and network for growth.

Founder & Chief Opportunity Officer

Lapin AI

Building a new kind of agency, for a new reality. AI at its foundation, white glove customer service as its mission. A place for the most ambitious businesses to dream and do.

Executive Chairman

OrchestrateIQ

Advise enterprises, legal departments, law firms, and technology companies on operations, GTM, and AI.

Founder & CEO

Camber Legal

Built a subscription legal services law firm with a custom tech and data stack to deliver legal services to clients. Including breach of commercial contract collection litigation, legal operations and technology consulting.

Founder + CEO

Reading In Motion

Advisor to Board of Directors

Board Of Directors

Elevate Services

Helped build a new kind of law firm that brought alternative legal service providers and commercial lawyers together to deliver services as a modern law firm. Gained invaluable experiences in consulting, project management, operations, and technology along side some of the smartest legal innovators in the industry.

Director

ElevateNext Law

Partner

Freeborn & Peters LLP

Learned the art of lawyering along side the business of law. Managing complex matters, large teams, and varied clients. Invaluable experiences that I continue to leverage.

Attorney

SmithAmundsen LLC

Grew up from baby Lawyer to seasoned associate handling all types of insurance defense. Learned the ins and outs of insurance, trial litigation, along with some great people.

Associate Attorney

Early Adopter | Entrepreneur | Wellness Advocate | Tech Nerd | Co-Founder and CEO @ Camber Legal

I've always been captivated by the journey people take to discover their life's true calling. While we often hear about the famous founders and trailblazers, there are countless others who toil away each day, quietly pursuing their dreams. They build, they grow, they stumble and pick themselves up, all without the spotlight of fame, finding immense joy in the simple act of getting things done.

I found my life's purpose at the age of 40. Now, I'm determined to spend the next forty+ years on a journey of building, growing, failing, and learning, surrounded by a diverse group of rebels who share my passion. Together, we aim to push boundaries and contribute to making the world a better and more fascinating place.

Salvador Carranza

I’m an AI Lawyer. No I’m an AI Lawyer. No I’m…

Linklaters launched a cohort of lawyers that are “AI Native.” I’m sure we will see hundreds more firms designate their lawyers as AI Superheros. 

Be skeptical. We are still early days and while I applaud firms trying to transform, much of what we see right now is AI marketing theater. 
Lots of talk, some use of AI platforms, not much actual transformation. 

AI isn’t like other software. It requires a fundamental step change in how you approach its use and for a firm, how it benefits the user and customer. You need to be creative and think outside the standard precedent. 

So I’m personally watching for how firms leverage actual practical use cases. 
Not just the marketing clickbait.

Entrepreneur & Investor | Thinker & Doer | Curiosity Activated |

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Skunks works usually means advanced R&D but I started Thanksgiving week with a friendly visit from Pepé Le Pew! 🦨 

In my part of the world, here in the Midwest, USA, you get skunks. We have a couple that roam our neighborhood. 

If you have a dog, like we do, you know that at some point you are probably going to deal with a skunk spraying your dog unless you are very careful or very lucky. Well, my luck ran out 🤦🏽‍♂️

This guy decided to lose a fight with the worst smell and then bring it into my house! 

Luckily he is safe, most of the smell has now been removed from dog, humans and house. So I guess, on the positive side, I now have another story to tell 😝

Happy Turkey week for those that celebrate 🍗

P.S. props to Jillian Richardson 👋 for reminding me that always being professional is boring.

Intuitive Edge

Deploying Dream Teams to manage contract separation and transition during the merger and acquisition process.  Work with private equity firms, corporate procurement and legal departments.  Contracts management as a service (CMaaS) is also a growing services offering.  Legal department overflow support also available.

CEO & Founder

TED Conferences

Volks Resources

Vice President, Strategy and Business Development

Ericsson

Responsible for driving cross-functional teams to create consistent organic growth plans, solution brochures and partnership opportunities. 

Established standardized approach for capturing addressable market, targets and action plans for growth planning by working collaboratively across teams. 

Partnerships achieved with several companies for sales opportunities in utilities industry through relationship building, collaborative workshops and contract negotiations.

Completed numerous solution brochures to enable consultative approach with customers.

Director, Customer Solutions Sales Engagement Practices, Partnerships and Strategy Implementation

Started out as Attorney/Contracts Manager and progressively took on more and more responsibilities during 10 year period of extreme growth.  Highlights include:

Contracts.  Hands on and broad experience developing and negotiating supplier and partner contracts for technology, services, products and software for all of the Ericsson N. America portfolio.  Provided legal advice and solutions, maintained, improved and created new contract strategies for various business needs, including M&A integration activities, as business expanded into new areas.  Hired and managed team of attorneys and contract administrators.

Leadership and People Development.  Achieved top 10% leadership index based on annual employee survey.  Responsible for leading numerous teams, including leading managers.   Led People Development initiative for Strategic Sourcing Department, aligned competence needs with corporate strategy, prompted innovative and fun atmosphere, facilitated creative all-employee meetings and workshops and set up customized learning paths.  Results include increases in the Employee Engagement, Leadership and Motivation annual survey scores for Strategic Sourcing Department.

Supplier Diversity.  Led revamped Supplier Diversity Program to ensure customer and government spending commitments were met.  Managed customer relationship related to supplier diversity efforts.  Resulted in significantly increased diversity spend over a 2-year period.

Supplier Relationship Management.  Led the development of the newly created Supplier Relationship Management framework and re-organization in North America and assisted with implementation for the global Ericsson organization.  Learned valuable change management skills.  Results include significant additional cost savings and enhanced sourcing efficiencies.

Operations.  Managed Fleet Management and Sourcing Operations Teams, during which time new tools, programs were implemented and significant savings were achieved.

Attorney and Director, Strategic Sourcing Department

AFL Telecommunications (formerly Alcoa Wireless Services and Pacific 17, Inc.)

Corporate executive team member at small start-up telecommunications design and engineering company, responsible for oversight of corporate operational legal affairs and contracts function for telecommunications services division. Managed changed during acquisition of the company by Alcoa, Inc.

Reviewed, drafted and negotiated customer facing contracts with major telecommunications carriers, OEMs, utilities and cable companies. Established contract templates, contract administration and operational screening processes for all outsourced activities.

Ensured company compliance with all governmental regulations.

Managed outside counsel for various legal matters.

Initiated, researched, developed and introduced company's first international strategic plan.

In House Counsel

Seibi Gakuen (Japan Exchange and Teaching "JET" Program)

English teacher for 15 English classes per week for high school, middle school and elementary school courses.  Led extra curricular activities and clubs.

English Teacher

Once the ink dries…

The value of your acquisition immediately falls into question…Why?

Hundreds, if not thousands, of contracts that need to be transferred during a critical time window. 

Which can result in millions of dollars in lost value if those contracts aren’t properly transferred and negotiated quickly.

Law firms and consulting groups usually excel in structuring and closing deals but often leave the intricate post-closing integration to the acquiring companies.

At this point in the acquisition process you don’t need more advice from firms that are trying to bill as many hours as possible…

You need proactive execution from a team that has a specialized combination of complex project management and legal expertise.

That is why we developed our Oasis Cycle® - designed to streamline the transition work from a
contract management perspective.

Our unique blend of skilled personnel, advanced technology, and proprietary processes not only reduces the burden on the acquiring company's internal teams…but also mitigates legal and business risks associated with the transition phase of M&A deals.

This process has been proven to save and increase value of an acquisition because contracts are transferred (and negotiated for higher values) in a matter of weeks.

I invite you to connect and message me if you feel overwhelmed and lack the necessary infrastructure to transfer contacts during your post-acquisition transition.

Lisa J. Scott

This year pushed leaders to navigate faster change across M&A, tech, AI, and digital assets. The conversations on the podcast made one thing clear: M&A isn’t just a transaction anymore — it’s a test of leadership and clarity.
I’ve pulled together the top insights from these episodes into a quick Year in Review recap + links to each podcast.

View newsletter: M&A+ The Art After The Deal

Open article: 2025 Year-in-Review: What This Year Taught Us About M&A, Leadership, Blockchain & the Future of Work by Intuitive Edge • 8 min read

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