🎙Episode #015: Pia Owens (In-House Technology Lawyer)

👋🏻 Greetings from Washington, D.C. to all 367 of you on the podcast e-mail list. Happy Passover and Easter to those who celebrate.

In this week’s episode, I speak with Pia Owens. Pia has worked as a technology lawyer at a big law firm, in state government, and now for a technology company based in Massachusetts where she is responsible for commercial agreements, software licensing, cybersecurity, and data privacy. Pia is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law. Before attending law school in her late 20s, Pia was a software engineer.

In our conversation, we discuss how Pia handles new and complex cybersecurity regulatory regimes, how she drafts contracts, the differences between practicing as a technology layer in an in-house setting as outside counsel and as a government attorney. We also discuss some of the professional jumps that she took to find a career that was fulfilling both personally and professionally. 

Pia was one of the first people to reach out to me on Twitter when I started the podcast and I am so glad that she did. I hope you learn something from this interview and as always please let me know if you have any comments or recommendations.

See you next week,

Jonah