Legora today (21 May) announced the appointment of Zeynep Inanoglu Ozdemir as chief marketing officer. Ozdemir, who joins from Atlassian, will help Legora with its U.S. expansion.
At Atlassian she led a 450+ person marketing organization spanning brand, product marketing, demand generation, communications, performance marketing, and events. Before Atlassian, she served as CMO at Palo Alto Networks, where she oversaw the company’s rapid expansion into multiple cybersecurity categories over a period of 5x increase in market cap.
“Zeynep has done what very few marketers have: she has built enterprise marketing motions, led a product-led growth business with direct revenue accountability, and operated at large scale without losing the builder instinct that makes great marketing,” said Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of Legora. “She will play a critical role in our global expansion and continued brand momentum.”
Ozdemir, who is based in San Francisco, said: “Law is one of the most high-stakes, precision-driven professions in the world, and agentic AI has the potential to reimagine how legal work is done from the ground up. Legora has built a strong foundation with a product and team that deeply understand how lawyers work. I’m excited to help scale that foundation and build a category-defining company that will shape the future of legal work.”
Meanwhile, legal writing platform BriefCatch today announced the appointment of Yoel Lavie as chief operating officer, following its Series A funding. Prior to joining BriefCatch, Lavie was general counsel at VIDAA and previously held leadership roles at cybersecurity company Rezilion, where he advanced from chief of staff to chief operating officer and helped lead the company through its acquisition by GitLab. During his tenure, Rezilion secured $30 million in Series A funding.
Lavie brings experience spanning legal strategy, operations and SaaS leadership to BriefCatch as the company continues scaling its platform following its recent Series A funding round, acquisition of WordRake’s patented editing technology and launch of RealityCheck, its authority-verification capability designed to help legal professionals identify hallucinated or unsupported legal citations before filing.
“Most COOs understand SaaS. Few understand lawyers,” said Ross Guberman, founder and CEO of BriefCatch. “Yoel is both — a practicing M&A attorney who became an operator and helped scale and exit a SaaS company. That combination is rare, and it’s exactly what BriefCatch needs at this stage of growth.”
