Meet Our Team
Yavardi was built at the intersection of enterprise infrastructure and institutional legal operations. The people behind it have operated inside both.
“Legal work changes. The firms that recognize it early keep their options, and keep their clients aligned.”
Jonathan Freeman
Enterprise IT Infrastructure Engineering • Legal Technology Operations • Milwaukee, WI
Jonathan spent more than a decade building and maintaining enterprise technology infrastructure across network, cloud, identity, virtualization, and legal technology environments.
His work inside legal operations led him to study how changes in matter scope, budget, staffing, and strategy affect firm economics and client relationships. Yavardi grew from that work and the need for stronger technology governance around consequential legal-work decisions.
LinkedInMargaret Daun
White & Case • Winston & Strawn • U.S. Seventh Circuit • Milwaukee County Corporation Counsel
Margaret started her career at White & Case LLP in New York, then at Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago handling complex securities litigation for Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. She clerked for Judge Michael Kanne of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
She served as Corporation Counsel for Milwaukee County, leading 25 attorneys across a $1.2 billion organization with 4,200 employees. Her office managed all civil legal work including an airport, a behavioral health hospital, a county jail, and the park system. She led Wisconsin’s local government plaintiffs in opioid litigation resulting in over $200 million in recoveries for Milwaukee County, the largest local government recovery in state history.
Since returning to the private sector, Margaret has run her own firm providing for-hire general counsel services, litigation advisement, and governance strategy. Her experience managing outside counsel, budgets, and complex legal matters gives Yavardi direct perspective from the client side of legal-service delivery.
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“Virtually all outside counsel failed to manage allocated budgets, resulting in consistent and untenable overages, sometimes doubling costs. This systemic pattern must be solved.”
We’re building the governance layer
legal operations has been missing.
If changes in legal work may be creating financial, operational, or client-facing exposure at your firm, let’s talk about what Dominion can do.