"I kept asking what firm leadership actually cares about. The answer was revenue, client relationships, and firm reputation. So I followed the revenue and found where it was disappearing and how it was affecting their clients. Every digital system a law firm uses records the what. None of them record the who, where, why, when, or how. That gap is the structural failure."
Founder & CEO
Jonathan Freeman
Enterprise IT Infrastructure Engineering • Legal Technology Operations • Milwaukee, WI
Jonathan spent over a decade building and maintaining the technical backbone of large organizations. Starting at the physical layer and working up through network systems and cloud infrastructure engineering, that work gave him a direct understanding of how institutions operate underneath the surface.
When he moved into legal, he started by asking what firm leadership actually cares about. The answer was revenue, client relationships, and firm reputation. So he followed the revenue and found where it was disappearing.
He learned how matters open, how scope expands, how work executes, and how billing runs. He learned what GCs are asking for, what outside counsel guidelines are demanding, and what actually happens inside a firm between the moment a partner makes a decision and the moment that decision shows up on an invoice. What he found at the center of all of it was a structural absence: all legally consequential work happens inside digital systems, and none of those systems capture the decisions that authorize it. The governance layer didn't exist.
Dominion is built on that answer. It captures authorization at the moment decisions are made, before work executes, before billing runs, before disputes form.
"Virtually all outside counsel failed to manage allocated budgets, resulting in consistent and untenable overages, sometimes doubling costs. This systemic pattern must be solved."
Legal Industry Partner
Margaret 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 fractional general counsel services, litigation advisement, and governance strategy. Her direct experience managing outside counsel relationships, including the authorization gaps that drove consistent and significant cost overruns, validates Yavardi's market thesis from the client side of the billing dispute.