Sondra is Senior Innovation Counsel and leads the Practice Innovation team at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. She is responsible for identifying opportunities to improve legal processes internally and implementing and managing legal technology, including artificial intelligence, to drive efficiency at the firm. Sondra also works closely with clients to provide legal operations guidance and create new solutions that address novel legal and business needs.
Sondra has been actively involved in the legal technology industry, including working as an AI practice consultant and legal knowledge engineer at a Canadian legal technology company. In those roles, she used machine learning to train models to identify legal concepts in contracts and advised law firms across North America on the integration of machine learning in their practice.
Following her admission to the Ontario Bar in 2012, Sondra practiced at a law firm in Toronto where she focused on M&A and securities.