The flexible counsel model is continuing to gain popularity as legal professionals seek rewarding career alternatives. Paragon is striving to give those professionals meaningful work outside the traditional path by providing the highest quality talent and service to leading corporate legal departments.
Tracy Scanlan is a former embedded attorney at Paragon who now serves as the company’s Vice President of Client Development and Legal Affairs. We recently sat down with Tracy to discuss what it’s like to work in a corporate role at Paragon, why she’s so passionate about work/life balance for Paragon’s attorneys, and more.
Can you tell us a bit about your background and career progression?
I graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law in 2007. Right after law school, I got a job as a legal research assistant at the San Francisco Superior Court.
I had always wanted to be an advocate and be more in the mix, so after a few years, I went to work for a class action law firm. After that, I took a little break from the law and went to work at a startup on the business side.
I then went to work at StubHub, which is where I first came across the idea of being an in-house counsel. I got a really great opportunity to work for a small employment law firm, and then finally at Paragon.
I had read about Paragon years before, and I thought it was such a unique, cool model, so I was really excited to work there.
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