Companies increasingly favor attorneys for legal operations roles, a trend that Akshay Verma, a former legal ops chief at Meta and Coinbase, criticized in a recent LinkedIn post as needlessly exclusionary. Verma, himself an attorney, stated that he wrote the post after observing numerous job listings requiring a juris doctor, such as this one at Meta, or preferring it, including one now closed at ADP. He referred to the trend as a “way to gatekeep and to feel safe without actually being safe,” drawing dozens of supportive comments.
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