Lawton Penn

After practicing law for 25 years, Lawton Penn now spends most of her days trying not to think like a lawyer. According to her colleague at Davis Wright Tremaine, she is “passionately dissatisfied with the old dynamic between businesses and their attorneys and is determined to find a better path”. Lawton helped launch and is leading the firm’s DWT De Novo legal solutions design team. Its legal solutions architects are trained in process improvement and systems design, skilled in data visualization, fearless about applying new technologies to legal work, and eager to bring fresh thinking to the industry. The team has partnered with DWT lawyers and dozens of clients to co-create new models for legal work that deliver a more comprehensive business solution.