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Sara Hawes is Vice President of Legal Product at Smokeball and an attorney licensed to practice law in Illinois and Colorado. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University and her Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Sara practiced family law in the Chicago area for five years before joining Smokeball in 2015, where she has played a key role in developing legal technology solutions for law firms. Her work focuses on area-of-law–specific workflows within case management systems, document automation and template building, and the design of practical tools that improve efficiency in day-to-day legal practice.
More recently, Sara has led initiatives to research and develop applied AI prompts and workflows for Smokeball -using firms, helping attorneys integrate AI into their practices in a responsible, practical, and immediately useful manner.
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