Overview
Anna Balabina is co-founder and CFO of casepal, a role she has held since June 2024. She is based in Düsseldorf, where she has also worked as a scientific assistant at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP since April 2022.
In July 2024 she completed an internship at Grant Thornton Germany. Between November 2022 and February 2024 she was scientific assistant to the director general at Societaet CHORVS, and in early 2023 she was an internship trainee at Asters. She joined JURIST as a journalist in June 2022 and was senior correspondent there from October 2022 to October 2023. She also worked as an assistant at the Generalkonsulat der Ukraine in Düsseldorf in late 2022, and took part in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot from May 2021 to April 2023.
Balabina holds a Master of Science in Financial Analysis and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from KU Leuven, a Bachelor of Laws in European Law from the University of Düsseldorf, and a bachelor's degree in law from the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Career history
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- What a lovely evening last Thursday in Brussels! 🇧🇪 Thank you LegalDirect - Law Firm for opening the doors of your new office at Ateliers19 and bringing together such a great group of people. It was a real pleasure to celebrate with you! LegalDirect - Law Firm has been with casepal for a long time, as a client, a partner, and one of our most genuine supporters. Evenings like this are a reminder of how much we value that collaboration, and we’re excited for everything still to come together. Thank you Jeroen Lison and Leïla
- Legal Operations are key to the agentic transformation of legal and compliance. Last week we had the pleasure of hosting a dinner with esteemed guests ahead of CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) at Future Lawyer Europe - Germany in Frankfurt. I also had the opportunity to share our thesis on a panel on the future of legal ops, alongside fellow leading voices in legal operations and beyond. Many thanks to my co-panelists Dr. Vera Roedel, Michael Thompson, Tim-Julien Richter, LL.M.and Quentin Peltier Here is how we see
- Frankfurt, thank you. Kriton session at CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) Germany and Future Lawyer Day by cosmonauts drew a packed room, and the questions afterward told me legal ops and compliance teams are further along than the market gives them credit for. Two ideas stayed with me from the panel: → The future of legal ops is dual context. Understanding both the technology and how the legal department works is rare, and it will become one of the most valuable profiles in the field. → The talent is moving in both
- Excited to be back in Frankfurt and be speaking about legal operations at CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) / Future Lawyer Europe - Germany. The panel will focus on perspectives on the Evolving Legal Operations Landscape, and I will be joining Tim-Julien Richter, LL.M. and Quentin Peltier, Dr. Vera Roedel and Michael Thompson. We'll be bringing together in-house, consultancy, academic, and tech insights on where legal ops is heading. Pleased to be together with Anna Balabina and Antoni Skup the CLOC x casepal dinner
- Legal ops doesn't get enough credit. And I feel like most companies have not gotten there yet. Take a legal team of 700 people spread across the globe. Coordination between offices. Procurement of outside counsel. Matter management across dozens of jurisdictions. Vendor relationships. Budget tracking. At that scale none of this is a side task someone picks up between contracts. It is a full operating layer, run like project management, with its own governance and its own owner. The data backs this up too. 85 percent of legal
- We are moving to a new era. Two years ago, casepal started as a tool to help law firms move faster. Today we're redefining what you can do with casepal: moving to agents for legal, compliance, and audit, built around the context of your entities and the regulatory environment they sit in. Of course, the shift didn't happen overnight. We spent months sitting across the table with law firms, in-house teams, and compliance officers, and watching the same pattern repeat: the hardest part of the job was never understanding the law. It
- You know the trick where a magician pulls a rabbit out of an empty hat? 🐇 That's kind of what "legal" looks like from outside a company. I've spent the past two months in discovery conversations. From outside, in-house legal looks like contracts & contracts.. And some more contracts? Maybe some redlining and negotiation? That's the hat. Sit with these teams for a while though, and out comes everything else. Compliance. AML. KYC and KYB. Policy work that has nothing to do with a contract. Constant back and forth with tech, audit,
- My favourite part of August is a full-scale preparation for September. While offices and courts are on vacation, we are spending days on operations and coordination for the events in autumn. Looking at my calendar right now, our team will have to be in several different countries within a few weeks of September: from NYC to DACH events to Southern Europe. Sad that teleportation has not been developed yet! A quick glimpse: 🇩🇪 casepal x CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) Germany invite-only dinner in Frankfurt for
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