Leithia Williams
Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel, GTM Legal at TechEsq
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolLeithia Williams is a legal executive with seven years of focused experience advising high-growth technology companies and large enterprises, currently serving as Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel for GTM Legal at Procore Technologies. She has a proven track record of cutting through organizational complexity to build efficient, scalable legal teams and deliver pragmatic, business-minded counsel across commercial, procurement, and go-to-market matters. Her career includes senior legal leadership at GitHub, Slack, Vercel, and Capital One, bringing deep experience with M&A and integrations from multiple acquisitions. Based in Richmond, Virginia, she pairs a business-first mindset from her Robins School of Business background with practical lawyering from the University of Richmond School of Law. Known for balancing risk and velocity, she also brings a people-centered approach evident in founding GitHub’s Blacktocats ERG. A self-described power user of the Oxford comma, she blends precision with a knack for simplifying complex legal issues.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Business Administration, Bachelor of Science Business Administration at University of Richmond - Robins School of BusinessLaw, Law at University of Richmond School of Law
Github Skills (3)
policies10
privacy-policy10
procedures10
Github contributions (2)
github/site-policy
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Collaborative development on GitHub's site policies, procedures, and guidelines
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
policyterms-of-servicelawpolicies-procedurespolicies
githubschool/sturdy-disco
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
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