ADM Legal Chief Redesigned Law Firm Relationships, Cut Spend

Cameron Findlay says he brought technology and a fresh perspective to agriculture and food company Archer Daniels Midlands’ legal department when he joined nearly eight years ago.

“I felt my role was to take the great lawyers we have and expose them to some of the best practices other legal departments had put in place, and I think we slowly but surely have been making great progress in the last seven, eight years,” Findlay, ADM’s senior vice president and general counsel, said.

Since Findlay joined Chicago-based ADM in 2013, his legal department has begun using legal technology, brought more work ...