MONICA ZENT

Founder & CEO
Innovation Strategist
LegalTech & AI Investor
Legal Industry Visionary
Patented Inventor
7x Entrepreneur
Thought Leader

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ABOUT MONICA

Monica Zent is an entrepreneur, investor, and business strategist with nearly three decades of experience driving innovation across industries. With two successful exits, multiple patents, and a career spanning several decades as an award-winning entrepreneur, legal industry innovator and licensed attorney, she has established herself as a trusted advisor to corporate leaders and investors.

As the Founder & CEO of ZentLaw, a leading alternative legal services provider (ALSP) in the United States, Monica has built one of the most respected organizations in the industry, serving Fortune 50 companies and leading organizations. Her work has pioneered the use of AI-powered legal collaboration tools, legal services, legal operations and compliance risk management solutions, helping clients simplify complex challenges and achieve stronger outcomes.

Beyond her role as a legal industry innovator, Monica is widely recognized as a thought leader, writer, and public speaker. She shares her expertise on LegalTech, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurship at global conferences such as SXSW, and her insights have been published in outlets including Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, Inc. and Reuters. Her contributions have earned her numerous awards. Monica also distinguishes herself through her longstanding dedication to diversity, advocacy and mentoring the next generation of leaders in law, technology, and business.

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE

Monica Zent is a trailblazer in LegalTech, having founded multiple ventures that leverage technology to transform the legal industry. Among other legal technology solutions, she is the creator of LawDesk360, an early AI-powered collaboration tool for legal teams, and has been instrumental in advising organizations on how to adopt cutting-edge technology to streamline legal operations, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. Monica was at the forefront of the LegalTech space from inception, breaking new ground and bringing LegalTech into the enterprise legal sector from day one.

For decades, Monica has guided enterprise organizations and world-class brands through complex regulatory and security challenges, spanning both legal and technological domains. This deep contextual understanding of the space informs Monica’s work in the RegTech sector. Her strategic expertise helps companies in regulated sectors such as healthcare, technology, and consumer products navigate evolving compliance requirements while protecting sensitive data and strengthening their overall security posture. Through the development and implementation of robust policies, best practices, and cutting-edge technologies, she empowers organizations to build comprehensive compliance and security frameworks that mitigate risk, safeguard against cyber threats, and foster trust with stakeholders. Bringing this knowledge to the investment and advisory realm, she helps develop, evaluate and advise on RegTech solutions addressing compliance needs with AI.

An active investor and advisor to the Venture Capital community, Monica helps fund early-stage startups building best-in-class LegalTech , legal services, compliance and security solutions for organizations. With her wealth of domain expertise, firsthand founder experience, strategic insight, and business acumen, she helps startup teams scale their companies to next-level success. Always a visionary, Monica has a keen eye for disruptive technologies and is passionate about funding and advising the next generation of legal innovators shaping the future of law and business.

As an early LegalTech pioneer, Monica has leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) since creating some of her first ventures in this space, integrating AI capabilities into products and developing innovative solutions through ZentLaw's former innovation hub, ZentLaw Labs. Through her team’s work at ZentLaw, she helps enterprise clients navigate AI literacy, governance frameworks, and strategic implementation across their legal departments and organizations. Monica's forward-thinking approach extends to developing AI-native service delivery models for the Alternative Legal Services Provider (ALSP) market – a category she helped create decades ago. She also develops and advises in the creation of AI solutions in the legal industry that enhance the performance and delivery of legal services, positioning organizations at the forefront of legal innovation while ensuring responsible AI adoption and compliance.

Monica Zent, founder of ZentLaw, is an accomplished entrepreneur, attorney, business leader and industry pioneer. Decades ago, having observed a market that was ripe for improvement and in need of healthy competition, Monica envisioned a new business model, now widely known as alternative legal service providers (ALSPs). In 2002, Monica re-engineered the law firm model to create ZentLaw. She brought innovation in the legal industry at a time when doing so was not being considered. From ushering in the use of subscription legal services to flexible legal talent offerings, early remote work initiatives, and visionary LegalTech solutions, through ZentLaw, Monica has pushed the boundaries of what is possible in the legal industry and beyond.

A recognized authority in LegalTech, RegTech, ALSPs, design thinking, legal innovation and enterprise strategy and security, Monica regularly shares her insights through speaking engagements at prestigious venues such as South by Southwest, the International Bar Association, Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), Stanford CodeX hackathon and demo days, and the British Legal Technology Forum. Monica’s thought-provoking perspectives have made her a frequent guest on digital media programs and industry podcasts, where she discusses the transformation of legal technology and innovation.

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