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Litera Welcomes Meredith Johnson as Chief Product Officer

Tue 03 May 2022

Johnson Brings Extensive Experience To Champion Product Development, Customer Value Creation, and Innovation

CHICAGO, IL – May 3, 2022 – Litera, a global leader in legal technology solutions, is pleased to announce Meredith Johnson as its new Chief Product Officer. Johnson brings twenty years of extensive leadership experience to Litera, specializing in product rationalization for delighting customers and scaling businesses.

She has proven experience building world-class products, services, and marketplaces for global business, generating nearly $1Bn in company revenue. Previously, she spent more than nineteen years at Blackbaud in several commercial, customer success, and product leadership roles. She recently served as the Vice President of Product Management, developing global teams for Blackbaud. She’s a public speaker on topics including Leading Product Management Through Business Model Transformation, Fueling Innovation Through Portfolio Transformation, and End of Support Product Lifecycle Frameworks. 

In her new role, Meredith will be responsible for driving the company’s long-term sector-leading product strategy, product design, and product delivery. She will lead Product Management and Product Design functions contributing to Litera’s hypergrowth. At Blackbaud, Johnson successfully led major platform evolutions and M&A product integrations while accelerating the rate of innovation and customer value. The Chief Product Officer position is a recent addition to Litera’s executive leadership team. Johnson will be reporting to Chief Executive Officer Sheryl Hoskins.

“I’m excited to introduce new product leadership for Litera, said Sheryl Hoskins, CEO of Litera. “Meredith is an extraordinary leader with a solid track record of leading successful product teams for enterprise software organizations. As Litera continues to scale globally, I’m confident her product management expertise will be invaluable to our employees, customers, and partners.”

“Litera has immense potential in the LegalTech product space, and I am excited to work alongside the executive leadership team to build and develop a robust product ecosystem that our customers will continue to value for years to come, said Meredith. I am honored to join Litera’s mission of helping legal teams create innovative, new collaborative technologies to achieve greater efficiencies, streamline workflows, reduce costs, and ultimately deliver greater value to their clients.”

Meredith holds two Bachelor of Science degrees from the College of Charleston and is a consummate advocate for women in tech. She is a go expert and public speaker for several XaaS operating models and is an Executive Board member for organizations like Charleston Promise Neighborhood (a 501c3 nonprofit).

About Litera

Litera has been at the forefront of legal technology for 25+ years. As a global leader in workflow, AI-powered due diligence review and analysis, collaboration, data management, and governance solutions, Litera provides legal teams with streamlined technology for creating, analyzing, and managing their documents, deals, cases, and data. Litera’s solutions help law firms and corporate legal teams worldwide work more efficiently, accurately, and competitively to provide their clients with usable and actionable information. For more information about Litera, visit litera.com or follow the Company on LinkedIn.