Marina Warner
Legal Counsel –
Haven Technologies, a subsidiary of Mass Mutual Life Insurance Company
Description of field of expertise
Marina Warner is Legal Counsel at Haven Technologies (“Haven Tech”), an insurance SaaS provider and a MassMutual subsidiary. In her role, Marina is the legal point of contact for all Haven Tech matters concerning privacy, data protection, and security. She works cross-functionally with various stakeholders in the business to advise on issues pertaining to privacy while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance.
Before Haven, Marina ran her own law firm where she advised fashion and technology companies on data privacy, commercial transactions, and trademark law. Prior to this role, as Contributor and Thought Leader at Brand Meets Creative, Marina managed communications to educate the audience on legal subjects affecting the fashion industry such as truth-in-advertising, employment, branding, and supply chain issues.
What advice would you offer to new attorneys interested in your field?
- Fine tune your written and verbal communication skills. When you’re in-house, you will mostly be working with non-attorneys who will have various levels of familiarity with the law. You will sometimes be required to explain complex legal topics to them and need to be skilled at doing so in a clear and effective way.
- Be solution-focused. One way you can do this is by becoming well-acquainted with the business and industry you are in. Your knowledge of the law combined with your familiarity with your business will allow you to come up with business-friendly solutions to legal problems that arise.
- Be flexible to exploring different areas of the law. Part of the fun of working in-house is that there are so many areas of the law that touch any given business, so you should look for and take advantage of these opportunities.