Adam Becker is the Director of Legal Operations at Cockroach Labs, the startup behind CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database. Prior, he was VP & Director of Legal Operations at Endeavor. Adam’s first in-house legal operations role was at MetLife as AVP, Legal Operations for the U.S. legal department, where he also was responsible for the management of legal support services. Adam spent a decade working in law firms focusing on operations & management, professional development and recruiting, and began his legal career as an Intellectual Property associate at Skadden. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and got his B.A. in Cultural Anthropology at New York University.  Adam has been an active CLOC member since 2016, serving on CLOC’s inaugural Education Advisory Council and as CLOC New York Regional Group Lead.