Education Advisory Council (EAC)

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.

Beyond his work with CLOC as a reviewer in CLOC’s law school scholarship program, Daniel serves as the Senior Counsel for Innovation for the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.  In this role, he leads the Division's effort to develop and test new approaches to persistent challenges in legal practice and civil rights. Daniel is also an adjunct faculty member at Harvard Law School and Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches innovation-focused skills to the next generation of lawyers.  In 2007, he served as a law clerk for the Hon. David F. Hamilton.  Daniel graduated from Yale Law School in 2006 and the College of William & Mary in 2001.