Legal Talks with Yash | Juan S. Nito on How Vanguard’s Legal Leader Builds High-Velocity Legal Ops

Legal teams aren’t back-office anymore — they are the business.In this episode of Legal Talks with Yash, host Yash Singhal (Co-Founder, CaseDocker) talks with Juan Salvador Nito, Legal & Compliance Head for Latin America at Vanguard, about what high-performance legal teams really look like inside modern financial organizations.Juan brings a rare lens: law firm rigor → Washington DC multilaterals → Mexico’s fast-moving fintech sector → a global asset-management giant. That mix gives him a front-row view into how legal teams evolve from “necessary cost centers” into strategic engines that accelerate business, reduce friction, and unlock competitive advantage. You’ll hear candid stories from Juan’s career—including the moment he hesitated on e-signatures (and what it taught him), the real bottlenecks inside LATAM legal functions, why legal ops/data transparency transforms everything, and how technology is reshaping compliance, contracting, SLAs, hiring, and team culture across the region.⭐ Why Watch This Episode• Real-world legal transformation: how global companies scale legal in LATAM• Why speed (response time) is the #1 legal KPI that changes business outcomes• How e-signature, SLAs, ticketing, dashboards & CLM data shift legal from bottleneck → accelerator• Practical stories from fintech, startups, and enterprise legal operations• The cultural challenges of LATAM adoption — and how to win buy-in• The skillsets modern legal teams need: diverse thinkers, tech comfort, curiosity• How to align legal, compliance, business, and tech toward shared goals• Simple tech changes that create massive organizational impactPowered by CaseDocker — the AI-powered legal operations workdesk unifying CLM, matter/case & notice management, eSign, repository, AI summaries, workflows, automations, and safe agentic systems.👉 Book a demo: www.casedocker.com⭐ Timestamps00:00 Introduction — Welcome to Legal Talks with Yash00:27 Juan Salvador’s Global Legal Journey (Mexico → DC → Fintech → Vanguard) 03:57 The Early Mistake: Hesitating on E-Signatures — and the Lesson Learned06:55 How Technology is Changing Legal & Compliance at Vanguard07:40 Important vs. Urgent: Why Legal Ops & Design Change Everything08:30 Finance = Contracts: Why Legal Is the Business in Financial Services10:00 The #1 Legal KPI: Response Time12:05 LATAM Legal Tech Reality: Culture, Adoption & Roadblocks13:00 Why Small & Mid-Market LATAM Companies Resist Legal Tech14:40 The Compliance Evolution: AML, Risk, Systems & Regulation18:40 How to Prevent Technology From Overwhelming Your Lawyers20:00 Adoption Starts With Coaching, Not Tools21:45 A Simple Tool That Changed Everything: Ticketing + SLAs + Transparency24:20 Visibility, Bottlenecks & Data-Driven Legal Ops25:00 Hiring in Modern Legal: Diverse Skills, Engineers & Curiosity27:30 The Future Legal Team: Adaptability Over Degrees28:40 Legal + Business Alignment: Legal as a Driver of Revenue & Strategy32:20 Leadership Lessons & Navigating Conflict33:30 Juan’s Book Recommendations for Lawyers & Leaders36:50 Closing Thoughts & Takeaways⭐ Connect & Explore🔗 Watch more episodes on YouTube:    / @casedocker🎧   Listen on Spotify: http://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/... Learn more about CaseDocker: www.casedocker.com