There is so much information available to us as sales professionals about our target companies, that we are doing ourselves a disservice by not
doing our due diligence before pursuing target accounts.
Either the conference organizers didn't
do due diligence in finding diverse panels to speak at their conference OR there simply aren't diverse people making legal tech.
However, if you accept the first position offered to you
without doing your due diligence on the role and the company, you may ultimately end up in a worse situation.
Like all real estate investments, it has some risk, but
if do your due diligence, you will be seeing big, fat redemption checks.
Somewhere down the line the mortgage company or bank
while doing their due diligence finds out the borrower was less than truthful about their current financial situation.
You can spend a
year doing due diligence for M&A transactions, and learning nothing about practicing law, and yet still get called to the bar.
If you do choose to hire someone, just make sure to
do your due diligence ahead of time and confirm that the company with which you work is trustworthy.
Assuming you've
already done your due diligence to prevent data theft by employees and contractors, you'll need to cut off digital access to company resources.