Monica Zent
Experienced Attorney and Entrepreneur
Monica Zent is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, businesswoman and trusted legal advisor to the world’s most well-known brands. Zent has been a successful entrepreneur for decades, creating companies in music, technology, real estate, law and legaltech.
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In the year 2000, the visionary Zent conceived of the concept of re-engineering the conventional law model by merging the efficiencies and flexibility of outsourcing with the best attributes of a law firm to create a modern legal solutions company. At that time, few appreciated how futuristic Zent’s vision was. In 2002, Zent redefined the law firm by launching the alternative law firm, ZentLaw, to address unmet needs in the legal marketplace. Since that time, Zent has grown ZentLaw into one of the leading alternative law firms in the country.
Known for seeing around corners, Zent’s most recent venture is as the Founder of Foxwordy, the breakthrough collaboration platform for the legal industry. With ideation incubated in ZentLaw’s innovative, technologically driven practice, Zent conceived of Foxwordy to further disrupt the legal market. Foxwordy is the first digital collaboration network created exclusively for the legal market to bring artificial intelligence, anonymity, teams and messaging into one easy to use, cloud-based platform. Foxwordy has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Corporate Counsel, San Francisco Chronicle, Law Technology News, Stanford CodeX, the ABA Journal, and more.
A prominent thought leader and public speaker, Zent’s articles on topics related to entrepreneurship, the legal industry, women in technology, innovation in the law, and leadership appear regularly in publications including, Inc. magazine, Bloomberg BNA, Reuters, Inside Counsel, Entrepreneur, VentureBeat and the Huffington Post.
Zent has been an active investor in real estate and startups for many years. She has served as an angel investor, advisor and mentor to a number of innovative startups in media and entertainment, e-commerce, fashion technology, legal technology, IoT, SaaS and robotics. An avid tinkerer and technologist, one of Zent’s favorite hobbies is inventing new things.
She has dedicated her time and talent for over two decades to a variety of charitable causes and pro bono legal service. Zent is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in all fields of work, equality for women, and human rights of women and children throughout the world. Zent balances out her life through devotion to family, fitness, and is a longtime endurance athlete.