Mark Chandler

Mark Chandler is a Fellow of the Rhode Center for the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School, where he co-leads the Filing Fairness Project, https://law.stanford.edu/filing-fairness-project/, a policy lab on access to justice focused on court modernization. He served as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Cisco Systems from 2001-2021, roles in which he oversaw Cisco’s global legal activities and policies, as well as the ethics, regulatory compliance and brand protection departments. Previously, he was Managing Attorney for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region, based in Paris.

As Chief Legal Officer at Cisco, a primary part of his focus was developing solutions to automate, simplify and scale the legal support for Cisco’s operations, and anticipate future transactional needs in an era of dynamic transformation. Chandler joined Cisco in 1996, when Cisco acquired StrataCom, Inc., where he had been general counsel. Prior to StrataCom, he served for six years as vice president of corporate development and general counsel of Maxtor Corporation.

Chandler is a member of the board of directors of Paladin, PBC; the board of trustees of Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Mass. and the Dean’s Advisory Council of Stanford Law School. He is also a senior fellow at Georgetown Law Center on National Security, and a non-resident scholar in the the Carnegie Endowment’s Technology and International Affairs Program. He previously served on the board of the Silicon Valley Law Foundation, on the Governing Council of the American Bar Association Center for Innovation, and on the board of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. In 1985-1986, he was a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation Program in Bonn and Munich, Germany. Chandler received a JD degree from Stanford Law School and a BA degree in economics from Harvard College.