Marina Makanova

Marina serves as Eisner, LLP’s executive director, where she has broad oversight of the firm’s business operations and manages the firm’s practice areas. She is based in Eisner’s Los Angeles office.

Marina is a longtime leader in the field of legal operations, having held senior management roles at several national law firms. Prior to joining Eisner, she served as the director of legal operations at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she created programs to improve the performance of the corporate legal department through increased efficiency, standardized processes, and automation.

Earlier in her career, Marina served as the practice director for the national litigation group at Kaye Scholer and as a practice group manager for multiple practice areas at DLA Piper. 

Education

• Stanford Graduate School of Business, Executive Education Program, Managing Teams for Innovation and Success 
• The New School, M.S., Organizational Change Management 
• Johns Hopkins University, MBA, Operations 
• Central Michigan University, B.S., International Business and Finance