Jason Winmill

Chair 2023-Present

Jason is the Chair of the Buying Legal© Council and the Managing Director of Argopoint, a leading legal department consulting firm dedicated to helping leading corporate legal departments with their most important management challenges. He has extensive expertise advising corporate legal departments on their most important management issues. Jason has advised across a range of industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail, consumer products, financial services, media, manufacturing, insurance, education, non-profits, and utilities.

In 2005, Jason was the “outside architect” and designed the outside counsel partnering program for the fifth largest legal department in the United States – optimizing the use of hundreds of law firms.  This groundbreaking program improved quality and reduced costs in excess of one hundred million dollars annually.  His work spans litigation, commercial law, intellectual property (patents and trademarks, copyright, etc), employment, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, government investigations, internet law, claims defense, and regulatory law.  

Jason's pioneering work has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case (2013) on legal efficiency; he was recognized as a legal services business authority in a whitepaper commissioned by the American Bar Association (2016).  He was a contributing author to the Legal Procurement Handbook, and co-founder of the Pharmaceutical Litigation Management Roundtable (started in 2006).  

Jason’s work has been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Corporate Counsel Magazine, The ACC Docket, The American Lawyer, Inside Litigation, Purchasing Magazine and Inside Supply Management.

Jason is an honors graduate of Harvard College.  He received an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was elected to lead the Dean's Forum on Business Ethics.  

He enjoys civic life in Boston.  He serves on strategic planning committees at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Public Library Foundation, the Charles River Esplanade Association, and the Beacon Hill Civic Association. He has decades of continuous service to Harvard University, including Co-Chairing the 1636 Society, serving as both a Class Marshall (2013) and Marshall’s Aide to the University President's Division (2018) at the invitation of Gina Raimondo, United States Secretary of Commerce and then-Governor of the State of Rhode Island. His sustained contributions to community life in Boston were formally recognized (2013) by the Beacon Hill Civic Association.