LegalTech Matters: Recent Episodes
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LEGALTECH MATTERS is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to creating conversations about technology, trends, and innovation for law firms and companies – big and small. Leading legal journalists, consultants, and lawyers Bob Ambrogi, Joe Borstein, Caroline Hill, Ari Kaplan, and Adriana Linares host the podcast.
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This podcast examines one of the key themes from this year’s The Changing Lawyer report, the changing work expectations for lawyers and others in the legal services industry. Litera’s Legal Content and Research Lead, David Curle, interviews Bea Seravello and Brad Blickstein of consulting and communications firm Baretz+Brunelle about how the pandemic and other external factors are changing perspectives about work today.
This podcast examines one of the key themes from this year’s The Changing Lawyer report, the transformation of client service delivery in law firms due to the application of technology. Litera’s Legal Content and Research Lead, David Curle, interviews Rachel Broquard about the changes in client service delivery from the perspective of her role as Service Excellence Partner at Eversheds Sutherland.
This week’s LEGALTECH MATTERS podcast examines one of the key themes from this year’s The Changing Lawyer report, the growing importance of allied professionals in fields like technology, project management, and data analysis in the legal profession. Litera’s Legal Content and Research Lead, David Curle, interviews Aileen Leventon about the changing professional makeup of today’s legal organizations. Aileen leads Law Strategy Coach, which offers coaching and advisory services to lawyers and law firms.
In this week’s podcast, LEGALTECH MATTERS host and Editor-in-Chief for the Legal IT Insider, Caroline Hill, talks with Kristen Sonday, Co-founder and CEO of Paladin, and Haley Altman, Strategic Advisor at Litera about their experiences with legal tech start-ups. They both recount how identifying pain points and inefficient processes in their early careers motivated them to start their own companies.
In this week’s podcast, LEGALTECH MATTERS host and legal industry analyst Ari Kaplan speaks with Philip Bryce, Global Chief Knowledge Officer at Mayer Brown, about the connection between acting and knowledge management. They discuss the skills necessary to succeed as a knowledge management leader in a law firm, the common challenges they are trying to overcome through innovation, and how the role is evolving.
In this week’s podcast, LEGALTECH MATTERS host and President of LawTech Partners, Adriana Linares, talks with Ric Keller about his career first as a lawyer, then US Representative, senior partner at a law firm, and author. Throughout the conversation, Ric underscores the importance of connecting and networking with people to succeed as a lawyer and in life.
In this week’s podcast, LEGALTECH MATTERS host Caroline Hill talks with Babar Hayat, Head of Product Tech Innovation and Transformation at Konexo, a division of Eversheds Sutherland, about his experiences with CLM implementations. Their discussion takes a three-prong approach - where to start, what good looks like, and what can go wrong.
In this week’s podcast, LEGALTECH MATTERS host and legal industry analyst Ari Kaplan talks with Andrew Shapiro-Zysk, Senior Manager for Reporting and Data Analytics at Berry Appleman & Leiden, about the skills that are most valuable for law firm data professionals and how they collaborate with their peers in knowledge management, practice support, and training. Also, how automation, data science, and AI initiatives can create a competitive advantage for a law firm.
In this week’s podcast, Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel talks with David Curle about the work that went into The Changing Lawyer Report, which examines the challenges law firms and lawyers face, providing insight and analysis into what is driving the business of law. Both agreed that CIOs raised the same talking points from the report at the ILTACON 22 Conference: moving to the Cloud, AI, automation, and talent retention.
After a surge in dealmaking last year, industry leaders are keeping a close eye on M&A deal activity heading into the second half of 2022. Companies and private equity players have many uncertainties to balance in today’s market. Deals will likely see a year-over-year decrease, but the question remains: Will 2022 exceed pre-pandemic deal volume? Join our panel of experts as they share their opinions.
Legal professionals know that Artificial Intelligence (AI) saves time, reduces drudgery, and streamlines legal workflows—but that’s not all. AI and other technologies have revolutionized law firms’ operations, from talent acquisition and retention to improving matter efficiency. As we look to the future, the use of technology—and AI specifically—will continue to impact what it means to do legal work.
Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief at Legal IT Insider, talks with Dru Armstrong about her career path from law student to lawyer to CEO of legal payments company AffiniPay. Dru explains her drive to build businesses that use technology to give time back to lawyers so they can focus on what matters most – helping clients.
Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider, talks with Haley Altman, Strategic Advisor to Litera, about the recent acquisition of talent management software developer Micron Systems Inc. and specifically how Litera is committed to solving one of the most pervasive challenges facing the legal market – talent engagement and retention. Haley also talks about her new role at Litera as a Strategic Advisor.
In the run-up to ILTACON 22, Litera’s Sherry Kappel speaks with Barry Solomon, also Litera, about his recent blog on the three phases of legal tech. Phase one focuses on the centralization of systems. Phase two sees lawyers leaving their firms for start-ups to develop point solutions to discreet problems. The third phase, which is just starting, will see the emergence of ecosystems using integration and collaboration to break down silos and share information and data across systems.
Ari Kaplan talks with Jack Thompson, Asst. Dir for Global eDiscovery & Legal Ops at Sanofi, on the relationship between eDiscovery and Legal Ops, the expectations that corporate legal teams have of outside counsel, how ILTA’s programming for corporate professionals has evolved, key sessions for law department leaders, and best practices for getting the most from ILTACON22.
This week Caroline Hill, Legal IT Insider Editor-in-Chief, talks with Joy Heath Rush, ILTA CEO, about preparation for this year's in-person only ILTACON. Kicking off the event will be keynote speaker, Patrick Schwerdtfeger, an author, and business futurist, specializing in big data and AI. Joy expects his ideas will resonate throughout the conference as subthemes as we question what is practical technology, where will we work, how will we work, and how will we keep up with the pace of change
LEGALTECH MATTERS host, Adriana Linares, talks with Chris Kragthorpe about his role at Litera and his team’s work to empower smaller firms and corporate legal to focus more on the practice of law and less on the management and production of documents. With 60% of attorneys working in firms with ten employees or less, small law is big.
Our LEGALTECH MATTERS podcast host, Ari Kaplan, talks with Sherry Kappel, Litera evangelist, about her involvement with various legal tech groups and shows dedicated to helping the community adapt and change to new technologies. She shares her experience attending ILTACON conferences and offers advice on getting the most from this year’s National Harbor event in August.
Our LEGALTECH MATTERS podcast host, Adriana Linares, talks with Jon Tobin, Founder and Partner for Counsel for Creators LLP, about his subscription-based law firm and how it helps creative professionals access legal services more easily. He explains why he needed to redesign the law firm experience from the ground up.
Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief at Legal IT Insider, talks with Debbie Ting, Practice Innovation Manager, and Molly Wolfe, Knowledge Management lawyer - both at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. They discuss their work with Jigsaw on a real estate deal involving 700 properties to generate automatic structure charts for the deal. The resulting technology won ILTA’s 2021 Distinguished Peer Trailblazer Award.
Ari Kaplan speaks with Ebru Metin, founder, and CEO of Legal Design Turkey, about the appeal of legal design in the profession generally and in Turkey specifically. They also discuss the practical applications for legal design, the connection between legal tech and legal design, and career change best practices.
Taking a proactive and integrated approach to talent management appears obvious, but many firms struggle to do it correctly. Adrian Pylypec, VP, Cochran Client Development, leads a panel discussion on what law firms need to do to win the battle for talent and prevent attrition.
Legal tech journalist, Bob Ambrogi, leads a panel discussion on the results of a recent Litera report into the adoption of technology in Mergers and Acquisitions practice. It finds widespread adoption of software tools specific to M&A practice and reveals the changing attitudes of M&A lawyers toward the benefits and impact of technology on their work and teams.
Bob Ambrogi leads a panel discussion with Adrianne Linares, Jared Correia, and Theo Lister on the findings from a recent survey of the legal industry. It looks specifically at how technology, mobile devices, and AI are shaping the industry in 2022 and beyond. Some of the survey findings may surprise you, and others may not.
Lawyer and legal journalist Bob Ambrogi leads an expert panel to discuss the findings of a new report, “Betting on the Post-Covid Future: The Litera PitchBook Venture Capital Report,” which analyzes the venture capital market. His guests, Sherry Kappel, Evangelist at Litera, and Alex Lykken, Senior Analyst at PitchBook, consider the implications for lawyers and the legal industry.
Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider, talks with Susan Sommers, Director, KM Innovation and Solutions at Ogletree Deakins, about the revamp of its SharePoint Online-based ODConnect platform, which won the ILTA Transformative Project of the Year Award in 2021. ODConnect provides a central location for Ogletree Deakins' systems, resources, and applications.
Adriana Linares talks with Chris Draper, Chief Technology Officer at Third Coast Commodities LLC and former Director of Trokt, provider of end-to-end workflow management platforms for contract management, execution, and validation. They discuss his involvement in the development of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) standards, and other challenges facing legal: access to justice, law schools, the importance of data, and intellectual property protection.
Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel interviews legal management consultant George Rudoy about trends in law firms and corporate legal departments. As a consultant to both firms and in-house legal, Rudoy has a unique perspective on an industry emerging from the pandemic.
Litera’s VP, Go-to-Market, Drafting, shares stories of successful legal technology adoption with two law firm technology leaders.
Litera Evangelist Curt Meltzer speaks with three experts in driving technology adoption in law firms. The conversation focuses on aspects of adoptions such as communications, planning, understanding the underlying problems, and using metrics to show ROI.
Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel interviews Tiffany Graves, pro bono counsel at Bradley, about the state of Access to Justice generally, and the role that law firm pro bono programs can play. They discuss the important advances in technology that have taken place in part because of the need to connect people virtually during the pandemic. Graves also provides some advice to lawyers who might want to engage more in Access to Justice activities and initiatives.
Litera’s Global Head of Corporate Development Haley Altman is joined by Richard Susskind for this podcast from Litera’s Changing Lawyer Summit. Susskind has been a well-known observer of innovation in the legal space for many years, and his recent book, on Online Courts and the Future of Justice, has been a timely source of guidance as courts have automated processes during the pandemic. Altman and Susskind discuss recent legal innovation developments from the point of view of the courts, law firms, clients, and legal tech providers in this wide-ranging look at the state of innovation.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) issues have become more pronounced during the pandemic. Litera Sales Director Abhijat Saraswat is joined by a panel discussing the ways that technology can assist DEI professionals in building a new way of working. Using technology and data to change the way work is allocated was one of the key strategies the panel focused on.
Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel hosts seven legal technology and innovation experts who have guided their organizations through the pandemic and into a new world. They describe an industry that is seeing some genuinely profound shifts in the way lawyers and firms think about the role of technology in their work and their organizations.
Pieter van der Hoeven, Senior Director of Business Development at Litera and co-founder of Clocktimizer hosts Jessica Davis, Director of Matter Performance and Service Innovation at McCarter & English, for a discussion of the ways that smart use of data can enhance pricing and Legal Project Management practices in a law firm.
Mandy Neske, Sales Director for Litera’s Objective Manager offering, led a Changing Lawyer Summit panel that provided insight into the ways that technology is enabling more robust and well-executed strategic planning processes in law firms.
Litera’s Former Senior Director, Firm Intelligence Cindy Thurston Bare is joined by Simpson Thatcher’s Director of Knowledge Management, Tanisha Little and Director of Data Analytics Andrew Baker to talk about how law firms can become more data-centric.
Ari Kaplan interviews Traci Jenkins, Director of Career Development, Venable LLP. They discuss the most common career development questions, the increasingly competitive market for legal talent, how the role of the president of the National Association for Law Placement has changed, the timing of on-campus interviewing, and ways that law firms are improving their approach to hiring and retaining diverse talent.
In this episode, Joe Borstein of LexFusion interviews David Wang, Chief Innovation Officer at Wilson Sonsini. Wang describes how working with Silicon Valley tech companies made keeping up with technology an imperative for the firm. He describes the many ways that technology is not only transforming legal work, but also providing new opportunities and career paths for lawyers.
Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider speaks with four leaders of legal tech and Alternative Legal Services providers about the “Great Resignation.” They share insights on what’s really happening in the legal talent market, and how their companies are influencing, and being influenced by, the new legal labor market dynamics.
Host Sherry Kappel, speaks with Aaron Wenner, CEO of CiteRight, and Haley Altman, Litera’s Global Head of Corporate Development and author of the Legal Tech Adoption Jenga series of articles at Law.com. Using CiteRight’s experience as an example, they describe the key steps and strategies that are necessary to ensure that legal technology, once acquired, is successfully implemented and adopted by lawyers.
Ari Kaplan interviews Jennifer Miller, general counsel and chief legal officer, Starship Technologies, which is a company building a network of autonomous delivery robots. They discuss the unique legal issues that arise at a robot manufacturing company, best practices for selecting outside counsel who can support novel legal or regulatory challenges, how the role of the general counsel has changed as a result of the pandemic, and advice for law firm leaders striving to exceed the expectations of their in-house clients.
In this podcast, Bob Ambrogi leads an expert panel discusson on the findings from the Annual Litera M&A Trends Report. The panel discusses how the current market presents significant challenges for corporate lawyers, who have a core responsibility of helping their clients avoid buyer’s remorse down the line.
Two Litera insiders, Matt Miller, VP Product Management Drafting, and Matt James, VP Go-to-Market Drafting, discuss how they use insights from analytics and data to drive innovation and the end-user experience at Litera. Data enables them to respond to firms when they want to know how users are using the products and how can they get a better return on their investment.
Bob Ambrogi leads an expert panel to discuss some of the key findings from The Changing Lawyer 2021 report: the boom in legal technology adoption; how lawyers are now working more efficiently than ever before; how savvy firms are gaining a competitive edge; and how lawyers can deliver new client value.
Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider, talks with Onit founder and CEO Eric Elfman about BusyLamp - its fourth acquisition in less than twelve months. They talk about the strategy behind the acquisition and other recent acquisitions as a whole and the maturing of the legal tech market, particularly when it comes to legal spend.
Joe Borstein talks with Evan Shenkman about innovation in the legal industry, which has seen an explosion of talent and start-ups in recent years. Tremendous advances are being made, for example, in leveraging parallel search to find similar concepts in cases rather than using keywords. This is a huge help to litigators. Closer to home, Fisher Phillips’ COVID-19 Employment Litigation Tracker is the go-to resource for information on the uptick of claims across the US.
Ari Kaplan talks with Olivier Wouters, Managing Partner at Claeys & Engels, about how the firm leverages technology to support its clients; how lawyers collaborate with knowledge management teams: the challenges of deploying new applications internally, the benefits of technology to enhance firm marketing; and advice for other partners on whether to launch new initiatives.
Caroline Hill talks with David Wang about his work at Wilson Sonsini on Neuron, a proprietary platform that automates and digitizes legal processes for start-ups. Also, how the platform integrates with Morgan Stanley at Work’s Shareworks platform to read and write capitalization data directly into Shareworks thru an API.
Adriana Linares talks with Colin Levy about the growth of in-house legal counsel over outside counsel in recent years. Also, what technology and basic skills should lawyers have in place, irrespective of how big or small the legal department.
Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider talks with Kevin Gold about the Mischon de Reya strategic "combination" agreement with Top 50 UK law firm Taylor Vinters - an agreement that looks to future-proof their respective businesses by being the advisers to disruptive companies that will drive the future economy.
In his latest podcast, Ari Kaplan talks with Amy Barasch about the mission of Her Justice, how the organization leverages technology to empower its efforts, ways it collaborates with pro bono attorneys remotely, and its March 2021 report: Towards Justice for Parents in Child Support Courts
CEO of LexFusion, Joe Borstein, and Stephen Poor, Chair Emeritus at Seyfarth Shaw, discuss how the business and practice of law have evolved since 2001 in terms of technology adoption, globalization, regulation, and outside investment in the legal profession. Both conclude that the pace of change will accelerate because of the pandemic as people realize technology can enhance the delivery of legal services.
In this podcast, Ari Kaplan discusses how legal issues associated with the cloud have evolved with technology law attorney, Bert Kaminski. They also look at the value of law firm practice experience, the mission of the Quantum Strategy Institute, the value of certifications for legal professionals, skills that enhance competitiveness, and the changing dynamics of legal education.
Legal tech journalist Bob Ambrogi leads an expert panel discussion on how legal teams can transform deal management by leveraging technologies that simplify the process to make it less onerous, more secure, and more transparent for lawyers and their clients.
Bob Ambrogi discusses Litera's acquisition strategy with CEO Avaneesh Marwaha. Since 2016 Litera has embarked on a buy, build, innovate acquisition strategy. As a result, the company has grown but also evolved from its initial document drafting focus to become a major player in the transaction and litigation space. This year it entered the world of data to provide firms the information and insight they need to run successful firms.
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