Legal Innovation Talks: Recent Episodes
Legal Innovation Council
This is a podcast driven by the Legal Innovation Council to provide a medium in which legal thought leaders from around the world can express their ideas and lessons. The podcast is hosted by Steven Pulver, the founder of a legal technology company known as MinuteBox. We hope you enjoy our podcast!
We all know that delegation is essential for growing a practice. However, many don't truly understand how to do so and are stuck with worrying about making mistakes. In come's Dina!
In this episode, Dina, the founder of Outsource Easier, helps elaborate to the community the benefits of delegating and outsourcing - especially if you're a law practice of 1-50 team members.
Additionally, Dina also gives some information to the value of building community and culture. It plays a critical role in success with delegation, outsourcing, and the growth of law practices - and should not be overlooked.
As Dina also refers to in the podcast, she is hosting an event on September 8th, 2020, discussing the three ways you can begin delegating now.
You can find the link to this event here: https://www.outsourceeasier.com/delegate-right-now/
If you want to get in touch with Dina, we suggest checking out her Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinalyncheisenberg
and visit her website: https://www.outsourceeasier.com
Additionally, if you would be interested in being on the podcast, please follow the brief form below:
https://legalinnovation.typeform.com/to/reI7Oq
Enjoy!
Marlon Hylton is known for his ability to look at problems at a higher level than most, making him a powerful voice in the legal innovation space.
"If a top tier traditional law firm and a tech startup had a baby - this is what it would be"
In this conversation, Steven and Marlon discuss how, as a community, we can and need to push legal forward and take a deeper dive into the fantastic work that Marlon does with his organization INNOV-8 Data Counsel & INNOV-8 Legal Inc.
To learn more about INNOV-8 - please check out: https://innov-8.ca/
In 2009, Michele Allinotte started her own legal practice - Journey Law. Since then, she has grown her practice and has learned many lessons along the way. In Steven's conversation with Michele they dive into some of these key lessons and Michele provides some helpful recommendations to individuals looking to take the leap from big law to starting their own practice.
The way that student programs are executed in the legal space has created an area of wasted opportunity.
There are a many students who don't get the opportunity to article or 'intern' at a law firm during law school. Additionally, many students in the legal space only have the chance to practice one facet of law during their internship.
We welcomed Hayley Leviashvili, the founder gigLAW to talk about this a bit more, and her solution to this problem.
Integrating tech into a legal practice can be intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. In this podcast, Steven Pulver has a discussion with the founder of Momentum law, Megan Cornell, regarding the power of integrating technology into legal practice, and how it starts by using what you are already comfortable with.
Additionally, Megan also discusses a program planned to start this fall for business lawyers looking to learn the ropes of creating an innovative legal practice.
There is much more to being an excellent law firm than just giving advice, counselling, and helping clients navigate legal matters. How clients perceive working with a law firm through these various initiatives is especially important, but is sometimes considered an afterthought.
Meghan Booth, a Business Development Professional for CEO Law, helps us dive deeper into the client experience and the business development side of law.
Ridhey is apart of the inaugural cohort for the Ryerson Law Program and is a thought leader in the legal space. She is taking her next steps at such a historical time in law. This conversation will provide insight into what may lie ahead for legal, why she chose Ryerson Law and her fascinating journey of becoming an atypical lawyer.
To get a little bit more insight into Ridhey, please check out:
www.ridhey.ca
On this week's podcast, we spoke with Romesh Hettiarachchi, the founder of Lawtrepreneur, and discussed what it means to be a modern law firm.
Throughout the conversation with Romesh, we discuss some of the misconceptions of a modern law firm and investigate why he decided to create Lawtrepreneur and start his practice.
If you want to learn more about Lawtrepreneur please check out: lawtrepreneur
In this episode Meyer Mechanic, Vaultie's COO, will illustrate what goes into making digital signatures safe and how Vaultie is trying to evolve the way the law firms look at digital signatures' security.
Steven and Meyer also discuss some of the roadblocks they have faced while growing their own legal technology companies, and from this, where they see legal technology headed in the future.
Legal marketing and business development consultant, Heather Suttie, helps us dive deeper into the topic. Throughout Steven Pulver's conversation with Heather, they examine topics variating from the optimal go-to-market strategy for law firms, to how she decided to pursue her current career after her time at the firm Ernst & Young.