Ep 088: ASG LegalTech’s Acquisition Of Headnote: The Two CEOs Discuss
In this exclusive LawNext interview recorded in advance of the announcement of ASG LegalTech’s acquisition of electronic payments company Headnote, host Bob Ambrogi speaks with the two companies’ CEOs:...
View ArticleEp 089: Joe Borstein of LexFusion and Basha Rubin of Priori Legal on...
In this exclusive LawNext interview recorded in advance of the Oct. 1, 2020, launch of LexFusion, we get a first look at the new company from guests Joe Borstein, a legal industry veteran and one of...
View ArticleEp 090: Lex Machina Chairman Josh Becker’s ‘Exit Interview’ from Legal Tech
Sept. 30, 2020, was Josh Becker’s last day in legal tech, at least for the time being, as he pursues his campaign for election to the California state Senate in the district that encompasses Silicon...
View ArticleEp 091: Legalweek Head Mark Fried on Making the Conference Virtual
After much speculation about the future of Legalweek – one of the world’s largest and most-anticipated legal technology and legal business conferences – the conference’s organizers announced on Oct. 1...
View ArticleEp 092: Rocket Lawyer Founder Charley Moore
In September, Rocket Lawyer became the first national company approved to participate in Utah’s regulatory sandbox, a pilot program for licensing new and alternative forms of legal providers and...
View ArticleEp 093: Solo Inti Martinez-Alemán’s Award-Winning Approach to Client Service
A solo serving the Hispanic community in St. Paul, Minn., Inti Martinez-Alemán knew from the day he opened his Ceiba Forte Law Firm that he wanted to take a creative approach to client service. It...
View ArticleEp 094: Nicole Morris on Emory’s Innovative TI:GER Program
Nicole N. Morris is a professor in practice at Emory University School of Law and director of the TI:GER program (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results), an innovative partnership...
View ArticleEp 095: Priori Legal Cofounders Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt on their $6.3M...
The legal marketplace Priori Legal today announced a $6.3 million Series A financing, with existing investors joined by several legal industry heavyweights. In this special edition of LawNext, the...
View ArticleEp 096: Clio CEO Jack Newton and VP of Product Mik Lernout on the Changing...
The practice management company Clio recently released its annual Legal Trends Report, based on analysis of data from tens of thousands of legal professionals and surveys of legal professionals and...
View ArticleEp 097: Lauren Sudeall on Legal Deserts and Other Obstacles to Access to Justice
A recent report from the American Bar Association portrayed the nation’s legal deserts – large swaths of the country in which there are few or no lawyers. That report followed from a 2018 paper...
View ArticleEp 098: Stevie Ghiassi on Legaler, Legaler Aid and the Global Legal Tech Report
To say that Stevie Ghiassi is a busy man is an understatement. In addition to founding Legaler, a secure video meeting platform for lawyers, the Australia-born entrepreneur is the founder of the...
View ArticleEp 099: John Tredennick On His New Company Merlin and the Magic of Open Source
After Catalyst, the pioneering cloud-based e-discovery company he founded and spent 19 years building, sold last year to OpenText for $75 million, John Tredennick was not ready to sit back and rest on...
View ArticleEp 100: Suffolk Law Dean Andrew Perlman On Innovating Legal Education and...
Andrew Perlman is one of the nation’s leading forces helping to establish the future of legal education and legal practice. As a professor and now dean at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, he...
View ArticleEp 101: BlackBoiler Founder Dan Broderick On Automating Contract Markup
Dan Broderick believes businesses waste billions in repetitive work reviewing and negotiating semantically similar contracts. As a former lawyer, he saw the problem first-hand. It led him to found...
View ArticleEp 102: Founder-Turned-VC Jules Miller On Investing In Legal Tech
Jules Miller knows what it is to be a legal tech entrepreneur. She is a three-time founder, twice of legal tech companies: Hire an Esquire in 2012 and Evolve Law in 2015. Now a partner in venture...
View ArticleEp 103: The Founders of Findlaw and Justia on 25 Years of Making Law Free
Twenty-five years ago, in the still-fledgling days of the web, the husband-and-wife team of Tim Stanley and Stacy Stern founded FindLaw and quickly developed it into the most highly trafficked legal...
View ArticleEp 104: Special Episode: ASG LegalTech Rebrands As Paradigm
ASG LegalTech, a portfolio company composed of four leading legal practice products — PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase and Headnote — has introduced a new brand for itself, Paradigm, to better...
View ArticleEp 105: Leaders of Fastcase and Casemaker Discuss their Merger
Just a few days into 2021 came news that could end up being one of the biggest legal technology stories of the year. On Jan. 5, two leading legal research companies, Casemaker and Fastcase – two...
View ArticleEp 106: AltaClaro’s Abdi Shayesteh on Developing ‘Rocket Fuel for Legal...
Legal technology company AltaClaro describes itself as “rocket fuel for legal skills training. It uses a unique experiential framework based on education science, with mock transactions and live...
View ArticleEp 107: Was the Pandemic A Tipping Point for Law Firms?
As we begin to look ahead to a post-pandemic world, what will the legal market look like in 2021 and beyond? Has the pandemic’s impact on law firms resulted in a tipping point that will forever alter...
View ArticleEp 108: Kira’s Cofounders on 10 Years in Business and their New Book on AI in...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Kira Systems, the first company to develop AI-powered contract analysis, technology that is now becoming commonplace in the legal profession. To mark the...
View ArticleEp 109: Coca-Cola GC Bradley Gayton On His Dramatic Demand for Diversity
Barely six months into his new position as senior vice president and general counsel for The Coca-Cola Company, Bradley M. Gayton has taken dramatic action to increase diversity and inclusion among the...
View ArticleEp 110: LaunchFactory Has Legal Tech Ideas, Now It Seeks Founders To Run With...
Have you ever wanted to found a tech company but needed the right idea? A California company called LaunchFactory has the ideas and is looking for founders to take them on – including in the legal tech...
View ArticleEp 111: Varun Mehta On His Momentous First Year Leading ALSP Factor
In January 2020, Axiom Managed Services, one of two companies spun off in 2019 from alternative legal services provider Axiom, rebranded as Factor, a move the company characterized as a relaunch, and...
View ArticleEp 112: Evisort CEO Jerry Ting on the Future of Contracts Tech
Contract lifecycle management has become one of the hottest sectors of legal tech in recent years, and within that sector, Evisort, founded in 2016, has become one of the hottest companies,...
View ArticleEp 113: Mayer Brown’s New Global Chief Innovation Officer Amol Bargaje
You have just been named global chief innovation officer for one of the world's largest law firms. Where and how do you start? That is one of the questions we put to Amol Bargaje, whom Mayer Brown...
View ArticleEp 114: How 30-Year-Old Agiloft Is Making Waves In The Hot CLM Market
No sector of the legal technology market is hotter right now than contract lifecycle management. And while that sector is crowded with companies that are relative newcomers, one of the companies making...
View ArticleEp 115: BYU Law Dean Gordon Smith On His Second Term
Gordon Smith has just been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. Two years after becoming dean in 2016, he told an audience of law...
View ArticleEp 116: Rudy DeFelice and Jeff Marple of Keesal Propulsion Labs
Jeffrey Marple, who has gained a national reputation for law department innovation in his role as director of innovation for corporate legal at Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, has moved to Keesal...
View ArticleEp 117: Former Allen & Overy Managing Partner Andrew Ballheimer and Factor...
It was recently announced that Andrew Ballheimer, who retired last October as global managing partner at Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy, one of the largest law firms in the world, has joined...
View ArticleEp 118: The State of Legal Tech in Europe and Russia, with ELTA President...
Throughout Europe and Eastern Europe, Holger Zscheyge is widely regarded as a leading authority on legal technology and innovation. President of the European Legal Technology Association, he is also...
View ArticleEp 119: Digital Contracting and the Future of CLM, with Ironclad CEO Jason...
Possibly the hottest market in legal tech today is contract lifecycle management, and one of the most talked-about companies in that market is Ironclad, a six-year-old startup that recently raised a...
View ArticleEp 120: CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Latest Raise and $1.6B Valuation
A new $110 million Series E financing round for legal technology company Clio puts its valuation at $1.6 billion, making it the first law practice management company to achieve unicorn status and one...
View ArticleEp 121: When A Tech Accelerator Goes Virtual: LexLab Director Drew Amerson...
LexLab, the legal innovation hub at UC Hastings Law School, recently wrapped up the fourth cohort of its legal tech accelerator program with a demo day at which the seven startup participants got to...
View ArticleEp 122: Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory...
Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court...
View ArticleEp 123: How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, With April Dawson
There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing...
View ArticleEp 124: How One Company Aims to Change the Paradigm for Law Practice Management
One of the most dynamic areas of legal tech right now is practice management, which has seen a surge of investments and acquisitions over the past year. And one of the companies that best represents...
View ArticleEp 125: The Unlikely Story of How An Insolvency Lawyer Built A Global...
There is an element of serendipity in the story of Nehal Madhani and his company Alt Legal. Even though he had been an insolvency lawyer who had never practiced trademark law, an early attempt at...
View ArticleEp 126: Founder Joshua Maley on the Theory of Theorem, A Different Kind of...
The past year has seen the launch of several legal technology marketplaces, but Theorem LTS aims to be something more — an integrated legal technology ecosystem to power workflow-driven tech adoption...
View ArticleEp 127: How An Idea Borrowed from Football Is Driving Law Firm Diversity
New findings show that law firms that piloted the Mansfield Rule have grown the racial and ethnic diversity of their leadership by more than 30 times the rate of other firms. These firms have also...
View ArticleEp 128: Defining the ‘Future Ready’ Lawyer, with Wolters Kluwer VPs Martin...
As the legal profession continues to transform and evolve, how can a law firm or legal department be “future ready”? What are the characteristics that define future-ready organizations and foretell...
View ArticleEp 129: The Legal Fellows Tackling Systemic Racism in Law
The past year has laid bare, in shockingly explicit detail, the racial inequities of the justice system. Now, LexisNexis and the Historically Black Colleges and University Law School Consortium have...
View ArticleEp 130: Legal Ops Pioneer Mary Shen O’Carroll On Moving From Google To Ironclad
Mary Shen O’Carroll pioneered the field of legal operations during her 13 years as director of operations, technology and strategy at Google. She was also instrumental in forming the influential...
View ArticleEp 131: With $40M Series B, LinkSquares CEO Sets Sights On The Impossible In...
With his contract-management company having just raised $40 million in Series B funding, Linksquares cofounder and CEO Vishal Sunak is aiming for some big goals, including “to build legal tech...
View ArticleEp 132: Exclusive: How UpCounsel Avoided Shutdown and Why It Is Launching A...
Sixteen months after UpCounsel announced it would shut down, it is not only alive and well, but showing double-digit revenue growth, consistent profitability, and accelerating demand for legal services...
View ArticleEp 133: In Defense of the Billable Hour, with Apperio CEO Nicholas d’Adhemar
Does the billable hour get a bum rap? Nicholas d’Adhemar, founder and CEO of the London-based spend management company Apperio, believes so. The real culprit for out-of-control legal costs is something...
View ArticleEp 134: Zach Posner on The Legaltech Fund, the First VC Firm Dedicated to...
Zach Posner cofounded The Legaltech Fund in 2020 as the first venture capital firm laser-focused on law and legal technology. But even with that industry focus, he takes a broad view when it comes to...
View ArticleEp 135: Northwestern Law’s New Dean Hari Osofsky On Leading the School’s Next...
On Aug.1, Hari M. Osofsky took office as dean of Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, after four years as dean of Penn State Law School and nearly two decades of teaching law. Having...
View ArticleEp 136: Reregulation of Legal Services: A Panel of Five Leading Experts Discuss
There may be no more critical issue facing the legal profession than reregulation of legal services. Amid an escalating crisis in access to justice, proponents of regulatory reform argue that the only...
View ArticleEp 137: PacerPro Founder and CEO Gavin McGrane
Gavin McGrane was a litigation attorney in San Francisco when he saw an opportunity to improve how legal professionals interface with the federal courts electronic records system, PACER, and to enable...
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