Adventures In Legal Tech

I talked with Brooke Lively about strategies for managing law firm finances using software and business intelligence tools. Highlights Who is Brooke Lively? The place she enjoys the most. - 4:02 What Key Performance Indicator is and what does it have to do with law firms? - 5:01 The importance of knowing your firm's Key Performance Indicators. - 6:11 Are attorneys getting more savvy in improving t...

I talked with David Colarusso of Suffolk University Law School about technology that promotes access to justice. Highlights David's approach of using Zoom backgrounds for conferences. - 2:30 What access to justice is. - 4:12 Experimenting with limited scope representations. - 7:27 To what extent do for-profit companies solve the problem? - 11:39 Views on document assembly and outworks, and access...

I talked with Jeffrey Wolff of iPro about trends in eDiscovery affecting law firms and corporate legal departments. Highlights Icebreaker: Jeffrey's guilty pleasure food that he's not telling anyone about. - 2:43 The benefits of e-discovery software for lawyers. - 4:15 The trends in e-discovery that law firms should be aware of. - 6:58 Should a smaller firm utilize a different software? - 8:14 The...

I talked with Niki Black (MyCase), Sara Bottorff (Lawmatics), and Dan Jacobs (LawRuler) about how law firms can use customer relationship management software in their law practices. Highlights March Madness: What happened to the NCAA tournament? - 3:05 What are the practical effects on operations of law firms focusing more on customer experience? - 5:21 Why is it important for law firms to have a...

Jared welcomes Ernie Svenson for today's episode. Ernie assists small firm lawyers in developing automated, stress-free processes that allow them to get things done quickly — even while working remotely. He first learned about blog software in 2002, and he began to experiment with it to see if it was worthwhile to use and what it could accomplish. And there's always the tried-and-true "get your br...

Jared welcomes Steve Seckler of Seckler Legal Recruiting and Coaching for today's episode. Steve is a career counselor for attorneys with over 25 years of experience in marketing, career progression, and job transitions. He has assisted hundreds of lawyers in expanding their practices, enhancing their job satisfaction, and increasing their leadership effectiveness. Steve dedicated his legal career...

For today's episode, Jared welcomes Jason Foscolo of Jason Foscolo PLLC. Jason is a Principal Attorney at Jason Foscolo PLLC, a unique firm on its own: It's a subscription-based, general practice law firm that specializes in farm and food business. He's been a practicing lawyer in the State of New York since 2002 and specializes in general counsel and legal services on food labeling compliance, co...

What's the impact of artificial intelligence in the legal tech world and law practice? Should law firms and lawyers start incorporating AI into their practice? For this episode, Jared welcomes Catherine Casey and Nick Whitehouse. Together, they talked about their legal week experience, especially with Nick traveling all the way from New Zealand to attend the event. Jared, Catherine, and Nick also...

Can technology make it easier for law firms to collect payments? For lawyers, how can it become easier for them to start tracking their time? For this new episode, Jared welcomes Scott Clasen, VP of ProfitSolv. ProfitSolv is a comprehensive suite of payments, billing, and software solutions for accounting, legal, and other professional services. Using their powerful and easy-to-use solutions, Prof...

With the advent of technology, will law firms move forward despite the pandemic? Jared welcomes Jim McGinnis, CEO of MyCase. MyCase is a premier cloud-based legal practice management software. It enables law firms to run efficiently from anywhere, provide an amazing client experience, and easily track firm performance in order to achieve their business objectives. In this episode, Jim explains the...

How does acquisition take place? What are the factors that you need to consider when acquiring a business, especially the established ones? In today's episode, Jared welcomes Cain Elliott, the VP of Market Expansion at Filevine. Cain shares about his love and passion for skiing and snowboarding as well as acquiring different businesses. He also talks about the process on how Filevine obtains diffe...

In this episode, Jared sits with VIQ Solutions Executive Vice President of Product and Strategy Elizabeth Vanneste, and NetDocuments co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Alvin Tedjamulia to discuss document management. Lawyers spend so much time creating, maintaining, and managing documents. Document management increases productivity and efficiency within the law firm. Their conversation revolv...

What's a Law Practice Management System? What's the purpose of using it? How does it help a firm or a lawyer in their day-to-day workflows  and business operations? These are just a few of the questions that Jared, along with his guests, Joshua Lenon of Clio, Dr. Cain Elliot of Filevine, Matt Spiegel of Lawmatics, Tomas Suros of AbacusNext, and Karrtik Rao of Moxtra answered. Together, they discus...

It is important for lawyers to stay on top of their game in terms of technology so what are the latest innovations in technology that law firms should adopt? Metaverse welcomes lawyers to help their clients in a more high tech way. To learn more about this new technology, Jared welcomes Mitch Jackson of Jackson & Wilson. Mitch talks about what metaverse is and why lawyers should start caring and u...

What does it take for law firms and legal professionals to move from analog to digital? Is it a real requirement? For today's show, Jared welcomes John Strohmeyer of the Strohmeyer Law PLLC and the voice behind the Five Star Counsel. Together, they talk about firms moving from analog to digital. John also discusses the high-touch approach and what he noticed over the years. He introduces the conce...

Jared talked to Matt DenOuden and Sam Kidd on how to leverage matter and legal spend management software for in-house legal teams. Highlights What is the latest in the legal space? - 1:00 Value of leveraging software for managing matters - 4:40 Value Proposition Software on matter management of in-house legal teams - 6:15 How can software manage and control legal spending? - 7:42 Benchmarking lega...

More law firms are using the eDiscovery software for their electronic documents and information for litigation. It's a solution that many legal professionals find easy to use and analyze data. But why are there still law firms that are not switching to eDiscovery software? Jared welcomes Steve Ankenbrandt, Brian McHughs, and Alisa McLellan. Together, they discuss the value of using eDiscovery soft...

Do law firms need to upgrade their tools and software? What's the best option to use? Jared welcomes Nick Werker, Cain Elliott, and Matt Spiegel to talk about CRM software in the legal industry. Each of the guests shared their inputs and thoughts about why it's taking law firms to start using CRMs. They also discuss the best pathways and used phases for the software and what are their favorite KPI...

Artificial intelligence or AI is proven to improve communication, sales, and customer service for different industries. It can ensure cybersecurity defense, improve data gathering analysis, and even engage employees and customers. Can it also improve the processes in the legal world? Jared welcomes Nick Whitehouse of Onit to talk about AI and how it can help improve legal firms. Nick answers sever...

Privacy and information security are two of the general practices that attorneys and law firms need to follow. Lawyers need to protect their communications with their clients from being disclosed to others. Gone are the days where law firms have to make copies, file, and store their data in large storage areas: with improvement in technology comes Electronic Discovery or eDiscovery. What is eDisco...

Accuracy in time and billing is important for law firms and attorneys. Technology can enable lawyers and law firms to accurately track their time, process billing, and receive payments for their services rendered. But the big question is: What's the best technology to use? In today's episode, Jared talks to Scott Clasen and Jordan Turk about the topics of Time, Billing, and Payments. Scott and Jor...

Legal research is an important process for a lot of law firms. It helps check for legal precedents and can be used to look for answers to different legal questions. Jared welcomes legal research expert Rob Foil to talk about legal research and how technology helps legal research. Rob talks about the checklist that he's following whenever he's talking to law firms about making decisions on legal re...

Contracts are considered as a lifeline not only for lawyers but also for law firms. Without contracts, making and enforcing agreements may not happen. Believe it or not, about 83% of law firms and lawyers are not using contract management software to streamline their processes. Jared sits down with Rik Nauta, Will Reynolds, Jerry Levine and Kevin Miller to talk about using contract management soft...

For lawyers and law firms, documentation is held in high regard. Managing documents and maintaining templates, making them accessible to both staff and clients are on the top priority of those in the legal profession. Jared welcomes Cain Elliott, Jenni Davenport, and Chris Cangero to talk about documentation. They talked about some tips and best practices as well as trends in document management f...

Jared interviews Ruchie Chada, Rohit Parekh, Nikhita Iyar, Claude Simpson, and Joshua Lenon about the Law Practice Management Software being used by several law firms today. Each guest shares not only about the latest trend in law practice management but also what they think about the future trends in law practice management software. Highlights Introducing the guests of today's show. - 1:20 The m...