Elevate.Together.Podcast.

From a 5-day to a 24-hour turnaround The Impact Podcast features Dan Coll, Senior Associate General Counsel and Caleb Bendix, Deputy General Counsel at Jabil. Our podcast host is Steve Harmon, COO and General Counsel of Elevate. Listen in as our guests outline two examples of implementing change within Jabil. The first features a procurement centre of excellence and support model about efficiency,...

“You take no risks; you make no money.” This Elevate. Together. Podcast. Impact episode features the Chief Legal Officer of NetApp, Beth O'Callahan, and the podcast host, Steve Harmon, the COO and General Counsel of Elevate. Beth and Steve discuss implementing change, how change can motivate and challenge a team, and that success should be measured by looking at metrics and the organization's valu...

Lawyers Spending More Time Lawyering This impact episode podcast features Brett Durand, Legal Operations Director at Sempra, and our host for this podcast is Elevate’s COO and General Counsel, Steve Harmon. Brett and Steve discuss implementing positive change, featuring two projects at Sempra, implementing iManage, and adopting Elevate’s invoice review solution. 00:55 Brett Durand from patent law...

From the Mailroom to the Boardroom, You Have To Connect With the Humans In this Impact episode, Aarash Darroodi, Fender's General Counsel and Executive Vice President, and Elevate's COO and General Counsel, Steve Harmon, discuss implementing change, specifically the need to insist and engage to ensure inclusion and diversity within legal. The conversation continues with the discussion on legal pro...

Using Data, Implementing Change, and Improving Productivity The Impact podcast you're about to hear features Senior Director and Head of Legal Operations at Twilio, Andy Krebs, and Steve Harmon, Elevate's COO and General Counsel. Steve, Andy, and Elevate CMO Nicole Giantonio discuss planning for and executing a strategy to establish Twilio as a highly efficient world-class law department. 00:...

How many contract templates is the correct number? This Impact Podcast features Mike Russell, the Head of Global Legal Operations for Expedia Group, and Steve Harmon, Elevate's COO and General Counsel. Mike and Steve discuss two change initiatives and the impacts of those changes. The first outlines the deconstruction and rebuilding of litigation processes for a large manufacturing organisation. T...

The Commute and the Hybrid Work Model In the second two-part podcast series, Director Paula Forbes talks with Daniel Hogan, an Engagement Manager in our flexible legal resourcing who leads our Asia pack initiatives from Australia. Paula and Daniel touch on trends they’re seeing today and what’s next in legal resourcing.  [01:13] Work from home, return to the office, and hybrid work models – w...

Start Smart When It Comes to Your CLM Implementation Executing your CLM implementation smart is the topic of this lively podcast.  Listen in and hear how the CLM market has changed the world of corporate contracting.  Join two of the industry’s most knowledgeable resources, Bernadette Bulacan, Chief Evangelist at Icertis and Kami Paulsen, Managing Director at Elevate, for this...

Don’t Panic and Take a Deep Breath. An Expert series podcast, this episode covers data breaches from three angles – legal, technology, and services.  Our host for this podcast is James Manari, a Vice President at Elevate, and our three industry experts introduce themselves at the beginning of the podcast.     [00:47] Meet our guests: Melissa Ventrone, the Business Uni...

Australia and Others Practicing More Flexibly.  This Expert series podcast highlights two leaders from Elevate's flexible legal resourcing business, ElevateFlex. Elevate Director, Paula Forbes, talks with Dan Hogan, an ElevateFlex Engagement Manager, leading our Asia-Pac Initiatives for Australia. Paula and Dan touch on two unique years, trends they are seeing today, and what's next in legal...

Creating a Simplified Customer Experience Late in 2021, Elevate was the first law company to be granted an Alternative Business Structure license in the US by the Arizona Supreme Court. This Expert podcast features Elevate's CEO Liam Brown, our General Counsel, Steve Harmon and the Co-founders and Partners in Elevate's law firm, Nicole Auerbach and Pat Lamb. Crispin Passmore hosts this podcast epi...

Get To the Point of Peak Value, Then Move On Please enjoy this Next Normal Leadership series episode featuring Elevate's Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talking with Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, Head of Legal Operations at Intel and the president of CLOC, Mike Haven. Liam and Mike discuss the different areas of life that require leadership, the value in followership, and balancing pro...

Elevate Is Running a Differentiated Race. With great pleasure, we share this podcast episode featuring members of the Elevate corporate management team and our functional leadership.  The topics covered stem from Elevate having completed ten years providing consulting, technology, and services in the legal industry, and the occasion of Elevate reaching $100M in revenue, which will occur...

Trying to Package Privilege This podcast episode features Elevate President John Croft talking with the CEO and founder of the 93% Club, Herbert Smith Freehills' associate, Sophie Pender. Sophie describes her background, education experience and the work of the 93% Club to clear a path for legal professionals from non-traditional socio-economic backgrounds. [00:43] A person's socio-economic backgr...

Rid Your Lawyers of Transactional Work - And Make Your Budget Go Further   We’re pleased to share this Impact Podcast featuring an Elevate customer implementing transformative change. In this episode, Elevate Vice President Jake Hills talks with Strategic Resource Operations, Senior Manager GAT Legal Operations at Intel, Andy Krebs. Andy and Jake discuss ground-breaking legal cost savings ini...

A Race to the Bottom Welcome to an Expert series podcast featuring our former colleague and head of our eDiscovery and document review business, John Reikes. John is now the CEO of High Impact, a studio which specializes in litigation-related graphics. On this podcast, John talks with eDiscovery leader Jeff Fehrman, Vice President at Reveal Brainspace.  Jeff and John discuss eD...

Hours and Hours of Boredom Filled With Sheer Seconds of Terror Welcome to a special edition of the Elevate. Together. Podcast. Inside the Engine Room, where we highlight the stories and people who help bring you Elevate's award-winning products and services.   Our host for this series is Dr. Daniel Katz, Vice President of Data Science and Innovation at Elevate.  His guest...

A Legal Team Took on the Might of the Post Office This Impact series podcast episode features Elevate's Vice President of Get Shit Done, Stephen Allen, talking with James Hartley, the National Head of Litigation and Disputes Advisory at Freeths.  Stephen and James review HUGE complex litigation that resulted in success for the Freeths team - on behalf of a significant group of claimants....

Technology, Process, Content and People Stephen Allen, Vice President of Get Shit Done at Elevate, had the pleasure of hosting a talk with Dr. Roger Strathausen and Elevate’s Rob Couch.   Dr. Roger Strathausen is a business consultant and acting Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Liquid Legal Institute, a non-profit association committed to promoting digitalisation in the le...

Constantly Loop and Improve Tracey Yurko is the Chief Legal Officer for Bridgewater Associates. Bridgewater is a global macro hedge front located in Westport, Connecticut, with 150 billion dollars of assets under management. [01:14] Tracey's role, leading the hedge fund legal department. [04:18] Her role has evolved over the last year. [06:57] ‘There's a whole bunch of work that needs to get done,...

Innovation is a sum of steps and tweaks.  Part of our Next Normal leadership series, this episode features Elevate's Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talking with Reena SenGupta, CEO and creator of FT Innovative Lawyers. Reena and Liam talk about leadership, innovation, and becoming digital.  Reena leads RSG consulting, the FT Innovative Lawyers Programme, and is a special membership a...

The Accelerating Use of Analytics. Welcome to another edition of Inside the Engine Room with Dan Katz, Vice President of Data Science and Innovation at Elevate. The Inside, the Engine Room series, focuses on the stories and people who bring Elevate's award-winning products and services to our customers.  For this episode, Dan is joined by Warren Agin, the Managing Director of Produc...

Do the Right Thing. This podcast episode is part of our Expert series featuring Elevate's, Steven Allen, Vice President of Get Shi*t Done, talking with Susan Bright, Global Managing Partner for Diversity and Inclusion and Responsible Business at Hogan Lovells. Susan and Steven discuss innovation, creating change, ESG, and Diversity and Inclusion.   [01:05] Susan has a passion for diversity an...

Celebrating A New Decade. In celebration of our tenth anniversary, Elevate brought 9 of our co-founders together for a conversation.  This 15 min podcast episode includes highlights from that discussion.   [00:27] Listen in as Kunoor Chopra reflects on early discussions to join Elevate and the essential and immediate support of those first customers [02:09] Pratik Patel, VP of...

Just do it. In this episode, industry colleague and former Elevate leader Jon Kenton interviews KWM's Michelle Mahoney and Elevate's Pratik Patel.  Jon, Michelle, and Pratik discuss structured innovation and executing an experimentation phase to work through steps, including transition to BAU. [00:48] Our guests start by agreeing on what innovation is… [03:01] Applying&nbs...