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Caryn Sandler, Partner and Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer at Gilbert + Tobin, joined our Impact Podcast Series to share her experience implementing a significant and disruptive document review unit.  Her goal? Deliver the best document review solutions to clients. GT Docs is the name of this innovative, centralized document review unit and platform to support regulatory and lit...

Matt Fawcett, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer handles legal affairs worldwide at NetApp. Under his leadership, NetApp's digitally optimized legal department has earned several innovation awards. Elevate's Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, and Matt cover the concept of digital work, the burnout some are experiencing as digital workers, and transitioning from lawyer...

Karen Klein, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Relativity and Liam Brown discuss legal professionals as leaders, identifying several reasons we're seeing legal leaders advancing within a business. In this episode, Karen elaborates on leadership traits of lawyer leaders – several of which were clearly (and naturally) on display in this conversation.  Karen explains that to help ma...

Dole Food Company, Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary –  Jared Gale joins Next-Normal Leadership Series host - Liam Brown, Elevate’s CEO, to reflect on the general counsel role and the opportunity to be a business adviser with legal expertise.  As an early career firm lawyer, Jared recalls working with a General Counsel fully engaged in the company’s...

This episode features Liam Brown, Elevate’s CEO and Chairman, and Nicolette Henfrey, EVP, General Counsel and Company Secretary of the Intercontinental Hotels Group. Nicolette reflects on how IHG, a global hospitality company, managed rolling closures and the regulatory requirements for reopening. She talks about the New Normal and how IHG ensures their teams have the energy for the Next Normal. N...

In this episode, host Nicole Giantonio welcomes Nick Humphrey, Managing Partner at Hamilton Locke, to talk about how Nick and his colleagues created a law firm with a structure and culture they call ‘THRIVE’. Nick and his team spent a couple of years on research and planning to develop “THRIVE” to build a firm that is both agile and lean; focuses on client and people experience. They have built a...

This episode features Pratik Patel, the Head of Innovation at Elevate, and Joe Woods, COO at Lane Powell, a nearly 200 lawyer firm in the Pacific Northwest. Pratik and Joe talk about Technology, the transition to a work from home environment, and the results of effective technology implementation. Joe Woods describes his journey to COO, sharing insights and specifically how Lane Powell transitione...

In this episode, Brian Kuhn, Vice President & General Manager of Elevate’s Digital Strategy & Solutions Business, joins host Nicole Giantonio to discuss digital design thinking, digital transformation - which represents one-third of all IT spend globally, - and that today’s organizations are using digital to get closer to end-users by accessing know-me insights. Brian said - "The machine w...

Launching this September The Elevate. Together. Podcast. Voices of Change in the Business of Law. Each 20-minute weekly episode is an interview-style podcast with thought leaders from law departments, law firms, and law companies. We’re launching our podcast with episodes from our  Expert Series;  putting a spotlight on industry leaders executing bold positions. These Experts  offer...