Fireside Chats with Tom Dreyfus and Sam Flynn

Shanti Berggren is General Counsel at Adelaide University , one the biggest (and newest!) universities in APAC. Speaking with Josef Co-founder and CEO Tom Dreyfus, Shanti shares how she walked into the role not knowing a single person on her team. She was the new kid on the block, and jumped at the opportunity to build her own legal function from scratch. Two years in, everything’s taking shape. T...

Katherine Roseveare is adidas' General Counsel (Global Functions, Global Operations & Legal Solutions). After two decades at adidas, the Amsterdam-based GC has seen the business from nearly every angle. Her latest challenge: making legal knowledge even more accessible to a workforce of 65,000+. Sam Flynn, Co-founder & COO at Josef sat down with Katherine to hear how she’s tackling this...

Securing top healthcare talent is trickier than ever. For  Advocare  (one of the largest independent multi-specialty physician groups in the US), that means getting physicians and other healthcare professionals signing on the dotted line…fast. Automating their contracts is one way they’re tackling this head-on. But it’s not another just a workflow tweak. It’s a necessity. In this fireside chat,  J...

In their final Fireside Chat of the year, Co-founders Tom Dreyfus and Sam Flynn pull back the curtain on 2025. Together, they reflect on how Josef fared, the customer tools and features they loved most, the legaltech events that really stuck out, and what’s on their wish list heading into the new year. “I’ve never felt clearer on what Josef is and the problem we solve than I do today,” Sam says. L...

In his latest fireside chat, Josef Co-founder & CEO Tom Dreyfus sits down with Adam Fitzhenry, General Manager, People Services and Enablement at the Australian Retirement Trust (ART). As Australia’s second largest superannuation fund, ART is no stranger to operating at scale. The fund manages $330 billion for its more than 2.4 million members. Inside the business, its 3.2k employees would flo...

In his latest fireside chat, Josef Co-founder & COO Sam Flynn sits down with the team at Legal Aid of North Carolina . He chats with Chief Innovation Officer,  Scheree Gilchrist , Innovation Lab Program Manager & Staff Attorney,  Megan Hennings , and Chief Communications Officer,  Helen Headrick . Together, they talk Sam through the organization’s new  Josef document and guidance tools  de...

In his latest fireside chat, Josef Co-founder & COO Sam Flynn sits down with Whitney Stefko Dover, Director and Senior Counsel, Policy and LegalOps+ at Ford Motor Company. From hiring the best talent, to breaking free of fixed mindsets, to creating your own “genius zone,” Whitney shares practical tips for lawyers and legal ops teams navigating legal AI today.

In his latest fireside chat, Josef Co-founder & COO Sam Flynn sits down with Dr. Hemma R Lomax, Deputy General Counsel and VP, Global Head of Ethics and Compliance at DocuSign. Together, the pair dive into Hemma’s journey from SEC enforcement to reimagining compliance functions at the likes of Disney, Snapchat, and Zendesk. Hemma explains why she sees compliance as an enabler, not a blocker, s...

Wendy Chow is General Counsel at Cityblock Health, a healthcare provider headquartered in New York City. Recently, her team began creating AI Q&A tools on Josef to automate repetitive Q&A, and give the business instant access to legal knowledge as and when it’s needed. Wendy sat down with Josef Co-founder Sam Flynn to talk about the tools, why successful tech adoption starts at hiring, her...

In the latest episode of Josef's Fireside Chat series, Co-founder & COO Sam Flynn sits down with LawTrades' Chief Strategy Officer and Cedar’s former Head of Legal Operations Tommie Tavares-Ferreira. The pair discuss Tommie’s journey from HBO to later becoming a leading figure within the in-house legal operations community. They unpack storytelling and its role in legal transformation, the hid...

Dr. Megan Ma is Executive Founding Director of liftlab at Stanford Law School. In our latest fireside chat, Josef Co-founder and COO Sam Flynn sits down with Megan to unpack how legal teams can move from passive tech adopters to active designers of their future workflows. Drawing on her background working with the Canadian government on self-driving car regulation, Megan offers a compelling analog...

Elaine Darr is SVP, Global Head of Digital Legal and Innovation at DHL. With a background in commercial law and over a decade in leadership, she’s redefined what’s possible both in and out of Legal. In 2024, she was named Corporate Counsel Best Deputy or Associate GC by the American Lawyer Industry Awards. Elaine knows what it takes to really innovate: structured change, business alignment, and a...

What if contracting was easy end-to-end, and legal had more time for the more unique, trickier tasks? That’s what Sara Rayment and Andrew Medlicott have focused on at INKD, a tech-led law firm, and Inkling Legal Design, its design-first sister company. Using Josef, they’ve built self-service, AI contracting tools that help businesses draft, negotiate, send and sign contracts all without the usual,...

Polaris Lawyers is a boutique personal injury law firm based in Melbourne, Australia. The firm’s no stranger to creating self-service legal tools, and in the past six months launched two, public-facing AI guidance solutions: WorkMate, which helps people navigate workers’ compensation, and The TAC FAQ tool, which answers legal questions surrounding traffic accidents. Recently, Founder and Principal...

Gippsland Community Legal Service (GCLS) is a legal aid organization based in Australia that provides legal services on issues ranging from family violence intervention to tenancy and housing. Recently, Principal Lawyer Simon Suttie sat down with Josef’s CEO and Co-founder, Tom Dreyfus, to dive into the organization’s work and how the team is clearing bottlenecks for its rental stress program with...

Sateesh Nori is a lawyer, author and Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law. With over 20 years of experience in tenancy law, Sateesh has represented 1000s of low-income tenants, advocating for housing justice with organizations like The Legal Aid Society of NYC and Bedford Stuyvesant Community Legal Services. Sateesh is a techno-optimist. While some remain apprehensive about the future post-GenAI...

Thanks to their self-service tools, the global insurance company now has instant access to hyper-accurate answers on policies, playbooks, and contract guidance, all in just a few clicks. Led by Head of Legal Operations Claire Nuske, under the award-winning General Counsel Maria Marinelli, Bupa’s legal team is among the first in APAC to develop GenAI tools that increase access to legal and complian...

Meet Thomas Stone, Senior Legal Technologist at the award-winning UK law firm TLT. Last month, Tom’s FutureLaw team won  Legal Technology Team of the Year  at the Legal Business Awards 2024. What for, you ask? A cutting-edge employee training solution built alongside telco giant Vodafone, all on Josef! TLT is one of the most decorated law firms in the UK, having won Law Firm of the Year three time...

If you don’t know Alex Herrity, adidas’ legalops superstar and Director of Legal Solutions, now’s your chance. When he’s not sharing the stage with Josef Co-founder and COO Sam Flynn in London, Alex is busy making sure adidas leverages its world-class legal team with the best technology around. He’s content so long as “every week or two, we’re getting better and more focused and delivering better...

Meet Nicola Packer, General Counsel at Fnatic, the most successful esports brand in history. Nicola’s in-house team has truly walked the walk when it comes to legal automation and AI. Fnatic first used Josef to automate dozens of contracts and agreements, ultimately saving the team one day a week. Then, in early 2023, they adopted Josef Q, going on to achieve what many businesses are still explori...

Meet Bumble's Global Head of Privacy, Teodora Pimpireva Tapping. In conversation with Josef Co-founder and COO, Sam Flynn, Teodora shares the global dating app’s trick for keeping up with an ever-changing set of privacy obligations. Spoiler: it involves innovating with Josef! What role can GenAI play in the privacy space? What are Teodora’s top tips for other in-house teams looking to build ne...

Easy governance, a simple setup, and Josef Q’s legal-centric features sit at the top of the list for the AAA team. In this fireside chat, the merican Arbitration Association President and CEO Bridget McCormack and Chief Innovation Officer Diana Didia sit down with Josef Co-founder and COO Sam Flynn. Together, the trio discuss a recent GenAI bakeoff at the AAA where the organization pitted an inter...

30+ years studying AI and Law, and Professor Dan Hunter believes GenAI and LLMs signal “the end of the world as we know it.” In this fireside chat, Dan Hunter, Executive Dean at King’s College London, sits down with Josef Co-founder and CEO Tom Dreyfus.  Together, they dig into why legal services are so ripe for disruption by GenAI, why more legal teams need to adopt the technology sooner rather t...

Meet Candy Welsh, L’Oréal’s in-house Legal Counsel and automation extraordinaire. In our latest fireside chat with Josef Co-founder and COO Sam Flynn, Candy shares her experience harnessing legaltech both at law firms and in-house at L’Oréal. She explains her “steadfast” commitment to simplifying contracts and compliance, building tools that save time, and finding new ways to empower colleagues to...

Meet Zach Posner, a pioneering force in legal-specific venture capital. In our latest fireside chat, as part of a series where we dive into the latest in legal technology, its applications, and the growing world of generative AI. The Co-founder and Managing Director at The Legaltech Fund shares how and why legaltech’s moment has finally arrived. Now more than ever, GenAI-powered legaltech platform...