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In multiple ways, Stacy Butler is immersed in seeking to innovate the justice system and the delivery of legal services.  As director of the Innovation for Justice program at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, she leads students in thinking critically about the power of technology and innovation to close the justice gap. As president of the board of Step Up To Justice , she...

It was an epiphany, of sorts, for Greg Garman . In 2015, after 18 years at the same firm, including several as managing partner, he came to believe that most firms operated under a broken business model. Within weeks, he and several colleagues left the firm to start a smaller, more innovative practice, and he began to develop the concept for LawClerk , a marketplace where solos and small firms can...

Jim Sandman may be one of the most impassioned advocates in the United States for ensuring access to justice for all. As president of the Legal Services Corporation since 2011, he oversees an organization that funds free civil legal services to more than 130 legal aid programs throughout the country. As a frequent speaker and advocate, he forcefully makes the case for equal access to justice.  In...

Jeroen Plink was named in 2018 as CEO of Clifford Chance Applied Solutions , a subsidiary of the international law firm Clifford Chance that designs and develops software to address clients' business challenges. He is responsible for product development and go-to-market strategy for all its products, including CC Dr@ft, a legal document automation platform.  Plink is a legal technology veteran who...

As executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism , Jayne Reardon oversees programs and initiatives to increase the civility and professionalism of attorneys and judges, create inclusiveness in the profession, and promote increased service to the public. In this special edition of LawNext recorded live at the recent Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego, Reardon joined...

In one of a series of special reports recorded live at the recent Clio Cloud Conference, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi is joined by Nehal Madhani, an attorney and the founder and CEO of the cloud-based IP filing software Alt Legal. Before starting Alt Legal, Madhani practiced as an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis. He is a Python/Django developer and serves on the board of Django-NYC, a nonprofit organizat...

In another of a series of special reports recorded live at the Clio Cloud Conference, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi interviews Ed Walters, CEO and cofounder of the online legal research company Fastcase.  Under Ed's leadership, Fastcase has grown to become one of the world's largest legal publishers, currently serving more than 800,000 subscribers from around the world. He is an adjunct professor at th...

After 10 years as a lawyer at two leading transactional law firms, Haley Altman decided there should be a better way to structure the workflow around the many deals in which she was involved. So in 2016, she left law practice to found Doxly, a technology platform designed to transform the archaic and chaotic process of managing transactions into one that is streamlined and efficient.  Last August,...

In 2018, Mark Britton left Avvo , the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO until he sold it early last year to web behemoth Internet Brands. Soon after, he joined us here on LawNext in Episode 11 for an insightful conversation about why he started the company, why he sold it, and why he left.  At the recent Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi had t...

George Psiharis was employee number six at Clio, which he joined shortly after the practice management company was founded in 2008. Now, he is COO of an enterprise with more than 400 employees and growing, responsible for customer success, business development and data operations.  Psiharis also oversees Clio's annual Legal Trends Report , the fourth of which was released at the recent Clio Cloud...

Nineteen years ago, Mark Harris and Alec Guettel founded Axiom , a pioneering service to provide on-demand legal talent to corporate legal departments, growing it into a company with a roster of more than 2,000 lawyers that works with over half of the Fortune 100, while also developing technology and managed services arms.   Last February, gearing up for a possible IPO, Axiom spun off its technolo...

The seventh-annual Clio Cloud Conference recently wrapped up in San Diego. In this special edition of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi sat down at the conference for a conversation with Jack Newton, cofounder and CEO of Clio , to talk about the conference and the company.  With Clio having recently announced a $250 million funding round — one of the largest ever for a legal technology company — there was...

In August, a Utah task force on access to justice issued a report that called for "profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena."  Two days later, the Utah Supreme Court voted unanimously to approve the report's recommendations, including substantially loosening regulatory restriction...

In LawNext Episode 48 , host Bob Ambrogi traveled to Toronto to record a live interview with the founders of the AI-driven legal research platform ROSS Intelligence , CEO Andrew Arruda and CTO Jimoh Ovbiagele , in which they discussed the company's rise from startup in 2014 to a more mature and established company.  In this second interview recorded in Toronto, we take a deep dive into the artific...

Ralph Baxter spent nearly a quarter century as chairman and CEO of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, leading its growth from a regional San Francisco law firm specializing in municipal finance to one of the world's largest firms with offices worldwide and a diverse array of practices. Along the way, both Baxter and Orrick earned kudos for their many innovations in the delivery and pricing of legal se...

On Sept. 4, 2019, the cloud practice management company Clio announced $250 million funding round -- one of the largest ever for a legal technology company. Shortly after making the announcement during an event in Clio's Burnaby, B.C., headquarters, cofounder and CEO Jack Newton sat down with LawNext host Bob Ambrogi for this live recording session to discuss the news.  In this special edition of...

Often called the app store of law, Reynen Court has fast become one of the most talked-about companies in legal technology. Its mission is to make it easy for law firms and legal departments to adopt and manage modern cloud-based software applications without having to trust firm or client content to the rapidly growing universe of vertically integrated SaaS providers. In this episode of LawNext,...

For the 50th episode of LawNext, we could think of no more appropriate topic than the state of podcasting in the legal industry. And we could think of no one better suited to the topic than Adam Camras , CEO of the Legal Talk Network , and Laurence Colletti , its executive producer.  Camras is a longtime entrepreneur in the legal industry whose company Lawgical acquired the Legal Talk Network in 2...

Which firms are best prepared to keep pace with changes in the legal market? That was the question explored in a recent survey of U.S. and European law firms, the 2019 Future Ready Lawyer Survey , conducted by Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory . Among the findings: The firms that are best prepared for the future are those that already leverage technology.  In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambr...

On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi travels to Toronto to sit down for a live recording with the founders of the AI-driven legal research platform ROSS Intelligence , CEO Andrew Arruda and CTO Jimoh Ovbiagele . Along with a third founder, Pargles Dall'Oglio , Arruda and Ovbiagele first developed ROSS at the University of Toronto in 2014, rapidly gaining international attention for what th...

E-discovery company Casepoint is unusual among legal technology companies in that it has achieved significant growth in recent years, without taking on outside funding. Since 2015, the company has grown from 45 employees to 370, and in just the last year has seen its install base grow by more than 70 percent.  In this episode of LawNext, Haresh Bhungalia, the chief executive officer of Casepoint,...

Judy Perry Martinez is a lawyer who has made public service a part of her career from the start. She continues that legacy in August as she assumes the presidency of the 400,000-member American Bar Association during its annual meeting in San Francisco. On this episode of LawNext, Martinez joins host Bob Ambrogi for a wide-ranging discussion of the challenges and opportunities facing the ABA and t...

It was 20 years ago that two Covington & Burling associates, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal , made the audacious move of quitting their jobs and launching the legal research company Fastcase . Their goal was to democratize the law through affordable pricing and smarter technology. Two decades later, that once-scrappy company is now a major player in the legal research market.  At the recent annual...

By any measure, the London-based legal AI startup Luminance has had spectacular success. Not yet three years old, it has raised $23 million in funding, has achieved a valuation of $100 million, is used by more than 150 organizations on six continents, and has won numerous technology awards, including the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in the innovation category.  In this episode of LawNe...

As director of applied innovation at UC Hastings College of the Law, Alice Armitage oversees two innovation-focused projects at the law school: LexLab , a multifaceted innovation program for students, startups and the broader legal tech community; and Startup Legal Garage , a program offering free legal assistance to early-stage technology and biotech companies. LexLab has three areas of focus: bu...