Reinventing Professionals

In this 41st episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill , Editor and Publisher of  Legal IT Insider , and I discussed value-based billing, driving firmwide innovation, and cultivating a willingness to be engaged.

I was lucky to have many great conversations with industry leaders at the 2025 CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) Global Institute , which I captured in this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape 😀 Thanks to the following participants for sharing their insights: 🎙️ David Blazejewski (David Blaze) , Chief Revenue Officer, TruthOrLie.ai 🎙️ Tim Brady , CEO, Colligo 🎙️ Laurie Ehrlich (she/her)...

I spoke with Hilary Bowman , a healthcare attorney, who is the Founder of Querious , an application that facilitates virtual lawyer-client conversations using generative AI. We discussed how artificial intelligence can help legal professionals optimize client conversations, the value of real-time legal insights, and how the attorney-client relationship is evolving.

I spoke with Ruchie Chadha , the President of Smokeball US, an AI-powered legal practice management software platform that helps small law firms stay organized, productive, and profitable. We discussed the importance of trust accounting, empowering lawyers by partnering with state bar associations, and leveraging technology to reshape the competitive landscape for solo practitioners and small firm...

I spoke with Matthew Rasmussen , the CEO, and Ryan Frye , the Chief Innovation Officer, at ModeOne , a targeted remote smartphone data collection provider. We discussed the risks involved in extracting company data from personal devices, the biggest misconceptions about mobile data collection, and how organizations can ensure their mobile data collection processes align with evolving privacy laws...

I spoke with Ted DeBettencourt , a Co-Founder of Juvo Leads , a company that provides human-powered chat services. We discussed the benefits of human-powered chat for law firms, use cases where prospective clients prefer technology to human interaction, and the mistakes professional services firms make when deploying human-powered chat.

I spoke with Uwais Iqbal , the Founder of Simplexico , a UK-based AI consulting firm helping legal teams with AI adoption. We discussed the most common use cases for generative AI, how legal professionals can maximize their use of generative AI, whether law firms should build or buy generative AI applications, and how the use of AI in law firms is evolving.

I spoke with Katya Fisher , CEO of Aracor , a software platform to streamline M&A, private equity, and venture capital transactions. We discussed the evolving M&A lifecycle, the changing relationship between in-house counsel and outside counsel, and how AI has changed M&A and corporate transactions.

I spoke with Danny Thankachan , the Head of Partnerships at CaseGuild , an AI-powered platform that finds key evidence in litigation. We discussed how legal teams can use artificial intelligence to find crucial evidence, ways that lawyers are currently trying to solve this problem, and the ideal users of this technology.

In this 40th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill , Editor and Publisher of  Legal IT Insider , and I discussed bringing back boring, legal operations trends, and embracing automation.

I spoke with Ciprian Şaramet , Managing Director of Modular Services , a Romanian company focused on providing technical support and business services to global law firms. We discussed how law firms can strengthen their cybersecurity posture, the influence of AI on law firm security, vulnerability management, and the value of continuous education for safeguarding client data and firm operations.

I spoke with Matt Tait , the CEO of Decimal , a tech-enabled services firm focused on bookkeeping, tax filings, and tax preparation. We discussed how the economy is affecting the way law firm leaders manage their practices, the business mistakes they are making, ways to balance the application of technology and talent, and best practices for leveraging technology to maintain books and records.

I spoke with Thomas Bueler , the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Vecflow , a legal AI platform designed to help lawyers review and draft documents for use cases in M&A and class action litigation. We discussed the role of AI in expanding legal workflows, the importance of minimizing hallucinations in large language models, and the best practices for evaluating different AI products.

I spoke with Laurie Ehrlich , the chief legal officer, and Farah Gasmi , co-founder and chief product officer at Dioptra , an AI-powered contract redlining and playbook generation tool. We discussed the difference between RAG and Agents in AI, the challenges associated with AI adoption, and how lawyers can secure buy-in for new AI tools more effectively.

I was fortunate to speak with these leaders on the third day of Legalweek 2025 for this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape: Valerie Chan , CEO, Plat4orm Dan Ruderman , Director, Strategic Alliances, LexisNexis Legal - CounselLink   Alex Sappington , Co-CEO, Page Vault    *Background music credit: Upbeat Indie by Lowtone Music

In this 39th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill , Editor and Publisher of  Legal IT Insider , and I discussed Legalweek 2025, Skills. Law , generative AI use cases, and accelerating innovation in legal.

I was fortunate to speak with these leaders on the second day of Legalweek 2025 for this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape: Tom Chapman , CEO, Iceberg Stephen Goldstein , Chief Product Officer, Altorney Ross Guberman , CEO, BriefCatch Josh Janow , CEO, SMI Aware    Subroto Mukerji , CEO, Integreon Joey Seeber , CEO, Level Legal Thomas Suh , COO, LegalMation *Background music credit: Upbeat Hope b...

I was fortunate to speak with these leaders on the first day of Legalweek 2025 for this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape: Josh Baxter , CEO, NetDocuments Milan Bobde , CEO, Oddr Edward Chick , Chief Revenue Officer, NopalCyber Dan Hauck , Chief Product Officer, NetDocuments Brandon Hollinder , Vice President, eDiscovery and Cyber Solutions, Epiq John Hale , Chief Marketing Officer, Consilio LLC...

I was fortunate to speak with these leaders the day before Legalweek 2025 for this Mixtape: Bradley Collins , Co-Founder and CEO, LegalTechTalk Dan Malgran , VP, Marketing, Steno Patricia Nagy , Chief Strategy Officer, The Proxy Agency Alaa Pasha , CEO, Maptician Steven Salkin , Editor-in-Chief, Law Journal Newsletters Abhijat Saraswat , Chief Revenue Officer, Lupl Kelly Twigger , CEO, Minerva26 B...

I spoke with Vincent Allen , partner at Carstens, Allen & Gourley , an IP-focused law firm that helps companies with patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and intellectual property strategies. We discussed how current copyright laws address authorship and ownership of AI-created works, strategies content creators can use to protect their intellectual property when AI tools are used, and...

I spoke with Adam Philipp , the founder of AEON Law , an intellectual property law firm. We discussed the benefits of fixed-price legal services, how a fixed-price model expedites the adoption of new technology, and best practices for law firms interested in pursuing and implementing innovation-focused initiatives.

I spoke with Edward Chick , the Chief Revenue Officer at NopalCyber , a managed security service provider that offers outsourced cybersecurity support, seeking to democratize enterprise-level security for law firms and organizations in other sectors. We discussed best practices to help law firm leaders identify cyber threats, mistakes they are making with their cybersecurity protocols, how often t...

I spoke with the following chief executive officers in a CEO Roundtable discussion about challenges and opportunities ahead of Legalweek 2025: Ray Biederman , Proteus Discovery Group Chris Cartrett , Aderant James Ding , DraftWise Tom Dunlop , Summize Sirisha Gummaregula , QuisLex Scott McFetters , CoreTech Renee Meisel , UnitedLex Sarai Schubert , Hanzo Joey Seeber , Level Legal Todd Smithline ,...

I spoke with Amy Juers , the CEO of Edge Marketing , a marketing and PR agency serving the legal, accounting, and professional services industries. We discussed the benefits of leveraging artificial intelligence in public relations and marketing, how it enhances client service, and the best practices for AI implementation.

I spoke with Jack Weinberger , the Co-Founder of Ajax , an AI company that helps lawyers manage their time. We discussed the need to secure data in AI timekeeping applications, the promise of capturing more time in legal services, and how legal timekeeping is evolving.