Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Dr. Gavin Manes , the founder and CEO of Avansic , a provider of e-discovery and digital forensics services, about the primary activities and technologies incorporated into e-discovery projects, where are litigants facing the most challenging e-discovery issues, how legal teams are approaching self-service e-discovery, and the role of forensics in modern discovery.

I spoke with Jake Stein , the co-founder and CEO of Common Paper . a structured contract platform. We discussed contract lifecycle management, the process of converting contracts into APIs, the benefits of using standard contracts, and emerging standard agreements, and the release of its data processing agreement and service level agreement .

I spoke with Peter Baumann , the founder and CEO of ActiveNav , a data privacy and governance software provider that serves various sectors, including legal. We discussed how unstructured data impacts legal organizations, the challenges of managing unstructured data, best practices for assessing the risks related to unstructured data, and how this issue is evolving.

I spoke with Jason Levin , an executive career, business development, and outplacement coach with Ready, Set, Launch, LLC , and the author of Relationships to Infinity: The Art and Science of Keeping in Touch . We discussed how legal professionals can improve their networking, the value of dormant ties, best practices for reconnecting with contacts, and how trust and friendship relate to connectin...

I spoke with Bill Bice , the CEO of nQ Zebraworks , the developer of the Queues workflow engine, which law firms around the world have deployed. We discussed how the pandemic impacted how law firms approach their workflows, the challenges and opportunities associated with hybrid operations, and what legal technology companies can do to facilitate the broader adoption of their products.

I spoke with Phil Thurner, the founder and CEO of Nexl , the Revenue Operations Cloud platform built to support the business development initiatives within law firms. We discussed the current state of business development within law firms, the challenges that law firms have in converting relationships into revenue, and the value of Revenue Operations.

I am speaking today with Ari Treuhaft , the chief operating officer for Litify , a legal operating system for professionals in law firms and corporate legal departments. We discussed how law firms use and can use Salesforce, common hurdles to legal tech adoption, ways that Litify empowers collaboration between in-house legal teams and their outside counsel, and how technology companies in a compet...

I spoke with Jeroen Plink , the COO of the LegalTech Hub , and Jeroen Ketting , the founder and CEO of the Lighthouse Group , a provider of management and trade support to Western companies doing business in Russia and Ukraine. We discussed how a legal tech background can empower humanitarian work worldwide, best practices for adapting business knowledge and logistics expertise to support the comm...

I spoke with Linc Kroeger , the President of Knight Moves , a company that offers training in technology disciplines, with a focus on empowering Native American, rural, and urban underserved communities. We discussed how Knight Moves empowers technology talent, the Potential Quotient, and the trajectory of technology education.

I spoke with Dorna Moini , the co-founder and CEO of Documate , a no-code platform for building document automation and client-facing web applications for legal professionals. We discussed how legal professionals are implementing document automation, the challenges associated with using no-code technology, and the impact of document automation on access to justice.

I spoke with Priyadarshini Shetty , the founder of Elliot, a legal technology consultancy, which helps law firms and corporate legal departments analyze their existing systems, processes, and services to identify opportunities for improvement. She also publishes a legal tech content portal called Walchet.com . We discussed the legal tech sector in India, the most prominent challenges that legal te...

I spoke with Ari Mandel , the vice president of discovery services for Gulfstream Legal , a provider of eDiscovery, records retrieval, and court reporting services. We discussed why legal professionals should seek out e-discovery education, the value that legal professionals receive by looking to eDiscovery vendors for new programs, and the skills that legal professionals should develop to give th...

I spoke with Kevin Gallagher , the general manager of payments at AbacusNext , a software provider for legal and accounting professionals. We discussed the benefits of using a law firm’s practice management platform to accept payments, how firms can control the costs associated with payment processing, ways that legal professionals are adapting to flexible pricing models beyond the billable hour,...

I spoke with Marsha Redmon , the founder of Marsha Redmon Communications , which helps lawyers and other professionals build their virtual presence and use thought leadership more effectively. We discussed the secret to standing out online, ways to develop a strong virtual presence , how to connect with audiences virtually, and the worst mistake lawyers and other professionals make when they are p...

I spoke with Mike Haven , the Head of Legal Operations at Intel and the President of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium . We discussed how the legal operations sector has evolved over the past decade, where legal operations leaders see opportunities in the current market, the success of the 2022 CLOC Global Institute , and where the legal operations sector is headed.

I spoke with Owen McGab Enaohwo , the co-founder and CEO of SweetProcess , a software platform designed to systematize an organization’s business operations. We discussed how professionals can leverage technology to systematize their tasks, best practices for documenting procedures, the challenges associated with that effort, and the results an organization can expect once it streamlines its proce...

I spoke with John Robertson , the founder of Fortlog Services , a training company that focuses on helping organizations manage transitions: workplace change and upheaval, conflict, and stress, among other areas. We discussed how organizations should define wellness, ways they can optimize it, and best practices for addressing and resolving conflicts in the workplace.

I spoke with Maya Markovich , the justice tech executive in residence at Village Capital , and the executive director of the Justice Technology Association. We discussed the mission of the Justice Technology Association , the problems that justice tech aims to address, how her experience with NextLaw Labs has helped to shape her approach, and where justice tech is headed.

I spoke with Craig Carpenter and Dean Gonsowski , the CEO and CRO, respectively for Gimmal , a provider of software and services to streamline the discovery, migration, governance, and compliance of information. We discussed the genesis of Gimmal, the biggest information governance challenges that legal teams need to address, how companies should revise their records retention and document managem...

I spoke with John Tredennick , the founder and CEO of Merlin Search Technologies , a developer of cloud-based search applications. We discussed the genesis of Merlin Search Technologies, how his experience as a large law firm partner and CEO of Catalyst has helped shape Merlin’s mission, the matters for which search technology is best suited, how legal technology is evolving beyond legal, and advi...

I spoke with Anthony Davies , the Chief Revenue Officer for Forrest Solutions , an onsite outsourcing, flexible staffing, and alternative legal services provider. We discussed how the move to a hybrid work model has impacted attorney retention, recruitment, and collaboration, the “rise of hospitality” in law firms, and the changing expectations of working in an office.

I spoke with Josh Herman , the vice president for marketing and public relations at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach . We discussed what makes the hotel unique, how it shifted its focus during the pandemic, the best time to visit, and what business lessons leaders can learn from how the Fontainebleau Miami Beach has maintained its appeal over many years.

I spoke with members of the board of directors for The Masters Conference , including Rick Clark , its co-founder, and senior director of sales enablement and strategy with CloudNine , Monica Harris , product business manager of enterprise solutions at Cellebrite , and Marla Mohr , manager of client relations at ACEDS , We discussed the return of The Masters Conference, how its 2022 schedule honor...

I spoke with Dean Whalen , the chief legal officer for Readback , an artificial intelligence-assisted court reporting platform. We discussed ways to build trust in AI, how states are adapting to changes in court reporting, and how court reporting will evolve.

I spoke with Colin Li , the chief financial officer and chief revenue officer for Paradigm , a suite of practice management solutions for law firms, and Chad Todd , the co-founder of TrustBooks , a legal accounting software platform, which Paradigm recently acquired. We discussed how TrustBooks aligns with Paradigm’s suite of products, ways that it differs from other accounting solutions available...