Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Dave Deppe , the president of UnitedLex , a global legal services company, which focuses on litigation, contract management, and intellectual property. Prior to joining UnitedLex, he was a founding partner of Focus Legal Solutions, an electronic discovery boutique, which Mutual of Omaha acquired in December 2008. We discussed the release of Questio , the company's new consultant-led t...

I spoke with Albert Buckwalter , the Director of Litigation Support for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division in Washington, DC, and the editor-in-chief of Litigation Support Today , a magazine for litigation support professionals that has been published since 2007.

I spoke with Leah Beckham and Beth Thompson, the CEO and Director of Business Development, respectively, for BillBLAST , a cloud-based application that helps law firms manage their e-billing and related reporting.

I spoke with Larry Barela , the Chief Technology Officer for Catalyst Repository Systems , the developer of Insight , a cloud-based e-discovery platform.

I spoke with Larry Port, the founder and CEO of Rocketmatter , a cloud-based legal practice management and time and billing software product, about Rocket X1 , the company’s new Internet marketing agency and hosting platform.

I spoke with Peter Mercer, the founder and managing director of Vound , an Australia-based software development company focusing on forensics and e-discovery, which is the maker or Intella , the company’s signature tool for processing, searching, and analyzing electronically stored information.

In the fall of 1990, I interviewed for a job that ended up changing the course of my life. The ad to which I responded was for a tutor in the then 1-year old Intergenerational Literacy Project , a collaboration between Boston University’s School of Education and the Chelsea Public Schools in Chelsea, Massachusetts. I had no experience, but wanted a work-study job that was meaningful and rewarding....

I spoke with Eric Hunter, the Director of Knowledge, Innovation & Technology Strategies at California-based Bradford & Barthel , as well as the Executive Director of Spherical Models , a business model innovation consultancy.

I spoke with Matt Homann and JoAnna Forshee , producers of the annual LexThink.1 legal innovation conference , which is being held in Chicago on Wednesday April 3rd on the eve of the ABA Techshow . Homann is the well-known founder of LexThink , a legal innovation consultancy, as well as the creator of the popular [non] billable hour blog . Forshee is the CEO of InsideLegal , which she describes as...

I spoke with Rich Turner , the vice president of business development and strategic marketing for C2C Systems , an e-mail archiving and information management software company. We discussed the most significant e-mail archiving trends, the information management challenges companies will be facing this year, how they can address them, and his predictions for the next 12 months.

I spoke with Jon Resnick , the managing director and head of global sales for Huron Legal , about key operational issues that law departments and law firms will need to address in 2013.

I spoke with Allison Walton, the e-discovery counsel for Symantec, the maker of Enterprise Vault, Clearwell, and other data loss prevention solutions. We discussed trends for 2013 and her expectations for Legal Tech New York.

I spoke with Doug Stewart , the vice president of technology and innovation for Daegis , a full-service e-discovery company. We discussed his expectations for Legal Tech New York 2013, where the legal industry is moving, and how it is maturing. He predicted the emergence of quality standards, the release of diverse new e-discovery tools, and a continued focus on cost control.

I spoke with Megan Miller , the vice president of marketing for GGO , a legal services provider and the developer of Digital WarRoom about 2013 trends and ways that professionals can address them.

I spoke with Dale Drury , founder of AlphaLit , a litigation support company with a long history in discovery document management. We discussed key challenges that clients are likely to face over the next 12 months and best practices they can use to overcome these hurdles.

I spoke with Nick Robertson , vice president of sales and marketing, kCura , the developers of Relativity , a leading web-based e-discovery platform. We discussed the direction of electronic discovery, factors driving the industry, and how legal professionals can prepare for the future.

I spoke with David Remnitz and Adam Cohen, the Global and Americas Leader, and Principal, respectively in Ernst & Young’s Forensic Technology and Discovery Services practice about key techniques for navigating the regulatory landscape in the New Year.

I spoke today with Craig Carpenter , the vice president of marketing and business development for Recommind , a maker of information management, governance, and analysis software. We discussed how the company views the legal tech landscape, the client concerns that are driving change, key trends that will characterize the new year, and how he sees the legal industry evolving in the future.

I spoke with Adam Freedman , author of The Naked Constitution: What the Founders Said and Why It Still Matters (Broadside Books, 2012) and The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese (Henry Holt and Co., 2007), as well as the host of the Legal Lad: Quick and Dirty Tips for a More Lawful Life .

I spoke today with Dean Kuhlmann , the vice president of business development for Lateral Data , a Xerox Company, which makes the Viewpoint e-discovery software platform . We discussed his expectations for 2013, how his team is addressing those expectations, and the top trends that he expects to take hold in the new year.

I spoke with Ian Campbell , the chief business development officer and co-founder of iCONECT .

I spoke with Mark Britton , founder and CEO of Avvo , and Sachin Bhatia , the company’s Vice President of Product, about Avvo Ignite and the antidote to what Britton describes as traditional “gum and paper” legal marketing.

Lawyers and other professionals who offer free initial consultations have a new way to reinvent their practices thanks to Brendan Ludwick and Claudio Dunkelman, the founders of LawZam , a free online video conference service which connects lawyers and consumers. Learn more about their service in the video below, and listen to our interview during which we discuss the genesis of the company, what m...

The rise of big data is on the minds of many of those responsible information governance and I spoke with Doug Stewart, Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Daegis , a provider of eDiscovery solutions, which has just updated its eDiscovery Platform with Acumen , its Technology Assisted Review tool. We discussed the genesis of Acumen, the adoption rate of similar tools, the challenges, an...