Legal's Digital Turning Point - From Fulcrum GT

In this special bonus episode, we bring you the live session hosted by Dino Elipoulos of Fulcrum GT at the Running Legal Like a Business conference in Las Vegas. Joined on stage by Marcelo Peviani (Equinix) and Robert (Bob) Haskins (Google), the panel explores how legal operations can learn from the transformation journeys of other industries such as IT, healthcare, and finance. The discussion tac...

This new mini-series from Fulcrum GT, released to coincide with the Running Legal Like a Business conference, is based on our latest white paper: Legal’s Digital Turning Point – From Cost Center to Competitive Advantage. Together with Dino Eliopulos of Fulcrum GT, we explore the lessons IT’s digital revolution has to teach legal operations at their own inflection point today. Across four episodes,...

In the fourth and final episode, Thomas Pearson and Dino Eliopulos look ahead to what a fully digitized legal function will mean for the profession — culturally, technologically, and strategically. Drawing on scenarios from Fulcrum GT’s white paper, the hosts discuss real-time integration, predictive analytics, and the embedding of legal intelligence directly into business workflows. They explore...

Episode 3 examines how lessons from IT’s vendor management mistakes can guide legal operations in building smarter, more resilient supplier ecosystems. Thomas Pearson and Dino Eliopulos revisit IT’s history of over-reliance on single vendors, mega-project failures, and weak governance — and map these pitfalls to today’s legal panels and law firm engagements. They argue for outcome-based incentives...

In the second episode of Legal’s Digital Turning Point , Thomas Pearson and Dino Eliopulos explore why artificial intelligence represents the defining inflection point for legal operations — akin to the internet revolution for IT two decades ago. They unpack how AI makes unstructured legal work digitally native for the first time, enabling real-time analysis, smarter decision-making, and integrati...

In this first episode, co-hosts Thomas Pearson and Dino Eliopulos explore the striking parallels between the IT industry’s transformation in the early 2000s and the inflection point facing legal operations today. They discuss how IT evolved from a back-office cost center to a strategic driver of competitive advantage — and what lessons legal leaders can apply in 2025 as AI, automation, and new ope...