LawNext
400 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsLawNext is a weekly podcast hosted by Bob Ambrogi, who is internationally known for his writing and speaking on legal technology and innovation. Each week, Bob interviews the innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in the legal industry. From legal technology startups to new law firm business models to enhancing access to justice, Bob and his guests explore the future of law and legal practice.
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Ep 156: How Legal Departments Can Use Data to Drive Smarter Decision-Making, with Jeffrey Solomon of Wolters Kluwer
March 23, 2022 20:35 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBAs head of managed services and analytics at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, Jeffrey Solomon oversees a database that tracks over $150 billion in legal spend data. Legal departments are able to use this data in multiple ways, including to benchmark outside firms’ billing rates and to evaluate staffing of legal matters. In this episode of LawNext, Solomon joins host Bob Ambrogi for a deep dive into how corporate legal departments are using data and analytics to drive more strategic decisio...
Ep 155: As Time By Ping Raises $36.5M, Exclusive Interview with CEO Ryan Alshak
March 01, 2022 16:50 - 40 minutes - 55 MBAs Time By Ping, a company devoted to helping lawyers break free from timekeeping, announces its Series B raise of $36.5 million, cofounder and CEO Ryan Alshak joins LawNext for an exclusive interview about the financing, the company, and its mission to help lawyers break free from timekeeping and get back time in their days. As Alshak shares in the interview, the roots of the company’s mission are very personal to him. Soon after starting the company, his mother fell ill with cancer, causi...
Ep 154: Former Tesla Lawyer Laura Frederick on How to Teach Contracting Skills for the Real World
February 23, 2022 20:55 - 35 minutes - 49 MBIs there a better way to train lawyers to draft and negotiate contracts? Laura Frederick thinks so. This former Tesla and BigLaw commercial contracts attorney is the founder of How to Contract, a learning platform that trains lawyers and professionals how to draft and negotiate contracts in the real world. She is also managing attorney of her own firm, Laura Frederick Law, in Austin, Texas, where she focuses on drafting and negotiating vendor supply, services, and technology agreements. As a...
Ep 153: From Radical to Trailblazer: How Innovative GC Jeffrey Carr Disrupted the Legal Department, Part 2
February 15, 2022 01:00 - 44 minutes - 60.8 MBIn this second of a two-part interview, we continue our conversation with Jeffrey Carr, a trailblazing general counsel who describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Many of his ideas for revamping legal departments, once viewed as radical, have now become mainstream. As general counsel at FMC Technologies in the early 2000s, Carr disrupted how legal departments hire and compensate outside counsel, creating models that today are conside...
Ep 152: From Radical to Trailblazer: How Innovative GC Jeffrey Carr Disrupted the Legal Department, Part 1
February 08, 2022 01:00 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBOne of the most innovative general counsel ever, Jeffrey Carr describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Yet many of his ideas for revamping legal departments, once viewed as radical, have now become mainstream. As general counsel at FMC Technologies in the early 2000s, Carr disrupted how legal departments hire and compensate outside counsel, creating models that today are considered standard operating procedure at many companies. Af...
Ep 151: The State of the E-Discovery Industry, with Doug Austin
January 27, 2022 18:35 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBTwo years into the pandemic, what has been its impact on e-discovery and what lies ahead for the industry? The 2022 State of the Industry Report takes a deep dive into these questions, surveying lawyers, consultants, software and service providers, and others to paint a picture of where the industry is today and what trends will dominate in the year ahead. Joining us on LawNext to discuss the report is Doug Austin, who conducted the survey and wrote the report. Austin, publisher of the b...
Ep 150: Digitally Transforming the Legal Department: A Panel of Experts
January 10, 2022 17:46 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MBAt a time when corporations are demanding greater accountability, transparency and predictability from their legal departments, automation of manual processes is a critical strategic priority, offering the promise of greater efficiency and effectiveness. But what does it really mean for a legal department to digitally transform itself and how should it go about it? In this special edition of LawNext, three leading corporate general counsel and an expert consultant share their stories of d...
Ep 149: Trellis Founder Nicole Clark Says Court Data is a Litigator’s Secret Weapon
January 05, 2022 22:16 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MBAs a litigator in Los Angeles, Nicole Clark saw that state court data could be a secret weapon for winning, but she also saw how difficult it was for her and other lawyers to access that data. That inspired Clark to found Trellis in 2018, to collect and provide access to that data so that other litigators would not have to operate blind. Recently, Trellis raised $14.1 million in a Series A funding round that Clark plans to use to expand the company’s coverage into additional states and i...
Ep 148: Exterro’s Bobby Balachandran, ‘LegalTech CEO of the Year’
December 21, 2021 17:21 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MBBobby Balachandran, founder and CEO of governance, risk and compliance company Exterro, has just been named LegalTech CEO of the Year in the Legaltech Breakthrough Awards. In a year in which so many legal tech companies have seen significant growth, it is a notable honor. But Balachandran is hardly resting on his laurels. He is already eyeing an IPO in the year ahead. A computer scientist by training, Balachandran founded Exterro in 2008, quickly convincing a Fortune 100 pharmaceutica...
Ep 147: How Courts Met the Pandemic Challenge, with Pew’s Qudsiya Naqui
December 13, 2021 17:20 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBWhen COVID-19 first swept across the United States in March 2020, it forced courts across the country to shut down, bringing trials and other legal proceedings to a screeching halt. A new study by The Pew Charitable Trusts examined how courts responded in the aftermath of that shutdown, and it concluded that they did pretty well overall, rapidly embracing technology and revolutionizing their operations. But the study, How Courts Embraced Technology, Met the Pandemic Challenge, and Revolut...
Ep 146: CEO Kiwi Camara on DISCO’s Public Offering and the State of Legal Tech
December 07, 2021 20:02 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBIn July, the e-discovery company DISCO became one of just a handful of legal technology companies ever to go public, listing on the New York Stock Exchange. That made it the third legal tech company this year to go public, after no U.S. legal tech company had gone public since 2002. On this episode of LawNext, Kiwi Camara, DISCO’s cofounder and CEO, joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss DISCO’s public offering and its implications for the company and the broader legal tech market. He also sha...
Ep 145: Legal Tech’s Latest Unicorn: A Conversation with Everlaw Founder AJ Shankar
November 21, 2021 20:48 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBEarlier this month, e-discovery company Everlaw became one of the few legal technology companies to join the elite ranks of unicorn status — companies valued at over $1 billion — with the announcement of a $202 million Series D funding at a valuation of over $2 billion. It had already been a big year for the company, which saw 80% year-over-year growth, the launch of several new products, and its first-ever user conference. To discuss these developments, host Bob Ambrogi is joined by AJ S...
Ep 144: MyCase CEO Jim McGinnis Discusses Recent Acquisitions, Future Product Roadmap
November 09, 2021 18:45 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBIt has been a year of notable developments for the practice management company MyCase. After starting the year with the arrival of a new CEO, Jim McGinnis, the company went on to make two significant acquisitions — of case management platform CASEpeer and document automation software Woodpecker — and this week is holding its first-ever customer conference, where McGinnis announced a third acquisition — of cloud-based legal accounting platform Soluno — and a roadmap of new features that inclu...
Ep 143: Tech Edge J.D. Director Laura Norris On Giving Law Grads A Competitive Edge in Tech Careers
November 03, 2021 00:09 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MBThis week on LawNext: A look at the innovative Tech Edge J.D. program at Santa Clara University School of Law. As law schools come under fire for failing to teach the practical skills students need to succeed in the real world, this program does the opposite. It aims to change the return on investment in legal education by providing law students with the essential legal, technology and business skills that will prepare them to hit the ground running as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley. To d...
Ep 142: Marking 20 Years, Nextpoint’s CEO Rakesh Madhava Discusses First-Ever Financing, First-Ever Acquisition, and This Week’s User Conference
October 27, 2021 04:23 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MBThis marks the 20th year in business for Nextpoint, and it is shaping up to be a momentous one for the Chicago-based e-discovery and case preparation company. Having been bootstrapped since its founding, Nextpoint recently closed its first round of outside financing. Having never made an acquisition, it recently acquired deposition software company WarRoom. And this week, Nextpoint is holding a virtual user conference, On Point 2021, where it will lay out its roadmap for the future of the pr...
Ep 141: Digitory Legal Founder Catherine Krow on Using Billing Data to Drive Diversity
October 06, 2021 23:06 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBThis week, the College of Law Practice Management named Digitory Legal winner of its 2021 Innovation Award for a unique partnership with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to drive diversity, equity and inclusion among its outside counsel by applying analytics to billing data to get a deeper understanding of the type and quality of work firms are assigning to diverse lawyers. As our guest Catherine Krow, Digitory Legal’s founder and CEO, explains, the company’s primary mission is to bring pre...
Ep 140: Nicole Bradick and Andy Wishart on Why UI and UX Matter in Legal Tech
September 28, 2021 18:50 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MBYou would be hard-pressed to find two people in legal technology more experienced in user interface and user experience design than Nicole Bradick and Andy Wishart. Bradick is founder and CEO of the legal tech design and development firm Theory and Principle. Wishart is chief product officer at contract lifecycle management company Agiloft and formerly was co-founder and chief technology officer of Contract Express, the contract automation software that Thomson Reuters acquired in 2015. W...
Ep 139: Fred Rooney, the Father of Legal Incubators, On Helping Young Lawyers Do Well to Do Good
September 20, 2021 03:01 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBThe ABA Journal dubbed Fred Rooney the father of legal incubators. He developed the first incubator in 2007 at City University of New York Law School, spawning the launch of some 70 incubators in the years since, many with Fred’s guidance or based on his model. While most are in the U.S., Rooney is now helping create incubators worldwide, in countries as diverse as the Dominican Republic, Bulgaria and Pakistan. In fact, as we recorded this episode, Rooney was just back from the Gaza Strip,...
Ep 138: Contract Wrangler Founder Neil Peretz on Starting, Building and Selling a Legal Tech Company
September 13, 2021 17:53 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MBLast month, in a marriage of two contract management platforms, Conga acquired Contract Wrangler. For entrepreneur-turned-lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Neil Peretz, it was the conclusion of a journey that began five years earlier, when he founded Contract Wrangler with a vision of a contracts platform that would be more than just a repository, more than able to simply identify key clauses, but that would actually be able to provide answers to what was in those contracts. What is it like to ...
Ep 137: PacerPro Founder and CEO Gavin McGrane
August 31, 2021 22:19 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBGavin McGrane was a litigation attorney in San Francisco when he saw an opportunity to improve how legal professionals interface with the federal courts electronic records system, PACER, and to enable them to better tap into the data and knowledge contained within that system. In 2012, he founded PacerPro, originally focusing on providing an enhanced interface to the PACER system, but, in the years since, developing it beyond that, into a system that also enables law firms to automate the...
Ep 136: Reregulation of Legal Services: A Panel of Five Leading Experts Discuss
August 23, 2021 17:52 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MBThere may be no more critical issue facing the legal profession than reregulation of legal services. Amid an escalating crisis in access to justice, proponents of regulatory reform argue that the only way to meaningfully address the crisis is to loosen restrictions on non-lawyers investing in and providing legal services. So critical is the issue that GPSolo, the magazine of the American Bar Association’s Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division, has devoted its most recent issue t...
Ep 135: Northwestern Law’s New Dean Hari Osofsky On Leading the School’s Next Chapter of Innovation
August 17, 2021 00:10 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBOn Aug.1, Hari M. Osofsky took office as dean of Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, after four years as dean of Penn State Law School and nearly two decades of teaching law. Having herself established a reputation for driving innovation, and coming into a school that is already recognized as innovative, her mission is to lead the school’s next chapter of innovation. But she also arrives as a profound moment of social change in our society and in the legal profession, a...
Ep 134: Zach Posner on The Legaltech Fund, the First VC Firm Dedicated to Legal Tech
August 09, 2021 17:14 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MBZach Posner cofounded The Legaltech Fund in 2020 as the first venture capital firm laser-focused on law and legal technology. But even with that industry focus, he takes a broad view when it comes to what he considers legal tech, looking for startups that have “legal in the middle,” but that may also span fintech, govtech, or consumer tech. Posner, a three-time entrepreneur before becoming an investor and now managing director of The Legaltech Fund, joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss w...
Ep 133: In Defense of the Billable Hour, with Apperio CEO Nicholas d’Adhemar
August 02, 2021 18:51 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBDoes the billable hour get a bum rap? Nicholas d’Adhemar, founder and CEO of the London-based spend management company Apperio, believes so. The real culprit for out-of-control legal costs is something else altogether, he believes. By identifying it, d’Adhemar says, both clients and law firms will be better positioned to manage legal costs. In this episode of LawNext, d’Adhemar joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss why he believes hourly rates, done right, are often a fairer measure of legal c...
Ep 132: Exclusive: How UpCounsel Avoided Shutdown and Why It Is Launching A Crowdfunding Campaign
July 26, 2021 05:11 - 47 minutes - 65.6 MBSixteen months after UpCounsel announced it would shut down, it is not only alive and well, but showing double-digit revenue growth, consistent profitability, and accelerating demand for legal services through its lawyer marketplace. Now it is launching a crowdfunding campaign with the mission of bringing legal to the people. [The crowdfunding campaign opens to the public July 28, but listeners of this podcast can access the private friends and family campaign, with early investor ben...
Ep 131: With $40M Series B, LinkSquares CEO Sets Sights On The Impossible In Contracts Tech
July 20, 2021 19:39 - 40 minutes - 55 MBWith his contract-management company having just raised $40 million in Series B funding, Linksquares cofounder and CEO Vishal Sunak is aiming for some big goals, including “to build legal tech solutions that simply weren’t possible before.” In announcing the raise, which brings the company’s total funding to $61.4 million, Sunak vowed that the company will develop its AI technology to “offer functionality no one has seen before,” and that it will soon introduce “a first-of-its-kind product...
Ep 130: Legal Ops Pioneer Mary Shen O’Carroll On Moving From Google To Ironclad
July 12, 2021 16:52 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBMary Shen O’Carroll pioneered the field of legal operations during her 13 years as director of operations, technology and strategy at Google. She was also instrumental in forming the influential organization CLOC – the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium – and was elected its president in 2019. In April, she walked away from both of those roles, leaving Google and stepping down as CLOC president, to join the contract lifecycle management company Ironclad as chief community officer, wher...
Legal Ops Pioneer Mary Shen O’Carroll On Moving From Google To Ironclad
July 12, 2021 16:52 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBMary Shen O’Carroll pioneered the field of legal operations during her 13 years as director of operations, technology and strategy at Google. She was also instrumental in forming the influential organization CLOC – the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium – and was elected its president in 2019. In April, she walked away from both of those roles, leaving Google and stepping down as CLOC president, to join the contract lifecycle management company Ironclad as chief community officer, wher...
Ep 129: The Legal Fellows Tackling Systemic Racism in Law
July 07, 2021 14:09 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBThe past year has laid bare, in shockingly explicit detail, the racial inequities of the justice system. Now, LexisNexis and the Historically Black Colleges and University Law School Consortium have partnered to launch a fellowship initiative for 12 law students to spend nine months working to end this systemic racism and further the rule of law. On this episode of LawNext, we discuss this initiative with two of the fellows who are participating in it, as well as with the president of the...
The Legal Fellows Tackling Systemic Racism in Law
July 07, 2021 14:09 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBThe past year has laid bare, in shockingly explicit detail, the racial inequities of the justice system. Now, LexisNexis and the Historically Black Colleges and University Law School Consortium have partnered to launch a fellowship initiative for 12 law students to spend nine months working to end this systemic racism and further the rule of law. On this episode of LawNext, we discuss this initiative with two of the fellows who are participating in it, as well as with the president of the...
Defining the ‘Future Ready’ Lawyer, with Wolters Kluwer VPs Martin O’Malley and Dean Sonderegger
June 30, 2021 19:49 - 42 minutes - 57.9 MBAs the legal profession continues to transform and evolve, how can a law firm or legal department be “future ready”? What are the characteristics that define future-ready organizations and foretell their continued success? Just out from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is its 2021 Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report, documenting the top trends affecting legal professionals and looking at how well prepared law firms and legal departments are to address them. And given that this year’s repor...
Ep 128: Defining the ‘Future Ready’ Lawyer, with Wolters Kluwer VPs Martin O’Malley and Dean Sonderegger
June 30, 2021 19:49 - 42 minutes - 58.3 MBAs the legal profession continues to transform and evolve, how can a law firm or legal department be “future ready”? What are the characteristics that define future-ready organizations and foretell their continued success? Just out from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is its 2021 Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report, documenting the top trends affecting legal professionals and looking at how well prepared law firms and legal departments are to address them. And given that this year’s repor...
How An Idea Borrowed from Football Is Driving Law Firm Diversity
June 21, 2021 07:00New findings show that law firms that piloted the Mansfield Rule have grown the racial and ethnic diversity of their leadership by more than 30 times the rate of other firms. These firms have also exceeded the norm in the rates at which racially diverse lawyers progressed into partnership and at which women lawyers progressed into leadership roles. As the legal industry continues to struggle with diversity, these are notable results – especially considering that the Mansfield Rule is an i...
How An Idea Borrowed from Football Is Driving Law Firm Diversity
June 21, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBNew findings show that law firms that piloted the Mansfield Rule have grown the racial and ethnic diversity of their leadership by more than 30 times the rate of other firms. These firms have also exceeded the norm in the rates at which racially diverse lawyers progressed into partnership and at which women lawyers progressed into leadership roles. As the legal industry continues to struggle with diversity, these are notable results – especially considering that the Mansfield Rule is an i...
Ep 127: How An Idea Borrowed from Football Is Driving Law Firm Diversity
June 21, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MBNew findings show that law firms that piloted the Mansfield Rule have grown the racial and ethnic diversity of their leadership by more than 30 times the rate of other firms. These firms have also exceeded the norm in the rates at which racially diverse lawyers progressed into partnership and at which women lawyers progressed into leadership roles. As the legal industry continues to struggle with diversity, these are notable results – especially considering that the Mansfield Rule is an i...
Ep 126: Founder Joshua Maley on the Theory of Theorem, A Different Kind of Legal Tech Marketplace
June 07, 2021 19:44 - 47 minutes - 65.9 MBThe past year has seen the launch of several legal technology marketplaces, but Theorem LTS aims to be something more — an integrated legal technology ecosystem to power workflow-driven tech adoption by law firms and legal departments, as well as a marketplace for vendors to sell their products and connect with customers. Founder Joshua Maley is a former lawyer and venture investor who started the company because he perceived that legal professionals had no viable way to understand all th...
Founder Joshua Maley on the Theory of Theorem, A Different Kind of Legal Tech Marketplace
June 07, 2021 19:44 - 47 minutes - 65.9 MBThe past year has seen the launch of several legal technology marketplaces, but Theorem LTS aims to be something more — an integrated legal technology ecosystem to power workflow-driven tech adoption by law firms and legal departments, as well as a marketplace for vendors to sell their products and connect with customers. Founder Joshua Maley is a former lawyer and venture investor who started the company because he perceived that legal professionals had no viable way to understand all th...
The Unlikely Story of How An Insolvency Lawyer Built A Global Trademarks Company
May 31, 2021 07:30 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MBThere is an element of serendipity in the story of Nehal Madhani and his company Alt Legal. Even though he had been an insolvency lawyer who had never practiced trademark law, an early attempt at entrepreneurship — and at registering his own trademarks — showed him the need for better software to automate trademark applications. After creating and launching that product, he heard from his customers that their greater need was software to track the thousands of trademarks they’d already filed...
Ep 125: The Unlikely Story of How An Insolvency Lawyer Built A Global Trademarks Company
May 31, 2021 07:30 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MBThere is an element of serendipity in the story of Nehal Madhani and his company Alt Legal. Even though he had been an insolvency lawyer who had never practiced trademark law, an early attempt at entrepreneurship — and at registering his own trademarks — showed him the need for better software to automate trademark applications. After creating and launching that product, he heard from his customers that their greater need was software to track the thousands of trademarks they’d already filed...
How One Company Aims to Change the Paradigm for Law Practice Management
May 24, 2021 19:18 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MBOne of the most dynamic areas of legal tech right now is practice management, which has seen a surge of investments and acquisitions over the past year. And one of the companies that best represents that trend is Paradigm, which was founded two years ago as ASG LegalTech and rebranded this year as Paradigm, to represent its goal of bringing about a paradigm shift for legal technology. Paradigm is a portfolio company composed of three popular practice management platforms — PracticePanther...
Ep 124: How One Company Aims to Change the Paradigm for Law Practice Management
May 24, 2021 19:18 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBOne of the most dynamic areas of legal tech right now is practice management, which has seen a surge of investments and acquisitions over the past year. And one of the companies that best represents that trend is Paradigm, which was founded two years ago as ASG LegalTech and rebranded this year as Paradigm, to represent its goal of bringing about a paradigm shift for legal technology. Paradigm is a portfolio company composed of three popular practice management platforms — PracticePanther...
How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, With April Dawson
May 17, 2021 17:02 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBThere is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech? And what topics should such teaching cover? April G. Dawson has given a lot of thought to those questions.A former computer programmer and litigator, she is now associate dean of technology and innovation and ...
Ep 123: How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, With April Dawson
May 17, 2021 17:02 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MBThere is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech? And what topics should such teaching cover? April G. Dawson has given a lot of thought to those questions.A former computer programmer and litigator, she is now associate dean of technology and innovation and ...
Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms
May 10, 2021 07:30Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with the goal of enhancing access to justice, On today’s episode of LawNext, we are joined by Arizona Supreme Court Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, who was not o...
Ep 122: Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms
May 10, 2021 07:30 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBLast August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with the goal of enhancing access to justice, On today’s episode of LawNext, we are joined by Arizona Supreme Court Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, who was not o...
Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms
May 10, 2021 07:30Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with the goal of enhancing access to justice, On today’s episode of LawNext, we are joined by Arizona Supreme Court Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, who was not o...
Ep 121: When A Tech Accelerator Goes Virtual: LexLab Director Drew Amerson and Anü Founder Tiyani Majoko
May 03, 2021 07:30 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBLexLab, the legal innovation hub at UC Hastings Law School, recently wrapped up the fourth cohort of its legal tech accelerator program with a demo day at which the seven startup participants got to pitch their products to potential investors. But this demo day, in fact this entire cohort, was noticeably different than prior ones, in that it was the first to take place 100% virtually, without the benefit of having the startups come and work on site in LexLab’s offices on the Hastings camp...
When A Tech Accelerator Goes Virtual: LexLab Director Drew Amerson and Anü Founder Tiyani Majoko
May 03, 2021 07:30 - 34 minutes - 47 MBLexLab, the legal innovation hub at UC Hastings Law School, recently wrapped up the fourth cohort of its legal tech accelerator program with a demo day at which the seven startup participants got to pitch their products to potential investors. But this demo day, in fact this entire cohort, was noticeably different than prior ones, in that it was the first to take place 100% virtually, without the benefit of having the startups come and work on site in LexLab’s offices on the Hastings camp...
Ep 120: CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Latest Raise and $1.6B Valuation
April 27, 2021 12:50 - 42 minutes - 58.3 MBA new $110 million Series E financing round for legal technology company Clio puts its valuation at $1.6 billion, making it the first law practice management company to achieve unicorn status and one of just a few legal tech companies to pass that milestone. In an exclusive LawNext interview, Jack Newton, Clio’s cofounder and CEO, joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss this news and what it means for the company and its customers, as well as to share his thoughts on what this means in the broa...
CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Latest Raise and $1.6B Valuation
April 27, 2021 12:50 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MBA new $110 million Series E financing round for legal technology company Clio puts its valuation at $1.6 billion, making it the first law practice management company to achieve unicorn status and one of just a few legal tech companies to pass that milestone. In an exclusive LawNext interview, Jack Newton, Clio’s cofounder and CEO, joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss this news and what it means for the company and its customers, as well as to share his thoughts on what this means in the broa...