Technically Legal - A Legal Technology and Innovation Podcast
128 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsTechnically Legal is a legal tech podcast about legal innovation and the impact technology is having on the law.
In each episode we interview an innovator in the legal industry about how technology is changing the practice of law, about the companies they are building and how legal tech is changing the way legal departments and law firms work.
The podcast is hosted by Chad Main, an attorney and founder of Percipient, a tech-enabled legal services provider. Chad launched Percipient on the belief that when technology is leveraged correctly, it makes legal teams more effective.
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The Impact of Blockchain on the Law – Now and Beyond (Jacob Robinson, Law of Code)
June 23, 2022 10:33 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBBlockchain lawyer and fellow podcaster Jacob Robinson visits Technically Legal to talk about how blockchain technology is impacting the law now and how it will in the future. Jacob hosts the Law of Code Podcast covering blockchain related legal issues and hosting a Who’s Who of #Cryptolaw as guests. On this episode, Jacob discusses the interplay between blockchain technology and legal rights (such as property rights). He also explains how, for some endeavors, blockchain might change the ...
Krystal Kovac (GC Oncore) on Building a Legal Function by Fostering Relationships and Using Accessible Tech
June 09, 2022 15:45 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBKrystal Kovac, Head of Legal & Compliance at Oncore, visits Technically Legal to share her story about building a legal department from the ground up. Like many, Krystal decided to become a lawyer without a good understanding of all that entails. Also, like many, she didn’t like her first legal job that much, and when it ended, she went to Canada and became ski instructor. She also got another legal job in Canada that she actually liked, but her Visa ran out and she headed back home to Que...
How to Connect Real World Contracts to Blockchain Technology (Aaron Powers, CEO Hunit)
May 26, 2022 10:02 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBAaron Powers, CEO and co-founder of Hunit, talks SLCs or, Smart Legal Contracts, that are natural language contracts but utilize blockchain technology to record certain aspects of contractual relationships. Hunit enables users to create text based contracts in Microsoft Word, but tie the document to a blockchain creating an immutable record of certain contract components, like successful performance and the fact that a contract even exists between two parties. Aaron is an entrepreneur fi...
Slack’s Cyndi Wheeler & Mark Pike on Automating Legal Workflows And (Not) Using Email (2020)
May 12, 2022 10:10 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBDo you want to spend less time dealing with email? Are you interested in automating repetitive work tasks? Cyndi Wheeler and Mark Pike offer some tips on how to do just that in this episode from 2020. Cyndi and Mark are both in-house lawyers at collaboration software company Slack. Cyndi and Mark discuss how they moved almost all of their communications with outside counsel away from email and into Slack channels and how that has increased the productivity and the effectiveness of their ...
Using AI to Match Clients with the Right Personal Injury Attorney (Victor Bornstein, CEO Justpoint)
April 28, 2022 10:43 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBVictor Bornstein tells us how Justpoint, the company he co-founded and now heads, is taking advantage of changes to Rules of Professional Conduct to build artificial intelligence that matches personal injury clients to the best attorney for their case. Specifically, the company is taking advantage of changes to Rule 5.4 in Arizona that now permits people other than lawyers to have an ownership stake in law firms and legal services companies. Justpoint lets potential clients leverage AI t...
How to Build a SaaS Company for Legal (Andy Wilson, CEO Logikcull)
April 14, 2022 13:18 - 40 minutes - 37 MBRight out of college with a computer science degree in hand, a buddy helped Andy Wilson (now CEO of SaaS based e-discovery software company Logikcull) get a job at a printing company because Andy’s friend said there was a technology component to the job. It was the early 2000s and what the printing company was actually doing was printing out email messages so they could be used in a legal matter. The absurdity of printing out something that is inherently digital was not lost on Andy. So, ...
How a Legal Evolution Can Save PeopleLaw – Professor William Henderson (Indiana University School of Law)
March 31, 2022 11:14 - 40 minutes - 37 MB“You’re marrying a firefighter. That’s all I’ll ever be. I’m never going to finish college.” That’s what Bill Henderson told his soon to be wife many years ago, but thankfully that was not true. Fast forward to today and Bill is now Professor William Henderson, the Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession at Indiana University and he has been a law professor for nearly 20 years. Professor Henderson is also the moving force behind Legal Evolution, an online publication focusing ...
Fisher Broyles: From 5 Attorneys to AmLaw 200 and Doing it all Remotely (James Fisher & Kevin Broyles)
March 17, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBSCENE: Afternoon. Early 2000s. Because the first internet bubble is popping, two tech lawyers find themselves with not much to do so they go to a matinee showing of Black Hawk Down. Those two attorneys are James Fisher and Kevin Broyles. That particular afternoon was not the only slow one for them. Work for them had dried up and colleagues at their law firm were getting laid off left and right. Although they had opportunities to go to different firms, they started looking around at how ...
Code is Law? Blockchain Technology and the Future of Antitrust Law (Thibault Schrepel of Codex and Free University of Amsterdam)
March 03, 2022 11:25 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBThibault Schrepel joins the podcast to talk blockchain, antitrust and competition law. He is a professor at the Free University in Amsterdam and on the faculty of the Codex Center at Stanford University. At Stanford he is involved in the Computational Antitrust Project which works to foster the automation of antitrust procedures and the improvement of antitrust analysis. Thibault knew he wanted to pursue a career in antitrust on the very first day of his very first antitrust class during...
Using Legal Tech to Create Sustainable Social Change (Jazz Hampton, CEO Turnsignl)Using Legal Tech to Create Sustainable Social Change (Jazz Hampton, CEO Turnsignl)
February 17, 2022 11:19 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBDe-escalation. That is what Jazz Hampton and two friends from college set out to achieve when they co-founded Turnsignl. An app used during traffic stops to access legal help in real time to de-escalate what is often a very tense situation. Prior to becoming Turnsignl CEO, Jazz was a public defender and ended up doing commercial litigation at a top Minneapolis law firm. It was there that he began to question whether he was putting his law degree to its best use. While Jazz was still in pr...
Reaching Collaboration Nirvana Between Client, Law Firm & Other Legal Service Providers (Michael Callier & Ed Sohn of Factor)
February 03, 2022 11:33 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBMichael Callier, Head of Legal Solutions and Consulting and colleague Edward Sohn, Head of Solutions at legal services company Factor discuss how in-house legal teams, their outside counsel and new law players like alternative legal service providers (ALSPs), can collaborate and maximize productivity by leveraging the strengths of each. Factor is a new law company (sometimes described as a managed legal services provider) providing legal and contracting solutions to in-house counsel and th...
Avoiding Tech First Failures When Improving Legal Workflows & Processes with Casey Flaherty (Lex Fusion)
January 20, 2022 11:43 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBCasey Flaherty, Chief Strategy Officer for Lex Fusion, makes his second appearance on Technically Legal. This time around, Casey discusses his thesis that organizations often turn to technology as an avoidance mechanism for addressing issues with process and culture. Casey has deep experience with legal process from all angles, he started his career as a commercial litigator before moving in house at Kia Motors. From there he launched a legal operations consultancy and started Procertas,...
Mike Suchsland (The LegalTech Fund) on Investing in Legal Technology in 2022 and Beyond
January 06, 2022 11:25 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBIn the first episode of 2022, Mike Suchsland of the LegalTech Fund and Bridge Investments talks about investing in legal technology. Mike has been in legal tech before it was even a thing. He started his career with Wolters Kulwer in the 1990s and ultimately ended up climbing high up the corporate ladder at Thomson Reuters. He started as Thomson’s head of legal strategy, moved to the small law business group, ended up running the corporate legal unit, the legal education division and ult...
Jim Doppke on the Ethics of Legal Tech and the Duty to Supervise Robots (2019)
December 22, 2021 15:53 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MBLegal ethics attorney Jim Doppke returns for an encore appearance to discuss the impact that legal tech and legal innovation have on the Rules of Professional Conduct and other rules that govern how lawyers practice law. Jim explains how Model Rules of Professional Conduct 1.1 (Lawyer’s Duty of Competence) and 5.3 (Responsibilities Regarding Nonlawyer Assistance) are implicated by advances in legal technology and legal innovation. A comment to Rule 1.1 (and adopted by most states) says t...
What Technology Companies Look for in Legal Professionals (Bruce Byrd GC Palo Alto Networks)
December 09, 2021 11:49 - 36 minutes - 51 MBLooking for an in-house counsel job? Wondering what companies look for when hiring legal professionals? Well, this episode is for you. Bruce Byrd, General Counsel for cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks, talks about what he looks for when he is hiring for his legal team. Like many in-house attorneys, Bruce worked a few years at a law firm and then moved in-house when he took his first corporate legal job with the AT&T legal team. He climbed the ladder and ultimately ended up with the ...
Using Tech to Provide Access to Affordable Legal Services for Creators (Eric Farber of Creators Legal)
November 24, 2021 00:27 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBEric Farber, attorney and writer, visits the Technically Legal Podcast to talk about Creators Legal, a LegalZoom like app for creators and those in the entertainment industry. Creators Legal offers self serve industry contracts drafted by experienced lawyers. It makes sense that Eric launched a legal tech company for creative types. He started his career in the entertainment industry working for a talent agency and then headed up business affairs for a movie studio. Ultimately he moved to ...
Building A Legal Tech Start Up With Nicole Clark (Co-Founder of State Court Analytics App Trellis)
November 10, 2021 22:28 - 39 minutes - 36 MBWe talk to Nicole Clark, Co-Founder of Trellis, an AI-powered state court research and analytics platform. Like many entrepreneurs before her, Nicole came up with the idea for Trellis to “scratch her own itch”. She was burning the midnight oil on a pleading she needed to get on file for a client (prior to launching Trellis, she was a litigator). She was unfamiliar with the judge that would hear the motion so, that night, she sent an email to colleagues at her firm to find out if any of the...
The Nuts and Bolts of Ransomware Insurance & Ransomware Attack Response With Kelly Geary (EPIC) & Rich Gatz (Coalition)
October 28, 2021 10:23 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBThe ransomware episode. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so how couldn't we do this episode? Our guests are Kelly Geary, National Practice Leader of Executive Risk & Cyber/Professional Services Claims for EPIC Insurance Brokers, and Rich Gatz, Claims Counsel for Coalition, a Silicon Valley cyber insurance company. While both Kelly and Rich have law degrees, they have worked in insurance for a long time. Both got started with cyber insurance and incident response in th...
What's Going on With Blockchain and the Law (2021 Edition) With Lewis Cohen of DLx Law
October 14, 2021 10:23 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBBlockchain. Crypto mining. Proof of stake. Smart contracts. Non Fungible Tokens (NFT). DAOs. Crypto regulation. We talk about all of the above and more with Lewis Cohen of the blockchain focused law firm of DLx Law. Lewis breaks down what a blockchain network is and how transactions are recorded and verified on the network. He also talks about the legal and intellectual property implications of NFTs and decentralized autonomous organizations. Lewis also touches on recent efforts to regul...
How Courtroom5 is Using Legal Tech to Close the Access to Justice Gap (Sonja Ebron & Maya Markovich)
September 30, 2021 10:18 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBSonja Ebron found herself in a couple legal tangles over the years. From disputes with landlords to dust-ups with shady creditors, she represented herself in court a couple times and quickly figured out litigation without a lawyer can be very difficult. So, what did she do about it? She founded Courtroom5, an app that helps civil pro se litigants with legal research, provides education about court procedures and also helps them draft and file pleadings. A “do-it-yourself” litigation suppor...
Using Tech To Rate Contracts & Streamline Negotiations With Otto Hanson (Term Scout Founder)
September 15, 2021 10:22 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBOtto Hansen, the founder of Term Scout, visits Technically Legal to talk about the company he founded that uses machine learning to analyze and rate contracts. Specifically, it analyzes contracts to determine whether they are in line with industry standards and how vendor or customer friendly they are. The goal of Term Scout’s rating system is to cut down on contract negotiation and eliminate the back and forth about uncontroversial terms so the parties can focus provisions that will requi...
The Impact of Technology on Critical Legal Thinking With Michael Zuckerman (Northwestern Law School)
September 02, 2021 10:24 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MB“Whatever benefits advanced legal technology may bring to lawyers, I am concerned about this sort of technology seeping into the legal writing classroom,” writes Northwestern University Legal Writing Professor Michael Zuckerman in an article he penned for the ABA Journal, Law Professor Makes Case Against Automating Legal Writing in Law School. However, Professor Zuckerman is not anti-legal tech. In fact, as he explains in the latest episode of Technically Legal, he even founded a legal tec...
Contract Automation & Building a Law Firm ALSP With Eric Baker and Michael Case (Transaction Expeditors / Frost Brown Todd)
August 18, 2021 10:14 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBContract automation and building an alternative legal service provider (ALSP) within a law firm is the topic of Episode 52. Eric Baker and Michael Case, transportation attorneys with Frost Brown Todd, talk about their journey founding Transaction Expeditors, an AI enabled contracts automation platform for the transportation industry. Before joining Frost Brown Todd and before launching Transaction Expeditors, both Eric and Mike were in house attorneys. Eric served as GC for transportatio...
Cyber Incident Response: What Really Goes On Behind the Scenes – Luke Green (Beazley) & Josh Sudbury (Lodestone)
July 27, 2021 15:44 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBCyber incident response. Cyber attacks. Unfortunately, we hear these terms daily nowadays. But what really goes on behind the scenes in a cyber incident? To answer that question, we asked Luke Green, a Breach Response Services Manager for cyber insurer Beazley Group and Josh Sudbury, Managing Principal of Forensic Investigations at Lodestone, a leading cyber defense and incident response company, to come on the show. They break down step by step what happens when an organization is hacke...
Implementing Data Analytics Maturity Models & Tackling Legal Spend Management (Peter Eilhauer – EPIQ)
July 08, 2021 01:48 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBData analytics maturity models (and legal operations maturity models in general) are the topic of discussion with Peter Eilhauer, Managing Director for Legal Spend Solutions at Epiq. Peter knows his stuff about legal spend management–he’s been working in and around it for 16 years. He started as a consultant helping law firms manage costs and then jumped ship to help corporate legal departments manage their legal spend. Most recently with Epiq and just before that with Elevate Services. ...
Using AI to Find the Best Legal Hire and Increase Diversity (Suited)
June 10, 2021 09:40 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBUsing artificial intelligence to help make hiring decisions is the topic du jour of Episode 49. Matt Spencer and Aaron Meyers, the CEO and CTO of Suited, respectively, explain how their AI powered, assessment-driven recruiting platform helps law firms and corporate legal departments find the best candidate for legal jobs and also increase diversity hires. After a career in investment banking, Matt and his co-founders launched Suited to address the major difficulties in finding the right jo...
Using Legal Analytics to Find Your Best Legal Argument, Hire the Right Lawyer & Retain the Best Expert (Serena Wellen Context/LexisNexis)
May 19, 2021 21:39 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MB"The fundamental tool of lawyers is language" explains Serena Wellen in this episode. Serena is a Senior Director for LexisNexis and works on the Context legal analytics platform. Context leverages machine learning and natural language processing from Ravel, a company LexisNexis acquired in 2017. Using Ravel's analytics engine, Context sits atop many of the LexisNexis databases and analyzes information about judges, lawyers, expert witnesses and companies compiled in "entity authorities." ...
A New Era for Online Dispute Resolution With Collin Williams & Rich Lee
April 28, 2021 22:41 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBOnline Dispute Resolution. That is the topic of discussion with New Era ADR cofounders Collin Williams and Rich Lee. New Era ADR is an online claims dispute resolution platform that provides online mediation and online arbitrations. Collin and Rich came up with the idea for New Era after they both served as General Counsel for a couple of Chicago based tech start ups. Collin was GC for online music instrument marketplace Reverb and Rich's last role was general counsel for Civis Analytics....
On the New Reality of Distributed Legal Teams (Paul Sieminski GC for Automattic)
April 14, 2021 10:58 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBAutomattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr and WooCommerce (among others), is a distributed company by design. In fact, the company’s creed spells out its commitment to a distributed workforce. They have 1500 employees spread across 80 countries. In the latest episode of Technically Legal, Paul Sieminski, Automattic’s General Counsel, discusses how legal work, which has traditionally been performed in offices, is prime for distributed teams because it is quintessential knowledge ...
Using Legal Technology to Scale a Legal Department with Mel Scott (Megaport)
March 23, 2021 20:22 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBUsing legal tech to scale a corporate legal department is the topic du jour in Episode 45. The guest: Mel Scott, Senior Legal Counsel for Megaport, a global technology company offering scalable point to point connectivity for public and private cloud connections. Mel is also the host of a great podcast called Counsel about in-house lawyer life. Mel talks about her journey from law firm lawyer to an in-house role. She also talks about her experience scaling Megaport's legal department not o...
George Socha on the EDRM & AI in Electronic Discovery
March 03, 2021 11:29 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBThe history, current state and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) is the topic of conversation with George Socha. George currently serves as Senior Vice President of Brand Awareness for e-discovery software company, Reveal Data, but back in 2005, he founded the EDRM along with Tom Gelbmann. What is the EDRM? It is a model that outlines the stages of the Electronic Discovery process. The EDRM discovery stages are: Information Governa...
Using IP Management Software & Automation To Maximize ROI with Jeppe Hudtloff Viinberg (Rightly.io) & Michael Ro Mejer
February 02, 2021 11:13 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBUsing intellectual property management software and automation is the topic of conversation for Episode 43. We talk to Jeppe Hudtloff Viinberg Rightly.io co-founder and Rightly user Michael Ro Mejer Interim General Counsel for Danish clothing company, Masai. Rightly is IP management software that automates and tracks tasks across the IP management lifecycle. Such as docketing, renewal management, and brand protection. The app also provides IP registration metrics and reporting. Jeppe and...
Greg Lambert on the Importance of the 21st Century Law Librarian
January 11, 2021 19:21 - 38 minutes - 35 MBIn the first episode of 2021 we talk to a fellow podcaster and legal blogger Greg Lambert. He is co-host of the Geek in Review Podcast and also writes for Three Geeks and a Law Blog. Both the Three Geeks podcast and blog focus on legal innovation and change in the legal industry. Greg’s day job is Chief Knowledge Services Officer for the Dallas based law firm Jackson Walker. Although Greg still considers himself a law librarian, as Greg explains, the role of a law librarian in the 2020s is...
Lucy Bassli on The Modern Legal Ecosystem and Unicorn Lawyers (2018)
January 07, 2021 13:27 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThe modern legal ecosystem and all its allied professionals is the topic of discussion with Lucy Bassli, founder of InnoLaw Group (formerly InnoLegal Services) and Chief Legal Strategist at Law Geex. Lucy started her career in Big Law (at Davis Wright Tremaine) and ultimately landed a job in Microsoft’s legal department where she served as Assistant General Counsel. At Microsoft, Lucy was responsible for, among other things, the legal department’s procurement operations and contract manage...
Workflow Automation for Legal With Scott Kelly (President of Community.Lawyer)
December 07, 2020 00:33 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBWorkflow automation for lawyers and legal teams is the topic of Episode 41. Our guest is Scott Kelly, one of the founders of Community.Lawyer, which is “no-code” workflow automation software with an app builder designed with attorneys in mind. Community.Lawyer is a way for law firms, corporate legal departments and legal aid organizations to automate common and repeatable tasks to save time and resources. Among other uses, Community.Lawyer can be used to create forms to collect data, crea...
Why Hackers Like Law Firms & Legal Departments (and Cyber Security 101) with Matthew Holland, CEO Field Effect Software
November 19, 2020 13:04 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBEpisode 40 is a great conversation with Matthew Holland, CEO of Field Effect Software, a cyber security company providing tools and managed detect and response (MDR) services to protect against cyber attacks. Field Effect is Matthew’s second company. In 2007 he founded Linchpin Labs, a company that offered ethical privatized intelligence to governments and companies. Matt started his cyber security career with an internship at Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE). Cana...
The Pros & Cons and Dos & Don’ts of Virtual Court Hearings With Federal Judge Tony Leung (Minnesota) Episode 39
November 03, 2020 01:27 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBVirtual court hearings are the subject of Episode 38. We talked to Magistrate Judge Tony Leung via Zoom about using Zoom videoconferences for court. Judge Leung sits on the bench for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota and has a pretty impressive background. He emigrated from Hong Kong to the United States at the age of 6, was valedictorian of his high school class and then headed to Yale for college. From Yale he went to New York University law school, worked ...
Lawyers Duty of Technology Competence (2020 Edition) With Jim Doppke
October 08, 2020 18:24 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBEthics attorney Jim Doppke returns to Technically Legal to talk legal ethics and technology. Jim is a former prosecutor for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission and is now in private practice with Robinson, Stewart, Montgomery and Doppke. Jim counsels attorneys and businesses on legal ethics issues and represents attorneys and attorney candidates in ARDC proceedings. Way back in 2017, Jim was our first guest and he talked about what was then a fairly recent chan...
Michael Volkov on Tech, Software & Data Analysis in Compliance Programs
September 14, 2020 19:30 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBAttorney Michael Volkov, head of the Volkov Law Group, is our guest for Episode 38. He discusses the use of technology, software and data analysis in corporate compliance and ethics programs. Michael and his firm focus on regulatory compliance issues, internal investigations and white collar crime. Michael explains that it is very difficult to implement a successful ethics and compliance program without using technology to analyze data. In fact, recent updates to the U.S. Department of J...
Real Talk About Cross Border Data Transfers & Schrems II With Data Privacy Attorney Christian Auty
August 18, 2020 12:41 - 36 minutes - 33 MBBryan Cave data privacy attorney Christian Auty returns for Episode 36 to talk about the real world implications of the Schrems II opinion from the European Court of Justice. What is Schrems II? It is shorthand for Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Limited and Maximillian Schrems. In it, the Court of Justice reaffirmed that generally, transfers of personal data from the EU to non-EU countries are prohibited unless sufficient measures are taken to protect it. ...
Real Talk About Cross Border Data Transfers & Schrems II With Data Privacy Attorney Christian Auty - Episode 36
August 18, 2020 12:41 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBBryan Cave data privacy attorney Christian Auty returns for Episode 36 to talk about the real world implications of the Schrems II opinion from the European Court of Justice. What is Schrems II? It is shorthand for Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Limited and Maximillian Schrems. In it, the Court of Justice reaffirmed that generally, transfers of personal data from the EU to non-EU countries are prohibited unless sufficient measures are taken to protect it. ...
Anna McGrane & Joshua Fireman on Knowledge and Change Management in Legal Without Boiling the Ocean
July 22, 2020 11:44 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBYou don't have to "boil the ocean" to implement innovation and change in a law firm or legal department. That's what we learn in Episode 35 from Anna McGrane, PacerPro COO, and Joshua Fireman, President of Fireman & Company. PacerPro is an app that streamlines and automates the distribution and capture of data from federal court filings. Fireman & Company is a legal industry-focused management consulting firm. Anna and Joshua join us to talk about a white paper they put together analyzin...
Slack’s Cyndi Wheeler & Mark Pike on Automating Legal Workflows And (Not) Using Email
June 23, 2020 00:05 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBDo you want to spend less time dealing with email? Are you interested in automating repetitive work tasks? Cyndi Wheeler and Mark Pike, both in-house lawyers at collaboration software company Slack, offer tips on how to do that in Episode 34. Cyndi and Mark discuss how they moved almost all of their communications with outside counsel away from email and into Slack channels and how that has increased productivity and the effectiveness of their legal team. They also explain that Slack i...
Slack’s Cyndi Wheeler & Mark Pike on Automating Legal Workflows And (Not) Using Email - Episode 34
June 23, 2020 00:05 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBDo you want to spend less time dealing with email? Are you interested in automating repetitive work tasks? Cyndi Wheeler and Mark Pike, both in-house lawyers at collaboration software company Slack, offer tips on how to do that in Episode 34. Cyndi and Mark discuss how they moved almost all of their communications with outside counsel away from email and into Slack channels and how that has increased productivity and the effectiveness of their legal team. They also explain that Slack i...
Episode 33: Using AI in Litigation – Thomas Suh (LegalMation Co-Founder)
May 27, 2020 13:25 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBLegalMation Co-Founder Thomas Suh is our guest in Episode 33. LegalMation is a suite of artificial intelligence tools that helps attorneys and legal professionals automate routine litigation tasks like drafting pleadings and written discovery responses. Thomas and his Co-Founder James Lee came up with the idea for LegalMation while working at a litigation boutique. The firm handled high profile cases and, to even the playing field with larger law firms, they leveraged automation to save ti...
Episode 32: Keith Maziarek & Justin Ergler on the Legal Value Network (and on Community and Collaboration in Legal)
April 30, 2020 12:05 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBLegal Value Network Founding Board Members Keith Maziarek and Justin Ergler visit Technically Legal for Episode 32. Keith, a second time guest (Episode 15 – legal service pricing) and Justin talk about the genesis of LVN (an evolution from the P3 conference) and the group’s mission of “designing, building and implementing the foundations of a more contemporary and commercially-sound model of legal service delivery.” Keith is Director of Legal Pricing and Project Management at Katten Muchi...
Episode 31: Dennis Garcia & Jason Barnwell on Legal Teams Innovating, Transforming And Working Remotely
April 15, 2020 20:25 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBMicrosoft attorneys Dennis Garcia and Jason Barnwell discuss how legal teams can successfully and productively work remotely. They also discuss how recent work from home orders may speed up innovation and transformation in legal departments and law firms. Dennis is an Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft and a prior Technically Legal guest. We talked to him on Episode 4 about Automation, Cybersecurity and the Cloud. Dennis leads a team of lawyers assisting Microsoft’s Enterprise Commerci...
Episode 30: Sterling Miller on Legal Teams Responding to Crises and Pandemics
March 22, 2020 17:13 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBSterling Miller joins us on Episode 30 to discuss how in-house legal teams can help their companies respond to crisis situations and pandemics. Sterling is a three time general counsel (Travelocity, Sabre Corporation and Marketo) now with the Hilger Grabens law firm. He also writes a great blog, Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel. Sterling explains that during crises, in-house lawyers should “run to the fire” and actively help their companies deal with difficult times. It is a...
Episode 29: Gyi Tsakalakis on Attorneys Using Tech To Improve Responsiveness and Improve the Client Experience
March 03, 2020 19:30 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBAccording to Clio’s Legal Trends Report, attorneys fail to respond to more than 60% of inquiries from prospective clients. This abysmal response rate is juxtaposed against surveys of in-house counsel reporting that, on a scale of 1 to 10, responding to client inquiries rates 8.8 in importance . Poor client communications should not be the norm in legal. In Episode 29, lawyer and founder of Attorney Sync, Gyi Tsakalakis explains how lawyers can use tech and software to be more responsive t...
Episode 28: Josh Becker on Data Driven Lawyers
December 18, 2019 18:34 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBIn Episode 28 Joshua Becker, Chairman of Lex Machina and head of the Lexis Nexis Legal Tech Accelerator talks data driven lawyering. Josh discusses his start in the tech community and his move to venture capital. Ultimately, Josh became involved with Lex Machina, a legal data analytics company started at Stanford. Lex Machina permits legal teams to mine litigation data to find insights about judges, lawyers, parties, and the subjects of the cases themselves to discover meaningful patterns ...