Latest Lawpractice Podcast Episodes
Ep 220: June Hsiao Liebert, President of the American Association of Law Libraries, On AI and the Future of Law Librarians
LawNext - October 03, 2023 17:38 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn July 27, June Hsiao Liebert took office as president of the American Association of Law Libraries, the association that represents more than 3,600 law librarians and legal information professionals throughout the world. The first Asian-American president of AALL, Liebert takes office at a tim...
Ep 219: Training Lawyers to Use Generative AI, with AltaClaro Founder Abdi Shayesteh
LawNext - September 26, 2023 09:19 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsAs generative AI sweeps through the legal profession, lawyers face challenges in learning to use it responsibly and properly. This summer, one of the world’s largest law firms, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, began to address that challenge by partnering with the legal skills training company Al...
Ep 218: Lawmatics Founder Matt Spiegel On Automating CRM for Law Firms
LawNext - September 19, 2023 04:03 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsStories are increasingly common of lawyers who leave law practice to start legal technology companies, but few achieve the level of success as an entrepreneur of Matt Spiegel. He was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase, one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management...
Ep 217: Litera CEO Sheryl Hoskins On Her First 17 Months and What’s Ahead For Her Company
LawNext - September 12, 2023 09:40 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIt has been nearly a year and a half since Sheryl Hoskins joined Litera as its new CEO in April 2022. She came into that role following a period in which the company saw significant growth, fueled in part by a series of some 17 acquisitions, through which the company expanded from a primary focu...
Ep 216: The Voices of ILTACON 2023, Part 2: Chats with 11 Legal Tech Companies
LawNext - September 05, 2023 15:49 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsRecently in Orlando, Fla., at ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi recorded a series of brief live interviews with some of the legal tech companies that were in attendance. Last week on this podcast, we featured the first set...
Ep 215: The Voices of ILTACON 2023: Brief Chats with 12 Legal Tech Startups
LawNext - August 29, 2023 17:05 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsLawNext host Bob Ambrogi is just back from Orlando, Florida, where he attended ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Mic in hand, he recorded a series of brief interviews with some of the legal tech companies that were in attendance. Over the next two ...
Ep 214: The Story Behind Gunderson Dettmer’s Launch of ChatGD, Its ‘Homegrown’ Generative AI App, with Joe Green and John Scrudato
LawNext - August 17, 2023 19:34 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsRecently, Silicon Valley-based Gunderson Dettmer, an international law firm of more than 400 lawyers that exclusively represents clients in the innovation economy, launched ChatGD, a generative AI chat app for its lawyers and legal professionals that the firm designed and built itself. The laun...
Ep 213: DoNotPay, Legal Regulatory Reform, and the Op-Ed the ABA Wouldn’t Publish, with Maya Markovich and Tom Gordon
LawNext - August 07, 2023 16:26 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsToday’s episode offers a different perspective on the DoNotPay controversy – and ended up having an unexpected twist. Earlier this year, DoNotPay, which described itself as the world’s first robot lawyer, and its founder Joshua Browder became the subject of harsh criticism after paralegal ...
S05E15: Shailana Dunn-Wall Part 2
People in Tax Podcast - August 03, 2023 14:51 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn S05E15, William Schmidt and former Christine Brunswick Fellow Shailana Dunn-Wall discuss community education regarding tax, the specifics of LITC works, and the benefits of Tax Section meetings.
Ep 212: Three General Counsel Discuss Boston’s Unique Contributions to the Legal Tech Landscape
LawNext - July 27, 2023 18:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn July 18, 2023, the top legal officers of three Boston-area technology companies came together for a live panel discussion about the city’s unique contributions to the legal tech landscape, moderated by LawNext host Bob Ambrogi. The panelists graciously agreed to allow LawNext to record the co...
S05E14: Shailana Dunn-Wall
People in Tax Podcast - July 20, 2023 14:57 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn S05E14, William Schmidt and former Christine Brunswick Fellow Shailana Dunn-Wall discuss non-profit tax practice, the challenges facing low-income taxpayers, and the benefits of the Christine Brunswick Fellowship. Part 1 of 2.
Ep 211: The Past, Present and Future of Trial Presentation Software, with Lit Software’s Tara Cheever and Derek Miller
LawNext - July 17, 2023 16:47 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsRecently, Derek Miller, a veteran legal technology executive who, as president and CEO of inData Corporation for nearly three decades, oversaw Trial Director, one of the most widely used trial-presentation software products ever, joined Lit Software, the developer of a suite of litigation apps f...
Ep 210: The Florida Bar’s Precedent-Setting Decision To Give Every Lawyer Access To Trust Accounting Software
LawNext - July 10, 2023 14:51 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIn a first for a state bar, The Florida Bar is providing its entire membership of more than 111,000 lawyers with access to legal trust accounting software – a move designed to both help lawyers better comply with trust accounting rules and help protect members of the public from trust accountin...
S05E13: Chardea Murray - Part 2
People in Tax Podcast - July 06, 2023 15:08 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn S05E13, Bela Unell and Loretta Collins Argrett Fellow Chardea Murray discuss her mentors, her goals for the Fellowship, and the importance of DEI and outreach. Part 2 of 2.
Ep 209: LexFusion CEO Joe Borstein On His Company’s Third Anniversary and His Client Casetext’s Acquisition By Thomson Reuters
LawNext - July 05, 2023 16:51 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIn October 2020, legal industry veterans Joe Borstein and Paul Stroka set out to change the legal tech sales paradigm by founding LexFusion as a go-to-market representative of a curated collection of companies across major categories of legal technology. As the company nears its third anniversar...
S05E12: Chardea Murray
People in Tax Podcast - June 22, 2023 14:58 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn S05E12, Bela Unell and Loretta Collins Argrett Fellow Chardea Murray discuss her path to law and tax, getting involved in Pro Bono and LITC work, and her early career at the IRS. Part 1 of 2.
Ep 208: Novus Law Cofounder Ray Bayley On Using Process Management And Tech To Find The Story In Legal Matters
LawNext - June 20, 2023 16:43 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsEvery great trial lawyer will tell you that the key to success in litigation is finding the story in a case. But when a case involves mountains of digital evidence, finding that story isn’t always easy or economical. That’s the problem the global legal services firm Novus Law aims to address. ...
Ep 207: Checkbox CEO Evan Wong on Why Workflow Automation Beats CLM for Many Legal Departments
LawNext - June 12, 2023 16:15 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOne of the hottest sectors of the legal tech market these days is contract lifecycle management, or CLM. But Evan Wong believes that, for many inhouse legal teams, CLM is not necessarily the best route for them to streamline workflows. Rather, he believes workflow automation is often the better ...
Ep 206: Rasa Legal Founder Noella Sudbury On Simplifying Criminal Records Expungement
LawNext - June 06, 2023 18:16 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsNoella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal defense lawyer. Over and over again, she saw clients put in the hard work to get out of the criminal justice system and rebuild their lives, only to have doors slammed...
Ep 205: Live from the CLOC Global Institute: Interviews with 22 Legal Tech Exhibitors
LawNext - May 30, 2023 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOn this episode of LawNext, we’re taking you to the conference floor of the CLOC Global Institute, the annual conference of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium that was held May 15-18 in Las Vegas, for a series of brief interviews with 22 of the legal tech companies that exhibited there. ...
Ep 204: Logikcull Cofounder Andy Wilson on 10 Years of Disrupting and Democratizing E-Discovery
LawNext - May 22, 2023 17:38 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis year marks the 10th anniversary of Logikcull, the company that CEO Andy Wilson and CTO Sheng Yang founded with the goal of automating and democratizing e-discovery. But the company actually evolved out of an earlier company the pair founded in 2004, Logik Systems, to digitize archaic paper-...
Ep 203: Wolters Kluwer V.P. Abhishek Mittal on Data Management and Operational Excellence
LawNext - May 15, 2023 16:53 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsAs vice president, Data Analytics and Operational Excellence, at Wolters Kluwer, Abhishek Mittal is responsible for driving business transformation and new product innovation by embedding data-driven decision making in core operational processes. He leads a large global team of process engineers...
Ep 202: The Post-Pandemic State of Legal Practice, with Nicole Black of MyCase
LawNext - May 09, 2023 17:03 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsOver the past year, the sibling legal technology companies MyCase and LawPay have published a series of reports on law practice, including benchmark reports based on anonymized data from the two companies’ customers, as well as an in-depth 2022 year-end legal industry report, based on a survey o...
Ep 201: Lexion CEO Gaurav Oberoi on His $20M Raise and Getting Deals Done Faster with AI
LawNext - May 01, 2023 16:48 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsLexion is an AI-powered contract management system with a unique pedigree, having emerged out of the Allen Institute for AI, the AI research institute created by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, and having received backing from investors such as Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm whose portfo...
Ep 200: The Four Founders of vLex and Fastcase on the Merger Of Their Two Companies
LawNext - April 25, 2023 16:41 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIt was major news April 4 when the legal research and technology companies Fastcase and vLex announced their merger, creating a single entity that they say now has the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms and a legal research library of more than 1 billion documents from mor...
Ep 199: Revisiting the Fastcase Origin Story: Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal on How Their Company Came To Be
LawNext - April 10, 2023 17:25 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsWith the news last week of the merger of legal research companies Fastcase and vLex, it seemed a good time to revisit our 2019 interview with the founders of Fastcase, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal. The occasion of this interview was the company’s 20th anniversary, and we recorded it live, on t...
S05E11: Jamal Aquil
People in Tax Podcast - April 06, 2023 15:44 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn S05E11, Gina Ahn and Loretta Collins Argrett Fellow Jamal Aquil discuss the specifics of the Argrett Fellowship, his path to tax practice, the challenges and obstacles he encountered along the way, and the role of the KPMG Washington National Tax Office in DC.
Ep 198: 15 Years, 15 Lessons: Clio Founder Jack Newton On What He’s Learned About Building a Successful Company
LawNext - April 03, 2023 17:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIn the 15 years since he and Rian Gauvreau cofounded the legal practice management company Clio in 2008, Jack Newton has learned a thing or two about what it takes to build a successful company. As its CEO since the start, Newton has overseen the growth of the company from fledgling startup to ...
S05E10: Alice Thomas - Part 3
People in Tax Podcast - March 23, 2023 14:37 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn S05E10, Bela Unell and Loretta Collins Argrett Fellow, Alice Thomas, discuss giving back to the community, her approach to preparing law students for practice, and the Loretta Collins Argrett Fellowship. Part 3 of 3.
Ep 197: Casetext’s Three Top Execs On CoCounsel, GPT-4 and ‘A New Age in the Practice of Law’
LawNext - March 21, 2023 20:14 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsNow in its 10th year in business, Casetext has introduced a series of unique products over the years that have cemented its reputation as a leading innovator in legal technology and AI. Now, at time when seemingly every legal tech developer is rushing to incorporate the GPT artificial intelligen...
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