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Ep 196: As He Steps Down As Dean, Gordon Smith Reflects On His Mission To Make BYU Law ‘One Of The Most Innovative Law Schools in the Country’

LawNext - March 13, 2023 18:24 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Two years after D. Gordon Smith was appointed dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 2016, he told an audience of law school advisors, “I want BYU to be known as, if not the most innovative law school in the country, then one of the most innovative law schools in ...

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S05E09: Alice Thomas - Part 2

People in Tax Podcast - March 09, 2023 14:19 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In S05E09, Bela Unell and Loretta Collins Argrett Fellow Alice Thomas discuss her family history, her experiences as a black student, and the role both played in bringing her to Howard. Part 2 of 3.

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Ep 195: A Closer Look At Smokeball, with Chief Revenue Officer Jane Oxley and President Ruchie Chadha

LawNext - March 07, 2023 16:56 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
On this episode of LawNext, we take a closer look at Smokeball, the law practice management company whose roots are in Australia but that is firmly entrenched in the United States. In fact, after Smokeball was founded in 2010, its very first customer was a law firm in Chicago.  Appropriately, ...

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S05E08: Alice Thomas

People in Tax Podcast - February 23, 2023 14:50 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In S05E08, Bela Unell and Loretta Collins Argrett Fellow, Alice Thomas, discuss getting involved in non-profit work, her path to teaching tax law, and how important tax law really is. Part 1 of 3.

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Ep 194: Paralegal Kathryn Tewson On Her Quest for Accountability from DoNotPay

LawNext - February 21, 2023 20:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Kathryn Tewson was a little-known paralegal when, on Jan. 24, she was suddenly thrust into the spotlight. That day, she published a scathing series of tweets recounting her investigation of DoNotPay, the company that describes itself as “the world’s first robot lawyer.” She concluded that the c...

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Ep 193: ‘A Bit Of A Nothingburger’: Joshua Browder Speaks To The DoNotPay Controversy

LawNext - February 09, 2023 17:59 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
On this episode of LawNext: Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay. Browder achieved international recognition when, at just 17 years old in 2015, he founded DoNotPay, touted as the world’s first robot lawyer, to help people appeal parking tickets. The company claims the app has saved motorists in ...

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S05E07: Karen Lapekas

People in Tax Podcast - February 09, 2023 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In S05E07, Bela Unell and Karen Lapekas discuss LLMs and litigation, litigation in practice, and mentorship in the tax law community.

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Ep 192: Documate Founder Dorna Moini on Rebranding As Gavel and How Law Firms Can Productize their Legal Services

LawNext - February 06, 2023 18:49 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Last week, Documate, the no-code document automation platform, rebranded as Gavel, a move designed to better reflect the company’s mission to become the platform of choice for legal professionals and legal organizations wanting to “productize” the delivery of legal services by packaging service...

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Ep 191: Theory and Principle Founder Nicole Bradick on Designing and Building Legal Tech Products

LawNext - January 31, 2023 00:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
When this podcast launched in July 2018, the very first guest on the very first episode was Nicole Bradick, who six months earlier had launched the legal technology design and development company Theory and Principle. As the company marks its fifth anniversary, Bradick returns to LawNext with n...

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Ep 190: As ALSP Axiom Opens A Law Firm in Arizona, Its Chief Strategy and Legal Officer Catherine Kemnitz Shares Details

LawNext - January 24, 2023 17:42 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Axiom, a company that is one of the longest-running alternative legal services providers, this week stepped into the world of regulated legal services as it formally launched Axiom Advice & Counsel, an Arizona law firm. The move was enabled by the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision last May to gra...

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Ep 189: LexFusion’s Joe Borstein and Casey Flaherty on the 2022 Legal Market in Review

LawNext - January 17, 2023 17:50 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Over the course of 2022, the principals of LexFusion conferred with 435 law departments and 250 law firms. Why? Simply put, because that is what the company does. It is a go-to-market company that defines its purpose as “to grease the gears of commerce and rapidly increase the adoption of legal ...

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Ep 188: Can GPT Pass the Bar Exam? We Find Out

LawNext - January 09, 2023 22:28 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Since the December release of Open AI’s GPT-3.5 model, and the related ChatGPT, speculation has been rampant about how this next generation of artificial intelligence might upend the legal profession. But as others have been speculating, two legal scholars and scientists, Daniel Martin Katz and ...

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Ep 187: A Special Fireside Chat with Four Legal Innovation Leaders on the State of the Industry

LawNext - January 03, 2023 17:29 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
On Nov. 7, 2022, at the NetDocuments Inspire 2022 conference for its customers and partners, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi moderated a fireside chat with four legal innovation leaders on the trends driving their organizations and legal teams and how they are addressing current challenges to set up t...

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Ep 186: Two Law Students Who Took On Systemic Racism in the Legal System

LawNext - December 20, 2022 16:04 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Brianna Joaseus and Edrius Stagg are two law students at Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, La., who spent nine months earlier this year tackling systemic racism in the legal system. On the latest LawNext, they join host Bob Ambrogi to discuss their projects and how their work impact...

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Ep 185: Factor CEO Varun Mehta On ‘Integrated Law’ As A New Category of Legal Services Provider

LawNext - December 05, 2022 20:51 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Factor, the managed services company that spun off in 2019 from alternative legal services provider Axiom, describes itself as providing “complex legal work at scale” for the corporate legal market it serves. But more recently, it has begun to position itself as falling within a new category of...

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Ep 184: Jeff Pfeifer of LexisNexis on Partnering with NetDocuments to Enrich Law Firm Data

LawNext - November 28, 2022 16:49 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Earlier this month, at the NetDocuments three-day Inspire 2022 conference for customers and partners, one of the speakers was Jeff Pfeifer, chief product officer for LexisNexis for Canada, the U.K., and the U.S. He was there to speak about a unique partnership between LexisNexis and NetDocuments...

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Ep 183: Dan Hauck, Chief Product Officer at NetDocuments, On the Company’s Product Strategy and Roadmap

LawNext - November 21, 2022 16:14 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Over seven years as a litigator of complex commercial and antitrust cases, Dan Hauck had become frustrated over how difficult it was for legal teams to collaborate around matters. In 2014, he left his law firm, Bryan Cave, to start ThreadKM, a matter-centric legal collaboration platform. As the ...

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S05E06: Judge Adam B. Landy

People in Tax Podcast - November 17, 2022 14:34 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In S05E06, William Schmidt and Judge Adam B. Landy discuss the duties of Special Trial judges, tips for counsel for a smoother process, and advice for young lawyers. Part 2 of 2

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Ep 182: NetDocuments CEO Josh Baxter and CTO Alvin Tedjamulia

LawNext - November 14, 2022 16:06 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Last week, the cloud-based content management company NetDocuments was in Denver for its annual three-day Inspire 2022 conference for customers and partners. LawNext host Bob Ambrogi was there also, where he sat down for an exclusive live interview with the company’s two top executives, Josh Bax...

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S05E05: Judge Adam B. Landy

People in Tax Podcast - November 08, 2022 21:33 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In S05E05, William Schmidt and Judge Adam B. Landy discuss learning skills in private practice, applying those skills to the Chief Counsel's Office, and ultimately transitioning to the Tax Court. Part 1 of 2

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LawNext #ClioCon Bonus Episode: Ronnie Gurion, Clio’s Chief Operating Officer

LawNext - November 01, 2022 13:15 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Ronnie Gurion, chief operating officer  With 20 years of experience leading marketplace, e-commerce, and Sa...

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Ep 181: Proof Founder Eric Voogt on Disrupting Service of Process

LawNext - October 31, 2022 16:48 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Service of process and other documents is an essential function of law practice – one most lawyers deal with on a regular basis. But for Colorado lawyer Eric Voogt, he saw service of process as a broken system, one in which it could be difficult for an attorney to line up a process server or kno...

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LawNext #ClioCon Bonus Episode: Jonathan Watson, Clio’s Chief Technology Officer

LawNext - October 28, 2022 17:21 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Jonathan Watson, Clio’s chief technology officer.  With over 20 years of leadership experience in large-sca...

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LawNext #ClioCon Bonus Episode: Reagan Attle, Clio’s Chief Marketing Officer

LawNext - October 27, 2022 13:15 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Reagan Attle, chief marketing officer at Clio.  Known for building and leading high-performing and award-wi...

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LawNext #ClioCon Bonus Episode: Shubham Datta, Clio’s VP of Corporate Development

LawNext - October 26, 2022 20:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Shubham Datta, vice president of corporate development at Clio. Datta oversees the development and executio...

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LawNext #ClioCon Bonus Episode: Clio’s Joshua Lenon on the Legal Trends Report

LawNext - October 26, 2022 17:32 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Joshua Lenon, lawyer in residence at Clio, about the recently released 2022 Legal Trends Report. An attorne...

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Ep 180: A Deep Dive into the First Comprehensive Study of Regulatory Reforms in Arizona and Utah

LawNext - October 25, 2022 15:27 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Among the most divisive issues facing the legal profession today is that of revising the rules that regulate law practice – and more specifically the questions of whether to liberalize the rules to allow those who are not licensed lawyers to own law practices or to engage in the practice of law....

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LawNext #ClioCon Bonus Episode: Curt Sigfstead, Clio’s Chief Financial Officer

LawNext - October 20, 2022 19:44 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Curt Sigfstead, chief financial officer. He is responsible for managing Clio’s financial affairs, including f...

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S05E04: Erin Collins

People in Tax Podcast - October 20, 2022 13:59 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In S05E04, William Schmidt and Erin Collins discuss the benefit of working in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, how things changed in moving to KPMG, some noteworthy cases, how being co-author of the IRS Practice and Procedure Deskbook benefitted her tax controversy practice, how her litigation ba...

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Ep 179: Recorded Live at ClioCon: Jack Newton on the Antifragile Law Firm

LawNext - October 17, 2022 14:46 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
In an episode of LawNext recorded in person at the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton discusses the “antifragile” law firm, a concept he introduced in his conference keynote — derived from the book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nichola...

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