In this ninth episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed ILTACON 2023, law firm leadership, litigation analytics, and practical AI.
I spoke with Jeff Jacobson, a litigation partner with Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath in New York, and Nicole Clark, the Co-Founder and CEO of Trellis, a state trial court research and analytics platform, which recently introduced its Law Firm Intelligence tool to offer insights on business and competitive intelligence for law firms. We discussed how litigators can leverage data and analytics to gain a competitive advantage, new opportunities law firms can create with detailed intelligence, and the insights Law Firm Intelligence can provide to support legal teams in their decision-making.
I spoke with Ignat Postny, the Executive Director at TAG Consulting, a boutique consulting firm specializing in corporate governance, asset protection, and M&A projects for high-net-worth individuals and business owners. We discussed the challenges that legal professionals face in deploying new technology, the impact of legal process automation, the process of developing software for the legal profession, and the risks of using AI in legal.
I spoke with Troy Pospisil, the Founder and CEO of Ontra, a provider of contract automation and intelligence solutions for asset managers. We discussed how the growth in global transactions has impacted the way lawyers and other professionals in that sector manage the increased volume of contracts, the benefits of deploying artificial intelligence in this process, and how the private markets sector is transforming its use of contract automation technology.
I spoke with David Gaskey, the Founding Shareholder at Carlson, Gaskey & Olds in Birmingham, Michigan, and the Co-Founder with Vasu Mahavishnu, the Chief Technology Officer, at Altumatim, an e-discovery and investigations software platform. We discussed the process of developing AI technology in a rapidly changing market, the expectations that practitioners have for e-discovery technology, and why data science is become so closely connected to the practice of law.
I spoke with Dave Ruel, the Head of Product at Hanzo, a developer of solutions for enterprise legal, governance, and compliance teams to manage their complex collaboration and web-based data. We discussed how the rise of collaboration apps and the onset of remote work have affected the way corporate legal operations and e-discovery professionals approach the preservation and collection of collaboration data for e-discovery and investigations, how legal teams can leverage technology to optimize their productivity, and best practices for overcoming resistance to digital transformation in e-discovery.