I spoke with Sean Monahan, a Senior Director in the Strategy & Transformation practice and lead of the Data Modernization specialist team at Harbor, and Justin Hectus, the CIO of KP Labs, a Harbor company focused on business process automation, contract intelligence, and advanced analytics. We discussed the emerging legal tech that law firms and law departments should understand beyond generative AI and where AI is having the greatest impact on the legal industry.
I spoke with David Perla, the Co-Chief Operating Officer at Burford Capital, a leading provider of legal finance. We discussed how the impression of legal finance has evolved, the company’s new research on how in-house lawyers view opportunities in affirmative litigation, and how the use of litigation finance will evolve following the $16.1 billion judgment against the government of Argentina in the Southern District of New York.
I spoke with Michael Potters, the CEO of the Glenmont Group, an executive search firm that works with law firms, corporate legal departments, and providers of legal services. We discussed the state of the job market for roles in e-discovery, information governance, privacy, the types of organizations that offer the best roles, and the influence of AI on the staffing needs in legal.
I spoke with Katherine Allen, the CEO of Flo Recruit, Ross Guberman, the CEO of LawCatch, the developer of BriefCatch, and Jim Wagner, the CEO of The Contract Network. We discussed raising money for legal technology startups in the current environment, the challenges of doing so, advice for other leaders, and the road ahead.
I spoke with Jim O’Hare, the Vice President of CLM Services at LegalEase Solutions. We discussed how legal teams are using artificial intelligence with CLM, ways that ChatGPT is augmenting how companies are using AI, and whether emerging AI technology will increase a legal department’s productivity.
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 Jay Sarmaz, the Co-founder & CEO of Truve, a cloud-based data platform for law firms. We discussed how digital transformation has affected the way law firms leverage cloud technologies, ways that artificial intelligence and machine learning will shape the way law firms and legal departments operate, and the long-term impact of GPT and large language models on legal services.
For this mixtape from Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at the 2023 Corporate Legal Operations Consortium Global Institute, I had the privilege of speaking with Ed Sohn, SVP and Global Head of Capabilities at Factor, Jason Smith, Senior Principal for Strategy and Transformation at Conga, Jerry Levine, Chief Evangelist and General Counsel at ContractPodAi, Jerry Ting, Co-Founder and CEO at Evisort, Nathan Cemenska, Director of Legal Operations and Industry Insights at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, Oscar Vega, EVP for Global Sales & Marketing at KLDiscovery, and Roger Pilc, President of Legal Solutions at Epiq.