In this 35th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed 2024 reflections, 2025 expectations, community-building, and systems-setting in the New Year.
Ari Kaplan speaks with Brian Dunn, the General Counsel for CrashPlan, a data backup software platform. We discussed how legal professionals use CrashPlan to manage data retention, common challenges organizations face when implementing legal holds, the risks of using outdated legal hold processes, and best practices for capturing and preserving chat data.
I spoke with Peter Connor, a lawyer, author of The T-Shaped Lawyer and The T-Shaped Lawyer Guidebook, and a Legal Team Coach with Alternatively Legal. We discussed his transition from practicing law to becoming a Legal Team Coach, the concept of the T-shaped lawyer, the importance of human transformation over digital transformation in legal teams, and how the practice of law is evolving.
I spoke with James Ding, the Co-Founder and CEO of DraftWise, an AI contract and negotiation platform for transactional lawyers. We discussed the role of AI in transforming legal work, the integration of generative AI in law firms, how tools like DraftWise are changing the approach to contract drafting, and why AI agents are emerging as legal practice support tools.
I asked Notebook LM to read Legal Operations at a Crossroads, published in collaboration with iManage, LegalMation, and Neota Logic. This AI-generated discussion is the extraordinary result.
I spoke with Laura Leopard, Founder and General Manager of Leopard Solutions, a law firm data platform and a SurePoint company. We discussed the launch of Leopard PROWESS, ways that corporate legal teams and law firms are streamlining their recruiting processes, and how the selection of outside counsel is changing.
I spoke with Tom Dunlop, the CEO of Summize, a provider of AI-powered contract lifecycle management software. We discussed how Summize differs from other CLM tools, how law firm and law department leaders view AI, and how the growth of legal technology in the US compares to the UK.
In this 28th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed unicorns, enthusiasm for legal tech, and moving from the era of wonder to practicality in generative AI.