I spoke with Evan Shenkman, the senior director of knowledge management at Fisher Phillips, a labor and employment law firm. We discussed how knowledge management has changed over the past few months, the firm’s recent alliance with LegalMation and Thomson Reuters, how it will benefit clients and practitioners, and what the heightened focus on automation means for the future of the practice of law.
I spoke with Nicholas d’Adhemar and Stephen Wilcock, the CEO and CTO, respectively, of Apperio, a legal technology company that provides automated legal spend tracking, management, and analysis solutions. We discussed how Apperio reflects the goals of the ongoing corporate legal operations revolution which focuses on cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and streamlined workflow, and comparisons between the legal tech communities in the U.K., Europe, and the U.S.
I spoke with Mona Datt, the founder and CEO of both Loom Analytics, a legal analytics software company, and eDecree, a legal and insurance transcription company. We discussed how she has helped her teams work from home, the biggest challenges she has faced in that effort, how she is preparing to return to a physical office, and her recommendations for other companies transitioning back to a central location.
I spoke with David Cunningham, the chief information officer at Winston & Strawn in Houston. He is leading the Legal Metrics initiative, which is an industry-wide group designing a solution to understand and visualize legal operations metrics. We discussed the genesis of the initiative, how metrics can change behavior, and ways that Legal Metrics will help law firms, law departments, other legal organizations.
I spoke with Jim Wagner, the president of Seal Software, a leader in enterprise contract analytics. We discussed his role at Seal Software, whether artificial intelligence has come of age for contract review, the demand for contract analytics software, what should potential users of contract analytics software should recognize before leveraging this technology, the biggest surprise in the legal profession’s journey toward digital transformation, and where the sector is headed.
During Legalweek, I had the privilege of interviewing an array of legal industry leaders about issues ranging from machine learning and hybrid e-discovery to practical innovation and the business of law. This is a mixtape of their perspectives.
I spoke with Jonah Paransky, the executive vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions. We discussed how customers are leveraging ELM Solutions, their appetite for artificial intelligence, how AI aligns with legal operations, and lessons about how legal teams should apply AI.
I spoke with Scott Wallingford and Scott Winter, the VP and GM of LexisNexis’ Law Firm Software Solutions and the Director of Product Management for InterAction, respectively. We discussed how law firms are leveraging CRM technology and the cloud, best practices for managing cloud-based data, and how compliance with the CCPA and GDPR are impacting ways law firms are leveraging technology.
I spoke with Wendy Curtis (named the Most Innovative Lawyer of 2018 by the Financial Times), Kate Orr, and Daryl Shetterly, the Chief Innovation Officer, the Senior Innovation Counsel, and the Director of Orrick Analytics, respectively, for Orrick, a global law firm, which the Financial Times named North America’s Most Innovative Law Firm for the third consecutive year.
We discussed the alignment of Orrick’s new legal tech investment initiative with the firm’s core business, why innovation has taken a more central role in law firm operations in the past year, the impact of Orrick Analytics on the firm’s innovation roadmap, how firms can coordinate their various innovation initiatives under a single effort, best practices for creating a culture of innovation at a large global organization, ways to build multi-disciplinary teams to execute on a unified vision, and how the era of law firm innovation is evolving.
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I spoke with Dan Anderson, co-founder and CEO of SeeUnity, a provider of content integration, migration, and synchronization products for law firms, corporations, and government agencies.
We discussed the genesis of SeeUnity, the content integration challenges that law firms are facing, content transformation and how it helps law firms access, manage, and interact with their data, and what law firms should avoid as they migrate from on-premises content management systems to the cloud.
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