I spoke with Jack Weinberger, the Co-Founder of Ajax, an AI company that helps lawyers manage their time. We discussed the need to secure data in AI timekeeping applications, the promise of capturing more time in legal services, and how legal timekeeping is evolving.
I spoke with Lynn Tubalinal, the Director of Litigation Support at Dykema, and Julia Voss, the Director of Litigation Support and eDiscovery at UB Greensfelder. Both are among the industry leaders who contributed to the recently published report – Advancing Litigation Support to Fuel Growth in a Changing Legal Market – supported by Opus 2. We discussed the effect of the increasing volume and variety of data, how a team knows that it is time to upgrade its technology, successful strategies for driving adoption, and effective generative AI use cases.
I spoke with the following chief executive officers in a CEO Roundtable about the opportunities of 2024 and the expectations for an industry in perpetual change in 2025:
Katherine Allen, Flo Recruit
Dru Armstrong, AffiniPay
Jon Canty, Sandline Global
David Gruskin, Legalpeople
Rick Hellers, Scan Logic
Greg Hong, Steno
Katya Linossi, ClearPeople
John Marshall, Airia
Alaa Pasha, Maptician
Jackie Schafer, Clearbrief
Andre Wouansi, Accurate Legal Billing
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.
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.
I spoke with Peter Baumann, the founder and CEO of ActiveNav, a data privacy and governance software provider that serves various sectors, including legal. We discussed how unstructured data impacts legal organizations, the challenges of managing unstructured data, best practices for assessing the risks related to unstructured data, and how this issue is evolving.
I spoke with Owen McGab Enaohwo, the co-founder and CEO of SweetProcess, a software platform designed to systematize an organization’s business operations. We discussed how professionals can leverage technology to systematize their tasks, best practices for documenting procedures, the challenges associated with that effort, and the results an organization can expect once it streamlines its processes.