I spoke with Debbie Foster, CEO of Affinity Consulting, Jen Sherman, Chief Operating Officer at CARET, and Laura Wenzel, Global Marketing and Insights Director at iManage. The three companies are part of a consortium that supported The Changemakers Report: How Midsize Law Firms Are Achieving Growth Through Adaptation, featuring the perspectives of 30 law firm leaders.
I spoke with Sandra Aldi, the Chief Marketing Officer at Neota Logic, Michael Powers, the Global Director of Product Marketing at iManage, and Thomas Suh, the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer for LegalMation. The three companies are part of a consortium that supported a newly released report called: Legal Operations at a Crossroads – Understanding How Corporate Legal Teams are Driving Innovation and Navigating Digital Transformation in Unique Ways, featuring the perspectives of 30 legal operations leaders from various companies. We discussed the results and what they indicate about how law departments are leveraging AI, automating how they provide legal services, and empowering self-service.
I spoke with Matt Patel, the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Malbek, a contract lifecycle management software platform. We discussed the advantages for law departments that use a CLM platform versus handling their contracts manually, how legal teams are deploying AI in their contract management processes, ways that legal is collaborating with procurement, and mistakes legal teams leveraging CLM should avoid.
For this Legalweek mixtape from Tuesday, March 21, 2023, I had the privilege of speaking with Or Bar, CEO at apprentAI, Kelley Castell, CEO at ProfitSolv, Chris Gallagher, Chief Operating Officer at Trustpoint.One, Kelly Griswold, CEO at Onna, Subroto Mukerji, CEO of Integreon, Joy Heath Rush, CEO of the International Legal Technology Association, Joey Seeber, CEO at Level Legal, Irfan Shuttari, the Director of eDiscovery Strategy, Product Management at Veritas Technologies, and Ed Watts, CEO at InfoTrack US.
I am speaking today with Ari Treuhaft, the chief operating officer for Litify, a legal operating system for professionals in law firms and corporate legal departments. We discussed how law firms use and can use Salesforce, common hurdles to legal tech adoption, ways that Litify empowers collaboration between in-house legal teams and their outside counsel, and how technology companies in a competitive market can distinguish themselves.
I spoke with Kenya Parrish-Dixon, the general counsel and chief operating officer for Empire Technologies Risk Management Group, a cybersecurity, information governance, e-discovery, and managed review consulting company. She is also a member of the global advisory board for the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists. We discussed how the pandemic has impacted the perception of cybersecurity, information governance, and e-discovery, and the Association of Corporate Counsel’s new Data Steward Program.
I spoke with Anna McGrane, the chief operating officer and co-founder of PacerPro, a legal software service that improves access to PACER, and Joshua Fireman, the founder of Fireman & Company, a knowledge management and technology consultancy. We discussed Fireman & Co’s white paper: Knowledge Management With PacerPro, how the use of PACER data aligns with knowledge management improvements at law firms, and ways that the pandemic has impacted KM initiatives at law firms.
I spoke with Rebecca Goodman-Stephens and Frank Vitale, the chief operating officer and chief marketing officer, respectively, for Berdon LLP, an accounting firm that provides technical and consulting services to law firms and other organizations, at Legaltech 2019 about Berdon Technology Services.