I spoke with Marco Imperiale, the Founder and Managing Director of Better Ipsum, a consultancy based in Europe focused on legal design, innovation, ESG, and wellbeing. We discussed the legal industry changes that organizations are having the most difficulty addressing and the importance of aligning legal design, innovation, and well-being.
In this seventh episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed the Lexpo conference in Amsterdam, developments in legal technology in Europe, and the economic outlook for the legal profession.
I spoke with Rob Ameerun, the founder of the Lexpo conference, which is focused on promoting innovation and digital transformation throughout Europe. The 2023 edition will take place on June 12 and 13th in Amsterdam. We discussed how Lexpo differs from other conferences, this year’s programs, and what the focus indicates about how the legal industry has changed.
I spoke with Holger Zscheyge and Zohar Fisher. Zohar is the founder of Tech&Law in Israel, which is the legal tech department at his consulting firm, Robus, and Holger is the managing director of Infotropic Media, a publisher and provider of information services located in Moscow, and also serves as the president of the European Legal Tech Association, a consortium of law firms, legal technology companies, and individuals focused on driving the growth of legal tech in Europe, which is hosting its annual ELTA conference in Tel-Aviv on November 29th, for which Zohar is the Israeli ambassador. We discussed the conference, what attendees can expect, and how legal technology in Europe is evolving.
I spoke with Freddie Hustler, the Head of International Sales at Litera, a software company that provides document lifecycle, deal management, and firm intelligence solutions to the legal profession. We discussed Litera’s sponsorship of the keynote at the Legal Management Forum in Madrid, what is driving the focus on innovation and law firm transformation in Europe, the common challenges that law firms in the US and the EU share, how global law firms are aligning the way their teams around the world leverage technology, and best practices for global teams to collaborate and drive change.
I spoke with patent attorney Gabe Sukman, the CEO and founder of ClearstoneIP, an intellectual property technology provider with offices in the U.S. and Europe. We discussed why the freedom-to-operate sector is important, trends in IP enforcement, and the biggest challenges that IP lawyers are facing today.
I spoke with Andrea Miskolczi, the Europe Director of Innovation at Dentons, a global law firm. We discussed the definition of innovation, the importance of developing an intrapreneurial mindset in a law firm, the need for creativity, and best practices for demystifying the legal transformation process.
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 Igor Mass, the co-founder and managing director of MyFlyRight, a Hamburg-based flight irregularity platform in Europe. We discussed the genesis of MyFlyRight, how it balances the legal and technical aspects of its operations, ways that its customers benefit from automation, the challenges of operating a European legal technology company, and where the legal tech sector is headed in Europe.