I spoke with Todd Corham, the Chief Information Officer at Saul Ewing and a member of the International Legal Technology Association‘s survey committee. We discussed the results of ILTA’s 2022 Technology Survey, how law firm leaders can incorporate the findings to make improvements, and how law firm technology is evolving.
I spoke with Bill Bice, the CEO of nQ Zebraworks, the developer of the Queues workflow engine, which law firms around the world have deployed. We discussed how the pandemic impacted how law firms approach their workflows, the challenges and opportunities associated with hybrid operations, and what legal technology companies can do to facilitate the broader adoption of their products.
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 Kevin Gallagher, the general manager of payments at AbacusNext, a software provider for legal and accounting professionals. We discussed the benefits of using a law firm’s practice management platform to accept payments, how firms can control the costs associated with payment processing, ways that legal professionals are adapting to flexible pricing models beyond the billable hour, and how payment for legal services 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.
I spoke with John Tredennick, the founder and CEO of Merlin Search Technologies, a developer of cloud-based search applications. We discussed the genesis of Merlin Search Technologies, how his experience as a large law firm partner and CEO of Catalyst has helped shape Merlin’s mission, the matters for which search technology is best suited, how legal technology is evolving beyond legal, and advice for legal tech entrepreneurs.