I spoke with Eric Mandel, a Director of Global Advisory Services at KLDiscovery. We discussed how the need for global advisory services has changed, the importance of information governance as a strategy for managing the proliferation of data in modern litigation, and the appropriate balance between talent and technology in e-discovery.
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.
I spoke with Gary Sangha, the founder and CEO of LexCheck, a leading AI-powered contract acceleration and intelligence platform. We discussed the increasing importance of contract intelligence, the company’s release of Copilot, how it leverages generative AI, the value of integrating with Microsoft Word, and how lawyers and businesses will continue to transform the way they manage contracts.
I spoke with Jordana Confino, the founder of JC Coaching & Consulting, a company devoted to advancing the well-being of the legal profession. She is also the Assistant Dean and an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School. We discussed why well-being matters in the legal profession, the impact of positive lawyering, how technology is affecting well-being, and the importance of creating a positive workplace culture.
I spoke with Neil Cameron, the lead analyst at Legal IT Insider, a leading legal technology website and the publisher of the Orange Rag newsletter, which has just released a new report focused on law firm CRM systems (download available here). We discussed the benefits that law firms are seeing in their deployment of CRM, the importance of measuring the ROI of a firm’s business development initiatives, and how the use of CRM in law firms is evolving.
I spoke with Daniel Steinberg, the Founder and CEO of lawbrokr, a pre-qualification platform that helps lawyers humanize the way clients interact with their law firm. We discussed the importance of workflows and templates in an efficiency-centric law firm, how to overcome resistance to applying technology to different areas of the business of law, and where legal professionals are focusing on technology in 2023.
I spoke with Brian Kenneally, CEO, and Peter Zver, Head of Revenue and Operations in North America, respectively for Bundledocs, a software tool for combining multiple types of documents into a single fully-indexed, paginated, and bookmarked PDF. We discussed the expansion of Bundledocs, PDF-as-a-Service, best practices for introducing new products to existing clients, and the importance of a partner ecosystem.