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 Jodie Baker, the founder & CEO of Xakia Technologies, a matter management and legal data analytics software company for in-house legal teams. She is also the deputy chair of the Australian Legal Technology Association and co-chair of the Advisory Board to the Centre for Legal Innovation at The College of Law. We discussed the genesis of Xakia, how the use of tools like Xakia differ between small and large legal departments, ways that the growth of legal operations is changing corporate legal teams, and the trends driving the expansion of Australian legal tech. Listen to our interview below:
I spoke with Rebecca Yoder, the director of legal technology for SpringCM, a contract lifecycle management software provider.
We discussed her role at SpringCM, the adoption level of contract lifecycle management in legal, how SpringCM helps the CLM efforts of in-house legal teams, the distinction in CLM usage in buy-side and sell-side of contracts, and her advice for professionals interested in CLM.
I spoke with Yves Lefere, the commercial director at Knowliah, a Belgium-based provider of a new digital workplace platform for corporate legal departments in Europe. We discussed what Knowliah offers the legal market, how its technology has evolved since it was founded two decades ago, the overall appetite for legal technology in Belgium, the challenges European corporate legal departments are trying to overcome with legal technology, and where the European legal tech market is headed in the next year.
I spoke with Paige Hunt Wojcik, the vice president of business development and managed services for Discovia, a provider of e-discovery services for corporations and law firms. We discussed the evolution of managed services, its increasing popularity, essential criteria for selecting a managed services provider (e.g., technology, security, experience, etc), and the impact of the model on reducing overall legal spend, among other topics.
Listen to our interview below: