Melissa Prince (Chief Client Value and Innovation Officer at Ballard Spahr LLP), Sarah Happy (Director of Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence at Ballard Spahr LLP) and James Boyer (Director of Matter Management and Efficiency at Ballard Spahr LLP) talk to Candice Carr (Senior Attorney, Storyteller, Modern Legal at Microsoft) about Ballard Spahr’s LLP COVID-19 Legal … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast – Ballard Spahr’s COVID-19 Legal Response with Digital Transformation."

Clive Gringras (Head of Technology at CMS) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel-Modern Legal at Microsoft Corporation) about Clive’s path and interest in law [8:28], different view on law [10:04], greatest love is the law [10:58], seeing Microsoft from the inside [12:12], how decisions are made [14:56], what is judgement [19:31], value based billing … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Clive Gringras discusses an International Legal Practice Built for the Future"

A video version of this episode is available here. Krishna Sood (Senior Attorney Experiences and Devices Product Group at Microsoft) and Laura Ewbank (Senior Attorney AI & Research Product Group at Microsoft) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) and Devon Johnson (Business Program Manager at Microsoft) … Continue reading "The Business of Law Podcast-The Episode about Podcasts"

Joshua Kubicki (Chief Strategy Officer at Bold Duck), Kim Craig (Co-founder & Experience Designer at Bold Duck), Joe Nord (Attorney, Competition Law Group at Microsoft), and Grant Hewlett (Manager | Client Business & Advisory Solutions at Reed Smith LLP) talks with Rebecca Benavides (Director of Legal Business at Microsoft) about how we integrate design thinking … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Design Thinking"

Sarah Tansey (Legal Intern at Microsoft) and Craig Maughan (Legal Intern at Microsoft) talk with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about their experiences as early career legal professionals and their summer intern experience in Microsoft’s Legal Department, including: their backgrounds [2:43]; what skill sets are being … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Super Interns"

Martha Sperry (Director – Legal Operations & Analytics / Senior Counsel at Travelers) talks with Deborah Pursifull (Principal Program Manager at Microsoft), Amitabh Mukherjee (Principal Program Manager at Microsoft), Mahendra Kumar Arvapalli (Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft), Prasanna Balaraju (Senior Program Manager at Microsoft), and Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Building an Enterprise Ready Bot"

Danielle Johnston Holmes (Associate General Counsel of Patents at Microsoft Corporation) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) and offers an incredibly thoughtful retrospective on her 21 year tenure at Microsoft, including: why partnership with outside counsel matters [1:55]; her work leading patent portfolio development [3:00]; … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Danielle Johnston Holmes discusses how she crafted a career by owning her definition of success"

A video version of this episode is available. Lane Powell hosted a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellows Alumni Speaker Series event focused on Pathways to Leadership where Katina Thornock (LCLD 2014, Director, Corporate Counsel, Global Litigation at Starbucks Coffee Company) moderated a conversation among Caldwell Camero (LCLD 2014, Senior Global Trademark Counsel at … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-LCLD Fellows Alumni Speaker Series: Pathways to Leadership, hosted by Lane Powell"

Vedika Mehera (Innovation Advisor at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP), Aneesh Mehta (Attorney for Experiences and Devices Engineering Organization at Microsoft, South Asian Bar Association of North America President), and Lydia Petrakis (Attorney for Experiences and Devices Engineering Organization at Microsoft) talk about the process of fostering ground-up innovation in legal business focused organizations. This … Continue reading "Business Law Podcast-Orrick and Microsoft Legal Productivity Hackers discuss innovation and Microsoft Teams"

Microsoft Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy demonstrated a proof of concept project called Tagulous at CLOC’s 2019 Las Vegas Institute. This project is designed to instrument communications like email with text tags to create a flexible and extensible approach that enables data collection and workflow automations. It allows organization to develop domain specific training sets … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Tagulous Demo for CLOC Las Vegas Institute 2019"