In the latest episode of Josef's Fireside Chat series, Co-founder & COO Sam Flynn sits down with LawTrades' Chief Strategy Officer and Cedar’s former Head of Legal Operations Tommie Tavares-Ferreira.

The pair discuss Tommie’s journey from HBO to later becoming a leading figure within the in-house legal operations community.

They unpack storytelling and its role in legal transformation, the hidden value of contracts, plus, what questions not enough of us are asking when it comes to legal AI.

Dr. Megan Ma is Executive Founding Director of liftlab at Stanford Law School.

In our latest fireside chat, Josef Co-founder and COO Sam Flynn sits down with Megan to unpack how legal teams can move from passive tech adopters to active designers of their future workflows.

Drawing on her background working with the Canadian government on self-driving car regulation, Megan offers a compelling analogy for how we should think about AI in legal practice. Her thesis? The art lies in how and when we invite humans into the loop.

Elaine Darr is SVP, Global Head of Digital Legal and Innovation at DHL.

With a background in commercial law and over a decade in leadership, she’s redefined what’s possible both in and out of Legal.

In 2024, she was named Corporate Counsel Best Deputy or Associate GC by the American Lawyer Industry Awards.

Elaine knows what it takes to really innovate: structured change, business alignment, and a deep understanding of the people you want to bring along for the journey.

In the days leading up DHL’s first ever Legal Innovation Summit, Josef Co-founder & COO Sam Flynn sits down with Elaine to learn about her career, DHL’s tried and true innovation playbook, her approach to legal AI, and how she believes legal teams can lead from the front.

What if contracting was easy end-to-end, and legal had more time for the more unique, trickier tasks?

That’s what Sara Rayment and Andrew Medlicott have focused on at INKD, a tech-led law firm, and Inkling Legal Design, its design-first sister company.

Using Josef, they’ve built self-service, AI contracting tools that help businesses draft, negotiate, send and sign contracts all without the usual, time-consuming back and forths.

The tools are already in use with clients like the healthcare provider Grampians Health, earning Inking Legal Design a finalist spot in the 2025 Financial Times Most Innovative Lawyer Awards. We’re so proud!

Josef Co-founder and CEO Tom Dreyfus sat down with the team to learn more about the tools, their thinking behind them, and what they see for the future of legal work.

Polaris Lawyers is a boutique personal injury law firm based in Melbourne, Australia.

The firm’s no stranger to creating self-service legal tools, and in the past six months launched two, public-facing AI guidance solutions: WorkMate, which helps people navigate workers’ compensation, and The TAC FAQ tool, which answers legal questions surrounding traffic accidents.

Recently, Founder and Principal Nick Mann sat down with Josef Co-founder & CEO Tom Dreyfus to chat about the tools, what the firm’s learned creating them on Josef’s AI module Josef Q, and what impact they’ve had on clients and the team at large.

Gippsland Community Legal Service (GCLS) is a legal aid organization based in Australia that provides legal services on issues ranging from family violence intervention to tenancy and housing. Recently, Principal Lawyer Simon Suttie sat down with Josef’s CEO and Co-founder, Tom Dreyfus, to dive into the organization’s work and how the team is clearing bottlenecks for its rental stress program with two self-service intake tools on Josef.

Sateesh Nori is a lawyer, author and Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law.

With over 20 years of experience in tenancy law, Sateesh has represented 1000s of low-income tenants, advocating for housing justice with organizations like The Legal Aid Society of NYC and Bedford Stuyvesant Community Legal Services.Sateesh is a techno-optimist. While some remain apprehensive about the future post-GenAI, he’s all in, researching how we can use the technology to “boost the way we help people and do more with less.”In this fireside chat, Josef Co-founder and COO Sam Flynn catches up with Sateesh to learn about his legal background and how he thinks GenAI will revolutionize the delivery of legal aid.

Thanks to their self-service tools, the global insurance company now has instant access to hyper-accurate answers on policies, playbooks, and contract guidance, all in just a few clicks.Led by Head of Legal Operations Claire Nuske, under the award-winning General Counsel Maria Marinelli, Bupa’s legal team is among the first in APAC to develop GenAI tools that increase access to legal and compliance knowledge company-wide.The new tools join Bupa’s 40+ document and workflow tools that the business has launched since first logging on to Josef back in 2022.In this fireside chat, Josef Co-founder and CEO Tom Dreyfus chats with Claire to discuss the new Josef Q tools springing up across Legal, People, Marketing and Workplace Relations.

How are they changing the way the business works? What lessons have they picked up while implementing GenAI? Where to next?

Meet Thomas Stone, Senior Legal Technologist at the award-winning UK law firm TLT.

Last month, Tom’s FutureLaw team won Legal Technology Team of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2024. What for, you ask? A cutting-edge employee training solution built alongside telco giant Vodafone, all on Josef!

TLT is one of the most decorated law firms in the UK, having won Law Firm of the Year three times in a row, and is internationally renowned for its expertise in financial services, clean energy, retail, and technology.

You can think of Tom’s FutureLaw team as the firm’s technology arm, developing innovative legal solutions for the firm and its clients, and, in Tom’s words, “cutting through the hype to find legaltech that really adds value.”

In this fireside chat, hosted by Co-founder and COO Sam Flynn, Tom explains how more lawyers are looking to create digital solutions than ever before. He shares how in-house lawyers are fast becoming data-driven juggernauts, and, amongst a whole lot else, why TLT automates on Josef. 

If you don’t know Alex Herrity, adidas’ legalops superstar and Director of Legal Solutions, now’s your chance.

When he’s not sharing the stage with Josef Co-founder and COO Sam Flynn in London, Alex is busy making sure adidas leverages its world-class legal team with the best technology around.

He’s content so long as “every week or two, we’re getting better and more focused and delivering better things in Legal.”

In a recent fireside chat, Alex and Sam caught up to discuss the current state of legal operations, the future of knowledge management, and get his take on the biggest question in legal GenAI today: build or buy?