Future Law Podcast

In this final episode of this season of The Future Law Podcast, Mike and Dan chat about what they’ve both learnt about ALSPs, what’s to come of them and how they impact both the legaltech world and the world of law generally. 

We’ll be back next season for more on law and technology. 

Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

Thanks for listening! 

CREDITS: 

Hosts: Mike Madison and Dan Hunter 

Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh

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In this week’s episode, Mike Madison chats with Michael Morneualt, a senior lawyer and litigation consultant now with Lighthouse, who has watched ALSPs grow and evolve from multiple perspectives: as a practicing lawyer, in business development, and as a long-time leader of a tech-driven litigation support and investigations practice. 

Michael talks extensively about changing patterns among ALSPs and dispute resolution, and how data science is influencing other areas of law practice.  

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

Thanks for listening! 

CREDITS: 

Hosts: Mike Madison and Dan Hunter 

Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Dan Hunter chats with Isabel Parker, former Chief Legal Innovation Officer at Freshfields in London, and author of the recent book ‘Successful Digital Transformation in Law Firms’, about change management and structural transformation issues that law firms face nowadays, and how to address them.  

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

Thanks for listening! 

CREDITS: 

Book: ‘Successful Digital Transformation in Law Firms’ by Isabel Parker

Hosts: Mike Madison and Dan Hunter 

Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh 

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We’re back to continue the season for 2023! 

Every now and then we a broader view of the future of law, beyond ALSPs, and in this episode we do just that. 

Mike Madison chats with Eric Holder, former Attorney General of the US under President Barack Obama, about the critical importance of defending and advancing voting rights in the American system and in democracy generally.  

The conversation draws on his recent book, "Our Unfinished March."

What are your thoughts? 

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

Thanks for listening! 

CREDITS: 

Book: ‘Our Unfinished March’ by Eric Holder and Sam Koppelman

Hosts: Mike Madison and Dan Hunter 

Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh

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This is a “big ideas” episode, part of our goal to bring out “big ambitious ideas about the future" as well as day to day concerns about ALSPs and legal services. 

Law professor Orly Lobel talks with host Mike Madison about her new book, The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, recently named one of the best books of 2022 by The Economist magazine. 

In the conversation and in the book, she talks about how scepticism about AI and robots can get overblown. Are they always uncontrollable, incomprehensible, privacy-eating systems? She argues no: in proper measure they have the power to do enormous good in the world.  Much of the book draws its argument from beyond law, so in this episode she focused on the specifics of the legal world, especially when it comes to access to justice and dispute resolution systems.

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

Thanks for listening! 

CREDITS: 

Hosts: Mike Madison & Dan Hunter 

Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What if we stopped speculating about ALSPs and instead started collecting data to gather useful information? That’s exactly what this episode is about. 

Host Mike Madison talks with Lucy Ricca and David Freeman Engstrom from Stanford Law School's Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession about their research into the results so far of Utan's "regulatory sandbox" innovation, which created space for non-traditional providers of legal services.

Their report, titled "Legal Innovation After Reform: Evidence from Regulatory Change," is available here.

The Future Law Podcast produced this earlier episode about the creation of the "regulatory sandbox" in Utah.

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSPs and law. 

Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

Thanks for listening! 

CREDITS: 

Hosts: Mike Madison & Dan Hunter 

Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike chats with Bill Henderson, a law professor at the University of Indiana who has been studying the legal services marketplace closely for nearly 20 years. Looking at “alternative” providers, he tells us what’s changed, what’s more or less the same, and what’s coming.

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

Thanks for listening! 

CREDITS: 

Hosts: Mike Madison & Dan Hunter 

Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s episode Dan Hunter chats with David Pierce, the Chief Commercial Officer of Axiom, an ALSP that provides legal talent in over fourteen legal practices and twenty-nine industries.. 

David tells us what it takes to be a successful ALSP, what an in-house lawyer looks like and also his thoughts on the future of legal practice.   

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSPs and law. 

Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

Thanks for listening! 

CREDITS: 

Hosts: Mike Madison & Dan Hunter 

Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The emergence of ALSPs and legaltech doesn’t change some fundamentals of lawyering and dispute resolution. Jon Harris, founder and managing partner of Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, a boutique law firm in New York specializing in employment law and white collar criminal defense, talks with Michael Madison about blending classic legal skills and multidisciplinary experience.

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

Thanks for listening! 

CREDITS: 

Hosts: Mike Madison & Dan Hunter 

Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Despite double-digit salary growth in the legal industry, many firms are grappling with serious staffing concerns.

So what do you do about it? Do you look outside your geographic boundaries? Or do you simply train up young lawyers? Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs) offer a range of solutions. 

Mike Madison chats with the founders of LegalEase Solutions, Tariq Hafeez and Tariq Akbar, about their approach to delivering the right legal talent to law departments and corporate counsel.

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

Thanks for listening! 

CREDITS: 

Hosts: Mike Madison & Dan Hunter 

Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.