In this special bonus episode, we bring you the live session hosted by Dino Elipoulos of Fulcrum GT at the Running Legal Like a Business conference in Las Vegas. Joined on stage by Marcelo Peviani (Equinix) and Robert (Bob) Haskins (Google), the panel explores how legal operations can learn from the transformation journeys of other industries such as IT, healthcare, and finance.

The discussion tackles:

• Why legal has lagged behind in digital transformation and how AI is changing the equation.
• Shifting legal from a “cost center” to a driver of competitive advantage.
• Building interoperable data models and operating frameworks that align with enterprise goals.
• The cultural and organizational changes needed for legal ops to scale and thrive.
• Practical strategies to move from reactive support to predictive, business-integrated value creation.

Packed with insights, real-world analogies, and forward-looking perspectives, this session highlights why now is legal’s true “digital turning point.”

Watch the video of the session here: https://youtu.be/iFWZgzyAlLg

This new mini-series from Fulcrum GT, released to coincide with the Running Legal Like a Business conference, is based on our latest white paper: Legal’s Digital Turning Point – From Cost Center to Competitive Advantage.

Together with Dino Eliopulos of Fulcrum GT, we explore the lessons IT’s digital revolution has to teach legal operations at their own inflection point today.

Across four episodes, we’ll examine how AI is becoming legal’s ‘internet moment,’ how vendor management lessons from IT can reshape the legal supply chain, and what a fully digitized legal function of the future will really look like.

If you’re a legal leader, you’ll walk away with a roadmap to move your team from cost center to competitive advantage.

Fulcrum GT presents: Legal’s Digital Turning Point — The Podcast Mini-Series. And don’t forget — the full white paper is available now.

In the fourth and final episode, Thomas Pearson and Dino Eliopulos look ahead to what a fully digitized legal function will mean for the profession — culturally, technologically, and strategically.

Drawing on scenarios from Fulcrum GT’s white paper, the hosts discuss real-time integration, predictive analytics, and the embedding of legal intelligence directly into business workflows. They explore the cultural shifts required to fully embrace this transformation, from aligning incentives with business outcomes to reframing legal work as a source of growth and innovation.

Key takeaways:

• What the “future state” of a digital-first legal department looks like day-to-day.
• Why cultural change is as critical as technological change.
• How transparency, real-time platforms, and AI can free legal teams from low-value tasks and unlock their strategic potential.

This episode closes the mini-series with a bold vision: legal operations not as a back-office necessity, but as a true competitive differentiator.

White Paper Download: https://knowledgebase.fulcrumgt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RLLB_Article_DEliopulos.pdf 

Episode 3 examines how lessons from IT’s vendor management mistakes can guide legal operations in building smarter, more resilient supplier ecosystems.

Thomas Pearson and Dino Eliopulos revisit IT’s history of over-reliance on single vendors, mega-project failures, and weak governance — and map these pitfalls to today’s legal panels and law firm engagements. They argue for outcome-based incentives, greater transparency, and continuous evaluation as the hallmarks of the “panel of the future.”

Key takeaways:

• Why over-consolidation and bloated panels both undermine value.
• How to balance global firms, niche specialists, and innovative providers in a modern ecosystem.
• The importance of outcome-based pricing and transparency in reshaping law firm relationships.

For legal ops leaders, this conversation offers a blueprint for evolving vendor relationships into strategic partnerships, supported by governance, performance metrics, and technology platforms.

White Paper Download: https://knowledgebase.fulcrumgt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RLLB_Article_DEliopulos.pdf 

In the second episode of Legal’s Digital Turning Point, Thomas Pearson and Dino Eliopulos explore why artificial intelligence represents the defining inflection point for legal operations — akin to the internet revolution for IT two decades ago.

They unpack how AI makes unstructured legal work digitally native for the first time, enabling real-time analysis, smarter decision-making, and integration with business processes. The discussion covers the risks of fragmented adoption, the importance of data quality, and why platform strategies are essential for sustainable transformation.

Key takeaways:

• Why AI is truly a “game changer” for legal ops.
• How AI bridges the gap between unstructured legal work and enterprise decision-making.
• The risks of pilots and point solutions compared to platform-led transformation.

This episode provides legal leaders with a clear-eyed view of how to embrace AI not just as a tool, but as the driver of an entirely new operating model.

White Paper Download: https://knowledgebase.fulcrumgt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RLLB_Article_DEliopulos.pdf 

In this first episode, co-hosts Thomas Pearson and Dino Eliopulos explore the striking parallels between the IT industry’s transformation in the early 2000s and the inflection point facing legal operations today. They discuss how IT evolved from a back-office cost center to a strategic driver of competitive advantage — and what lessons legal leaders can apply in 2025 as AI, automation, and new operating models reshape the legal function.

Key takeaways from this episode include:

• Why AI represents legal’s “internet moment.”
• How legal ops can shift from reactive support to proactive enabler of business value.
• Practical first steps, from portfolio management and metrics alignment to vendor ecosystem discipline.

If you’re a legal operations leader, GC, or business executive, this conversation offers a clear roadmap for navigating the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in the legal sector.

White Paper Download: https://knowledgebase.fulcrumgt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/RLLB_Article_DEliopulos.pdf