LegalTech Matters

Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief at Legal IT Insider, talks with Debbie Ting, Practice Innovation Manager, and Molly Wolfe, Knowledge Management lawyer - both at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. They discuss their work with Jigsaw on a real estate deal involving 700 properties to generate automatic structure charts for the deal. The resulting technology won ILTA’s 2021 Distinguished Peer Trailblazer Award.

Ari Kaplan speaks with Ebru Metin, founder, and CEO of Legal Design Turkey, about the appeal of legal design in the profession generally and in Turkey specifically. They also discuss the practical applications for legal design, the connection between legal tech and legal design, and career change best practices.

Taking a proactive and integrated approach to talent management appears obvious, but many firms struggle to do it correctly. Adrian Pylypec, VP, Cochran Client Development, leads a panel discussion on what law firms need to do to win the battle for talent and prevent attrition.

Legal tech journalist, Bob Ambrogi, leads a panel discussion on the results of a recent Litera report into the adoption of technology in Mergers and Acquisitions practice. It finds widespread adoption of software tools specific to M&A practice and reveals the changing attitudes of M&A lawyers toward the benefits and impact of technology on their work and teams.

Bob Ambrogi leads a panel discussion with Adrianne Linares, Jared Correia, and Theo Lister on the findings from a recent survey of the legal industry. It looks specifically at how technology, mobile devices, and AI are shaping the industry in 2022 and beyond. Some of the survey findings may surprise you, and others may not.

Lawyer and legal journalist Bob Ambrogi leads an expert panel to discuss the findings of a new report, “Betting on the Post-Covid Future: The Litera PitchBook Venture Capital Report,” which analyzes the venture capital market. His guests, Sherry Kappel, Evangelist at Litera, and Alex Lykken, Senior Analyst at PitchBook, consider the implications for lawyers and the legal industry.

Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider, talks with Susan Sommers, Director, KM Innovation and Solutions at Ogletree Deakins, about the revamp of its SharePoint Online-based ODConnect platform, which won the ILTA Transformative Project of the Year Award in 2021. ODConnect provides a central location for Ogletree Deakins' systems, resources, and applications.

Adriana Linares talks with Chris Draper, Chief Technology Officer at Third Coast Commodities LLC and former Director of Trokt, provider of end-to-end workflow management platforms for contract management, execution, and validation. They discuss his involvement in the development of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) standards, and other challenges facing legal: access to justice, law schools, the importance of data, and intellectual property protection.

Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel interviews legal management consultant George Rudoy about trends in law firms and corporate legal departments. As a consultant to both firms and in-house legal, Rudoy has a unique perspective on an industry emerging from the pandemic.

Litera’s VP, Go-to-Market, Drafting, shares stories of successful legal technology adoption with two law firm technology leaders.