LegalTech Matters

Litera Evangelist Curt Meltzer speaks with three experts in driving technology adoption in law firms. The conversation focuses on aspects of adoptions such as communications, planning, understanding the underlying problems, and using metrics to show ROI.

Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel interviews Tiffany Graves, pro bono counsel at Bradley, about the state of Access to Justice generally, and the role that law firm pro bono programs can play. They discuss the important advances in technology that have taken place in part because of the need to connect people virtually during the pandemic. Graves also provides some advice to lawyers who might want to engage more in Access to Justice activities and initiatives.

Litera’s Global Head of Corporate Development Haley Altman is joined by Richard Susskind for this podcast from Litera’s Changing Lawyer Summit. Susskind has been a well-known observer of innovation in the legal space for many years, and his recent book, on Online Courts and the Future of Justice, has been a timely source of guidance as courts have automated processes during the pandemic. Altman and Susskind discuss recent legal innovation developments from the point of view of the courts, law firms, clients, and legal tech providers in this wide-ranging look at the state of innovation.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) issues have become more pronounced during the pandemic. Litera Sales Director Abhijat Saraswat is joined by a panel discussing the ways that technology can assist DEI professionals in building a new way of working. Using technology and data to change the way work is allocated was one of the key strategies the panel focused on.

Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel hosts seven legal technology and innovation experts who have guided their organizations through the pandemic and into a new world. They describe an industry that is seeing some genuinely profound shifts in the way lawyers and firms think about the role of technology in their work and their organizations.

Pieter van der Hoeven, Senior Director of Business Development at Litera and co-founder of Clocktimizer hosts Jessica Davis, Director of Matter Performance and Service Innovation at McCarter & English, for a discussion of the ways that smart use of data can enhance pricing and Legal Project Management practices in a law firm.

Mandy Neske, Sales Director for Litera’s Objective Manager offering, led a Changing Lawyer Summit panel that provided insight into the ways that technology is enabling more robust and well-executed strategic planning processes in law firms.

Litera’s Former Senior Director, Firm Intelligence Cindy Thurston Bare is joined by Simpson Thatcher’s Director of Knowledge Management, Tanisha Little and Director of Data Analytics Andrew Baker to talk about how law firms can become more data-centric.

Ari Kaplan interviews Traci Jenkins, Director of Career Development, Venable LLP. They discuss the most common career development questions, the increasingly competitive market for legal talent, how the role of the president of the National Association for Law Placement has changed, the timing of on-campus interviewing, and ways that law firms are improving their approach to hiring and retaining diverse talent.

In this episode, Joe Borstein of LexFusion interviews David Wang, Chief Innovation Officer at Wilson Sonsini. Wang describes how working with Silicon Valley tech companies made keeping up with technology an imperative for the firm. He describes the many ways that technology is not only transforming legal work, but also providing new opportunities and career paths for lawyers.