LegalTech Matters

Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider speaks with four leaders of legal tech and Alternative Legal Services providers about the “Great Resignation.” They share insights on what’s really happening in the legal talent market, and how their companies are influencing, and being influenced by, the new legal labor market dynamics.

Host Sherry Kappel, speaks with Aaron Wenner, CEO of CiteRight, and Haley Altman, Litera’s Global Head of Corporate Development and author of the Legal Tech Adoption Jenga series of articles at Law.com. Using CiteRight’s experience as an example, they describe the key steps and strategies that are necessary to ensure that legal technology, once acquired, is successfully implemented and adopted by lawyers.

Ari Kaplan interviews Jennifer Miller, general counsel and chief legal officer, Starship Technologies, which is a company building a network of autonomous delivery robots. They discuss the unique legal issues that arise at a robot manufacturing company, best practices for selecting outside counsel who can support novel legal or regulatory challenges, how the role of the general counsel has changed as a result of the pandemic, and advice for law firm leaders striving to exceed the expectations of their in-house clients.

In this podcast, Bob Ambrogi leads an expert panel discusson on the findings from the Annual Litera M&A Trends Report. The panel discusses how the current market presents significant challenges for corporate lawyers, who have a core responsibility of helping their clients avoid buyer’s remorse down the line.

Two Litera insiders, Matt Miller, VP Product Management Drafting, and Matt James, VP Go-to-Market Drafting, discuss how they use insights from analytics and data to drive innovation and the end-user experience at Litera. Data enables them to respond to firms when they want to know how users are using the products and how can they get a better return on their investment.

Bob Ambrogi leads an expert panel to discuss some of the key findings from The Changing Lawyer 2021 report: the boom in legal technology adoption; how lawyers are now working more efficiently than ever before; how savvy firms are gaining a competitive edge; and how lawyers can deliver new client value.

Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider, talks with Onit founder and CEO Eric Elfman about BusyLamp - its fourth acquisition in less than twelve months. They talk about the strategy behind the acquisition and other recent acquisitions as a whole and the maturing of the legal tech market, particularly when it comes to legal spend.

Joe Borstein talks with Evan Shenkman about innovation in the legal industry, which has seen an explosion of talent and start-ups in recent years. Tremendous advances are being made, for example, in leveraging parallel search to find similar concepts in cases rather than using keywords. This is a huge help to litigators. Closer to home, Fisher Phillips’ COVID-19 Employment Litigation Tracker is the go-to resource for information on the uptick of claims across the US.

Ari Kaplan talks with Olivier Wouters, Managing Partner at Claeys & Engels, about how the firm leverages technology to support its clients; how lawyers collaborate with knowledge management teams: the challenges of deploying new applications internally, the benefits of technology to enhance firm marketing; and advice for other partners on whether to launch new initiatives.

Caroline Hill talks with David Wang about his work at Wilson Sonsini on Neuron, a proprietary platform that automates and digitizes legal processes for start-ups. Also, how the platform integrates with Morgan Stanley at Work’s Shareworks platform to read and write capitalization data directly into Shareworks thru an API.