Reinventing Professionals

Reinventing Professionals

By Ari KaplanBusinessEntrepreneurshipTechnology
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Reinventing Professionals episodes

  • Reinventing Executive Recruiting
    I spoke with David Netzer, the founder of the legal industry job site, LitigationSupportCareers.com, where companies, including law firms, litigation support providers, e-discovery vendors, and government agencies, among others, advertise open positions for the legal vertical. It also offers a searchable resume database, as well as resources for career development. We discussed the genesis of LitigationSupportCareers.com (created in 2008), how it is distinct from other “niche” job boards, the costs of use, and its potential for reinventing the executive recruiting field. Netzer advised that in addition to expanding its robust resume database, LitigationSupportCareers.com is developing partnerships with other job sites, adding multi-lingual features, and launching on different human resources platforms and applicant tracking systems.
    13 min
  • The Canadian Perspective on What to Expect in 2013
    I spoke with Cynthia Nerland, the Business Development & Communications Manager at Dye & Durham Corporation, a British Columbia-based legal support services firm, about her expectations for the Canadian legal market in 2013. Among other developments, Nerland predicts a rise in the number of international mergers. She cited the 2012 combinations of Canada’s Fasken Martineau and Johannesburg-based Bell Dewar, as well as SNR Denton, Salans LLP and Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP effort to form Dentons, as evidence of this trend. She advised that to prepare for these changes, legal support services providers need to be mobile and leverage multiple platforms. Nerland also expects more lawyers to blog and engage in social media to raise their profiles in the recovery.
    5 min
  • The Dynamics of Multilingual E-Discovery and Predictive Coding
    I spoke with Naritomo Ikeue and Sunil Mudunuri, President & COO and Senior Manager of Marketing & Business Development, respectively, for UBIC North America, Inc., the maker of Lit i View, an e-discovery tool that evaluates English and Asian-language characters, encoding schemes, and native file systems. We discussed the global landscape for electronic discovery and multi-lingual predictive coding, among other topics.
    7 min
  • The Growing Alignment Between Law Departments and Business Units
    I spoke with Bill Young, the product line and legal operations executive for Bridgeway Software, a legal solutions provider focused on process technology support. We discussed key trends and ways that organizations can prepare to address them. Young sees a growing alignment between the legal department and disparate business divisions. He also expects a movement towards mobility and initiatives focused on sharing the right information with the appropriate executives.
    8 min
  • E-Mail Archiving and the Virtualization Movement

    I spoke with Rich Turner, the vice president of business development and strategic marketing for C2C Systems, an e-mail archiving and information management software company. We discussed the most significant e-mail archiving trends, the information management challenges companies will be facing this year, how they can address them, and his predictions for the next 12 months.

    8 min
  • Winning the Defensibility Debate
    I spoke with Warwick Sharp, the Vice President of marketing and business development for Equivio, about being a predictive coding and analytics pioneer, and where that technology is headed in 2013. “The market’s relationship with predictive coding has evolved,” he said noting that concerns over defensibility have been dispelled over the last year. In fact, Sharp highlighted that users are less focused on defensibility and more interested in predictive coding education than ever before. “We see a massive catch up among professionals in the industry,” Sharp added. He predicts that the judiciary will take a more discerning approach to predictive coding and begin defining the appropriate processes, as well as project management techniques.
    6 min
  • Are E-Discovery Quality Standards Coming?

    I spoke with Doug Stewart, the vice president of technology and innovation for Daegis, a full-service e-discovery company. We discussed his expectations for Legal Tech New York 2013, where the legal industry is moving, and how it is maturing. He predicted the emergence of quality standards, the release of diverse new e-discovery tools, and a continued focus on cost control.

    8 min
  • The Law Firm Cultural Revolution
    I spoke with Mike Barry, the senior vice president of research and development for Aderant, one of the largest software providers in the legal industry. We discussed key challenges that he expects clients to face in 2013, including lingering pressure from the financial crisis, increasing interest in alternative fees, and the disruptive force of innovative technology. Barry predicts a rise in the use of time capture tools, business intelligence programs, mobility products, and legal project management leading to a cultural revolution in law firms.
    7 min

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