Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Rick Hellers, the CEO of Scan Logic, the provider of BillSync and APSync, designed to simplify law firm finances. We discussed common law firm financial challenges, how law firm leaders are leveraging technology to address those challenges, and ways they are balancing their clients' interests in e-billing with their billing protocols.

I spoke with Suzanne Konstance, the Vice President and General Manager of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.about the transformative trends shaping the legal industry, the 2024 Future Ready Lawyer Survey, the growing use of generative AI among legal teams, and expected legal technology investments in 2025.

I spoke with James MacGregor, the founder of Ethical eDiscovery, a boutique consulting firm that captures and reviews digital evidence, and the Chair of the Litigation Special Interest Group for the International Legal Technology Association, which just released "A Best Practice Guide for the Use of Active Learning." We discussed the importance of active learning in e-disclosure, the value of standards for its usage, and where e-disclosure is headed in 2025.

In this 35th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed 2024 reflections, 2025 expectations, community-building, and systems-setting in the New Year.

I spoke with the following chief executive officers in a CEO Roundtable about the opportunities of 2024 and the expectations for an industry in perpetual change in 2025:

Katherine Allen, Flo Recruit

I spoke with Bryan Heller, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of ClaimScore, a software platform designed to detect fraud in class action claims. We discussed how technology can help identify fraudulent claims in class action cases, whether certain cases are more vulnerable to fraud than others, and the future of fraud detection tools in litigation.

Ari Kaplan speaks with Brian Dunn, the General Counsel for CrashPlan, a data backup software platform. We discussed how legal professionals use CrashPlan to manage data retention, common challenges organizations face when implementing legal holds, the risks of using outdated legal hold processes, and best practices for capturing and preserving chat data.

I spoke with Jeff Hampton, an attorney and the Co-Founder of FH Law Group and STR Law Guys in Fort Worth, Texas. We discussed creative ways lawyers can leverage YouTube for their business development, how to produce engaging content to engage prospects, considerations for lawyers building their brand identity on the platform, common pitfalls to avoid, and advanced monetization techniques that can drive revenue.

In this 34th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed balancing AI fear and fascination, reflecting on the year of the sandbox in legal, and giving thanks.

I spoke with Peter Connor, a lawyer, author of The T-Shaped Lawyer and The T-Shaped Lawyer Guidebook, and a Legal Team Coach with Alternatively Legal. We discussed his transition from practicing law to becoming a Legal Team Coach, the concept of the T-shaped lawyer, the importance of human transformation over digital transformation in legal teams, and how the practice of law is evolving.