Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Bill Piwonka, Chief Marketing Officer at Exterro, a provider of legal GRC software designed for in-house legal, privacy, and IT teams at Global 2000 and AmLaw 200 organizations. We discussed recent developments in privacy in the US and abroad, best practices to streamline the DSAR process, and techniques for ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations.

I spoke with Troy Pospisil, the Founder and CEO of Ontra, a provider of contract automation and intelligence solutions for asset managers. We discussed how the growth in global transactions has impacted the way lawyers and other professionals in that sector manage the increased volume of contracts, the benefits of deploying artificial intelligence in this process, and how the private markets sector is transforming its use of contract automation technology.

In this eighth episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed the proposed National Institute for Legal Innovation and new research on Leadership, Growth, and Profitability in a Post-Pandemic Era.

I spoke with Dr. Craig Tashman, the Founder & CEO of LiquidText, an active reading, note-taking, and document analysis platform. We discussed why lawyers still default to using paper documents, the areas of legal practice that can benefit most from a platform that allows for digital reading and note-taking, and how legal practice is evolving.

I spoke with Stepan Khzrtian, the co-founder and CEO of Corpora, a dashboard that helps startups get legal tasks done, from formation to Series B. We discussed the legal issues that startup founders can address with technology, whether advanced tools will change the way lawyers deliver legal services for startups, and how artificial intelligence is driving change in corporate matters.

I spoke with Jay Sarmaz, the Co-founder & CEO of Truve, a cloud-based data platform for law firms. We discussed how digital transformation has affected the way law firms leverage cloud technologies, ways that artificial intelligence and machine learning will shape the way law firms and legal departments operate, and the long-term impact of GPT and large language models on legal services.

I spoke with Jennifer Gillman, the President of Gillman Strategic Group, a legal recruiting company focused solely on law firm partner placement. We discussed why law firm rainmakers need guidance on switching firms, why lawyer wellness has become such an important focal point for the profession, and advice for partners who want to become rainmakers.

I spoke with Daren Orzechowski, the global co-head of Allen & Overy's Technology practice and a partner in the Silicon Valley office focusing on M&A and technology transactions. We discussed the firm's deployment and usage of Harvey, its likely effects on the legal industry, and how lawyers should adapt their skills to be complementary to, rather than replaced by generative AI.

In this seventh episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed the Lexpo conference in Amsterdam, developments in legal technology in Europe, and the economic outlook for the legal profession.

I spoke with Lydia Flocchini, the Chief Marketing Officer at SurePoint Technologies, Debbie Foster, the CEO at Affinity Consulting, and Laura Wenzel, the Global Director of Product Marketing at iManage. We discussed the new report that the three companies have just released - Dynamic Leadership, Rapid Growth, and Increased Profitability in a Post-Pandemic Era: Insights on Navigating Digital Transformation in the Modern Law Firm - based on interviews with 18 chief operating officers, 10 executive directors, one chief executive officer, and one chief administrative officer at midsize law firms.