Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Konrad Pola, the co-Founder and CEO of Diligen, a software platform designed to help law firms and law departments with their contract and legal document review efforts. We discussed the genesis of Diligen, what is driving the interest in artificial intelligence, whether law firms and legal departments ready to embrace AI, what legal teams should look for when considering an AI solution, and where AI adoption is headed in 2018.

I spoke with David Cowen, the president and managing director of The Cowen Group, a staffing and recruiting firm focusing exclusively on the eDiscovery, litigation support, privacy, security, and information governance sectors. His firm also produces the Summit on Legal Innovation and Disruption in various cities across the U.S. We discussed the genesis of the SOLID summit, why the legal industry so focused on innovation and disruption this year, how individuals can give themselves an advantage in an increasingly competitive job market, and how events like SOLID capture the evolution of the legal profession.

I spoke with Ray Zwiefelhofer, the president of World Software Corporation, the maker of Worldox, a leading document management platform, at Legaltech 2018 about the company’s 30th anniversary, the importance of company culture, and the most significant issues affecting the evolution of the legal industry. The company will be exhibiting at the ABA Techshow this week in Chicago and recently shared details on its global expansion.

I spoke with Andrey Zinoviev, the co-founder and CEO of Visabot, an artificial intelligence tool designed to help businesses and consumers navigate immigration issues. The company was a participant in the first cohort of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator. We discussed the genesis of Visabot, how it works, why immigration law is a field that artificial intelligence can empower, and how AI is impacting similar areas of the law.