Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Mike Murray, the director of client solutions, at Veritext, a national provider of court reporting and deposition services. He is also responsible for Law Studio, the company’s collaborative workspace. I spoke with Mike Murray, the director of client solutions, at Veritext, a national provider of court reporting and deposition services. He is also responsible for Law Studio, the company’s collaborative workspace. We discussed the evolution of Law Studio since its launch at Legaltech New York earlier this year, how it is helping lawyers send and receive data securely, factors that differentiate it from other collaborative workspace platforms, and ways that the cloud is impacting the manner in which professionals share information, among other topics.

I spoke with Brad Blickstein, the founder of the Blickstein Group, a consulting firm that helps businesses serve corporate law departments and their law firms. He was the co-founder of Corporate Legal Times (now known as Inside Counsel) and is currently the publisher of the Annual Law Department Operations Survey. We discussed the genesis of the Blickstein Group and the Law Department Operations Survey (produced in partnership with Consilio, QuisLex, Exterro. Onit, Legal Decoder, and Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions), the issues the survey addresses, how the role of legal operations professionals has changed, and the surprising results of his research, among other topics.

I spoke with Andrew Stein, the Vice President of Business Development for Venio Systems, an e-discovery software provider. We discussed the challenges that Venio helps legal teams overcome, automating processes for small matters, the surprising evolution of the legal profession, and where the legal tech sector is headed, among other topics.

I spoke with Scott Petry, the co-founder and CEO of Authentic8, the creator of Silo, a secure virtual browser. Prior to Authentic8, Scott founded Postini, an email server security company, acquired by Google in 2007. We discussed the genesis of Authentic8, the security issues associated with the typical browser, and the benefits of a virtual browser like Silo for the legal industry, among other issues.

I spoke with Lisa Solomon, the founder and CEO of Now Counsel Network, a curated network of freelance lawyers designed to help solo and small firm attorneys. We discussed the genesis of Now Counsel Network, the benefits of working with freelance lawyers, what they do, and how freelance lawyering is impacting the legal profession.

I spoke with Mary Juetten, the founder and CEO of Traklight, a software platform to identify, manage, and protect intellectual property assets, acknowledge business risks, and provide a roadmap for small and medium-sized business operations. She is also the co-founder of Evolve Law, a community to advance the adoption of technology in the legal field. We discussed the genesis of Traklight, its free business risk assessment, and how the company’s technology supports legal professionals. We also spoke about Evolve Law, its membership, and how the community is growing, among other topics.

I spoke with Jeremiah Kelman, the co-founder and president of Everchron, a collaborative litigation management software platform. We discussed the genesis of Everchron, the problem that it solves, its approach to litigation management, and how tools like Everchron are impacting the future of litigation, among other topics.

I spoke with Owen Byrd, the Chief Evangelist and General Counsel of Lex Machina, a company that provides legal analytics to enable lawyers to make data-driven decisions. We discussed how lawyers are currently using analytics to make decisions, Lex Machina’s evolution since its acquisition by LexisNexis, the connection between IP and securities analytics, the company’s new Comparator apps, and where the legal industry is headed, among other topics.

I spoke with Rick Clark, the Senior Sales Director at TCDI, an e-discovery software and services company that supports law firms and corporate law departments. The company has also launched CVFox, a software as a service platform for small and mid-sized law firms. We discussed the genesis of CVFox, its focus on the small and mid-sized law firm market, and what tools like CVFox indicate about the evolution of the legal industry, among other topics.

I spoke with Brad Jenkins, the co-founder and CEO of CloudNine Discovery, a cloud-based e-discovery software provider. We discussed the genesis of CloudNine, how e-discovery has changed over the past 15 years, the trends that are driving what the company offers, its approach to security, how CloudNine differs from other companies in this sector, its portfolio of educational content, and how e-discovery is evolving.