The Future Law Podcast

In this final episode for the season Mike and Dan chat about what they’ve both learnt about ALSP’S, what’s to come of them and how they impact the legaltech world. 

We’ll be back next season for more on law and technology. 

[This episode was published originally on February 7, 2023.]

In this week’s episode Mike Madison chats to Michael Morneualt, a lawyer who started his career in business development, and then joined a tech company building a litigation support practice. 

Michael talks extensively about dispute resolution, as well as using data science in other areas of law.  

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

[This episode was published originally on January 31, 2023.]

In this episode Dan Hunter chats with Isabel Parker, former Chief Legal Innovation Officer at Freshfields in London, and author of the recent book ‘Successful Digital Transformation in Law Firms’ about the issues law firms face nowadays and how to address them.  

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

[This episode was published originally on January 24, 2023.]

We’re back to continue the season for 2023! 

Every now and then we a broader view of the future of law, beyond ALSPs, and in this episode we do just that. 

Mike Madison chats with Eric Holder, former Attorney General of the US under President Barack Obama, about the critical importance of defending and advancing voting rights in the American system and in democracy generally.  

The conversation draws on his recent book, “Our Unfinished March.”

What are your thoughts? 

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

[This episode was published originally on January 17, 2023.]

This is a “big ideas” episode, part of our goal to bring out “big ambitious ideas about the future” as well as day to day concerns about ALSPs and legal services. 

Law professor Orly Lobel talks with host Mike Madison about her new book, The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, recently named one of the best books of 2022 by The Economist magazine. 

In the conversation and in the book, she talks about how scepticism about AI and robots can get overblown. Are they always uncontrollable, incomprehensible, privacy-eating systems? She argues no: in proper measure they have the power to do enormous good in the world.  Much of the book draws its argument from beyond law, so in this episode she focused on the specifics of the legal world, especially when it comes to access to justice and dispute resolution systems.

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

[This episode was published originally on December 14, 2022.]

What if we stopped speculating about ALSPs and instead started collecting data to gather the information? Well that’s exactly what this episode is about. 

Mike Madison talks with Lucy Ricca and David Engstrom from Stanford Law School about their research and what their findings were. 

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

[This episode was published originally on December 6, 2022.]

Mike chats with Bill Henderson, a law professor at the University of Indiana who has been studying the legal services marketplace closely for nearly 20 years. Looking at “alternative” providers, he tells us what’s changed, what’s more or less the same, and what’s coming.

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

[This episode was published originally on November 29, 2022.]

In this week’s episode Dan Hunter chats with David Pierce, the Chief Commercial Officer of Axiom, an ALSP that provides legal talent in over fourteen legal practices and twenty-nine industries.. 

David tells us what it takes to be a successful ALSP, what an in-house lawyer looks like and also his thoughts on the future of legal practice.   

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSPs and law. 

[This episode was published originally on November 22, 2022.]

The emergence of ALSPs and legaltech don’t change some fundamentals of lawyering and dispute resolution. Jon Harris, founder and managing partner of Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, a boutique law firm in New York specializing in employment law and white collar criminal defense, talks with Michael Madison about blending classic legal skills and multidisciplinary experience.

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

[This episode was published originally on November 15, 2022.]

Despite double-digit salary growth in the legal industry, many firms are grappling with serious staffing concerns.

So what do you do about it? Do you look outside your geographic boundaries? Or do you simply train up young lawyers? Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs) offer a range of solutions. 

Mike Madison chats with the founders of LegalEase Solutions, Tariq Hafeez and Tariq Akbar, about their approach to delivering the right legal talent to law departments and corporate counsel.

Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law.