LEGALTECH MATTERS – A Litera Podcast

In this week’s podcast, LEGALTECH MATTERS host and legal industry analyst Ari Kaplan talks with Andrew Shapiro-Zysk, Senior Manager for Reporting and Data Analytics at Berry Appleman & Leiden, about the skills that are most valuable for law firm data professionals and how they collaborate with their peers in knowledge management, practice support, and training. Also, how automation, data science, and AI initiatives can create a competitive advantage for a law firm. Read transcript 

In this week’s podcast, Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel talks with David Curle about the work that went into The Changing Lawyer Report, which examines the challenges law firms and lawyers face, providing insight and analysis into what is driving the business of law. Both agreed that CIOs raised the same talking points from the report at the ILTACON 22 Conference: moving to the Cloud, AI, automation, and talent retention. Read transcript 

After a surge in dealmaking last year, industry leaders are keeping a close eye on M&A deal activity heading into the second half of 2022. Companies and private equity players have many uncertainties to balance in today’s market. Deals will likely see a year-over-year decrease, but the question remains: Will 2022 exceed pre-pandemic deal volume? Join our panel of experts as they share their opinions. Read transcript 

Kennan Samman, Vice President of Product Sales Litera, leads a panel discussion on what we can look forward to regarding technology and how it will impact legal work. More specifically, our international panel discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI), in its current deployment, saves time, reduces manual processes, and streamlines legal workflow. However, they foresee a time when it evolves to help manage talent acquisition and retention and improve matter efficiency in the future. Read transcript 

Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief at Legal IT Insider, talks with Dru Armstrong about her career path from law student to lawyer to CEO of legal payments company AffiniPay. Dru explains her drive to build businesses that use technology to give time back to lawyers so they can focus on what matters most – helping clients. Read transcript 

Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider, talks with Haley Altman, Strategic Advisor to Litera, about the recent acquisition of talent management software developer Micron Systems Inc. and specifically how Litera is committed to solving one of the most pervasive challenges facing the legal market – talent engagement and retention. Haley also talks about her new role at Litera as a Strategic Advisor. Read transcript 

In the run-up to ILTACON 22, Litera’s Sherry Kappel speaks with Barry Solomon, also Litera, about his recent blog on the three phases of legal tech. Phase one focuses on the centralization of systems. Phase two sees lawyers leaving their firms for start-ups to develop point solutions to discreet problems. The third phase, which is just starting, will see the emergence of ecosystems using integration and collaboration to break down silos and share information and data across systems. Read transcript 

Ari Kaplan talks with Jack Thompson, Assistant Director for Global eDiscovery and Legal Operations at Sanofi, on the relationship between eDiscovery and Legal Ops, the expectations that corporate legal teams have of outside counsel, how ILTA's programming for corporate professionals has evolved, key sessions for law department leaders, and best practices for getting the most from ILTACON22. Read transcript 

This week Caroline Hill, Legal IT Insider Editor-in-Chief, talks with Joy Heath Rush, the ILTA CEO, about preparation for this year’s in-person only ILTACON. Keynote speaker Patrick Schwerdtfeger, author and business futurist specializing in big data and AI, will kick off the event. Joy expects his ideas will resonate throughout the conference as we question what practical technology is, where we will work, how we will work, and how we will keep up with the pace of change. Read transcript 

LEGALTECH MATTERS host, Adriana Linares, talks with Chris Kragthorpe about his role at Litera and his team’s work to empower smaller firms and corporate legal to focus more on the practice of law and less on the management and production of documents. With 60% of attorneys working in firms with ten employees or less, small law is big. Read transcript