LEGALTECH MATTERS – A Litera Podcast

Adriana sits down with Tom Mighell, Vice President of Delivery at Contoural, Inc. and co-host of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, to discuss the basics of information governance.

Joe Borstein, LexFusion CEO and LEGALTECH MATTERS host talks with Joe Green about his journey from lawyer to legal tech startup expert to Chief Innovation Officer at Gunderson Dettmer. He discusses his vision of how technology can make clients and the people who deliver legal services happier by focusing on, among other things, improving interoperability, creating an ecosystem of tech providers, and using AI to automate output currently handled by lawyers. Read transcript

Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider, talks with four leading experts in the delivery of training to legal professionals globally. They discuss training as a career path for women; what issues law firms face and what they are doing right; how training can be leveraged as a competitive advantage; and whether firms can measure ROI when evaluating training. Read transcript

LEGALTECH MATTERS host, Ari Kaplan, talks to Tonya Custis, Director of AI Research at Autodesk, about the connection between music, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics. They explore the implications of ChatGPT, natural language processing, and AI generative models for legal use, the increasing number of roles related to machine learning, data science, innovation, and knowledge management, and what that means for legal. Read transcript

Nobody knows more about the state of law firms and corporate legal departments than Casey Flaherty and his colleagues at LexFusion. In this podcast, Casey and host David Curle compare some of the insights from LexFusion’s recent Legal Market Year in Review with Litera’s Changing Lawyer over the years. Casey finds an industry that still faces challenges in building legal organizations for spend optimization and scale. Read transcript

In this week’s podcast Ari Kaplan, legal industry analyst and LEGALTECH MATTERS host, talks with Catherine Hanley, Knowledge Management Lawyer, Sidley Austin. They discuss the pathway from e-discovery to knowledge management, the increasing deployment of practice support lawyers in law firms, the skills necessary to succeed as a KM lawyer, and future opportunities in knowledge management. Read transcript

In this week’s podcast, LEGALTECH MATTERS host Adriana Linares talks with Liz McCausland, former insurance defense attorney and now solo practitioner specializing in bankruptcy. Liz discusses the importance of networking and building relationships in one’s personal and professional life – and the tech tools that enable her to run her solo practice. Read transcript

In this week’s podcast, LEGALTECH MATTERS host and Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider Caroline Hill talks with Nicole Bradick, the Founder and CEO of the legal and justice technology design and development agency, Theory and Principle. They discuss recent changes in how law firms and legal tech developers are approaching product development and the importance of UX/UI for product adoption and success. Read transcript

LEGALTECH host Adriana Linares talks with Stephen Embry, lawyer and Chair of the Law Practice Division of the ABA, about his work there and how he got into content writing. Stephen also identifies three trends that will impact 2023: the debate on remote working will continue, the potential for a recession, and large law firms competing with small-town lawyers. Read transcript

Litera’s Legal Content and Research Lead, David Curle, discusses the regional European and North American editions of Litera’s The Changing Lawyer report with Helena Hallgarn. Helena is Co-Founder of Virtual Intelligence VQ, a Swedish legal tech company engaged in digitizing legal services. They discuss trends and findings from the regional reports, and other aspects of the European and global legal tech communities. Read transcript