https://www.lawnext.com/category/lawnext Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:41:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/lawnext-podcast-learned-hands-shlomo-klapper-on-why-courts-are-the-next-frontier-for-legal-ai.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:41:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52847 Are courts the next frontier for legal AI? Shlomo Klapper, founder and CEO of the AI-driven judicial case-preparation platofrm Learned Hand, believes they are. A former litigator at Quinn Emanuel and law clerk for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Klapper is building what he calls a “reasoning engine” for judges — AI tools designed to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/on-lawnext-mary-technology-wants-to-solve-litigations-fact-chaos-problem.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:33:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52751 E-discovery platforms have gotten great at narrowing millions of documents down to manageable sets. But what happens next — the grueling work of extracting facts, organizing them, and building a reliable case narrative — has remained largely manual. In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi talks with Daniel Lord-Doyle, cofounder and CEO of Mary […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/lawnext-on-location-visiting-everlaws-headquarters-for-a-conversation-with-aj-shankar-founder-and-ceo.html Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:22:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52710 For the final installment of our LawNext on Location series, all recorded during my trip to San Francisco, I head across the bay to Oakland, to the headquarters of e-discovery company Everlaw, where I sit down with founder and CEO AJ Shankar for a conversation about technology, AI and being in it for the long […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/lawnext-on-location-at-a-sonoma-winery-a-conversation-with-briefpoint-ceo-nathan-walter-about-discovery-disruption-and-of-course-wine.html Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:48:54 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52599 Continuing my on-location interview tour of San Francisco, I head an hour north to Santa Rosa to sit down with Nathan Walter, cofounder and CEO of Briefpoint, over a bottle of red wine at Paradise Ridge Winery, a spot literally around the corner from Nathan’s house, sitting on the edge of the Mayacamas Mountain Range […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lawnext-on-location-the-view-from-tiburon-a-conversation-with-pablo-arredondo-casetext-cofounder.html Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:50:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52515 As I continue my LawNext on Location series – all recorded live in the San Francisco area at locations of each guest’s choosing – he sits down with Pablo Arredondo at his home in Tiburon, a quaint Marin County town with a history stretching from Mexican land grants to naval outposts to a southern railway […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lawnext-on-location-lunch-with-alex-su-of-latitude-legal-in-alameda-calif.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:56:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52481 While I am visiting San Francisco for two weeks, I am sitting down for conversations with legal tech innovators and entrepreneurs “in their natural habitats” – places in the Bay Area they consider special. Today, in the first in this series, I sit down for lunch with Alex Su, chief revenue officer at Latitude Legal, over Thai […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lawnext-from-customer-to-acquirer-filevines-ryan-anderson-and-pincites-sona-sulakian-on-building-ai-contract-intelligence.html Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:54:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52329 In this episode of LawNext, we talk with Ryan Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Filevine, and Sona Sulakian, former CEO and co-founder of Pincites, about Filevine’s acquisition of the AI-powered contract redlining company. The deal, which closed in December, marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of the year. Even more notably for this traditionally litigation-focused […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lawnext-from-roommates-to-billionaires-harveys-founders-gabriel-pereyra-and-winston-weinberg-on-building-ai-infrastructure-for-law.html Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:03:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52207 Gabriel Pereyra and Winston Weinberg started legal AI company Harvey in 2022 as roommates in a San Francisco apartment. Pereyra had been working on AI research at Meta and Google, while Weinberg was a first-year litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers. Today, they still share that same apartment, but their company has grown into a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/a-clio-doubleheader-cmo-reagan-attle-and-vp-of-payments-a-j-axelrod.html Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:42:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52180 In the last in a series of interviews recorded during the ClioCon conference in Boston in October 2025, we bring you a doubleheader – two interviews with two of the legal tech company’s key executives.  In the first, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi speaks with Reagan Attle, chief marketing officer at Clio since 2017. In a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/on-lawnext-fastcase-founder-ed-walters-on-the-implications-of-clios-acquisition-of-vlex.html Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:41:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52051 The biggest deal of 2025 – in fact, the biggest deal ever in legal tech – was legal tech company Clio’s acquisition of vLex for $1 billion. A global legal research company founded in Spain, vLex had, just two years earlier, merged with the U.S. legal research company Fastcase, and the union of those two […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/on-lawnext-inside-clios-ai-driven-transformation-cpo-john-foreman-and-cto-jonathan-watson.html Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:44:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51944 For legal technology company Clio, this was a particularly significant year, marked by major announcements – including its $1 billion acquisition of vLex – that many saw as transformative for the company. This was on full display at the company’s ClioCon conference in October, where CEO Jack Newton gave a keynote laying out the company’s […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/reimagining-litigation-workflows-through-ai-a-panel-recorded-live-at-the-everlaw-summit.html Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:54:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51816 As new tools using generative AI promise to change the way we litigate and conduct discovery, what are the implications for day-to-day litigation workflows? On today’s episode of LawNext, we feature a conversation with three guests about how law firms are navigating the urgency around gen AI adoption while staying grounded in practical realities. LawNext […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/11/lawnext-the-neuroanalytics-of-using-legal-tech-clios-joshua-lenon-on-a-first-of-its-kind-cognitive-study.html Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:13:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51720 Legal technology company Clio recently released the 10th edition of its Legal Trends Report, its annual analysis of data and survey responses on legal practice and emerging trends, and this year’s report ventured into new territory. For the first time, the report included a neuroanalytics study of legal professionals, analyzing electrical brain activity in legal […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/11/on-lawnext-as-simpledocs-acquires-law-insider-founder-preston-clark-shares-the-strategic-vision.html Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:29:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51598 If content is the raw material of generative AI, it only makes sense that an AI-driven contract automation platform would want to acquire the world’s largest database of contracts and clauses. That is exactly what happened recently when SimpleDocs, a company with an AI contract drafting, redlining and review platform, acquired Law Insider, which claims […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/10/lawnext-clio-ceo-jack-newton-on-its-new-intelligent-legal-work-platform-and-a-new-era-of-ai-driven-legal-work.html Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:53:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51529 Last week brought the 13th annual ClioCon — the annual conference of legal technology company Clio — to Boston, Mass., where cofounder and CEO Jack Newton gave a keynote in which he laid out the company’s vision for a new era of AI-driven legal work. That new era is one in which Clio becomes an […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/10/on-lawnext-how-ai-is-helping-legal-aid-serve-50-more-clients-thomson-reuters-ai-for-justice-program-one-year-in.html Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:29:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51435 In the United States, over 90% of civil legal needs go unrepresented – a staggering justice gap that leaves millions of people facing eviction, domestic violence, wrongful conviction and other urgent legal crises without access to an attorney. For these individuals, the difference between getting legal help or going without can literally be the difference […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/10/on-lawnext-from-client-experience-to-client-intelligence-case-status-ceo-andy-seavers-on-becoming-a-future-firm.html Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:40:54 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51399 Recently, the legal technology company Case Status held its inaugural Client Experience Summit in Charleston, S.C., a conference devoted to exploring how AI, data and ethical practices can enable law firms to deliver a better experience for their clients.In an opening keynote at the conference, Andy Seavers, the cofounder and CEO of Case Status, unveiled several new products, including, most […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/09/on-lawnext-an-ai-arbitrator-the-latest-innovations-from-the-american-arbitration-association-with-ceo-bridget-mccormack-and-cto-diana-didia.html Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:47:20 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51308 Nearly two years ago on this podcast, we discussed the American Arbitration Association’s innovation initiatives – and specifically its embrace of generative AI – with Bridget Mary McCormack, who became its president and CEO in 2023 after having been chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and Diana Didia, its chief information and innovation officer. On today’s episode, McCormack and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/09/on-lawnext-justice-workers-reimagining-access-to-justice-as-democracy-work-with-rebecca-sandefur-and-matthew-burnett.html Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:33:37 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51227 With as many as 120 million legal problems going unresolved in America each year, traditional lawyer-centered approaches to access to justice have consistently failed to meet the scale of need. But what if the solution is not just about providing more legal services — what if it lies in fundamentally rethinking who can provide legal […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/09/leading-product-transformation-amid-company-transformation-8ams-new-chief-product-officer-leslie-witt.html Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:55:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51155 As Leslie Witt took to the stage Sept. 3 to deliver the keynote at Kaleidoscope, 8am’s inaugural customer conference, it was the culmination of a whirlwind summer. It had been just four months since she had joined the company formerly known as AffiniPay as chief product officer, responsible for leading product transformation and strategy for […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/09/on-lawnext-from-law-student-startup-founder-to-global-ceo-daniel-lewiss-legal-tech-journey.html Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:41:56 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51066 Daniel Lewis has witnessed legal technology’s evolution from multiple vantage points that few others can claim. As a Stanford law student in 2012, he and classmate Nik Reed co-founded the legal research startup Ravel Law with the audacious goal of taking on LexisNexis and Westlaw using machine learning and data analytics – at a time when […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/08/on-lawnext-reveals-ceo-and-cto-discuss-the-companys-launch-of-gen-ai-for-e-discovery-review.html Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:23:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50824 The e-discovery company Reveal Data recently announced that it will launch its new generative AI-powered document review platform, called “aji,” in late September. Notably, the company said it is offering full access to the platform at no cost through Dec. 31, in order to enable “the entire legal community to explore and master the next […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/07/on-lawnext-podcast-spotdrafts-shashank-bijapur-from-late-night-due-diligence-to-legal-tech-innovation.html Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:13:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50615 What happens when a Harvard-trained corporate lawyer, tired of copying and pasting contract language, starts reading about self-driving cars? In Shashank Bijapur’s case, it sparked the creation of SpotDraft, a contract lifecycle management company that just raised $54 million in Series B funding and that counts major companies such as Airbnb among its customers. In […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/07/on-lawnext-cocounsels-next-generation-trs-emily-colbert-and-rawia-ashraf-on-agentic-ai-for-lawyers.html Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:29:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50523 If generative AI was the biggest story in legal tech in 2023 and 2024, agentic AI is proving to be the most talked-about topic of 2025. Spurring this, at least in part, has been Thomson Reuters’ announcement of its forthcoming release of a new agentic version of CoCounsel, its AI legal assistant, that will be able to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/07/on-lawnext-how-lexisnexis-and-harvey-are-partnering-to-reshape-legal-ai-with-lexisnexis-ceo-sean-fitzpatrick.html Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:00:54 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50273 When legal research giant LexisNexis and legal AI giant Harvey announced a strategic alliance last month, legal tech commentator Richard Tromans called it “possibly the most important legal tech move in a decade.” On today’s episode of LawNext, we go deep into the partnership and its implications with Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/06/on-lawnext-how-one-mass-tort-firm-uses-supio-the-ai-platform-for-pi-lawyers.html Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:29:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50225 Supio, an AI-driven platform developed specifically for personal injury lawyers, has been generating a lot of buzz. On the heels of reporting record growth last year and raising $25 million in Series A funding in October, last month it raised another $60 million in a Series B round. But what do the lawyers who use the platform […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/06/a-special-interview-with-aderant-ceo-chris-cartrett-recorded-live-at-its-momentum-global-conference.html Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:11:31 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50154 When Chris Cartrett was named CEO of legal technology company Aderant in 2022, he did so with the mission of aggressively advancing a cloud-first strategy throughout the company’s suite of business and financial software for law firms. Given that Aderant is a nearly 50-year-old company with many customers who still use the on-premises version of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/06/on-lawnext-literas-avaneesh-marwaha-the-ceo-who-left-before-ai-and-returned-to-lead-through-it.html Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:42:06 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50056 What happens when a CEO steps away from a legal tech company just before the generative AI revolution explodes, then returns two years later amid a landscape that is being dramatically transformed? For Litera’s Avaneesh Marwaha, that is exactly what happened. As the CEO of Litera from 2016 to 2022, Marwaha led the legal tech company […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/lawnext-aall-president-cornell-winston-on-why-law-librarians-should-be-bold.html Fri, 30 May 2025 14:51:29 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49976 Cornell Winston, president of the American Association of Law Libraries, brings a unique perspective to law librarianship, having spent 45 years in libraries across diverse settings — from a hospital library where he started as a student worker; to the former Whittier Law School; to prominent law firms Munger, Tolles & Olson and Orrick, Herrington […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/lawnext-lawyer-and-serial-legal-entrepreneur-monica-zent-on-building-the-future-of-legal-services.html Fri, 23 May 2025 14:13:54 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49947 Monica Zent is a true pioneer in legal innovation and entrepreneurship. She is the founder of ZentLaw, an award-winning alternative legal services provider that broke the traditional law firm mold when she founded it in 2002. ZentLaw has since grown into a nationwide legal services provider, serving global brands and major corporations with a unique […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/lawnext-turning-legal-spend-into-performance-persuit-founder-jim-delkousis-on-his-companys-acquisition-of-apperio.html Thu, 15 May 2025 18:25:20 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49913 On May 5, 2025, PERSUIT, a technology company that specializes in helping corporate legal departments select and manage outside counsel, announced that it had acquired Apperio, a spend-management platform for corporate legal, in a move designed to create an end-to-end workflow solution spanning everything from matter intake to invoice payment. “This acquisition accelerates our ability […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/on-lawnext-navigating-unruliness-hence-cofounder-sean-west-on-how-politics-ai-and-law-are-rewriting-business-rules.html Wed, 07 May 2025 16:56:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49826 “Everybody understands the world is volatile, but they don’t necessarily understand why it’s volatile or how to deal with it,” says Sean West, cofounder of Hence Technologies and author of the new book, Unruly: Fighting Back When Politics, AI, and Law Upend the Rules of Business. “Unruly is a play on words. … The world is kind of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/lawdroid-founder-tom-martin-on-building-teaching-and-advising-about-ai-for-legal.html Thu, 01 May 2025 17:59:40 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49746 If you follow legal tech at all, you would be justified in suspecting that Tom Martin has figured out how to use artificial intelligence to clone himself.  While running LawDroid, his legal tech company, the Vancouver-based Martin also still manages a law practice in California, oversees an annual legal tech awards program, teaches a law […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/04/from-ravel-cofounder-to-knowable-ceo-nik-reed-has-learned-that-building-quality-ai-for-legal-takes-a-lot-of-hard-work.html Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:42:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49574 In the gold rush of generative AI, it seems that every legal tech vendor wants to be a one-stop shop for legal technology. But after 15 years of developing legal tech, Nik Reed, CEO of Knowable, a legal technology company devoted to helping enterprises bring order and organization to their executed agreements, believes that lawyers […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/04/when-the-unthinkable-becomes-real-three-legal-tech-leaders-on-losing-their-homes-to-the-los-angeles-wildfires.html Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:35:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49487 In January, a merciless firestorm swept through the Pacific Palisades and surrounding areas of Los Angeles, becoming the most destructive wildfire in the city’s history. Driven by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds and fueled by record-dry conditions, the Palisades Fire destroyed over 6,800 structures, burned nearly 24,000 acres, and dramatically altered the lives of thousands of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/04/mark-cohen-and-dierk-schindler-on-the-union-of-the-digital-legal-exchange-and-the-liquid-legal-institute.html Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:59:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49433 As I reported yesterday in an exclusive at this blog, two leading international legal transformation organizations, the Digital Legal Exchange (DLEx) and the Liquid Legal Institute (LLI), have joined forces in a strategic union that brings together more than 1,500 members representing more than 140 multinational corporations, organizations, institutions and agencies across more than 20 […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/03/lawnext-podcast-relativity-ceo-phil-saunders-on-the-future-of-legal-data-gen-ai-and-the-shifting-landscape-of-law.html Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:29:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49397 “The landscape we all stand on is shifting, and massive amounts of change are upon us,” Phil Saunders, the chief executive officer of e-discovery and legal technology giant Relativity, recently wrote in a post on the company’s blog. Driving that change are three transformative forces, he wrote: new legal data challenges, advancing generative AI, and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/03/on-lawnext-surepoint-ceo-eric-thurston-on-acquiring-zencase-and-his-vision-for-mid-market-practice-management.html Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:01:26 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49277 Recently, legal technology company SurePoint Technologies acquired the legal practice management company ZenCase in a strategic move aimed at enhancing SurePoint’s practice management offerings for mid-sized law firms. In this episode of LawNext, Eric Thurston, who recently marked his two-year anniversary as CEO of SurePoint Technologies, joins me to discuss the acquisition and share his […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/03/how-a-new-documentary-aims-to-raise-public-awareness-of-the-access-to-justice-crisis-and-the-crowdfunding-campaign-to-support-it.html Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:20:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49206 On this week’s show: LawNext takes you to the movies. Well, to a specific movie, anyway – a documentary being made to raise public awareness and understanding of the access to justice crisis in this country. Today’s guests are the film’s director, documentary filmmaker Laura Hand, who previously directed The Tent Mender, about homelessness on […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/03/lawnext-eve-ceo-jay-madheswaran-on-building-ai-native-law-firms-for-the-plaintiffs-bar.html Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49109 After building his career as an engineer at Facebook and as a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jay Madheswaran and his cofounders spotted an opportunity to deploy cutting-edge AI to transform what they saw as an underserved segment of the legal market, launching Eve, an AI platform purpose-built for plaintiffs’ law firms. Eve has quickly gained traction, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/on-lawnext-is-arbitrus-ai-the-first-true-ai-judge-the-future-of-dispute-resolution.html Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:28:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49011 Earlier this month, a legal tech startup called Fortuna Arbitration launched what it says is the first true AI judge – an automated arbitration system called Arbitrus.ai that the company claims can fully replace human arbitrators in resolving legal disputes. The system promises to cut the cost of arbitration from an average of $100,000 to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/on-lawnext-upsolves-jonathan-petts-and-ben-jackson-on-building-the-turbotax-for-bankruptcy-and-fighting-upl-restrictions.html Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:21:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48960 When former Wall Street lawyer Jonathan Petts joined forces in 2016 with Rohan Pavuluri, then a research assistant in Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab, and Mark Hansen, a software engineer, to create Upsolve, they had a simple but powerful vision: make bankruptcy filing as accessible as online tax preparation for Americans crushed by debt. Today, their nonprofit […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/on-lawnext-standardizing-legal-agreements-how-onenda-and-onesaas-aim-to-transform-business-contracting.html Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:38:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48903 When it comes to contract negotiations, lawyers often find themselves spending countless hours haggling over standard agreements such as NDAs and SaaS contracts, with both sides often saying more or less the same thing, but in different words. What if there was a better way? Today’s guests believe there is. Electra Japonas, chief legal officer at Law […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/on-lawnext-ceo-nikole-nelson-returns-with-an-update-on-frontline-justices-mission-to-empower-justice-workers-and-bridge-the-justice-gap.html Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:29:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48783 In the United States, we face a staggering crisis in access to justice, with over 90% of low-income Americans’ civil legal needs estimated to be going unmet. But what if there was a way to dramatically expand legal help by empowering a new category of legal helpers? That’s exactly what today’s guest, Nikole Nelson, is […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/01/on-lawnext-reflections-on-25-years-of-innovation-in-legal-aid-with-the-lscs-longtime-program-counsel-glenn-rawdon.html Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:14:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48688 Earlier this month, the Legal Services Corporation, the largest funder of civil legal aid in the United States, held its annual Innovations in Technology Conference in Phoenix. This year’s conference was particularly special for two reasons. For one, it was the conference’s 25th anniversary, as well as the 25th anniversary of the Technology Initiative Grants […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/01/can-ai-bridge-the-justice-gap-legal-aid-lawyer-and-innovator-sateesh-nori-thinks-so.html Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:24:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48618 From legal aid attorney to legal tech innovator, Sateesh Nori brings a unique perspective to the intersection of artificial intelligence and access to justice.  After spending two decades in the trenches as a housing lawyer at legal aid offices in New York City, Nori now bridges multiple worlds – continuing his legal aid work at […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/01/on-lawnext-insights-on-leadership-and-innovation-in-legal-education-with-anastasia-boyko.html Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:08:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48528 Anastasia Boyko likes to say that she’s Goldilocks-ed her way through her career. True, it’s been a varied career, as she’s tried out different roles, but it is a career that has taken her full circle, from Yale Law School, where she graduated, and then eventually back to Yale Law to create a program in leadership […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/01/on-lawnext-a-deep-dive-into-washingtons-newly-approved-pilot-to-allow-non-lawyers-to-practice-law.html Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:19:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48445 On Dec. 5, in a move to enhance access to justice, the Supreme Court of the state of Washington issued a historic order authorizing a regulatory reform pilot program by which entities not owned by lawyers will be able to deliver legal services. The move makes Washington only the third state, after Utah and Arizona, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/01/the-top-15-lawnext-podcast-episodes-of-2024-and-the-top-15-of-all-time.html Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:24:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48424 Every week (give or take), I get to be fascinated. Because every week (more or less), I get the opportunity to sit down for a conversation for my LawNext podcast with the people who are changing legal practice — the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law,” as we like to say. I […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/12/lawnext-in-which-gen-ai-takes-over-this-podcast-to-discuss-law-practice-management-technology.html Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:10:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48372 On today’s LawNext: we hand over the podcast to NotebookLM to discuss the state of law practice management technology. If you haven’t heard of NotebookLM, it is a generative AI tool from Google that turns your documents into engaging audio discussions. Its output sounds a whole lot like, well, a podcast, with two hosts chatting […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/12/ngages-paul-henry-on-how-law-firms-can-use-behavioral-analytics-to-drive-tech-adoption.html Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:00:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48343 You cannot have innovation without adoption. That was a theme we heard repeatedly when we attended the Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal conference in New York City in October. Our guest today, Paul Henry, would take that a step further and say you do not really have adoption without engagement.  Henry is the founder […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/12/on-lawnext-how-one-legal-tech-company-is-donating-its-software-to-help-pursue-justice-in-atrocity-crimes.html Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:34:18 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48269 Everlaw for Good is a program run by the e-discovery company Everlaw, through which it makes its software available at no cost to legal aid organizations, nonprofit organizations, and investigative journalists. One beneficiary of that program is the Center for Justice and Accountability, a human rights nonprofit that works to seek justice on behalf of victims of atrocity […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/11/lawnext-as-she-retires-from-a-trailblazing-career-in-legal-km-and-innovation-sally-gonzalez-shares-lessons-learned.html Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:06:15 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48249 In the field of legal knowledge management and innovation, Sally Gonzalez is both a legend and a trailblazer. Over the course of her 40-year career, she has worked for some of the world’s largest law firms to develop and lead KM and strategic technology initiatives. She has overseen KM and information technology programs at such […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/11/lawnext-how-gen-ai-can-be-a-game-changer-for-discovery-and-litigation-with-everlaw-ceo-aj-shankar.html Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:28:07 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48210 Recently, the Everlaw Summit, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, convened in San Francisco. In his keynote address there, cofounder and CEO AJ Shankar announced the general availability, after a year of beta testing, of a suite of generative AI features for reviewing, coding and analyzing documents in discovery and litigation prep. I was […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/11/how-a-legal-services-agency-developed-an-award-winning-km-portal-to-enhance-access-to-justice.html Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:40:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48118 At the Knowledge Management and Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City, Legal Services NYC was named as the inaugural winner of the LexPrize award, which is designed to recognize groundbreaking ideas in knowledge management and innovation for the legal industry. It won for its development of the Legal Services NYC KM […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/11/recorded-live-at-cliocon-clios-cto-jonathan-watson-on-the-development-of-clio-duo-its-gen-ai-legal-assistant.html Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:40:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48101 Recently, the law practice management company Clio launched Clio Duo, its generative AI legal assistant. On today’s LawNext, Jonathan Watson, Clio’s chief technology officer, joins the show to discuss Duo’s development, capabilities and future direction.He also talks about some of the other products Clio recently launched, including native accounting and custom reporting. Watson and LawNext host […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/11/lawnext-podcast-the-legaltech-funds-zach-posner-on-investing-in-legal-tech-and-his-upcoming-summit.html Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:07:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48077 When Zach Posner was last on this podcast, it was 2021 and he was less than a year into having cofounded The LegalTech Fund, the first venture capital firm to be laser-focused on law and legal technology. Since then, his firm, of which he is managing director, has gone on to build up a portfolio of more than 60 […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/recorded-live-at-cliocon-a-deep-dive-into-the-2024-clio-legal-trends-report-with-joshua-lenon-clios-lawyer-in-residence.html Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:30:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48045 At the recent Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas, Clio released its ninth annual Legal Trends Report, a report that uses both survey responses and anonymized data from Clio users to paint a picture of key trends in law practice and legal technology. This year’s report has some intriguing findings on lawyers’ adoption of AI […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/live-from-cliocon-a-clio-power-trio-with-coo-ronnie-gurion-cfo-curt-sigfstead-and-board-member-mark-britton.html Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47961 This has been a significant year for the law practice management company Clio, which in July raised a record-setting $900 million financing round – the largest ever for a legal tech company, and which recently wrapped up its 12th annual Clio Cloud Conference, its largest ever with some 2,600 attendees in person in Austin, Texas, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/live-from-cliocon-clio-ceo-jack-newton-on-generative-ai-and-the-new-duo-ai-legal-assistant.html Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:18:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47953 We’ve just returned from the Clio Cloud Conference, held this year in Austin, Texas, where, in what has become an annual tradition, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down with Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton for a live interview.  At the conference, Clio launched Clio Duo, the generative AI legal assistant integrated into Clio’s flagship […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/lawnext-a-year-into-his-tenure-unitedlex-ceo-james-schellhase-on-how-the-company-is-embracing-innovation.html Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:54:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47839  Important update: Just after this podcast was posted, James Schellhase was abruptly replaced as CEO of UnitedLex. Soon after that, it came out that his departure appeared to have been related to allegations concerning his personal conduct. One year ago, in September 2023, James Schellhase was named chief executive officer of the alternative legal services provider UnitedLex. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/lawnext-podcast-a-deep-dive-into-filevines-new-gen-ai-tools-for-litigators-with-product-leads-michael-anderson-and-alex-mclaughlin.html Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:13:29 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47778 At its recent customer conference in Salt Lake City, called LEX Summit, the case management company Filevine unveiled a number of product releases and updates. Among them were several products for litigators driven by generative AI, including a first-of-its-kind tool, Depo CoPilot, that helps guide a lawyer during a deposition, and another, DemandsAI, that generates settlement demand […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/on-lawnext-live-from-filevines-lex-summit-interviews-with-three-of-its-leaders.html Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:02:56 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47739 In today’s episode, we feature three impromptu conversations with leaders of the case management company Filevine. Last week, I was in Salt Lake City to attend LEX Summit, the Filevine customer conference. While there, I snagged three of the company’s top executives for brief, impromptu conversations about the company, its products, and the conference.  In […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/lawnext-how-one-legal-tech-startup-is-simplifying-data-collection-from-mobile-devices.html Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:48:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47699 Matt Rasmussen had worked for some 20 years in litigation technology and support at major law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and litigation services providers, when he wondered why mobile collections had to be so time-consuming, inefficient and invasively overbroad.  As he looked into it, he realized there was a better way to manage mobile collections. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-state-of-knowledge-management-and-innovation-in-legal-with-patrick-didomenico-and-joshua-fireman.html Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:56:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47640 On Oct. 17 and 18, 2024, two of the legal industry’s leading experts on knowledge management and innovation, Patrick DiDomenico, founder and CEO of InspireKM Consulting, and Joshua Fireman, president of Fireman & Company, which is owned by Epiq, the global provider of technology-enabled legal services, will present the second-annual KM&I for Legal Conference in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/on-lawnext-all-about-spellbooks-new-ai-agent-capable-of-performing-complex-legal-tasks-with-ceo-scott-stevenson.html Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:33:35 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47579 In what it says is the first AI agent for law, the legal technology company Spellbook just released Spellbook Associate, an application that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows in transactional matters, much as an associate would. This is the same company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/lawnext-podcast-is-gen-ai-the-new-paradigm-for-technology-assisted-review-in-e-discovery-three-redgrave-scientists-discuss.html Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:30:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47416 For at least two decades, artificial intelligence has been used in e-discovery to help surface and prioritize review of potentially responsive documents from large document collections. But while technology-assisted review (TAR) has traditionally been driven by AI in the form of supervised machine learning, some vendors and e-discovery professionals are starting to experiment with the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/heres-the-video-version-of-my-interview-with-jack-newton-about-clios-record-900m-raise.html Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:10:47 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47350 Last week, as the law practice management company Clio announced a record $900 million funding round, the largest ever for a legal technology company, I published an exclusive LawNext podcast interview with Jack Newton, Clio’s founder and CEO, recorded a few days ahead of the announcement.  With so much interest in that story and that interview, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/on-lawnext-podcast-in-the-wake-of-kkrs-acquisition-of-clm-company-agiloft-ceo-eric-laughlin-discusses-its-past-and-future.html Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:34:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47246 Last month, KKR, a major global investment firm, announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Agiloft, the contract lifecycle management company. As part of the deal, the growth equity firm FTV Capital, already an Agiloft investor, is making an additional investment, and another growth equity firm, JMI Equity, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/exclusive-lawnext-interview-ceo-jack-newton-on-clios-record-setting-900m-raise.html Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:18:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47219 As the law practice management company Clio today announced a record $900 million funding round, the largest ever for a cloud legal technology company, at a whopping $3 billion valuation, Clio’s founder and CEO Jack Newton joins LawNext for an exclusive podcast interview.  In a conversation recorded last week, ahead of today’s announcement, Newton and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/lawnext-podcast-how-clearbrief-helps-lawyers-find-the-best-facts-to-support-their-writing-with-founder-jacqueline-schafer.html Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:59:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47120 Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief, was inspired to start the company based on her own experiences as a litigator and appellate advocate. A pivotal moment for her came in an asylum case she was handling pro bono, when her ability to point the judge to critical evidence that supported her arguments saved […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/on-lawnext-cofounder-jason-tashea-on-the-first-year-and-uncertain-future-of-georgetowns-first-of-its-kind-judicial-innovation-fellowship.html Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:38:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46984 Eighteen months ago, the first-of-its-kind Judicial Innovation Fellowship launched with the mission of embedding experienced technologists and designers within state, local, and tribal courts to develop technology-based solutions to improve the public’s access to justice. Housed within the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, the program was designed to be a catalyst […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/on-lawnext-ceo-ross-guberman-on-how-briefcatch-is-expanding-its-mission-to-help-legal-professionals-improve-their-writing.html Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:40:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46936 This has been a notable year for BriefCatch, a legal technology company devoted to helping legal professionals improve their legal writing. It started nine months ago, with the company’s raise of a $3.5 million seed round, continued with its roll outs of new products and features, and then to its formation of a legal writing […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/05/on-lawnext-how-the-free-law-project-works-to-expand-access-to-legal-information-with-cofounder-michael-lissner.html Wed, 22 May 2024 16:43:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46659 Since 2010, the nonprofit Free Law Project has been working to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive using technology, data and advocacy. It may be best known for CourtListener, its flagship project that houses an immense collection of court orders and opinions, and for its RECAP suite, which is the largest free collection […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/05/on-lawnext-epiqs-global-legal-solutions-leader-roger-pilc-on-how-ai-is-transforming-legal-services.html Tue, 14 May 2024 16:30:26 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46643 In recent months, Epiq, a global company providing technology-enabled legal services, has announced new artificial intelligence and analytics features built using the AI capabilities of Amazon Web Services. These new features include a framework for building, training and deploying bespoke machine learning models as secure APIs for customers; integration of Amazon Bedrock for custom copilot […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/05/aderant-ceo-chris-cartrett-on-the-companys-cloud-first-strategy-and-new-cloud-platform.html Wed, 08 May 2024 14:17:20 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46595 As this episode is released, Aderant, a technology company that provides business and practice management software for mid- to large-sized law firms worldwide, is in the midst of its Global Momentum user conference, taking place in Nashville. At the conference, the company made a major news announcement – the launch of Stridyn, a new cloud […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/05/advancing-its-cloud-first-strategy-aderant-launches-stridyn-a-single-cloud-platform-to-unify-all-its-products-hear-exclusive-interview-with-its-ceo.html Tue, 07 May 2024 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46589 When Chris Cartrett took over two years ago as CEO of Aderant, a provider of business management software to larger law firms, he promised to “take aggressive steps to further the company’s cloud-first strategy throughout its broad suite of solutions.” At Aderant’s Global Momentum user conference today in Nashville, he announced a major step in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/lawnext-podcast-how-the-contract-network-is-changing-contracts-for-good-with-founder-and-ceo-jim-wagner.html Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:56:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46526 Almost exactly one year ago, a new legal tech startup, The Contract Network, came out of stealth, with a mission to “radically accelerate the time for contract negotiations” through an AI-powered contract collaboration platform where all parties to a deal engage in a secure and neutral environment. The company’s cofounder and CEO, Jim Wagner, is a legal […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/on-lawnext-all-about-kl3m-the-first-llm-built-from-scratch-for-legal-with-273-ventures-jillian-bommarito.html Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:26:31 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46424 With so much focus on the use of large language models in law practice, the Kelvin Large Language Model – or KL3M (pronounced CLEM) for short – stands out as distinct for two reasons. For one, it is the first LLM built entirely from scratch specifically for the legal market. In addition, it is the first LLM […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/on-lawnext-how-maptician-is-helping-law-firms-optimize-hybrid-office-space-with-ceo-alaa-pasha.html Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:25:38 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46348 Timing is everything, it is said, and so it was either ironic or fateful that Maptician — developed as a hoteling platform to help law firms and businesses manage office space — launched in 2019, just before the pandemic and a period in which offices once bustling with people turned into downtown ghost towns. But the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/on-lawnext-how-imanage-is-making-knowledge-work-for-legal-professionals-with-ceo-neil-araujo.html Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:09:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46268 With the tagline “Making Knowledge Work,” the document management company iManage is enormously successful within the legal industry, with more than 4,000 customers across six continents, including 80% of the Am Law 100 and more than 40% of Fortune 100 companies. Just last year, it recently reported, it added more than 300 new law firms […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/on-lawnext-the-inside-story-of-the-caselaw-access-project-with-three-of-the-people-who-made-it-happen.html Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:03:05 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46208 March 1 marked the culmination of an ambitious and audacious project to digitize and provide free and open access to all official court decisions ever published in the United States. Called the Caselaw Access Project, it came about, starting in 2015, through an unusual partnership between Harvard Law School and a Silicon Valley-based legal research startup called Ravel […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/on-lawnext-infotracks-mission-to-revolutionize-litigation-services-such-as-e-filing-and-process-serving-with-ceo-ed-watts.html Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:15:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46113 InfoTrack may be one of the fastest growing yet least known legal technology companies in the United States. You may know it more through its brands, including ServeNow for finding process servers, One Legal for California court filing, LawToolBox for court calendaring, and the Legal Talk Network group of legal podcasts.  On the latest LawNext […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/on-lawnext-the-new-beneficial-ownership-reporting-requirement-and-how-legal-tech-can-help-companies-comply.html Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:19:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46054 The arrival of 2024 brought a new reporting requirement for more than 32 million smaller companies in the United States. The new requirement, which came about as part of the federal Corporate Transparency Act of 2021, means that many companies will now have to report information about their beneficial owners — the individuals who ultimately […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/lawnext-oddr-ceo-milan-bobde-on-how-ai-can-help-law-firms-stem-revenue-leakage-and-turn-invoices-into-cash.html Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:17:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46003 Can AI help law firms stem revenue leakage and more efficiently turn their invoices into collected cash? That is the premise behind Oddr, a legal tech startup that recently launched what it says is the legal industry’s first AI-powered invoice to cash platform, centralizing law firm billing, collections, payments and reconciliation in a single product. At […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/lawnext-thomson-reuters-ai-strategy-for-legal-with-mike-dahn-head-of-westlaw-and-joel-hron-head-of-ai.html Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:48:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45895 On this episode of LawNext: A conversation about Thomson Reuters’ strategy around generative artificial intelligence with two of the executives most directly responsible for its development and implementation.  In a year dominated by discussion of generative AI and its potential impact on the legal profession, Thomson Reuters has played a leading role. It started in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/on-lawnext-how-a-new-kind-of-justice-worker-could-narrow-the-justice-gap-with-nikole-nelson-ceo-of-frontline-justice.html Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:36:16 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45811 In November, the organization Frontline Justice launched with the mission of addressing the escalating access to justice crisis by empowering a new category of legal helper, the justice worker. The organization has an ambitious mission: To clear the way for justice workers to exist in all 50 states by 2035. In pursuit of that mission, it is […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/on-lawnext-how-one-legal-aid-program-is-creating-a-culture-of-innovation-to-enhance-access-to-justice.html Tue, 06 Feb 2024 13:23:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45752 At a time when some 92% of the civil legal problems of low-income Americans receive no or inadequate legal help, innovative measures are needed to close the justice gap. Recognizing that, Legal Aid of North Carolina, a program that provides free legal services to low-income people through the state, last year became the first legal services […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/on-lawnext-how-the-american-arbitration-association-embraced-generative-ai-with-ceo-bridget-mccormack-and-cio-diana-didia.html Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:01:46 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45690 One year ago, Bridget Mary McCormack, the former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, took over the helm of the American Arbitration Association, the largest private provider of alternative dispute resolution services in the world, as its president and chief executive officer. While on the court, McCormack was a leading voice for innovating the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/on-lawnext-how-courts-lawyers-and-legal-tech-companies-should-handle-sealed-court-documents-a-panel-discussion.html Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:52:04 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45607 At a time when legal technology companies are making it easier to access and analyze court documents, what should – and should not – be done to protect confidential court documents that are sealed from public access? This question came to a head last July, when a federal court in North Carolina took the drastic […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/on-lawnext-zen-and-the-art-of-law-practice-management-with-zencases-ceo-tj-fraser-and-coo-olivia-mockel.html Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:49:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45575 In 2013, when Florida lawyer TJ Fraser set out to find a law practice management solution for his firm, he tested just about every product on the market, he says, but he could not find one that solved the problems he encountered in his day-to-day practice. So, rather than keep looking, he decided to build […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/on-lawnext-an-inside-look-at-driving-innovation-within-a-major-law-firm-and-a-major-legal-department.html Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:47:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45532 What are the nuances of driving innovation within a law firm or legal department? For an inside perspective on that question, we speak with Rachel Dooley, who at the time of this recording was chief innovation officer at the law firm Goodwin Procter and who is now at Kirkland & Ellis, and Ilona Logvinova, managing […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/on-lawnext-the-founders-of-two-legal-tech-startups-nicole-clark-of-trellis-and-kevin-walker-and-bryan-davis-of-centari.html Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:52:50 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45475 Today on LawNext, we feature two brief, back-to-back interviews with the founders of two separate legal tech startups, both recorded live during the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City.  First up is Nicole Clark, cofounder and CEO of Trellis, an AI-powered state court research and analytics platform. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/12/top-15-lawnext-podcast-episodes-of-2023-and-of-all-time.html Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:17:23 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45446 Call me lucky. Every week, I get to sit down at the mic for my LawNext podcast and have a conversation with the leading “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” For me, each and every one of these conversations is fun and fascinating. But I am equally fascinated to add up the numbers […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/12/on-lawnext-two-km-keynotes-andrea-alliston-km-leader-at-fasken-and-mark-smolik-gc-at-dhl-on-disruption-and-innovation-in-legal.html Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:23:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45359 Today’s episode features two interviews on disruption and innovation in legal, with the two keynote speakers from the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City: Andrea Alliston, partner and leader of knowledge and practice innovation programs at Fasken, Canada’s largest law firm, and Mark Smolik, chief legal officer […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/12/on-lawnext-affinipay-ceo-dru-armstrong-on-the-intersection-of-fintech-legal-tech-and-ai.html Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:04:37 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45338 Dru Armstrong was named CEO of AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, in July 2021. Less than a year later, AffiniPay shook up the legal tech landscape by acquiring MyCase, one of the leading law practice management platforms, in a deal that also included four other practice management products: CASEPeer for personal injury firms, Docketwise for immigration practices, Soluno for billing and accounting (which it recently sold), and Woodpecker for document automation. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/12/on-lawnext-the-law-students-working-to-end-racism-in-the-legal-system.html Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:32:35 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45273 Each year for the past three years, the LexisNexis African Ancestry Network LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation Fellowship has awarded fellowships to promising law students to participate in research projects related to eliminating racism in the legal system. This year, 15 students received fellowships of $10,000 each to spend nine months working in teams to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/11/on-lawnext-podcast-erika-harold-executive-director-illinois-supreme-court-commission-on-professionalism.html Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:22:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45141 On this episode of LawNext: An interview recorded live with Erika Harold, executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, an organization charged with working to enhance civility and professionalism and to eliminate bias within the legal profession.  A former litigator, Harold was named executive director in April 2022, to succeed retiring executive […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/11/clio-double-header-chief-technology-officer-jonathan-watson-and-chief-product-officer-hemant-kashyap.html Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:05:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45081 On today’sLawNext, it’s a Clio double header, featuring two separate interviews with two of Clio’s top product-focused executives – one with Jonathan Watson, its chief technology officer, and the other with Hemant Kashyap, chief product officer  – both recorded live at the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville in October.  Even though I interviewed Watson and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/11/on-lawnext-did-using-eyelevel-ai-cause-pras-michels-lawyer-to-botch-his-defense-cofounder-neil-katz-says-that-is-total-nonsense.html Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:17:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45020 Did Pras Michel’s lawyer botch his defense by relying on an AI program to create his closing argument? That’s what the former Fugees rapper claims in asking a court to overturn his April conviction in an illegal foreign influence scheme. Michel says his lawyer, David Kenner, made a “frivolous and ineffectual” closing argument because he […]]]>