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It was an epiphany, of sorts, for Greg Garman. In 2015, after 18 years at the same firm, including several as managing partner, he came to believe that most firms operated under a broken business model. Within weeks, he and several colleagues left the firm to start a smaller, more innovative practice, and he…

Jim Sandman may be one of the most impassioned advocates in the United States for ensuring access to justice for all. As president of the Legal Services Corporation since 2011, he oversees an organization that funds free civil legal services to more than 130 legal aid programs throughout the country. As a…

Jeroen Plink was named in 2018 as CEO of Clifford Chance Applied Solutions, a subsidiary of the international law firm Clifford Chance that designs and develops software to address clients’ business challenges. He is responsible for product development and go-to-market strategy for all its products, including CC Dr@ft, a legal document automation platform.

Plink…

A highlight of the recent Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego was the podcast alley — a row of tables reserved for legal podcasters to set up their equipment and record interviews with speakers and attendees.

Over the last couple weeks, I have been publishing a series of LawNext “special reports” that we recorded…

As executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism (aka 2Civility), Jayne Reardon oversees programs and initiatives to increase the civility and professionalism of attorneys and judges, create inclusiveness in the profession, and promote increased service to the public.

In this special edition of LawNext recorded live at the recent Clio Cloud Conference in…

In one of a series of special reports for my LawNext podcast, recorded live at the recent Clio Cloud Conference, I am joined by Nehal Madhani, an attorney and the founder and CEO of the cloud-based IP filing software Alt Legal.

We talk about the founding and growth of his company,…

In another of a series of special episodes of LawNext recorded live at the Clio Cloud Conference, I interviewed Ed Walters, CEO and cofounder of the online legal research company Fastcase.

Under Ed’s leadership, Fastcase has grown to become one of the world’s largest legal publishers, currently serving more than 800,000 subscribers from around…

After 10 years as a lawyer at two leading transactional law firms, Haley Altman decided there should be a better way to structure the workflow around the many deals in which she was involved. So in 2016, she left law practice to found Doxly, a technology platform designed to transform the archaic and chaotic process…

In 2018, Mark Britton left Avvo, the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO until he sold it earlier that year to web behemoth Internet Brands. Soon after, he joined us here on LawNext…

George Psiharis was employee number six at Clio, which he joined shortly after the practice management company was founded in 2008. Now, he is COO of an enterprise with more than 400 employees and growing, responsible for customer success, business development and data operations.

Psiharis also oversees Clio’s annual Legal Trends Report,…

Nineteen years ago, Mark Harris and Alec Guettel founded Axiom, a pioneering service to provide on-demand legal talent to corporate legal departments, growing it into a company with a roster of more than 2,000 lawyers that works with over half of the Fortune 100, while also developing technology and managed services arms.

Last February, gearing up…

As I mentioned in my post earlier today about the Clio Cloud Conference, a new feature this year was the podcast alley, where a string of podcasters were able to set up shop — LawNext among them.

Among the people I sat down with to record conversations during the conference was Jack…