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On Thursday, March 12, facing the escalating threat of the coronavirus pandemic, Brigham Young University Law School made the decision to close down live classes, send students home, and teach the remainder of the semester online.

As it happened, I was at the law school that day, where he was scheduled to interview the school’s…

At ABA TECHSHOW 2020, Vicki Huff Eckert, U.S. and global new ventures and innovation leader at PwC, was the featured speaker at the Rebels Riot Luncheon, an event honoring the Legal Technology Resource Center’s 2020 Women of Legal Tech and the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels.

Shortly after the luncheon, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat…

When Jerry Levine became general counsel of IPsoft in December 2015, the artificial intelligence company had been in business since 1998, but it had never had an inhouse lawyer. That meant Levine had the daunting task of creating a legal department from…

The growing use of legal analytics is rapidly transforming the practice of law. Within law firms, analytics drive litigation strategy, business development efforts, and hiring decisions. Within corporate legal departments, analytics drive outside counsel hiring and internal business operations. 

In a special episode of LawNext recorded live during

As corporate legal departments seek to control costs and drive innovation, how can better use of data, metrics and analytics help? How are corporate counsel using analytics to measure and improve performance internally and among outside counsel?

These questions were the topic of a special episode of LawNext, recorded live during Legalweek 2020 in…

In the legal industry, the concept of design thinking has become synonymous with the name Margaret Hagan. Director of the Legal Design Lab at Stanford Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession, she is also a lecturer at the Stanford d.school, a ubiquitous speaker at legal conferences worldwide, and a leading advocate for making the…

In multiple ways, Stacy Rupprecht Jane (whose name was Stacy Butler at the time of this recording) is immersed in seeking to innovate the justice system and the delivery of legal services.

As director of the Innovation for Justice program at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, she leads students in…

In my LawNext podcast, I have conversations with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” Here are the 10 episodes that were most popular during 2019.

Note: This reflects unique downloads during 2019. It is not the most popular of all time. That honor goes to my 2018 interview…

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…