Best Jason Schafer Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 259: Live from Filevine’s LEX Summit: Interviews with Three of Its Leaders 35:01

1h ago35:01

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In today’s episode, we feature three impromptu conversations with leaders of the case management company Filevine. Last week, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi was in Salt Lake City to attend LEX Summit, the Filevine customer conference. While there, he snagged three of the company’s top executives for brief, impromptu conversations about the company, its p…

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Ep 258: How One Legal Tech Startup Is Simplifying Data Collection from Mobile Devices 40:33

16h ago40:33

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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 collection…

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Elevate UP The Yosemite Series: "Lessons from Nature" - THE GEAR 14:05

19h ago14:05

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Welcome to the Elevate Up Podcast and an in-depth episode in THE YOSEMITE SERIES called "Lessons from Nature" with your Host, your Coach, and "The Sherpa" Steve Seay! Steve is unpacking how NATURE symbolizes something in our personal and professional life - something that we are also embarking on. From GEAR to TRAILS to TREES to HEAVY LOAD ON OUR B…

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Elevate UP The Yosemite Series: The Rhythm of Grace with "Mini-Moto" Yamini Madhaven 43:21

8d ago43:21

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Welcome to the Elevate Up Podcast and the fourth episode in THE YOSEMITE SERIES with your Host, your Coach, and "The Sherpa" Steve Seay! Today, Steve is thrilled to sit down with another member of the FIRST "Elevate Up Tribe 2024 Coaching Group" that embarked on the EPIC 5-Day Yosemite Expedition. Yamini Madhaven is an Internal Medicine Physician a…

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Ep 257: The State of Knowledge Management and Innovation in Legal, with Patrick DiDomenico and Joshua Fireman 51:59

10d ago51:59

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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 …

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Elevate UP The Yosemite Series: Embracing Risk & Change with "The Planner" Lucas Tvrdik 1:04:00

15d ago1:04:00

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Welcome to the Elevate Up Podcast and the third episode in THE YOSEMITE SERIES with your Host, your Coach, and "The Sherpa" Steve Seay! Today, Steve is excited to sit down with another member of the FIRST "Elevate Up Tribe 2024 Coaching Group" that embarked on the EPIC 5-Day Yosemite Expedition. Lucas Tvrdik is a Police Detective in the South San F…

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Ep 256: All About Spellbook’s New AI Agent, Capable of Performing Complex Legal Tasks, with CEO Scott Stevenson 46:31

17d ago46:31

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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 revie…

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Elevate UP The Yosemite Series: Wild at Heart with "The Ranger" Barry Schafer 56:48

1M ago56:48

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Welcome to Episode 12 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the sacred opportunity to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work, and impact of everyday heroes! Today, I was so excited to down with another everyday hero, Barry Schafer, who is an entrepreneur, expert in the ophthalmology sales industry, in particular with start-ups.…

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Ep 255: Is Gen AI the New Paradigm for Technology Assisted Review in E-Discovery? Three Redgrave Scientists Discuss 40:11

1M ago40:11

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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 professional…

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Ep 254: In the Wake of KKR’s Acquisition of CLM Company Agiloft, CEO Eric Laughlin Discusses Its Past and Future 48:05

2M ago48:05

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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, is j…

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Elevate UP The Yosemite Series: Insights from "The Sherpa" and the EPIC 5-Day Wilderness Experience 15:58

2M ago15:58

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Welcome to the Elevate Up Podcast and the first episode in THE YOSEMITE SERIES with me - your Host, your Coach, and "The Sherpa" Steve Seay! Today, I had the privilege of sharing my recent 5-day Yosemite Expedition where I was honored in guiding, leading and facilitating 3 other high-level leaders from my coaching group known as the Elevate Up Trib…

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Ep 253: Exclusive: CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Record-Setting $900M Raise 49:36

2M ago49:36

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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 a…

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Ep 252: How Clearbrief Helps Lawyers Find the Best Facts to Support their Writing, with Founder Jacqueline Schafer 47:10

2M ago47:10

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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 her client from deportatio…

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Elevate UP EVERYDAY HEROES: Episode 10 with Jason Call” Bulletproof Living” 1:14:17

3M ago1:14:17

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Welcome to Episode #10 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the sacred opportunity to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work, and impact of everyday heroes! Today, I was super excited to sit down with my tenth hero, Jason Call, who is the Founder of Handyman Marketing Pros https://handymanmarketingpros.com/ He is one of the re…

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Ep 251: Cofounder Jason Tashea on the First Year and Uncertain Future of Georgetown’s First-of-Its-Kind Judicial Innovation Fellowship 50:38

3M ago50:38

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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 Univers…

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Elevate Up_Episode #9: Interview with Tommy Ferretti ”Fueled by Love” 1:03:46

3M ago1:03:46

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Welcome to Episode #9 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the sacred opportunity to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work, and impact of everyday heroes! Today, I was so jazzed to sit down with my ninth hero, Tommy Ferretti, who is the Founder of Foundations of Freedom, Inc. in Jacksonville, Florida https://www.foundationsof…

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Elevate Up_Episode #8: Interview with Rebecca Schleifer-Gruenemeier ”Fearless Life” 1:24:21

3M ago1:24:21

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Welcome to Episode 8 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the sacred opportunity to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work, and impact of everyday heroes! Today, I felt so elevated to sit down with my eight hero, Rebecca Schleifer-Gruenemeier, who is an Entrepreneur, Real Estate investor and Leadership Coach. She is also my fr…

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Ep 250: CEO Ross Guberman On How BriefCatch Is Expanding Its Mission to Help Legal Professionals Improve their Writing 40:36

3M ago40:36

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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 advisory panel of judge…

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Ep 249: How The Free Law Project Works to Expand Access to Legal Information, with Cofounder Michael Lissner 41:02

4M ago41:02

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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 on the …

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Elevate Up_Episode #7: Interview with Paul Bush ”Authentic Relationships” 1:01:46

4M ago1:01:46

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Welcome to Episode 7 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the sacred opportunity to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work, and impact of everyday heroes! Today, I was so jazzed to sit down with my seventh hero, Paul Bush, who is the Lead Pastor of Highpoint Community Church in Orange Park, Florida. He is also my friend, pasto…

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Ep 248: Epiq’s Global Legal Solutions Leader Roger Pilc on How AI Is Transforming Legal Services 42:56

4M ago42:56

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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; integ…

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Elevate Up_Episode #6: Interview with Raylan Heck ”Investing into Others” 1:16:52

4M ago1:16:52

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Welcome to Episode 6 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the sacred opportunity to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work, and impact of everyday heroes! Today, I was so pumped to sit down with my sixth hero, Raylan Heck, who is the Founder and Trusted Advisor within Warrior’s Peace https://www.warriorspeacecsi.com/ . He serv…

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Ep 247: Aderant CEO Chris Cartrett on the Company’s Cloud-First Strategy and New Cloud Platform 44:23

4M ago44:23

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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 platform…

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Elevate Up_Episode #5: Interview with Ben Ruffner ”Poised in the Pocket of Life” 1:01:19

4M ago1:01:19

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Welcome to Episode 5 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the sacred opportunity to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work, and impact of everyday heroes! Today, I was so pumped to sit down with my fifth hero, Ben Ruffner, who is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army National Guard. He is literally my neighbor and first Florid…

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Elevate Up_Episode #4: Interview with Angela Wright-Trapp ”Mastery of Self” 53:06

5M ago53:06

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Welcome to Episode 4 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the sacred opportunity to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work, and impact of everyday heroes! Today, I was so energized and delighted to sit down with my fourth guest, Angela Wright-Trapp, who is a Life & Executive Coach, running her own private practice and serving …

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Elevate Up_Episode #3: Interview with Charles Perry ”Always Compete” 51:45

5M ago51:45

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Welcome to Episode 3 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the sacred opportunity to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work and relationships of everyday heroes! This week, I had the honor and privilege to sit down with my third guest, Charles Perry from Chrysalis Cosmetics. He owns and operates his own business as a Plastic Su…

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Elevate Up_Episode #2: Interview with Jim Urban ”A Hero at Home and Work” 58:12

5M ago58:12

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Welcome to Episode 2 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the opportunity and privilege to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work, and relationships of everyday heroes! Today, I had the honor and privilege to be with my second guest of the show, Jim Urban from Accelerate Leadership Group. He is a Licensed Therapist and Executi…

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Elevate Up Podcast_Introduction to Conversations with Everyday Heroes 1:48

5M ago1:48

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Hello Elevate Up Community, My name is Steve Seay and I serve as a Leadership Coach and Trusted Advisor. During my last decade of coaching, I have met the most interesting people that have left a profound impact on and in my life! I call these guests, everyday heroes, and I can't to share their stories of struggles and victories, wins and losses, g…

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Ep 246: How The Contract Network Is ‘Changing Contracts for Good,’ with Founder and CEO Jim Wagner 55:26

5M ago55:26

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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…

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Elevate Up Podcast_Episode #1: Interview with Richard Kelly ”We Are All Diamonds” 52:45

5M ago52:45

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Welcome to Episode 1 on the Elevate Up Podcast where I have the opportunity and privilege to unpack and share the nuggets of wisdom from the life, work and relationships of everyday heroes! Today, I have a conversation with my very first guest, Richard Kelly, the Great Connector from Conversations Across the Pond. He is a Leadership Coach and Trust…

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Ep 245: All About KL3M, The First LLM Built From Scratch for Legal, with 273 Ventures’ Jillian Bommarito 45:46

5M ago45:46

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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 in any domain to be training entirely on …

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Ep 244: How Maptician Is Helping Law Firms Optimize Hybrid Office Space, with CEO Alaa Pasha 21:52

5M ago21:52

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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 period in which offices once bustling with people turned into downtown ghost towns. But the company quickly adapted, says its C…

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Ep 243: How iManage Is ‘Making Knowledge Work’ for Legal Professionals, with CEO Neil Araujo 36:52

6M ago36:52

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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 and compani…

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Ep 242: The Inside Story of the Caselaw Access Project, with Three of the People Who Made It Happen 50:56

6M ago50:56

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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…

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Ep 241: InfoTrack’s Mission to Revolutionize Litigation Services Such as E-filing and Process Serving, with CEO Ed Watts 46:29

6M ago46:29

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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. Our guest today, Ed Watts, …

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Ep 240: The New Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirement and How Legal Tech Can Help Companies Comply 45:31

6M ago45:31

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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 control…

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Ep 239: Oddr CEO Milan Bobde On How AI Can Help Law Firms Stem Revenue Leakage and Turn Invoices into Cash 21:05

7M ago21:05

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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 prod…

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Ep 238: Thomson Reuters’ AI Strategy for Legal, with Mike Dahn, Head of Westlaw, and Joel Hron, Head of AI 57:41

7M ago57:41

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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 ro…

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Ep 237: How A New Kind of Justice Worker Could Narrow the Justice Gap, with Nikole Nelson, CEO of Frontline Justice 46:58

7M ago46:58

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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 backed …

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Ep 236: How One Legal Aid Program Is Creating A Culture Of Innovation To Enhance Access to Justice 46:03

7M ago46:03

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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 program…

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Ep 235: How the American Arbitration Association embraced Generative AI, with CEO Bridget McCormack and CIO Diana Didia 46:20

8M ago46:20

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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…

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Ep 234: How Courts, Lawyers and Legal Tech Companies Should Handle Sealed Court Documents: A Panel Discussion 1:02:09

8M ago1:02:09

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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 step of issuing a standing order that…

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Ep 233: Zen and the Art of Law Practice Management, with ZenCase’s CEO TJ Fraser and COO Olivia Mockel 41:29

8M ago41:29

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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 and his team decided to build the solution they needed for t…

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Ep 232: An Inside Look At Driving Innovation within A Major Law Firm and A Major Legal Department 23:01

8M ago23:01

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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 Ilona Logvinova, managing counsel and head of innovation for McKinsey Legal. Dooley and Logvino…

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Ep 231: The Founders of Two Legal Tech Startups: Nicole Clark of Trellis and Kevin Walker and Bryan Davis of Centari 34:35

9M ago34:35

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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…

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Ep 230: KM Keynotes: Andrea Alliston, KM Leader At Fasken, and Mark Smolik, GC at DHL, On Disruption and Innovation in Legal 33:49

9M ago33:49

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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…

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Ep 229: AffiniPay CEO Dru Armstrong on the Intersection of Fintech, Legal Tech and AI 42:23

9M ago42:23

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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 …

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Ep 228: The Law Students Working to End Racism in the Legal System 44:19

10M ago44:19

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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 …

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Ep 227: Erika Harold, Executive Director, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism 33:52

10M ago33:52

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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 202…

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Ep 226: Clio Double Header: Chief Technology Officer Jonathan Watson and Chief Product Officer Hemant Kashyap 44:16

10M ago44:16

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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 Wats…

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