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Ep 007: Headnote’s Sarah Schaaf on shifting the diversity dynamic in legal tech

Sarah Schaaf, CEO and Co-Founder of Headnote, shares her thoughts on diversity inequity, the stigma she faced as a female entrepreneur looking for funding, and her words of wisdom for young entrepreneurs.

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LTW 2021.03.05 – ILTA Goes Live and Law Firms go Back to the Office, but Video Conferencing Here to Stay

The Week’s Topics Include: 5:23 – ILTA announces live conference this summer 12:28 – Ropes & Gray summons all staff back to the office, but video conferencing may be sticking around. 31:38 – Juries in online trials tend to be younger and more…

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Evisort CEO Jerry Ting on the Future of Contracts Tech

Contract lifecycle management has become one of the hottest sectors of legal tech in recent years, and within that sector, , founded in 2016, has become one of the hottest companies, experiencing four-times revenue growth in 2020 and having just…

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A California Bar Exam Like None Before It

Today we speak with class of 2020 alums Cindy Muro and Shandyn Pierce about their experiences transitioning to online learning and sheltering in place during their last semester of law school, and the unique challenge of taking the California State…

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Varun Mehta On His Momentous First Year Leading ALSP Factor

In January 2020, Axiom Managed Services, one of two companies from alternative legal services provider Axiom, as , a move the company characterized as a relaunch, and , , a veteran of the legal tech industry who had previously helped found the…

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LTW 2021.02.19 – Three New Studies, and How to See an ROI During Covid

Stories This Week: 3:36 – Launch Factory seeks legal tech founders 8:58 – Thompson Reuters ALSP report 12:38 – Lawyer referral services 23:22 – Digitizing state courts to increase access to justice. 30:10 – Drunk Cylon? 30:49 – Legal tech M&A…

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LaunchFactory Has Legal Tech Ideas, Now It Seeks Founders To Run With Them

Have you ever wanted to found a tech company but needed the right idea? A California company called has the ideas and is looking for founders to take them on – including in the legal tech space. The company takes a decidedly unique path to…

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EP 036 – Birds Before Land

Many of the big, meaningful changes we want to experience take time. They unfold over time and in a way that we almost never can quantify or completely influence or accurately predict.  And sometimes when we’re working toward a change that…

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Ep 035 – Caught Up In Other People’s Success Stories

We can learn a lot from the success stories of other people. But if we’re not careful about how we process and relate to those stories, we can start to get caught up in them and use them as a template to measure our own success – instead of studying…

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Ep 006 – Dan Broderick on the Challenges of CLM and a $35 Billion Problem

Dan Broderick, CEO and Co-Founder of BlackBoiler, discusses the nuances of contract lifecycle management, and how automated contract review is helping solve a massive problem for companies, law firms, ALSPs – and CLMs themselves.

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