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11.20.20: The Leaking Giuliani Edition, Plus Legaltech Marketplaces and Other News

Virtual legal conferences have been a recurring topic on Legaltech Week, as we’ve debated the highs and lows of presenting conferences online. But panelist Niki Black has persisted in pushing the idea of virtual conferences. This week, the virtual…

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BlackBoiler Founder Dan Broderick On Automating Contract Markup

Dan Broderick believes businesses waste billions in repetitive work reviewing and negotiating semantically similar contracts. As a former lawyer, he saw the problem first-hand. It led him to found , whose AI-based technology automates the review and…

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Suffolk Law Dean Andrew Perlman On Innovating Legal Education and Legal Services

is one of the nation’s leading forces helping to establish the future of legal education and legal practice.  As a professor and now dean at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, he has helped drive the creation and development of programs…

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Ep 002: Bob Ambrogi On the Year from Hell

Longtime legal blogger and lawyer Bob Ambrogi shares his insights on gains and losses in the legal profession, the impact of loosening lawyer regulations, and where the industry is headed in 2021.

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John Tredennick On His New Company Merlin and the Magic of Open Source

After Catalyst, the pioneering cloud-based e-discovery company he founded and spent 19 years building, for $75 million, was not ready to sit back and rest on his laurels. Instead, he launched two separate but related undertakings — , a company…

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How COVID-19 in California Prisons Still Affects You

Today, we speak with Professor Hadar Aviram to learn the latest developments in the fight to stem the outbreak of COVID-19 in California prisons, which have become hotspots for community transmission. She advocates for substantially reducing prison…

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Stevie Ghiassi on Legaler, Legaler Aid and the Global Legal Tech Report

To say that is a busy man is an understatement. In addition to founding , a secure video meeting platform for lawyers, the Australia-born entrepreneur is the founder of the recently launched , a charity to support social justice legal cases…

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EP 027 – Intention Inspires Discipline

Sometimes when we’re feeling a lack of motivation or focus, we tend to immediately think that it’s due to a lack of discipline – that we’re not doing a good enough job of buckling down and just staying focused.  But we feel undisciplined…

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Rebuilding Trust in the FDA and the CDC

Today, we speak with Professor Dorit Reiss about waning public confidence in the FDA and the CDC—agencies crucial to managing the pandemic. Increasingly, Professor Reiss focuses her research on legal and policy issues related to vaccines, school…

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Lauren Sudeall on Legal Deserts and Other Obstacles to Access to Justice

A from the American Bar Association portrayed the nation’s legal deserts – large swaths of the country in which there are few or no lawyers. That report followed from a published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review that documented these legal…

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