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Episode 27: Founder Eric Elfman On Onit’s $200M Investment

We thought 2018 was a banner year for investment in legal technology companies. But then, less than two weeks into 2019, the year got off to a roaring start of a $200 million strategic investment in , a Houston company that provides enterprise…

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Episode 26: Mark Cohen’s Strategies for the Global Legal Marketplace

Mark A. Cohen has long been ahead of the curve. After 25 years as an accomplished trial lawyer, he founded one of the first legal process outsourcing companies and then cofounded Clearspire, the groundbreaking two-company law firm and service provider…

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Episode 25: Using AI to Enhance Virtual Receptionists, with Smith.ai

What do you get if you combine a virtual receptionist service with artificial intelligence? Spoiler alert: The answer is not robots answering the phone. Rather, the folks at say the combination results in a superior receptionist service for both live…

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Episode 24: Making Legal Research Better, with Judicata Founder Itai Gurari

With , believes he has built a better legal research platform. A lawyer and computer scientist, his approach to designing a legal research engine was to first “map the legal genome” — that is, map the law with extreme accuracy and granularity….

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Episode 23: Dan Rodriguez on Innovating Law and Legal Education

Our guest this week on LawNext is , who recently stepped down as dean of , where he gained wide recognition for his work to innovate legal education, and recently stepped up to become chair of the governing council of the , which focuses on improving…

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Episode 22: Elevate’s Acquisition of LexPredict, with Pratik Patel and Dan Katz

In major legal industry news, global law company announced its acquisition of the legal AI technology and consulting firm . The move combines the comprehensive legal services offering of Elevate with the data science team and AI engine of LexPredict….

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Episode 21: Blockchain, Smart Contracts and the Future of Law, with Casey Kuhlman of Monax

Is the traditional form of contracting broken? Are static legal agreements irrelevant in a fast-moving global economy? , CEO of the blockchain and smart contracts company Monax, believes we’re on the brink of a paradigm shift in how we form and…

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Bonus Episode: Podcasting Savvy: A Panel on Law Firm Podcasting

In this special bonus episode of LawNext, we bring you a panel discussion on savvy podcasting for lawyers. Recently, at the 2018 Northeast Regional Conference of the Legal Marketing Association, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi joined a panel of legal…

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Episode 20: Live from Moscow: Two Interviews on the State of Legal Tech in Russia

In this episode of LawNext, we take you live to Russia, where we interview two of the leading experts on Russian legal technology to get their insights and perspectives on the state of innovation and development there. What they say may surprise you….

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Episode 19: NetDocuments CTO Alvin Tedjamulia on Helping Lawyers Learn to Love the Cloud

When Alvin Tedjamulia cofounded NetDocuments in 1998 as the first cloud-based platform for document and email management, few lawyers had any concept of what it meant to work in the cloud. Today, NetDocuments has grown to become one of the leading DMS…

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