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Ep 138: Contract Wrangler Founder Neil Peretz on Starting, Building and Selling a Legal Tech Company

Last month, in a marriage of two contract management platforms, . For entrepreneur-turned-lawyer-turned-entrepreneur , it was the conclusion of a journey that began five years earlier, when he founded Contract Wrangler with a vision of a contracts…

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Ep 137: PacerPro Founder and CEO Gavin McGrane

was a litigation attorney in San Francisco when he saw an opportunity to improve how legal professionals interface with the federal courts electronic records system, PACER, and to enable them to better tap into the data and knowledge contained within…

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Ep 136: Reregulation of Legal Services: A Panel of Five Leading Experts Discuss

There may be no more critical issue facing the legal profession than reregulation of legal services. Amid an escalating crisis in access to justice, proponents of regulatory reform argue that the only way to meaningfully address the crisis is to…

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Ep 135 – Northwestern Law’s New Dean Hari Osofsky On Leading the School’s Next Chapter of Innovation

On Aug.1, took office as dean of Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, after four years as dean of Penn State Law School and nearly two decades of teaching law. Having herself established a reputation for driving innovation, and coming…

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Ep 134: Zach Posner on The Legaltech Fund, the First VC Firm Dedicated to Legal Tech

cofounded in 2020 as the first venture capital firm laser-focused on law and legal technology. But even with that industry focus, he takes a broad view when it comes to what he considers legal tech, looking for startups that have “legal in the…

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Ep 133: In Defense of the Billable Hour, with Apperio CEO Nicholas d’Adhemar

Does the billable hour get a bum rap? , founder and CEO of the London-based spend management company , believes so. The real culprit for out-of-control legal costs is something else altogether, he believes. By identifying it, d’Adhemar says, both…

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Ep 132: Exclusive: How UpCounsel Avoided Shutdown and Why It Is Launching A Crowdfunding Campaign

Sixteen months after announced it would shut down, it is not only alive and well, but showing double-digit revenue growth, consistent profitability, and accelerating demand for legal services through its lawyer marketplace. Now it is launching a…

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Ep 011: LGBTQ+ in the Law: The Progress We’ve Made and the Path Forward

Today we’re joined by NALP Executive Director James Leipold to learn more about the structural changes needed to promote inclusion in the legal profession. James talks about the progress we’ve made in law schools and law firms, and the structural…

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