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With $40M Series B, LinkSquares CEO Sets Sights On The Impossible In Contracts Tech

With his contract-management company having just raised $40 million in Series B funding, Linksquares cofounder and CEO Vishal Sunak is aiming for some big goals, including “to build legal tech solutions that simply weren’t possible before.” In…

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LTW 2021.07.16 – Are we Really Going Back to the Office, and More

The week’s top stories in legal technology, selected by the industry’s leading journalists. 00:00 – Panelist Introductions 04:37 – Are we Really Going Back to the Office? 21:50 – For Now, The Legaltech Market is Still More Boom Than Bubble (Selected…

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LTW 2021.07.09 – Mergers and Acquisitions

Legal Ops Pioneer Mary Shen O’Carroll On Moving From Google To Ironclad

Mary Shen O’Carroll pioneered the field of legal operations during her 13 years as director of operations, technology and strategy at Google. She was also instrumental in forming the influential organization CLOC – the Corporate Legal Operations…

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The Legal Fellows Tackling Systemic Racism in Law

The past year has laid bare, in shockingly explicit detail, the racial inequities of the justice system. Now, and the Historically Black Colleges and University Law School Consortium have partnered to launch a fellowship initiative for 12 law…

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Defining the ‘Future Ready’ Lawyer, with Wolters Kluwer VPs Martin O’Malley and Dean Sonderegger

As the legal profession continues to transform and evolve, how can a law firm or legal department be “future ready”? What are the characteristics that define future-ready organizations and foretell their continued success?  Just out from…

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Ep 127: How An Idea Borrowed from Football Is Driving Law Firm Diversity

New findings show that law firms that piloted the Mansfield Rule have grown the racial and ethnic diversity of their leadership by more than 30 times the rate of other firms. These firms have also exceeded the norm in the rates at which racially…

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How An Idea Borrowed from Football Is Driving Law Firm Diversity

New findings show that law firms that piloted the Mansfield Rule have grown the racial and ethnic diversity of their leadership by more than 30 times the rate of other firms. These firms have also exceeded the norm in the rates at which racially…

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LTW 2021.06.11 – IPOs in Legaltech: The Failed and the Forthcoming

Founder Joshua Maley on the Theory of Theorem, A Different Kind of Legal Tech Marketplace

The past year has seen the launch of several legal technology marketplaces, but Theorem LTS aims to be something more — an integrated legal technology ecosystem to power workflow-driven tech adoption by law firms and legal departments, as well as a…

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