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Ep 161: Carl Malamud on His Three-Plus Decades of Working to Free the Law

No one has worked harder, worked longer or had more success at the cause of making government information accessible to the public than and his organization . From putting the SEC’s EDGAR database online in 1993 – effectively shaming the SEC into…

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Ep 160: Filevine CEO Ryan Anderson on His Company’s $108M Raise and the Future of Practice Management

Last week, , the Utah-based case management company, in a Series D funding round. Founded in 2014 with an original focus on litigation and personal injury law, the company has been steadily expanding its platform into other areas of law practice —…

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Ep 159: Pro Bono Net Cofounder Mark O’Brien on Technology As A ‘Force Multiplier’ For Meeting Legal Needs

For 23 years, has been working to harness the potential of technology to connect pro bono attorneys to those most in need of their services and to provide legal tools to help individuals advocate for themselves. In 2021 alone, the non-profit helped…

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Ep 158: Jonathan Pyle on Why He Developed Docassemble and Made It Open Source

In his day job, Jonathan Pyle is the contract performance officer at Philadelphia Legal Assistance, where he is responsible for compliance, reporting, and implementing new uses of technology to analyze, streamline, and expand service delivery. But in…

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Ep 157: How to Start Your Own Law Firm and Have the Practice You Always Wanted, with Carolyn Elefant

She has been called the patron saint of solo and small law firms. For two decades, Carolyn Elefant has helped solo and small firm lawyers start and build their law practices. You know her as the creator of , the longest-running blog on solo and small…

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Ep 156: How Legal Departments Can Use Data to Drive Smarter Decision-Making, with Jeffrey Solomon of Wolters Kluwer

As head of managed services and analytics at , oversees a database that tracks over $150 billion in legal spend data. Legal departments are able to use this data in multiple ways, including to benchmark outside firms’ billing rates and to evaluate…

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Ep 155: As Time By Ping Raises $36.5M, Exclusive Interview with CEO Ryan Alshak

As , a company devoted to helping lawyers break free from timekeeping, announces its Series B raise of $36.5 million, cofounder and CEO joins LawNext for an exclusive interview about the financing, the company, and its mission to help lawyers break…

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Ep 154: Former Tesla Lawyer Laura Frederick on How to Teach Contracting Skills for the Real World

Is there a better way to train lawyers to draft and negotiate contracts? Laura Frederick thinks so. This former Tesla and BigLaw commercial contracts attorney is the founder of , a learning platform that trains lawyers and professionals how to draft…

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Ep 153: From Radical to Trailblazer: How Innovative GC Jeffrey Carr Disrupted the Legal Department, Part 2

In this second of a two-part interview, we continue our conversation with , a trailblazing general counsel who describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Many of his ideas for revamping legal…

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Ep 152: From Radical to Trailblazer: How Innovative GC Jeffrey Carr Disrupted the Legal Department, Part 1

One of the most innovative general counsel ever, describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Yet many of his ideas for revamping legal departments, once viewed as radical, have now become…

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