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Ep 141: Digitory Legal Founder Catherine Krow on Using Billing Data to Drive Diversity

This week, the College of Law Practice Management named winner of its for a with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to drive diversity, equity and inclusion among its outside counsel by applying analytics to billing data to get a deeper understanding of…

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Ep 140: Nicole Bradick and Andy Wishart on Why UI and UX Matter in Legal Tech

You would be hard-pressed to find two people in legal technology more experienced in user interface and user experience design than and . Bradick is founder and CEO of the legal tech design and development firm . Wishart is chief product officer at…

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Ep 139: Fred Rooney, the Father of Legal Incubators, On Helping Young Lawyers Do Well to Do Good

The dubbed the father of legal incubators. He developed the first incubator in 2007 at City University of New York Law School, spawning the launch of some in the years since, many with Fred’s guidance or based on his model. While most are in the…

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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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