LexBlab

13: Deepfakes & Politics

Deepfakes allow a person in an existing image or video to be replaced with someone else’s likeness. As the technology to create these synthetic media becomes more accessible, how much of a danger is it to our political process? Shane Glynn, who teaches the regulation of emerging technologies at UC Hastings, joins Drew Amerson to…

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12: Episode 12 – Legal Ops Chronicle: Hewlett-Packard & LawGeex

As legal operations becomes increasingly prominent in businesses, how are corporate legal departments and vendors adapting? Suzanne Miller of Hewlett-Packard and Amy Manning of LawGeex discuss this question and offer advice from their experiences.

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Episode 11 – How to Pitch a Legal Tech Startup

It’s the start of a new semester here LexLab, which brings with it a fresh cohort of legal tech startups. To welcome our five new companies, we hosted Maya Markovich, Chief Growth Officer at Dentons Next Law Labs, to help our cohort build the perfect pitch. To learn more about LexLab and our Lunch and…

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Episode 10 – California’s New Privacy Law: Introducing the CCPA

In January 2020, California introduced its new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA. The new law is intended to increase consumer privacy rights and protection. Shortly before the law went into effect, LexLab hosted a panel of consumer privacy experts to discuss the history of California privacy laws, and the expected impact…

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Episode 9 – How I Built This with Logikcull CEO, Andy Wilson

Launched in 2004, and revamped for the cloud in 2013, the e-discovery platform Logikcull has been at the forefront of legal innovation for years, earning major investments, as well as accolades for its use in high profile cases such as the Sierra Club’s investigation into Scott Pruitt. During this week’s Lunch and Learn, we invited…

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Episode 8 – New Legal Models

Not all law firms are created equal. In fact, some of them are drastically different from one another. As technology becomes even more pervasive in the legal industry, learn how the industry is changing and reacting. This week’s Lunch and Learn features four industry professionals who are pushing the boundaries of our current legal models….

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Episode 7 – How They Built this (four panelists)

This week’s panel discussion features four successful entrepreneurs in the legal field, who have joined us this week at LexLab to share their journeys, and to talk about how they navigated the legal tech market and created some of the leading legal technology companies on the market. This week’s panelists are:AJ Shankar, Founder & CEO…

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Episode 6 – Dan Rodriguez on New Technologies for the Law

In this week’s episode, Dan Rodriguez, chair of the ABA Center on Innovation’s governing council, presents to the LexLab community before opening up for questions. Before accepting this position, Dan served as Dean of Northwestern’s Pritzker School of law, where he also acted as Harold Washington Professor. Dan joins us today to reflect on his…

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Episode 5 – Sierra Club vs. Scott Pruitt

This week on LexBlab, our panelists tell the story of how the Sierra Club used the e-discovery platform Logikcull to take down Scott Pruitt of the EPA. On July 5, 2018, Scott Pruitt stepped down from his position as the Head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Behind his recognition was a mountain of scrutiny surrounding…

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Episode 4 – So you Want to be a General Counsel?

This week on LexBlab, we share a recent panel discussion and Q & A taken from a LexBlab lunch and learn session. In it, we invited four Hastings alumni to come shed light on what it’s like to be in-house counsel with current students of UC Hastings and members of the community.  In this week’s…

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