The Legal Dispatch

Scott Kelly, Product lead for AI and Automation at NetDocuments and co-founder of Afterpattern, shares his journey from civil rights attorney to legal tech, discussing the challenges of integrating AI into established products. Topics include transitioning to legal tech, advancements in AI and automation, storytelling in company building, and finding success through work-life balance.

In this episode, Tyson Ballard speaks to Elizabeth De Stadler, the Founding Director of Novcon, Director of Rehabilitated Lawyer, and Hey Plain Jane, for an insightful discussion on plain language, contracts, and adding humour to law. They dive deep into the importance of plain language in legal documentation, its diverse applications, and it’s fascinating intersection with privacy law and behavioural science while gaining valuable insights into overcoming challenges, embracing failures, and fostering continuous learning in entrepreneurship.Novcon is a consultancy specialising in translating complex documents into understandable language.Rehabilitated Lawyer is a platform or initiative aimed at supporting lawyers in overcoming challenges and fostering personal growth within the legal profession.Hey Plain Jane is a project or organization focused on promoting plain language and making legal documents more understandable and accessible.

In this episode, Tyson Ballard speaks to Andy Wishart, the Chief Product Officer at Agiloft. Andy shares his career journey, insights into legal tech, and entrepreneurship. He introduces himself as the head of product management at Agiloft and shares his extensive experience in the legal tech industry, including roles at Thomson Reuters and as the co-founder of Contract Express.Agiloft is a leading provider of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software, offering robust solutions for contract management, workflow automation, and compliance.

In this episode, Tyson Ballard speaks to Sam Kidd, CEO and co-founder of LawVu. Sam provides valuable insights into the challenges of building and scaling a company, the importance of maintaining a balance between work and personal life and his journey in the legal tech industry.LawVu is a legal tech company that specialises in providing software solutions for in-house legal teams and their external legal service providers. The company offers a cloud-based platform designed to streamline legal operations, enhance collaboration, and improve the efficiency of legal departments.

Electra Japonas, Founder & CEO of The Law Boutique and Co-founder of oneNDA, discusses her journey as an entrepreneur, lawyer, and mother. Topics include optimizing legal processes, revolutionizing NDAs with oneNDA, Beyonce's performance brilliance, motherhood challenges, and navigating burnout for business growth.

In this episode Tyson speaks to Marie Potel-Saville known as “a legal design superhero”, Founder & CEO of Amurabi, a legal innovation and design agency.Amurabi have a multidisciplinary approach to legal design, using various areas of design; service design, strategy, graphic design, UX design in their methodology to bridge the gap between the law and its users.

In this Episode Tyson talk to Denis Potemkin - CEO and founder of Majoto - a contract design and automation startup.

In this Episode Tyson talks to Denis Potemkin, CEO and founder of Majoto a legal tech tooling company for legal professionals.

In this episode Tyson speaks  Michael Grupp, CEO of BRYTER,  the leading no-code platform to automate expert knowledge. BRYTER is especially geared towards experts in law, finance, tax and compliance working with complex, conditional and scenario-based content who want to automate recurring and standardizable decision-making processes. They discuss what a day in the life of Michael looks like, what was the tipping point to leave the lawyering life and diving deep into the start-up world. The conversation covers BRYTER's true north and vision, the biggest challenges in Michael's role as well as his 'favourite' mistakes as an entrepreneur. Detours include the challeenges of working remotely, Michael's hypothetical Ted Talk subject and the importance of detours and failures along the way. 

In this episode Tyson speaks to Noah Waisberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Zuva, an AI company that helps people pull data out of contracts using their API which comes with 1,200 fields straight out of the box and can plug in to various existing applications.They discuss Noah's 'fairytale' journey from New York corporate lawyer to two-time start-up entrepreneur, his experiences as a Canadian CEO living in Paris, and how and where he does his best thinking.Digressions include Noah's ability to come up with intriguing business names, how kid-learning compares to machine-learning and his surprising penchant for organic, unflavoured, protein powder.