The Legal Ops Podcast

The Global Institute is the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's flagship conference, which is held annually in Las Vegas, USA. The event was most recently held in May 2022 and attracted around 2,500 attendees from the legal operations ecosystem globally. In this episode we transport you to the conference via the many recordings we made at the event. We interviewed speakers, fellow attendees, legal tech vendors and others. We also recorded our thoughts and reflections on many of the sessions, immediately after we came out of them. If you couldn't attend the conference and you'd like to know what it's like, or you did attend and you want to relive it, this is the episode for you. Our thanks to HBR Consulting for sponsoring this episode and for making it possible. Find out more about HBR here: https://www.hbrconsulting.com/

Alex and Elliot chat about: * The (literal) road to the 2022 CLOC Global Institute * Legal tech capital raisings by LinkSquares, Filevine and Athennian * ServiceNow expanding further into the legal market This episode would not be possible without the support of HBR Consulting. If you're attending CGI2022, make sure to visit their booth. You can find more information about them here: https://www.hbrconsulting.com/ LINKS LinkSquares: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/04/linksquares-benefits-from-the-legal-tech-boom-with-a-fresh-100m/ Filevine: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/filevine-raises-108m-series-d-for-legal-work-platform-serving-law-firms-and-corporate-counsel-teams-301525006.html Athennian: https://legaltechnology.com/2022/03/31/athennian-raises-33-million-in-series-b-funding/ ServiceNow: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2022/03/23/servicenow-pushes-deeper-into-legal-with-new-expansion/

Want the best productivity tips from your peers in the legal industry? This is the episode for you! Recently we asked our followers on LinkedIn to post their best productivity tips. This comprises the philosophies, tools and other awesome stuff that they just can't live without. And we got a great response! In this episode Alex and Elliot go through all the tips, adding their analysis and views. They also discuss the core elements of productivity, how to approach each element and what works (and doesn't) for them. LINKS Original LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6914726124598046720 The 4 Ds: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryancollinseurope/2018/06/14/effective-time-management/?sh=4d5ba51d1938

In this Talking Tech episode Alex and Elliot interview Catherine Moynihan, Senior Director, Strategic Intelligence and Advisory at Hyperion Global Partners. Hyperion provides legal operations consultancy services to legal teams across the world. In addition, their core business historically was the development of in-depth and high-quality research reports on all aspects of the legal tech market. In this episode we focus on those research reports, covering: * What it is about the legal tech market that makes the reports valuable. * What the reports cover, in what detail and how frequently they are updated. * How Hyperion's customers use the reports both to understand the technology marketplace and to formulate and clarify their own requirements. * How Hyperion's reports differ from others in the market. * What trends Hyperion has seen in legal tech and what developments are expected in the future. LINKS Check out Hyperion Global Partners: https://www.hyperiongp.com/ Catherine Moynihan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinejmoynihan/

Alex and Elliot chat about: * How Alex uses the iOS focus mode to control notifications * A bunch of legal tech capital raisings... * Time by Ping and Zero Systems: automated time-based billing * Common Paper: contracts as APIs * Ex Parte: predicting litigation outcomes * Thirdfort: AML / KYC compliance for law firms LINKS Time by Ping: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2022/03/01/time-by-pings-ryan-alshak-on-the-36-5m-series-b-funding/ Zero Systems: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2022/03/01/and-now-zero-bags-12m-in-funding/ Common Paper: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2022/03/01/common-paper-the-contracts-as-apis-startup-bags-4-5m-seed-funding/ Ex Parte: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2022/03/01/moneyball-for-law-prediction-startup-ex-parte-bags-7-5m/ Thirdfort: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2022/03/08/thirdfort-bags-19-7m-to-help-lawyers-beat-money-laundering/

In celebration of International Women's Day 2022 we spoke with Jodie Baker about the representation of women in the legal tech industry. Jodie is one of the founders of WALTA, the Women of Australian Legal Technology Association, as well as being a lawyer and a highly successful legal tech entrepreneur. We covered many aspects of this important topic, including: * How the representation of women in legal tech compares to that of men * How the rate of funding for female-led legal tech start ups significantly lags that of male-led legal tech start ups * Why it is important to strive for equality in this space * Some causes of the existing inequality, and what can potentially be done to address it * Examples of exciting female-led legal tech businesses * Where we can aim to be in the medium to long-term future LINKS Jodie Baker on LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/jodiebakerxakia WALTA website: https://alta.law/women-of-australian-legal-technology-association/

Alex and Elliot chat about: * Checkbox's recent US$4.5m capital raise * LawNext's new legal tech directory * Google's AI-based contract review service, Contract DocAI * Whether or not lawyers should have an ethical obligation to be efficient (spoiler: probably not) LINKS Checkbox capital raise: https://www.businessnewsaustralia.com/articles/checkbox-raises-6-3-m-to-take-automated-app-builder-global.html LawNext's legal tech directory: https://directory.lawnext.com/directory-companies/categories/contract-lifecycle-management/ Contract DocAI: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2021/11/18/google-tells-artificial-lawyer-about-its-contract-docai-strategy/ Efficiency as an ethical obligation: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2022/02/14/what-if-lawyers-had-an-ethical-obligation-to-be-efficient/

We’re back! It’s a new year and that means almost every legal tech publication has its own predictions for 2022 and beyond. To save you reading them, and to add some spice, Alex and Elliot discuss the eight predictions they find to be the most interesting, compelling and, in some cases… the most wrong. They cover: * AI and Machine Learning * Platformization * Blockchain * Spend on technology vs people * Increased use of cloud services * Investment in legal tech * Security and risk * Hybrid working LINKS Legal Insider predictions: https://bit.ly/3sl5uZsPredictions for contracts and CLM: https://bit.ly/3owkDWBPredictions for the business of law and ALSPs: https://bit.ly/3B3LKgSPredictions for Legal Technology Innovation: https://bit.ly/34nqoizPredictions for Remote Work and COVID-19: https://bit.ly/3B4EK3t

And… that’s a wrap for 2021! Alex and Elliot are joined by a very special guest to reflect on the year and cast their minds forward to 2022. They discuss the podcast’s incredible growth, their favourite episodes and what they’ve learned from the awesome guests who have appeared on the show this year. They also offer their predictions on what will happen in legal ops in 2022, including the changes they expect to see in the legal tech market and likely developments in the legal services space. Finally, they discuss what we can expect from the podcast next year. The podcast will be taking a break over the Christmas and New Year period. We’ll be back with more great legal ops content in early 2022.

Alex and Elliot chat about: * A new legal tech directory and why there are so many in the market * A shareholder class action against Nuix, capping off a really bad year for the company * Legal tech capital raisings by Ontra and others * DocuSign’s new investment fund LINKS New legal tech directory: https://legaloperators.com/tech-directory/