LegalTechLIVE

We wrap up this season with a long-time friend of the show, Allen Rodriguez. is a legal product development strategist who has been serving the legal industry for over 20 years. Over the course of his career, Allen has built a reputation for creating innovative #legalservices products as well as developing highly effective law firm business and marketing strategies. Allen is a valued speaker on the topics of law marketing, legal services product development, and future of law issues. He has provided consulting and marketing services for companies such as McKinsey & Co., Coleman Research Group, LexisNexis, and Littler. Before starting The Singular Law Group under the Arizona alternative business structure for #lawfirms, Allen founded law innovation agency ONE400 and was the Director of Attorney Services at LegalZoom. While there, his work contributed to a substantial portion of overall revenue at the company and helped LegalZoom move from a provider of “do-it-yourself” legal services to a comprehensive legal solutions provider, incorporating attorney-fulfilled work across all U.S. jurisdictions. Additionally, this was a special evening event on #VeteransDay and Allen is a United States Army veteran. We were honored to have him join to tell us about the Singular Law Group on such a special day. For those considering building a law firm in Arizona, that allows for non-lawyer ownership, you're going to want to catch this replay. Allen doesn't only give us the vision of Singular Law Group, he also lays out the exact steps he went through to apply to the Arizona bar and the efforts it took to be approved to offer legal services under the ABS model. Thanks for spending time with us this season... we'll be back in the future! More about Allen Rodriguez & Singular Law Group: Allen Rodriguez on Twitter: https://twitter.com/allen_rodriguez. Allen Rodriguez on LinkeIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenrodr... The Singular Law Group: https://singular.law/. ONE400: https://one400.com/.

In a change of pace for our show, we do not cover a legaltech startup in this episode. Instead, we take a look at The Effectiveness Project, which is a legal technology collaboration through the Legal Technology Core Competencies Certification Coalition and a variety of legal technology vendors. The Effectiveness Project is an international working group of legal professionals, with support from LTC4, collaborating to establish best practices and baseline skills for creating effective legal documents. They are focusing, at present, on what is called Document Competency. The first release from The Effectiveness Project, is the Document Competency Best Practices Guide. This guide is free and can be downloaded right now. See the link below. The Best Practices Guide was created with the understanding that the legal document-creation process is highly individualized. As such, The Effectiveness Project sought to provide guidance that is specific, yet flexible. To meet that goal, the Best Practices Guide is divided into drafting stages so it can be used as a modular part of a workflow. Two participants in the collaboration are friends, and former guests, of LegalTechLIVE. They joined us to describe the goals and mission of The Effectiveness Project. Ivy Grey is the Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Wordrake. Ivy has been the driving force behind the effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of document creation through The Effectiveness Project. Chris Cangero is the Chief Executive Officer of DocStyle, LLC and another of the leading voices behind push for better document creation via The Effectiveness Project. Take a listen and download the Best Practices Guide. Connect with our guests and get involved!

FairClaims is an easy alternative to court. With nearly a decade of experience as a leading online dispute resolution provider, we've resolved thousands of disputes online. We believe everyone deserves a chance to be heard and are here to help. Here is how it works: 1) Tell us about your dispute. We will invite the other side to resolve it and assign a qualified and friendly Arbitrator. 2) You will upload evidence and have a live phone or video hearing where the Arbitrator will hear both sides of the story. 3) Your Arbitrator will issue a decision within 8 days of your hearing. This decision is legally binding and enforceable. Stephen Kane is a former practicing lawyer who has been working on this #accesstojustice solution since before 2016. As an attorney, he saw how unfair the legal system can be for both individuals and businesses. As a result, he built a platform where parties can be heard, regardless of who they are. Learn more about this online dispute resolution ( #ODR ) platform for binding arbitrations. In the discussion, we cover a variety of issues, from fundraising, to founding, and beyond. Sit down and watch and enjoy another discussion with a #legaltech founder. More about Stephen Kane & FairClaims: Stephen Kane on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephenlkane. Stephen Kane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenlkane. FairClaims on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fair_Claims. FairClaims website: https://www.fairclaims.com/.     SHOW LESS

With award-winning technology, eCourtReporters gives attorneys and schedulers direct access to experienced, certified court reporters and legal videographers all across the country. Karen Renee owns Milwaukee Court Reporters and actively provides court reporting services. Graduated 2008 cum laude from Alfred State College, New York, associates degree. She was awarded Innovator of the Year from the State Bar of Wisconsin, Innovation Use of Technology from the National Court Reporters Association, and Bright New Idea award from the Governor's Business Plan Contest. Karen is a lifelong entrepreneur to say the least. In this episode, she tells a story about her introduction to the Uber app which inspired her idea to do the same thing with court reporting, as it has inspired a wide number of other technology innovations. There is a need for "gig" work and coordination. That's what eCourtReporters is offering to court reporters, legal videographers, and attorneys. A simple and effective way to coordinate freelance work. It is also helping court reporters, who are certified in more than one state, to accept work from all of the jurisdictions in which they're certified. More about Karen Renee and eCourtReporters: Karen Renee on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-ren.... Karen Renee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eCourtReporter. eCourtReporters on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eCourtReporters. eCourtReporters website: https://www.ecourtreporters.com/.     SHOW LESS

Whether you need occasional help from a freelance lawyer or a long term subscription associate, thousands of law firms rely on us to bill more hours and reduce overhead. LawClerk is where attorneys go to find virtual associates and freelance attorneys. For episode 127, and in continuation of our #femalefounder series, we are joined by Talitha Gray Kozlowski and Kristin Tyler, co-founders of LawClerk. Talitha and Kristin were associates and a large regional firm before they made the move to a boutique law firm in Las Vegas. Near the time they made the change from "BigLaw" to the boutique firm, they also started the development of their #legaltech startup. Solution born from the problem they were facing now that they didn't have the massive number of associates and staff with which to turn to when things got busy, they began developing their own solution. A solution, meant to provide attorneys with greater control over their careers and help small and medium law firms find the expertise they required. Learn more about their journey and #startup life from two practicing attorneys and company founders! More about Talitha, Kristin and LawClerk: Talitha Gray Kozlowski on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/talitha-g.... Talitha Gray Kozlowski on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TalithaBGray Kristin Tyler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-t.... Kristin Tyler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KristinTyler. LawClerk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lawclerklegal. LawClerk website: https://www.lawclerk.legal/

Our guest, Sophie Walker, is an experienced human rights practitioner, having previously spent five years as a US Attorney representing death row prisoners, and three years as a solicitor, before being called to the Bar in 2016. She completed a two-year legal fellowship at the not-for-profit Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, representing death row prisoners in both state and federal courts. She also challenged the incarceration of terminally ill prisoners and was part of the team that successfully challenged sentencing of children to whole-life sentences at the US Supreme Court, Graham v Florida, 560 U.S.48. As you can see, Sophie has quite the history in #accesstojustice. In Just Transcription, she's bringing her expertise to improving access to legal transcripts and reducing the cost and nightmare involved in obtaining transcripts for #lawyers and their clients. Check out this interview with a passionate founder intent on improving access to legal records necessary for appeals and more. #legaltech More about Sophie Walker & Just-Transcription: Sophie Walker on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-wa.... Just Transcription on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeechToJustice. Just Transcription website: https://www.just-access.org/just-tran.... Just Access website: https://www.just-access.org/.     SHOW LESS

Coming hot off of a $3.5M fundraising round, Jacqueline Schafer joined LegalTechLIVE to share her experience as a practicing lawyer turned #legaltech founder. Here's a little background on the impressive pedigree of Jacqueline Schafer: Jacqueline began her career as a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison, and spent much of career as an Assistant Attorney General in the Washington and Alaska Attorney General’s Offices, where she specialized in appellate practice and complex litigation. Before joining the startup world and founding Clearbrief, Jacqueline also served as Senior Director, Program Counsel for the national child welfare nonprofit Casey Family Programs, negotiating agreements with courts across the country and managing litigation and amicus efforts in impact litigation. Jacqueline was recognized by VentureBeat as one of four semi-finalists for the 2020 Women in AI Rising Star award for founding ClearBrief, as well as for her Dec 2020 law review article describing how AI and natural language processing (NLP) will transform courts and government social services. We won't tell you the story that changed how Jacqueline started to think about clarity and facts that led to the creation of Clearbrief... you'll want to catch that story in in the episode. Clearbrief allows you to know the record inside and out. The only tool that instantly finds and links to the best record documents (facts and evidence) to support each sentence in the brief, while you write! All while using #NLP. More about Jacqueline Schafer & Clearbrief: Jacqueline Schafer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiesch.... Jacqueline Schafer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackiegschafer. Clearbrief on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Clearbriefai. Clearbrief website: https://clearbrief.com/. #startups

We cannot pretend to be objective about this interview. Erin Levine has been a friend of the show for several years. She's previously been a co-host and has been a huge supporter for other women founders who have been on the show. In the episode Erin takes us from inception of Hello Divorce to her decision to fundraise (coming off a recent $2M raise). Her company has faced many difficulties including a patchwork of jurisdictional and local rules, the difficulties of reframing the idea of divorce and the approaches to wellness they've employed in a more holistic approach to the termination of the marital contract. Further, we dive into finding the right investors and moving from an small "all hands on deck" #legaltech #startup into a more refined operationalized and systematized company. A necessary change for a growing #justicetech company. We do not want to ruin this candid conversation by over-describing the interaction. Get to know Erin and Hello Divorce. They're leading the way on direct-to-consumer legal assistance. More about Erin Levine & Hello Divorce: Erin Levine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hello_divorce. Hello Divorce on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hellodivorce. Hello Divorce on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellodivorce. Hello Divorce website: https://hellodivorce.com/.     SHOW LESS

If you've been following the news at all in the last 5 years, you're going to be inspired by this #startup. Felicitas Ukert is the Founder & CEO. Iraida Herrera is the Founder and VP. They met at Cornell Law School in 2019 when they were both pursuing their LLM's. It was during that time in law school that Get The Docs was born. They were aware of the crisis at the US border for those migrating from Central America. As they researched the issue of #immigration, they discovered many people already in the US often need to obtain documentation from their country of origin. They set out to make it easier to obtain documents from countries of origin. In order to do so, they needed to have contact with lawyers on the ground in those countries. That's what they did. Expecting they would have huge demand from immigrants moving to the United States, they were surprised to learn that was only about 50% of their inquiries. In fact, they also had significant inquiries from those in the US who were moving outside the country. Also, they have those in countries outside the US who need to obtain documents from an entirely separate nation state. Having such a broad total addressable market is both a blessing and curse. As it is difficult to describe to potential market to investors. You cannot tell investors the entire world is your market. So, they describe some of their experience in refining the product, the software, and their pitch. Felicitas and Iraida are most definitely addressing an issue where #legaltech can improve efficiency and help customers to rest at ease as the tracking of documents is outsourced to Get The Docs. Learn more about Felicitas, Iraida, and Gethedocs.com: Felicitas Ukert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felicitas.... Iraida Herrera on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iraiherrera/ Iraida Herrera on Twitter: https://twitter.com/iraiherrera Gethedocs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gethedocs. Gethedocs website: https://www.gethedocs.com     SHOW LESS

Haley Altman has had a notable legal and #legaltech career. She's steadily moved forward from legal associate, to partner, to legaltech co-founder and CEO, and now sits as the Global Head of Corporate Development for the company that acquired her legal technology startup. In this episode, Haley shares her outstanding journey from legal practice into technology and entrepreneurship. Her experience should be shared with as many #startup founders as possible. Two takeaways that stood out in the conversation. Haley described what her startup offered, with precision. Make sure to listen to that aspect of her interview and refine the description of your startup. The second great takeaway was how her previous company found a sweet spot on the pain point lawyers were having in managing transactions. Lawyers knew it was a problem that required a solution. The added benefit, was many investors had been on the other side of closing transactions and therefore understood the problem her company was solving. As such, it put Doxly in a good place for selling the software as well as finding funding. Lastly, we touched on the recent acquisition of Kira Systems by Litera. There appears to be a focus on Litera becoming the one-stop shopping experience for legal transactions via #LiteraTransact. More about Haley Altman & Litera: Haley Altman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haley-alt.... Haley Altman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Haley_Altman. Litera Microsystems website: https://www.litera.com/.