Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Andrea Miskolczi, the Founder and Director of InterAlia Consulting, a strategy and transformation advisory boutique for legal leaders. We discussed best practices for promoting the adoption of new tools in a legal organization, how lawyers are adopting AI, and whether there is a fear of AI in legal.

In this 27th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed litigation trends, AI applications, self-service training, and ILTACON.

I spoke with Steve Orrin, the Federal Chief Technology Officer for Intel Corporation, where he leads Intel's Federal and Public Sector Solution Architecture, Strategy, and Technology engagements. We discussed how public and private sector organizations are dealing with the rise in cybersecurity attacks, how they can enhance their security controls with Zero Trust, and how those in regulated industries or working with sensitive data should apply AI and machine learning.

I spoke with Nicolas Leroux, the Founder and CEO of Odyssey, a global corporate governance services provider. We discussed how the demand for in-house legal services has changed, the benefits of outsourcing legal entity management, and good governance practices for international subsidiary management.

I spoke with Sean West, a co-founder of Hence Technologies, a strategic legal management platform. We discussed how geopolitical and economic factors influence the need for legal risk management, ways that legal tech empowers risk management, and the connection to legal operations.

I spoke with Chris Egan, president and founder, and James Bickley, managing director of Celeritas Recruiting, a specialized recruiting firm representing leading organizations and professionals at the intersection of law and technology. We discussed the roles and skills in greatest demand today, the challenges associated with talent acquisition in the current market, and how employers and candidates should react to the FTC's ruling on noncompete agreements.

In this 26th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed Lexpo, ILTACON, ConnectLive, LegalTechTalk, and the conference renaissance.

I spoke with Sandra Aldi, the Chief Marketing Officer at Neota Logic, Michael Powers, the Global Director of Product Marketing at iManage, and Thomas Suh, the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer for LegalMation. The three companies are part of a consortium that supported a newly released report called: Legal Operations at a Crossroads - Understanding How Corporate Legal Teams are Driving Innovation and Navigating Digital Transformation in Unique Ways, featuring the perspectives of 30 legal operations leaders from various companies. We discussed the results and what they indicate about how law departments are leveraging AI, automating how they provide legal services, and empowering self-service.

I spoke with Danette Shaifer, the founder and Chief Empowerment Officer at Florishion Consulting and Coaching, LLC. We discussed how leaders in legal align digital transformation with personal growth, creative ways to train leaders to reinvent the workplace, and how coaching in legal is evolving.

I spoke with Aaron Lee, the co-founder and CEO of Smith.ai, a company that provides 24/7 answering services through phone or chat for small to midsize businesses using a combination of AI and human support, including law firms, among others. We discussed why the legal industry has embraced AI, ways to make lawyers more comfortable with AI, balancing AI with human talent, and where the use of AI in legal is headed.