Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Matthew Veale, a European Patent Attorney with Patsnap, an AI-enabled patent analytics platform. We discussed how Patsnap supports legal professionals, how legal professionals can responsibly innovate by leveraging AI, and how intellectual property protection is evolving.

I spoke with Milan Bobde, the co-founder and CEO of Oddr, an AI-powered invoice-to-cash platform for law firms. We discussed how law firms manage their billing and collections, ways to leverage artificial intelligence to facilitate payments, and how law firm finance is evolving.

I spoke with Rob Millard, the Director of Cambridge Strategy Group, who advises law firms and similar businesses. We discussed his research focused on the drivers of success across 73 large US and UK law firm mergers that took place between 2002 and 2017, how to measure the success of law firm mergers, and lessons for growth-oriented law firm leaders.

I spoke with DeAngelo Smith, the CEO of Driven, a payment solutions provider that offers installment loans and digital payment plans. We discussed Driven’s mission, its transformation from Ticket Avengers, why it started in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and how digital payments are evolving.

Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, discusses the challenges and opportunities in the legal industry regarding technology adoption, client demands, and collaboration. The podcast delves into mid-sized law firms' struggles with implementing Gen AI, meeting client expectations, and optimizing technology use through collaboration and early adopters. It also touches on the evolving human-machine dynamics in the workplace and office transitions in law firms.

I spoke with Carl Roberts, founder of SplitSmart.com, an online divorce organization tool. We discussed the threshold for using technology to support legal matters and how the tech-enabled dispute resolution sector is evolving.

In this 19th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed common global challenges in legal services and using International Women's Day to drive change.

I spoke with Jamie Berry, the President of Evolver Legal Services, an e-discovery and litigation support services company. We discussed how client service has changed with the emergence of generative AI, the most common challenges legal teams face in litigation, and the evolution of the practice of law.

Al Hounsell, the Innovation Director at Norton Rose Fulbright, discusses the decision to build or buy AI applications in the legal sector, adoption rates of AI in law firms, challenges of AI adoption, potential of AI in reshaping the legal industry, excitement around generative AI tools in legal tech, strategies for integrating AI into legal workflows, and key trends shaping the legal industry with AI applications.

I spoke with James Sherer, a partner at BakerHostetler, who serves as the co-leader of the Emerging Technology team of the firm's Digital Assets and Data Management Group, and Ross Guberman, the Founder and CEO of LawCatch, the developer of BriefCatch, a software platform designed to elevate legal writing, which has recently introduced new generative AI features for lawyers and legal professionals. We discussed how client expectations of communication with their lawyers have changed, the key to drafting effective AI guidelines, and how law firms are taking advantage of AI-empowered tools.