Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Joseph Escobio, the Chief Information Officer for Klinedinst, a West Coast-based law firm, where he oversees all IT, e-discovery, and data services for the firm’s five offices. We discussed his role at Klinedinst, the IT challenges that law firms and legal professionals likely to face in 2019, how they differ from what they’ve seen in the past, ways that technology leaders within law firms can structure change, how law firms can align their efforts with their outside providers, and where legal IT is headed.

Thank you to the following individuals for sharing their perspectives with me on the third day of Legaltech 2019: Chris Bright, VP of Marketing, Zapproved Ian Campbell, President & CEO, iCONECT Corey Douglas, Director, Consilio Monica Enand, CEO, Zapproved Brad Harris, Distinguished Fellow of E-Discovery, Zapproved Linda Kish, Chief Marketing Officer, Level 2 Legal Solutions Tineke Mann, eBusiness Manager, The Information Management Group Joy Murao, Founder & CEO, Practice Aligned Resources Bill Piwonka, Chief Marketing Officer, Exterro Ajith Samuel, Chief Product Officer, Exterro Dr. Silvia Hodges Silverstein, Executive Director, Buying Legal Council Kelly Struck, VP of Marketing, Consilio

I spoke with Ryan Steadman, the chief revenue officer for Zero, at Legaltech 2019 about building trust in the application of AI and machine learning to time capture, email management, and other areas.

I spoke with Rebecca Goodman-Stephens and Frank Vitale, the chief operating officer and chief marketing officer, respectively, for Berdon LLP, an accounting firm that provides technical and consulting services to law firms and other organizations, at Legaltech 2019 about Berdon Technology Services.

I spoke with Kevin Harris, a project manager for Orion Law Management Systems, at Legaltech 2019 about billing best practices.

Thank you to the following individuals for sharing their perspectives with me on the second day of Legaltech 2019: Bob Ambrogi, Publisher of LawSites and Host of LawNext Craig Ball, Court-Appointed Special Master and E-Discovery Consultant Josh Becker, Chairman of Lex Machina and Head of Legal Analytics, LexisNexis Shawn Gaines, VP of Marketing, Relativity Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief, Legal IT Insider Robert Hilson, Senior Marketing Director, Logikcull Kate Holmes, Managing Director, FTI Technology Jack Newton, Co-Founder and CEO, Clio Chris Pogue, Head of Services, Security, and Partner Integrations, Nuix Alexis Robbins, Marketing Manager, Knovos Rod Vawdrey, Group CEO, Nuix

As part of my Legaltech 2019 series, I spoke with Doug Austin, the Vice President of Products and Professional Services for CloudNine and the editor of the E-Discovery Daily blog.

Thank you to the following individuals for speaking with me on the first day of Legaltech 2019: Lauren Amanda Adler, Director of Sales, Manzama Dan Berlin, President & CEO, Tabs3 Software Haresh Bhungalia, CEO, Casepoint Justin Blessing, Founder, Compiled Jessica Block, Data & Technology Practice Co-Lead, Ankura Consulting David Carns, Chief Strategy Officer, Casepoint Ginny Gonzalez, Chief Business Development & Marketing Officer, TCDI Andrew King, Founder, E-Discovery Consulting & LawFest Michelle Lange, VP, Workstorm Jonathan Reed, CEO, Advologix Ryan Steadman, CRO, Zero Steve Scorziello, Head of Legal Operations, Harmon

I spoke with Christian Lang, a former attorney with Davis Polk & Wardwell, who is the new head of strategy at Reynen Court and the founder of the New York Legal Tech Meetup. He is producing a new legal technology conference on February 1, 2019 called Inspire Legal. We discussed his background, the genesis of Inspire.Legal, how this event differs from others, its relationship to the New York Legal Tech Meetup, the Inspire.Legal agenda, and what the creation of Inspire.Legal indicates about the current level of interest in legal innovation.

I spoke with Rith Kem and Mason Pan, both principals in the Compliance, Forensics, and Intelligence practice at Control Risks. Kem is the Technology Operations and Custom Solutions leader in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region, while Pan is the leader of the Data Analytics group for the Americas. We discussed trends the duo expects to see in analytics monitoring systems in 2019, how their clients are applying data to remediate and strengthen their compliance programs, and best practices for corporations interested in creating a center of excellence to manage risk indicators.