Future Law Podcast

Joy Heath Rush is the CEO of the ILTA, a global volunteer-led membership organization that develops and shares information about technology in law practice, supporting lawyers and other professionals in law firms, law departments, governments, and academic organizations. In this episode, she and host Mike Madison reflect on the evolution of legal tech since the mid-1980s and bring the story up to the present, with insight into critical contemporary topics and takeaways. Link International Legal Technology AssociationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joan Heminway brings long experience as a corporate lawyer in BigLaw to her work researching and writing about securities law and corporate finance at the University of Tennessee. Now she is assuming a key role at the head of the university's well-known Institute for Professional Leadership, building on those experiences to help law students and new lawyers acquire leadership skills and navigate the future of law. Links Joan MacLeod Heminway at the University of Tennessee Institute for Professional Leadership at the University of TennesseeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How can law and lawyers move the public policy process?  Dr. Andrea Matwyshyn is a law professor at Penn State University who is on a mission to bring lawyers, policymakers, and engineers together to solve complex social problems at the edges of law and technology. (She has a faculty appointment at Penn State's College of Engineering to go with her law faculty role.) Future Law Podcast host Mike Madison talks with her about grounding that mission in her "lab" work with her students, and how that "lab" projects come out of her research on technology, computer security, gender and ethics, and history. Dr. Andrea Matwyshyn's home page The PILOT Lab at Penn State Law A PILOT Lab project: the Computer Herstory Museum The Manglona Lab at Penn State Law Dr. Andrea Matwyshyn on Twitter Article about "The Internet of Bodies"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The future of law includes more than the future of lawyers.  At Villanova University, Professor Michele Pistone has launched a pioneering online program to train non-lawyers as authorized advocates in immigration law.  Professor Pistone talked about her plans on an earlier episode of the Future Law Podcast. Now she's back, sharing stories of her surprising results, with host Mike Madison. Michele Pistone at Villanova Law The VIISTA program at Villanova Michele Pistone on TwitterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As a law student, Colin Levy saw the future of legaltech, and after graduating he set about building a career in the field.  Ten years later, he's navigated through in-house roles, developed his skill set, and made his way to a position as Director of Marketing and Business Development for WordRake, which produces editing software for professionals, including lawyers. For the Future Law Podcast, Mike Madison talked with Colin about his path to his identity as a self-described "Legal Tech Evangelist." Colin Levy at Linkedin Colin Levy at TwitterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Does the legal profession have a place for creative and imaginative people? How does the future of law differ from its past? Hear an unusual conversation between Future Law Podcast host Mike Madison and Eimear McCann, now Director of Strategy at UK-based LegalTech firm Summize and also a former immigration and human rights lawyer, and also a teacher and writer. Links: Eimear McCann SummizeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Future Law" is a global phenomenon with multiple local applications. What's different about the French experience, and what does the French experience share with the future of law elsewhere? The EDHEC Business School in Lille is the home of the new Augmented Law Institute, a purposeful blending of training in law, business, and technology that builds on EDHEC's long-standing investment in multi-purpose professional preparation.  In this episode of the Future Law Podcast, Mike Madison interviews Christophe Roquilly, the Director of the Augmented Law Institute and the architect of EHDEC's law-plus-business programming. Links: The Augmented Law Institute at EDHEC Business School Professor Christophe RoquillySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fastcase is now 20 years in to its mission to transform legal publishing and access to legal information.  Fastcase co-founder and CEO Ed Walters joins Mike Madison to talk about the origins of the company (beer and softball contributed, along with a research challenge from an unexpected source), the journey to date, and visions and implications of the future of law. Links: Ed Walters FastcaseSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our tour of LegalTech takes The Future Law Podcast to London and this conversation with Giles Thompson and Amy Conroy. Giles and Amy are two early-career lawyers who stepped quickly off the path to a conventional law practice career and, in very different respects, onto the team at Avvoka, which offers a document automation platform.   Mike Madison talks with Giles and Amy about what Avvoka is up to, how that fits in the evolving LegalTech landscape, and how each of them came to be where they are today. Links: Avvoka Giles Thompson Amy ConroySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Future Law Podcast, Mike Madison talks with Marlene van Nelson, a recent law graduate who followed a classic path: she hung out a proverbial shingle and launched a solo practice. A few short but fast-paced years later, she's expanded her practice and found her niche, delivering "people law" services to small business and individual clients while nimbly blending the personal with the technological. Marlene tells her own story, from her dream of becoming a lawyer, to the detours along the way, to her current firm:  Trellis Legal. All about Trellis Legal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.