Best Populus Radio Podcasts (2025)

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Ep 292: AALL President Cornell Winston on Why Law Librarians Should ‘Be Bold’ 44:12

2d ago44:12

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Cornell Winston, president of the American Association of Law Libraries, brings a unique perspective to law librarianship, having spent 45 years in libraries across diverse settings — from a hospital library where he started as a student worker; to the former Whittier Law School; to prominent law firms Munger, Tolles & Olson and Orrick, Herrington …

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Ep 291: Serial Legal Entrepreneur Monica Zent on Building the Future of Legal Services 43:12

8d ago43:12

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Monica Zent is a true pioneer in legal innovation and entrepreneurship. She is the founder of ZentLaw, an award-winning alternative legal services provider that broke the traditional law firm mold when she founded it in 2002. ZentLaw has since grown into a nationwide legal services provider, serving global brands and major corporations with a uniqu…

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Ep 290: Turning Legal Spend Into Performance: PERSUIT Founder Jim Delkousis On His Acquisition of Apperio 36:28

15d ago36:28

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On May 5, 2025, PERSUIT, a technology company that specializes in helping corporate legal departments select and manage outside counsel, announced that it had acquired Apperio, a spend-management platform for corporate legal, in a move designed to create an end-to-end workflow solution spanning everything from matter intake to invoice payment. “Thi…

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Ep 289: Navigating 'Unruliness': Hence Cofounder Sean West on How Politics, AI and Law are Rewriting Business Rules 48:45

24d ago48:45

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"Everybody understands the world is volatile, but they don't necessarily understand why it's volatile or how to deal with it," says Sean West, cofounder of Hence Technologies and author of the new book, Unruly: Fighting Back When Politics, AI, and Law Upend the Rules of Business. "Unruly is a play on words. ... The world is kind of ‘unruling.’ The …

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Ep 288: LawDroid Founder Tom Martin on Building, Teaching and Advising About AI for Legal 47:29

29d ago47:29

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LawDroid Founder Tom Martin on Building, Teaching and Advising About AI for Legal If you follow legal tech at all, you would be justified in suspecting that Tom Martin has figured out how to use artificial intelligence to clone himself. While running LawDroid, his legal tech company, the Vancouver-based Martin also still manages a law practice in C…

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ClauseBase expansion into North America welcomes former Deloitte Legal leader Jan Roggen as VP of growth 14:30

1M ago14:30

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Montreal, April 24, 2025 – ClauseBase, the all-in-one legal drafting platform, is proud to announce its expansion into North America with the opening of a new office in Montreal. This strategic move is driven by the appointment of Jan Roggen as Vice President of Growth. “At Deloitte, I had the opportunity to work extensively with ClauseBase and was…

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Ep 287: From Ravel Cofounder to Knowable CEO, Nik Reed Has Learned that Building Quality AI for Legal Takes A Lot of Hard Work 1:01:14

2M ago1:01:14

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In the gold rush of generative AI, it seems that every legal tech vendor wants to be a one-stop shop for legal technology. But after 15 years of developing legal tech, Nik Reed, CEO of Knowable, a legal technology company devoted to helping enterprises bring order and organization to their executed agreements, believes that lawyers should be wary o…

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Ep 286: When the Unthinkable Becomes Real: Three Legal Tech Leaders On Losing Their Homes To The Los Angeles Wildfires 55:20

2M ago55:20

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In January, a merciless firestorm swept through the Pacific Palisades and surrounding areas of Los Angeles, becoming the most destructive wildfire in the city's history. Driven by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds and fueled by record-dry conditions, the Palisades Fire destroyed over 6,800 structures, burned nearly 24,000 acres, and dramatically alte…

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Ep 285: Mark Cohen and Dierk Schindler On The Union Of the Digital Legal Exchange and the Liquid Legal Institute 47:36

2M ago47:36

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As reported yesterday in an exclusive at LawSites blog, two leading international legal transformation organizations, the Digital Legal Exchange (DLEx) and the Liquid Legal Institute (LLI), have joined forces in a strategic union that brings together more than 1,500 members representing more than 140 multinational corporations, organizations, insti…

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Ep 284: Relativity CEO Phil Saunders on the Future of Legal Data, Gen AI, and the Shifting Landscape of Law 50:16

2M ago50:16

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“The landscape we all stand on is shifting, and massive amounts of change are upon us,” Phil Saunders, the chief executive officer of e-discovery and legal technology giant Relativity, recently wrote in a post on the company’s blog. Driving that change are three transformative forces, he wrote: new legal data challenges, advancing generative AI, an…

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Ep 283: SurePoint CEO Eric Thurston on Acquiring ZenCase and His Vision for Mid-Market Practice Management 39:47

2M ago39:47

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Recently, legal technology company SurePoint Technologies acquired the legal practice management company ZenCase in a strategic move aimed at enhancing SurePoint’s practice management offerings for mid-sized law firms. In this episode of LawNext, Eric Thurston, who recently marked his two-year anniversary as CEO of SurePoint Technologies, joins hos…

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Ep 282: How A New Documentary Aims To Raise Public Awareness Of The Access To Justice Crisis 41:52

3M ago41:52

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On this week’s show: LawNext takes you to the movies. Well, to a specific movie, anyway – a documentary being made to raise public awareness and understanding of the access to justice crisis in this country. Today’s guests are the film’s director, documentary filmmaker Laura Hand, who previously directed The Tent Mender, about homelessness on Skid …

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Ep 281: Eve CEO Jay Madheswaran on Building AI-Native Law Firms for the Plaintiffs’ Bar 50:34

3M ago50:34

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After building his career as an engineer at Facebook and as a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jay Madheswaran and his cofounders spotted an opportunity to deploy cutting-edge AI to transform what they saw as an underserved segment of the legal market, launching Eve, an AI platform purpose-built for plaintiffs’ law firms. Eve has …

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Thread Legal Announces Launch of Version 3 18:10

3M ago18:10

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Estera Orsolic, Operations Lead at Thread Legal Software, discusses the launch of Thread Legal Version 3 on February 24th on behalf of CEO Shane Branagan. Estera highlights the key new features, including a modernized UX, Kanban task management, an integrated matter calendar, enhanced time tracking, and streamlined document management—allowing user…

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Ep 280: Is Arbitrus.ai the Future of Dispute Resolution? 1:05:47

3M ago1:05:47

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Earlier this month, a legal tech startup called Fortuna Arbitration launched what it says is the first true AI judge – an automated arbitration system called Arbitrus.ai that the company claims can fully replace human arbitrators in resolving legal disputes. The system promises to cut the cost of arbitration from an average of $100,000 to just $10,…

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Product Storytelling for Acquisition: Turning Vision Into Value 44:50

3M ago44:50

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In the third and final installment of our three-part series on storytelling across the company lifecycle, Plat4orm hosts Valerie Chan, Principal, and Jessi Adler, Director of Media Relations, take a deep dive into the art of product storytelling to set the stage for acquisition. Joining them is Nik Reed, founder of Ravel Law (acquired by Lexis Nexi…

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Ep 279: Upsolve’s Jonathan Petts and Ben Jackson on Building the TurboTax for Bankruptcy and Fighting UPL Restrictions 46:10

3M ago46:10

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When former Wall Street lawyer Jonathan Petts joined forces in 2016 with Rohan Pavuluri, then a research assistant in Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab, and Mark Hansen, a software engineer, to create Upsolve, they had a simple but powerful vision: make bankruptcy filing as accessible as online tax preparation for Americans crushed by debt…

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Storytelling Through Crisis: Dismantling Conventional Crisis Communication Wisdom 33:10

4M ago33:10

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In the second episode of our three-part series on storytelling across the company lifecycle, Plat4orm hosts Valerie Chan, Principal, and Jessi Adler, Director of Media Relations, are joined by crisis communications expert Rosemary Wilson. Rosemary is a senior communications counselor and crisis advisor who’s helped high-profile individuals, Fortune…

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SimpleDocs Launches SimpleAI: An AI-Powered Playbook Builder for In-House Legal Teams 17:05

4M ago17:05

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In this episode of LawNext PR, Bob Ambrogi interviews Preston Clark, CEO of SimpleDocs, about the launch of SimpleAI, an AI-powered playbook builder designed for in-house legal teams. About the Press Release: SimpleDocs, the creator of AutoNDA, today announced the launch of SimpleAI, an advanced playbook builder designed specifically for in-house l…

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Ep 278: Standardizing Legal Agreements: How OneNDA and OneSaaS Aim to Transform Business Contracting 47:46

4M ago47:46

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When it comes to contract negotiations, lawyers often find themselves spending countless hours haggling over standard agreements such as NDAs and SaaS contracts, with both sides often saying more or less the same thing, but in different words. What if there was a better way? Today’s guests believe there is. Electra Japonas, chief legal officer at L…

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The Narrative Edge: The Power of Storytelling for Startups 27:34

4M ago27:34

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The first episode of our three-part series on storytelling throughout the company lifecycle kicks off with Plat4orm PR hosts Valerie Chan, Principal, and Jessi Adler, Director of Media Relations, as they explore how storytelling can serve as a strategic tool for early-stage companies. From crafting compelling founder narratives that build trust wit…

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Ep 277: CEO Nikole Nelson Returns to LawNext with An Update on Frontline Justice’s Mission to Empower Justice Workers and Bridge the Justice Gap 40:16

4M ago40:16

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In the United States, we face a staggering crisis in access to justice, with over 90% of low-income Americans' civil legal needs estimated to be going unmet. But what if there was a way to dramatically expand legal help by empowering a new category of legal helpers? That's exactly what today's guest, Nikole Nelson, is working to achieve as CEO of F…

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New research from Ari Kaplan Advisors and Opus 2: Litigation department growth, challenges, and tech 19:18

4M ago19:18

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In this episode of Law Next PR, Bob Ambrogi interviews Ari Kaplan, principle of Ari Kaplan Advisors, and Greg Blackman, CEO of Opus 2, about a new research study on the litigation technology landscape. Ari Kaplan Advisors, in partnership with Opus 2, has released new research that provides industry benchmarks, analysis of challenges and market tren…

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Ep 276: Reflections On 25 Years Of Innovation In Legal Aid, With The LSC’s Longtime Program Counsel Glenn Rawdon 48:13

4M ago48:13

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Earlier this month, the Legal Services Corporation, the largest funder of civil legal aid in the United States, held its annual Innovations in Technology Conference in Phoenix. This year’s conference was particularly special for two reasons. For one, it was the conference’s 25th anniversary, as well as the 25th anniversary of the Technology Initiat…

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Ep 275: Can AI Bridge the Justice Gap? Legal Aid Lawyer and Innovator Sateesh Nori Thinks So 46:22

4M ago46:22

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From legal aid attorney to legal tech innovator, Sateesh Nori brings a unique perspective to the intersection of artificial intelligence and access to justice. After spending two decades in the trenches as a housing lawyer at legal aid offices in New York City, Nori now bridges multiple worlds – continuing his legal aid work at the Legal Aid Societ…

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Ep 274: Insights on Leadership and Innovation in Legal Education, with Anastasia Boyko 53:49

5M ago53:49

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Anastasia Boyko likes to say that she’s Goldilocks-ed her way through her career. True, it’s been a varied career, as she’s tried out different roles, but it is a career that has taken her full circle, from Yale Law School, where she graduated, and then eventually back to Yale Law to create a program in leadership for lawyers, and from Salt Lake Ci…

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Ep 273: A Deep Dive Into Washington’s Newly Approved Pilot to Allow Non-Lawyer Entities to Practice Law 38:28

5M ago38:28

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On Dec. 5, in a move to enhance access to justice, the Supreme Court of the state of Washington issued a historic order authorizing a regulatory reform pilot program by which entities not owned by lawyers will be able to deliver legal services. The move makes Washington only the third state, after Utah and Arizona, to approve a comprehensive change…

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Ep 272: In Which Gen AI Takes Over this Podcast to Discuss Law Practice Management Technology 26:23

5M ago26:23

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On today’s LawNext: we hand over the podcast to NotebookLM to discuss the state of law practice management technology. If you haven’t heard of NotebookLM, it is a generative AI tool from Google that turns your documents into engaging audio discussions. Its output sounds a whole lot like, well, a podcast, with two hosts chatting it up about your doc…

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Ep 271: NGAGE’s Paul Henry On How Law Firms Can Use Behavioral Analytics to Drive Tech Adoption 30:35

6M ago30:35

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You cannot have innovation without adoption. That was a theme I heard repeatedly when I attended the Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal conference in New York City in October. Our guest today, Paul Henry, would take that a step further and say you do not really have adoption without engagement. Henry is the founder and CEO of NGAGE Intelli…

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New Trellis AI Solution - Leverages State Court Data to Automate Litigation Tasks 17:21

6M ago17:21

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LawSites' Bob Ambrogi speaks with Nicole Clark, founder of Trellis, about their new Trellis AI tools. Trellis AI is a new legal productivity platform that leverages the largest repository of state court docket data to help litigators evaluate cases, automate brief drafting, suggest winning strategies, and more. To read more about the news, head ove…

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Ep 270: How One Legal Tech Company Is Donating Its Software To Pursue Justice In Atrocity Crimes 37:28

6M ago37:28

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Everlaw for Good is a program run by the e-discovery company Everlaw, through which it makes its software available at no cost to legal aid organizations, nonprofit organizations, and investigative journalists. One beneficiary of that program is the Center for Justice and Accountability, a human rights nonprofit that works to seek justice on behalf…

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Ep 269: As She Retires From a Trailblazing Career in Legal KM and Innovation, Sally Gonzalez Shares Lessons Learned 33:11

6M ago33:11

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In the field of legal knowledge management and innovation, Sally Gonzalez is both a legend and a trailblazer. Over the course of her 40-year career, she has worked for some of the world's largest law firms to develop and lead KM and strategic technology initiatives. She has overseen KM and information technology programs at such global firms as Nor…

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Ep 268: How Gen AI Can Be A Game-Changer for Discovery and Litigation, with Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar 35:58

6M ago35:58

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Recently, the Everlaw Summit, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, convened in San Francisco. In his keynote address there, cofounder and CEO AJ Shankar announced the general availability, after a year of beta testing, of a suite of generative AI features for reviewing, coding and analyzing documents in discovery and l…

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Ep 267: How A Legal Services Agency Developed An Award-Winning KM Portal to Enhance Access to Justice 34:10

7M ago34:10

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At the Knowledge Management and Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City, Legal Services NYC was named as the inaugural winner of the LexPrize award, which is designed to recognize groundbreaking ideas in knowledge management and innovation for the legal industry. It won for its development of the Legal Services NYC KM Portal,…

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Ep 266: Live from #ClioCon: Clio’s CTO Jonathan Watson on the Development of Clio Duo, Its Gen AI Legal Assistant 23:50

7M ago23:50

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Recently, the law practice management company Clio launched Clio Duo, its generative AI legal assistant. On today’s LawNext, Jonathan Watson, Clio’s chief technology officer, joins the show to discuss Duo’s development, capabilities and future direction.He also talks about some of the other products Clio recently launched, including native accounti…

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Ep 265: The LegalTech Fund’s Zach Posner on Investing in Legal Tech (and His Upcoming Summit) 32:55

7M ago32:55

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When Zach Posner was last on this podcast, it was 2021 and he was less than a year into having cofounded The LegalTech Fund, the first venture capital firm to be laser-focused on law and legal technology. Since then, his firm, of which he is managing director, has gone on to build up a portfolio of more than 60 legal tech companies in which it inve…

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Ep 264: Live from #ClioCon: A Deep Dive into the 2024 Clio Legal Trends Report, with Joshua Lenon, Clio’s Lawyer in Residence 32:18

7M ago32:18

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At the recent Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas, Clio released its ninth annual Legal Trends Report, a report that uses both survey responses and anonymized data from Clio users to paint a picture of key trends in law practice and legal technology. This year’s report has some intriguing findings on lawyers’ adoption of AI and the types of task…

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Ep 263: Live from #ClioCon: A Clio Power Trio: COO Ronnie Gurion, CFO Curt Sigfstead, and Board Member Mark Britton 33:04

7M ago33:04

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This has been a significant year for the law practice management company Clio, which in July raised a record-setting $900 million financing round – the largest ever for a legal tech company, and which recently wrapped up its 12th annual Clio Cloud Conference, its largest ever with some 2,600 attendees in person in Austin, Texas, and almost as many …

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Ep 262: Live from #ClioCon: Clio CEO Jack Newton on Generative AI and the New Duo AI Legal Assistant 38:56

8M ago38:56

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We’ve just returned from the Clio Cloud Conference, held this year in Austin, Texas, where, in what has become an annual tradition, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down with Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton for a live interview. At the conference, Clio launched Clio Duo, the generative AI legal assistant integrated into Clio’s flagship product, Clio M…

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Briefpoint Unveils New Propounding Discovery Generator 16:44

8M ago16:44

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In a conversation with Bob Ambrogi, Briefpoint founder Nathan Walter unveils its new Propounding Discovery module drafts 3 sets of outgoing discovery using a single pleading .pdf upload. Briefpoint is for attorneys who are interested in incorporating AI into their practice without having to change how they practice. Briefpoint’s patented AI system …

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Ep 261: A Year Into His Tenure at UnitedLex, CEO James Schellhase on How the Company Is Embracing Innovation 37:10

8M ago37:10

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One year ago, in September 2023, James Schellhase was named chief executive officer of the alternative legal services provider UnitedLex. The move was particularly significant, as he was only the second person ever to hold that title at the company, having succeeded Dan Reed, who cofounded UnitedLex in 2006 and had been its CEO ever since. Reed is …

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Ep 260: A Deep Dive Into Filevine’s New Gen AI Tools for Litigators 29:30

8M ago29:30

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At its recent customer conference in Salt Lake City, called LEX Summit, the case management company Filevine unveiled a number of product releases and updates. Among them were several products for litigators driven by generative AI, including a first-of-its-kind tool, Depo CoPilot, that helps guide a lawyer during a deposition, and another, Demands…

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Announcing the Launch of the AllRize AI-powered law practice management platform 11:46

8M ago11:46

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AllRize, a leading innovator of software solutions for law firms and in-house legal departments, today introduced its AI-powered law practice management platform. The comprehensive SaaS solution includes all the features necessary to help legal teams streamline internal operations, increase staff productivity, and deliver superior service to their …

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Ep 259: Live from Filevine’s LEX Summit: Interviews with Three of Its Leaders 35:01

8M ago35:01

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In today’s episode, we feature three impromptu conversations with leaders of the case management company Filevine. Last week, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi was in Salt Lake City to attend LEX Summit, the Filevine customer conference. While there, he snagged three of the company’s top executives for brief, impromptu conversations about the company, its p…

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Ep 258: How One Legal Tech Startup Is Simplifying Data Collection from Mobile Devices 40:33

9M ago40:33

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Matt Rasmussen had worked for some 20 years in litigation technology and support at major law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and litigation services providers, when he wondered why mobile collections had to be so time-consuming, inefficient and invasively overbroad. As he looked into it, he realized there was a better way to manage mobile collection…

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Ep 257: The State of Knowledge Management and Innovation in Legal, with Patrick DiDomenico and Joshua Fireman 51:59

9M ago51:59

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On Oct. 17 and 18, 2024, two of the legal industry’s leading experts on knowledge management and innovation, Patrick DiDomenico, founder and CEO of InspireKM Consulting, and Joshua Fireman, president of Fireman & Company, which is owned by Epiq, the global provider of technology-enabled legal services, will present the second-annual KM&I for Legal …

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Ep 256: All About Spellbook’s New AI Agent, Capable of Performing Complex Legal Tasks, with CEO Scott Stevenson 46:31

9M ago46:31

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In what it says is the first AI agent for law, the legal technology company Spellbook just released Spellbook Associate, an application that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows in transactional matters, much as an associate would. This is the same company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and revie…

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Ep 255: Is Gen AI the New Paradigm for Technology Assisted Review in E-Discovery? Three Redgrave Scientists Discuss 40:11

10M ago40:11

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For at least two decades, artificial intelligence has been used in e-discovery to help surface and prioritize review of potentially responsive documents from large document collections. But while technology-assisted review (TAR) has traditionally been driven by AI in the form of supervised machine learning, some vendors and e-discovery professional…

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Ep 254: In the Wake of KKR’s Acquisition of CLM Company Agiloft, CEO Eric Laughlin Discusses Its Past and Future 48:05

10M ago48:05

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Last month, KKR, a major global investment firm, announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Agiloft, the contract lifecycle management company. As part of the deal, the growth equity firm FTV Capital, already an Agiloft investor, is making an additional investment, and another growth equity firm, JMI Equity, is j…

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Ep 253: Exclusive: CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Record-Setting $900M Raise 49:36

10M ago49:36

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As the law practice management company Clio today announced a record $900 million funding round, the largest ever for a cloud legal technology company, at a whopping $3 billion valuation, Clio’s founder and CEO Jack Newton joins LawNext for an exclusive podcast interview. In a conversation recorded last week, ahead of today’s announcement, Newton a…

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