Best Populus Radio Podcasts (2025)

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Briefpoint Announces the Launch of Autodoc 16:02

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Today, Briefpoint CEO and founder Nathan Walter joins Bob Ambrogi to announce the launch of Autodoc, a breakthrough workflow that ingests a party’s production and opposing counsel’s Requests for Production (RFPs), then locates the responsive documents, applies Bates numbers, and drafts a fully captioned Word response—including objections and pinpoi…

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Justice Workers: Reimagining Access to Justice as Democracy Work, with Rebecca Sandefur and Matthew Burnett 45:18

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With as many as 120 million legal problems going unresolved in America each year, traditional lawyer-centered approaches to access to justice have consistently failed to meet the scale of need. But what if the solution is not just about providing more legal services — what if it lies in fundamentally rethinking who can provide legal help? In today’…

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Neos Announces Multiple Updates to their Case Management Platform 18:25

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LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sits down with Bryan Billig, Head of Customer Education at Assembly Software, to unpack the latest NeosAI and legal case management updates. The conversation centers on NeosAI’s three pillars that bring practical legal AI into everyday workflows: Consumptive AI for summaries and data extraction, Generative AI for drafting f…

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LawDroid Announces the launch of LawAnswers AI 14:04

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LawDroid founder Tom Martin joins Bob Ambrogi to discuss the impact of their newly released LawAnswers AI platform. LawDroid, a pioneering legal technology company, recently announced the nationwide launch of LawAnswers AI, an intelligent legal information platform designed to address America's profound access to justice crisis. The platform levera…

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Leading Product Transformation Amid Company Transformation: 8am’s New Chief Product Officer Leslie Witt 35:32

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As Leslie Witt took to the stage Sept. 3 to deliver the keynote at Kaleidoscope, 8am’s inaugural customer conference, it was the culmination of a whirlwind summer. It had been just four months since she had joined the company formerly known as AffiniPay as chief product officer, responsible for leading product transformation and strategy for establ…

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LawVu and ClauseBase Announce New Integration 15:50

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ClauseBase and LawVu announce a strategic integration between the two platforms on LawNext PR. Joining Bob Ambrogi to talk about the news and its significance are the CEO and co-founders of both companies, Maarten Truyens and Sam Kidd. ABOUT THE NEWS: ClauseBase and Lawvu lift the curtain on the latest integration between their two flagship product…

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Ep 301: From Law Student Startup Founder to Global CEO: Daniel Lewis's Legal Tech Journey 49:19

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Daniel Lewis has witnessed legal technology's evolution from multiple vantage points that few others can claim. As a Stanford law student in 2012, he and classmate Nik Reed co-founded the legal research startup Ravel Law with the audacious goal of taking on LexisNexis and Westlaw using machine learning and data analytics – at a time when such chall…

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Announcing Seamless Integration between Billables AI and SurePoint 16:14

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Billables AI announced on LawNext PR this week their new seamless integration with SurePoint, empowering firms to seamlessly capture billable activity, generate compliant narratives, and sync time entries directly into SurePoint Legal Suite. Joining us to talk about the news are Billables AI CEO and co-founder Arvind Sujeeth, and Chris Henz, Produc…

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Ep 300: Reveal’s CEO and CTO On Its Launch of Gen AI for E-Discovery Review 43:32

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The e-discovery company Reveal Data recently announced that it will launch its new generative AI-powered document review platform, called “aji,” in late September. Notably, the company said it is offering full access to the platform at no cost through Dec. 31, in order to enable “the entire legal community to explore and master the next era in GenA…

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Definely launches Cascade to track knock-on effects of changes within a contract 12:55

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About the Announcement: 12th August, London: Deﬁnely, an AI-powered legal tech company that enables lawyers to eﬃciently and accurately review complex contracts, has launched ‘Cascade’, a ﬁrst-of-its-kind solution. The product detects and tracks the ripple effects of changes across entire contracts, helping improve document quality, reduce risk, an…

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Oddr Announces Oria, the Oddr Revenue Intelligence Assistant 16:19

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Last week, Oddr announced the launch of Oria. Oddr is calling the announcement a major leap forward in law firm revenue performance with the launch of its fully unified Revenue Intelligence platform alongside the debut of Oria, the Oddr Revenue Intelligence Assistant, powered by AI. Today, Bob sat down with Oddr CEO Milan Bobde, CTO Sumit Garg, and…

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UniCourt Launches New Docket Analytics, Research, Tracking Product: UniCourt DART 15:47

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Today on LawNext PR, we're live at ILTACON, and recording with UniCourt founder and CEO Josh Blandi. UniCourt just announced the launch of DART, their new Docket Analytics, Research, and Tracking product. Taken from UniCourt's press release, "DART is a revolutionary all-in-one platform that allows legal professionals to leverage powerful legal anal…

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Ep 299: Harbor Global CEO Matt Sunderman On Driving Digital Transformation in Legal 38:07

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This year’s ILTACON, which starts later this week, marks the second anniversary of Harbor, a global expert services company formed through the merger of three long-established legal consulting firms: HBR Consulting, LAC Group, and Wilson Allen, and that formally launched at ILTACON in 2023. The company, which counts among its clients some 80% of th…

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Spellbook Launches ‘Library’ to Personalize AI for Transactional Lawyers 16:51

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Today, Spellbook CEO and co-founder Scott Stevenson joins us to talk about the release of their new Library feature, which enables lawyers to turn their past work into a rich, searchable knowledge base, giving the AI a smarter foundation for drafting and review. At the heart of Library 1.0 is Smart Clause Drafting, a feature that surfaces relevant …

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CollBox Passes $100M Collected: How Legal Tech is Fixing Law Firm Cash Flow 19:13

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CollBox, the legal tech platform purpose-built for getting law firms paid for their hard work, has surpassed $100 million recovered in unpaid bills - proving that getting paid doesn’t have to be painful. In this episode, we explore how CollBox blends automation with a human touch to help firms recover past-due accounts an avaerage of 40% faster, re…

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Ep 298: SpotDraft’s Shashank Bijapur: From Late-Night Due Diligence to Legal Tech Innovation 40:11

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What happens when a Harvard-trained corporate lawyer, tired of copying and pasting contract language, starts reading about self-driving cars? In Shashank Bijapur's case, it sparked the creation of SpotDraft, a contract lifecycle management company that just raised $54 million in Series B funding and that counts major companies such as Airbnb among …

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LawNext PR: Querious, Inc. to Offer Exclusive Member Discount to Members of the Alabama State Bar 16:12

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Querious and Alabama State Bar Partner to Bring Ethical AI and Legal Conversational Intelligence™ to Client Conversations Querious is thrilled to announce our new member benefit partnership with the Alabama State Bar. Read more about the announcement on LawSites blog: https://www.lawnext.com/2025/07/querious-inc-to-offer-exclusive-member-discount-t…

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Ep 297: CoCounsel’s Next Generation: Emily Colbert and Rawia Ashraf on Agentic AI for Lawyers 44:02

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If generative AI was the biggest story in legal tech in 2023 and 2024, agentic AI is proving to be the most talked-about topic of 2025. Spurring this, at least in part, has been Thomson Reuters’ announcement of its forthcoming release of a new agentic version of CoCounsel, its AI legal assistant, that will be able to plan, reason and execute comple…

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Ep 296: How LexisNexis and Harvey Are Partnering to Reshape Legal AI, with LexisNexis CEO Sean Fitzpatrick 43:36

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When legal research giant LexisNexis and legal AI giant Harvey announced a strategic alliance last month, legal tech commentator Richard Tromans called it “possibly the most important legal tech move in a decade.” On today’s episode of LawNext, we go deep into the partnership and its implications with Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North Ameri…

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Ep 295: How One Mass Tort Firm Uses Supio, the AI Platform for PI Lawyers 49:43

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Supio, an AI-driven platform developed specifically for personal injury lawyers, has been generating a lot of buzz. On the heels of reporting record growth last year and raising $25 million in Series A funding in October, last month it raised another $60 million in a Series B round. But what do the lawyers who use the platform think of it? On today…

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Filevine Unveils the Next-Generation MedChron by Filevine 19:34

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To hear more about about Filevine's recent MedChron announcement, Bob Ambrogi sits down with Filevine CEO Ryan Anderson, Vice President of Data Science Brianna Connelly, and Vice President of ML Initiatives Jonas Kratochvil. 00:00 Introduction to LawNext PR and MedChron Launch 00:59 Overview of MedChron and Its Importance 04:30 Technical Innovation…

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Ep 294: A Special Interview with Aderant CEO Chris Cartrett Recorded Live at Its Momentum Global Conference 39:57

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When Chris Cartrett was named CEO of legal technology company Aderant in 2022, he did so with the mission of aggressively advancing a cloud-first strategy throughout the company’s suite of business and financial software for law firms. Given that Aderant is a nearly 50-year-old company with many customers who still use the on-premises version of it…

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Interview with CEO Ed Watts on InfoTrack Intelligence 14:31

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In this interview with CEO Ed Watts, we delve into InfoTrack's launch of InfoTrack Intelligence, the first AI-powered court filing solution tailored for U.S. law firms. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to InfoTrack 01:37 Announcing InfoTrack Intelligence e-filing 03:00 Streamlining Court Filing: The Value of InfoTrack Intelligence 04:35 How does this c…

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Lighthouse Announces AI Search 16:49

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In this episode of LawNext PR, Bob Ambrogi interviews Dan Brassil, executive director of search and information retrieval at Lighthouse, about the launch of Lighthouse AI Search. Lighthouse AI Search is an AI-First search tool designed specifically for eDiscovery, that allows litigation teams to better identify evidence, understand narratives, and …

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Ep 293: Litera’s Avaneesh Marwaha: The CEO Who Left Before AI and Returned to Lead Through It 45:54

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What happens when a CEO steps away from a legal tech company just before the generative AI revolution explodes, then returns two years later amid a landscape that is being dramatically transformed? For Litera’s Avaneesh Marwaha, that is exactly what happened. As the CEO of Litera from 2016 to 2022, Marwaha led the legal tech company through a remar…

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…