From a 5-day to a 24-hour turnaround The Impact Podcast features Dan Coll, Senior Associate General Counsel and Caleb Bendix, Deputy General Counsel at Jabil. Our podcast host is Steve Harmon, COO and General Counsel of Elevate. Listen in as our guests outline two examples of implementing change within Jabil. The first features a procurement centre of excellence and support model about efficiency, including intake, triage, playbook support, and staffing. The second features the build-out of a fu...
Dec 12, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 58
“You take no risks; you make no money.” This Elevate.Together.Podcast. Impact episode features the Chief Legal Officer of NetApp, Beth O'Callahan, and the podcast host, Steve Harmon, the COO and General Counsel of Elevate. Beth and Steve discuss implementing change, how change can motivate and challenge a team, and that success should be measured by looking at metrics and the organization's values to ensure qualitative priorities are not missed. [00:46] Beth shares her journey from litigation to...
Oct 03, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Lawyers Spending More Time Lawyering This impact episode podcast features Brett Durand, Legal Operations Director at Sempra, and our host for this podcast is Elevate’s COO and General Counsel, Steve Harmon. Brett and Steve discuss implementing positive change, featuring two projects at Sempra, implementing iManage, and adopting Elevate’s invoice review solution. 00:55 Brett Durand from patent law to audits to legal tech and legal operations. 01:44 Implementing change and iManage. 03:17 The cloud...
Aug 29, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 56
From the Mailroom to the Boardroom, You Have To Connect With the Humans In this Impact episode, Aarash Darroodi, Fender's General Counsel and Executive Vice President, and Elevate's COO and General Counsel, Steve Harmon, discuss implementing change, specifically the need to insist and engage to ensure inclusion and diversity within legal. The conversation continues with the discussion on legal professionals as business leaders and the recent appointment of legal leaders to executive business rol...
Jun 06, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Using Data, Implementing Change, and Improving Productivity The Impact podcast you're about to hear features Senior Director and Head of Legal Operations at Twilio, Andy Krebs, and Steve Harmon, Elevate's COO and General Counsel. Steve, Andy, and Elevate CMO Nicole Giantonio discuss planning for and executing a strategy to establish Twilio as a highly efficient world-class law department. 00:41 Andy shares comments on his career journey, including 21 years at Intel - from managing wafers to buil...
May 02, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 54
How many contract templates is the correct number? This Impact Podcast features Mike Russell, the Head of Global Legal Operations for Expedia Group, and Steve Harmon, Elevate's COO and General Counsel. Mike and Steve discuss two change initiatives and the impacts of those changes. The first outlines the deconstruction and rebuilding of litigation processes for a large manufacturing organisation. The second involves the process review and automation of buy-side contracts at Expedia. 01:01 Listen ...
Mar 14, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 53
The Commute and the Hybrid Work Model In the second two-part podcast series, Director Paula Forbes talks with Daniel Hogan, an Engagement Manager in our flexible legal resourcing who leads our Asia pack initiatives from Australia. Paula and Daniel touch on trends they’re seeing today and what’s next in legal resourcing. [01:13] Work from home, return to the office, and hybrid work models – with office downsizing and talent preference – options and the hybrid work model *might* be here to stay. [...
Dec 13, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Start Smart When It Comes to Your CLM Implementation Executing your CLM implementation smart is the topic of this lively podcast. Listen in and hear how the CLM market has changed the world of corporate contracting. Join two of the industry’s most knowledgeable resources, Bernadette Bulacan, Chief Evangelist at Icertis and Kami Paulsen, Managing Director at Elevate, for this conversation. 01:25 Meet Bernadette and Kami. 02:25 L egal ops teams cut their teeth on technology. Today those learnings ...
Aug 16, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Don’t Panic and Take a Deep Breath. An Expert series podcast, this episode covers data breaches from three angles – legal, technology, and services. Our host for this podcast is James Manari, a Vice President at Elevate, and our three industry experts introduce themselves at the beginning of the podcast. [00:47] Meet our guests: Melissa Ventrone, the Business Unit Leader for the Privacy and Cybersecurity team at Clark Hill; Adi Elliott, is the COO at Canopy Software; and Megan Silverman, is a Di...
Apr 12, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Australia and Others Practicing More Flexibly. This Expert series podcast highlights two leaders from Elevate's flexible legal resourcing business, ElevateFlex. Elevate Director, Paula Forbes, talks with Dan Hogan, an ElevateFlex Engagement Manager, leading our Asia-Pac Initiatives for Australia. Paula and Dan touch on two unique years, trends they are seeing today, and what's next in legal resourcing.[00:47] Extensive lockdowns have marred the Australian market for legal resourcing. [02:47] Aus...
Mar 15, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Creating a Simplified Customer Experience Late in 2021, Elevate was the first law company to be granted an Alternative Business Structure license in the US by the Arizona Supreme Court. This Expert podcast features Elevate's CEO Liam Brown, our General Counsel, Steve Harmon and the Co-founders and Partners in Elevate's law firm, Nicole Auerbach and Pat Lamb. Crispin Passmore hosts this podcast episode. Crispin has been a resource to Elevate, consulting on our SRA ABS license in the UK and our AB...
Feb 15, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Get To the Point of Peak Value, Then Move On Please enjoy this Next Normal Leadership series episode featuring Elevate's Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talking with Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, Head of Legal Operations at Intel and the president of CLOC, Mike Haven. Liam and Mike discuss the different areas of life that require leadership, the value in followership, and balancing proactive strategic work with reactive tactical work. [00:44] Say hello to Mike Haven and hear how he’s...
Feb 01, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Elevate Is Running a Differentiated Race. With great pleasure, we share this podcast episode featuring members of the Elevate corporate management team and our functional leadership. The topics covered stem from Elevate having completed ten years providing consulting, technology, and services in the legal industry, and the occasion of Elevate reaching $100M in revenue, which will occur in 2022. What is enlightening about the voices you'll hear in this recording is the confidence built on their e...
Jan 11, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Trying to Package Privilege This podcast episode features Elevate President John Croft talking with the CEO and founder of the 93% Club, Herbert Smith Freehills' associate, Sophie Pender. Sophie describes her background, education experience and the work of the 93% Club to clear a path for legal professionals from non-traditional socio-economic backgrounds. [00:43] A person's socio-economic background isn't immediately noticeable when you meet them. [06:27] The 93% Club is a nationwide student c...
Dec 14, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Rid Your Lawyers of Transactional Work - And Make Your Budget Go Further We’re pleased to share this Impact Podcast featuring an Elevate customer implementing transformative change. In this episode, Elevate Vice President Jake Hills talks with Strategic Resource Operations, Senior Manager GAT Legal Operations at Intel, Andy Krebs. Andy and Jake discuss ground-breaking legal cost savings initiatives at Intel. ‘Everyone is concerned about offending their law firms by bringing up analytics. Intel h...
Dec 07, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 44
A Race to the Bottom Welcome to an Expert series podcast featuring our former colleague and head of our eDiscovery and document review business, John Reikes. John is now the CEO of High Impact, a studio which specializes in litigation-related graphics. On this podcast, John talks with eDiscovery leader Jeff Fehrman, Vice President at Reveal Brainspace. Jeff and John discuss eDiscovery pricing, flipping the funnel on document review and partnership. [00:53] John sets the stage for our conversatio...
Nov 02, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Hours and Hours of Boredom Filled With Sheer Seconds of Terror Welcome to a special edition of the Elevate.Together.Podcast. Inside the Engine Room, where we highlight the stories and people who help bring you Elevate's award-winning products and services. Our host for this series is Dr. Daniel Katz, Vice President of Data Science and Innovation at Elevate. His guest today is our Elevate colleague, Julian Cagadas. [00:50] Let's meet Julian… [02:12] Someone has to answer the red phone but rest as...
Oct 26, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 42
A Legal Team Took on the Might of the Post Office This Impact series podcast episode features Elevate's Vice President of Get Shit Done, Stephen Allen, talking with James Hartley, the National Head of Litigation and Disputes Advisory at Freeths. Stephen and James review HUGE complex litigation that resulted in success for the Freeths team - on behalf of a significant group of claimants. Elevate gets a mention for the AI, data analysis, and document management assistance we provided to accelerate...
Oct 12, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Technology, Process, Content and People Stephen Allen, Vice President of Get Shit Done at Elevate, had the pleasure of hosting a talk with Dr. Roger Strathausen and Elevate’s Rob Couch. Dr. Roger Strathausen is a business consultant and acting Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Liquid Legal Institute, a non-profit association committed to promoting digitalisation in the legal industry. Rob Couch is a managing director of Consulting, focused on the contracting and CLM practice at Elevate....
Oct 05, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Constantly Loop and Improve Tracey Yurko is the Chief Legal Officer for Bridgewater Associates. Bridgewater is a global macro hedge front located in Westport, Connecticut, with 150 billion dollars of assets under management. [01:14] Tracey's role, leading the hedge fund legal department. [04:18] Her role has evolved over the last year. [06:57] ‘There's a whole bunch of work that needs to get done, we can't ignore it for loftier explorations.’ [07:35] Place value on innovation. Constantly loop an...
Sep 14, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Innovation is a sum of steps and tweaks. Part of our Next Normal leadership series, this episode features Elevate's Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talking with Reena SenGupta, CEO and creator of FT Innovative Lawyers. Reena and Liam talk about leadership, innovation, and becoming digital. Reena leads RSG consulting, the FT Innovative Lawyers Programme, and is a special membership advisor to the Digital Legal Exchange. [01:24] In 2004, innovation and lawyers did not ever go together. [03:46] Movin...
Aug 31, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 38
The Accelerating Use of Analytics. Welcome to another edition of Inside the Engine Room with Dan Katz, Vice President of Data Science and Innovation at Elevate. The Inside, the Engine Room series, focuses on the stories and people who bring Elevate's award-winning products and services to our customers. For this episode, Dan is joined by Warren Agin, the Managing Director of Products here at Elevate. [00:46] A one-minute description of Warren’s SME and data scientist role at Elevate. [02:08] War...
Aug 10, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Do the Right Thing. This podcast episode is part of our Expert series featuring Elevate's, Steven Allen, Vice President of Get Shi*t Done, talking with Susan Bright, Global Managing Partner for Diversity and Inclusion and Responsible Business at Hogan Lovells. Susan and Steven discuss innovation, creating change, ESG, and Diversity and Inclusion. [01:05] Susan has a passion for diversity and inclusion. [02:53] Project Redefine became about engagement. [04:48] When your business is performing wel...
Aug 03, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Celebrating A New Decade. In celebration of our tenth anniversary, Elevate brought 9 of our co-founders together for a conversation. This 15 min podcast episode includes highlights from that discussion. [00:27] Listen in as Kunoor Chopra reflects on early discussions to join Elevate and the essential and immediate support of those first customers [02:09] Pratik Patel, VP of Innovation, comments on an immediately shared vision, a humble beginning, and our mission to move the industry forward [03:...
Jul 11, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Just do it. In this episode, industry colleague and former Elevate leader Jon Kenton interviews KWM's Michelle Mahoney and Elevate's Pratik Patel. Jon, Michelle, and Pratik discuss structured innovation and executing an experimentation phase to work through steps, including transition to BAU. [00:48] Our guests start by agreeing on what innovation is… [03:01] Applying rigor and structure. A new, more scientific, evidence-based approach. [06:01] Eight steps broken into four and four. The first fo...
Jun 29, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 34
The Power of Data. In this episode, Stephen Allen, VP of Get Sh*t Done at Elevate, talks with Dion Harrington, Chief of Legal Operations at Rio Tinto, about outside counsel management and AFAs. Programs that have resulted in real savings for Rio Tinto, including $2M in savings on a single matter - and $10M in savings, program-wide in 2020. [01:56] Data enabled us to focus on bottlenecks, driving transparency and accountability. [05:03] During 2020, as every other function had to deliver hard sav...
Jun 15, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 33
This podcast episode is part of our Impact Series, featuring Elevate customers implementing transformative change. In this episode, Elevate's Stephen Allen, Vice President of Get Shit Done at Elevate, talks with John Hurley, the COO of the law firm, Foley & Lardner. [01:39] Today, Foley & Lardner has go-to-market swagger [03:07] If it’s not broken why change it? 30% of Foley’s clients have been with the firm for over 30 years. [05:42] John sees his role as leading continuous change manag...
Jun 08, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In this episode, Matt Todd, Vice President of Elevate’s flexible legal resourcing business, ElevateFlex, talks with Geoffrey Vance, a partner in Perkins Coie’s litigation practice and firmwide chair of the E-Discovery Services and Strategy practice. Geoff and Matt talk about the rollout and adoption of the ElevateFlex model within Perkins. [00:58] Scale with a few days’ notice to meet client requests. [02:49] The instinctive reaction is to question the quality of talent. [04:31] Elevate is using...
May 18, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 31
In this episode, Elevate's, Stephen Allen, VP of Get Sh*t Done, talks with James Touzel, a partner in the UK law firm TLT. James leads the Future of Law practice, a multi-disciplinary team, brought together to solve problems for clients with an emphasis on legal technology, legal transformation, and operations. [01:30] It's about delivering the best way that you can and anticipating future client needs. [04:38] O ur collaboration with LegalSifter brought the ability to create new modules based o...
May 04, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 30
In this episode, Elevate’s Stephen Allen, Vice President, Get Sh*t Done, talks with Helena Samaha, the President, and CEO of Lex Mundi. Lex Mundi is the world´s largest law firm network, providing information to its member firms about developments in local and global law. [01:17] Lex Mundi – the who, what, and why. [02:30] Helena’s view on innovation and strategy. [04:40] Lex Mundi is evolving – talent and technology. [07:42] Equisphere – a solution to coordinate global delivery across countries...
Apr 20, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 29
