In this episode, Jake Hills, Vice President, Legal Operations at Elevate, talks with Gareth Hughes, Director of Strategy at the international law firm Reed Smith. Gareth and Jake talk about implementing widespread change, specifically restructuring law firm processes to meet today's efficiency-conscious customers' needs. [01:08] Driving innovation, embedding technology, and process design - it's Reed Smith's DNA [02:03] Clients were telling us they want accelerated delivery [04:09] "Let's think ...
Apr 06, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 28
This Next Normal series podcast features Elevate's Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talking with Eric Laughlin, the CEO of Agiloft, a contract lifecycle management software company. Liam and Eric cover change management, keeping up with technology, and adopting both within legal. [00:55] “ I've been in legal and legal tech for most of my career. I feel fortunate to have ended up as the CEO of Agiloft." [02:27] Agiloft is a no-code platform solely focused on CLM with 700 customers. [06:45] Giving to...
Mar 30, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 27
This podcast episode is part of our Impact Series, featuring Elevate customers implementing transformative change. Kunoor Chopra, Vice President of Legal Services at Elevate, and Tashmin Ali, a Senior Commercial Attorney with Elevate's Contract Services Business, talk with Elizabeth Miller, Head of Legal Operations at Dolby Laboratories. [01:00] With inconsistent coordination and communication between stakeholders – Dolby needed to implement change. [03:39] Giving the stakeholders a voice in the...
Mar 23, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Welcome to the second episode of the 'Inside the Engine Room' series on the Elevate.Together.Podcast. Our host is Elevate's Dan Katz, Vice President, Data Science Innovation at Elevate. Dan's guest for this episode is Kelly Marsh, Director, Product Development at Elevate. Kelly describes her experience as part of legal tech's evolution, including the specific role Product Managers play. Don't miss the few minutes Dan and Kelly spend on what's next for tech-enabled solutions for Law Departments a...
Mar 15, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 25
As part of our Expert Series featuring Elevate's President, John Croft, Joanne Monck, OBE shares her perspective as a transgender person navigating the world – at home, at work – and during COVID. [01:28] Joanne… [03:07] School life… [04:45] Family life… [07:31] A big decision and a multistep process. [10:35] Work-life… [13:09] "The ability to accept equality." [15:10] The importance of support networks to the transgender community. [16:04] How an employer can help. [18:08] The right to be treat...
Mar 09, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 24
This Next Normal leadership series podcast features the Chairman and CEO of Elevate, Liam Brown, and Varun Mehta, the CEO of FACTOR. FACTOR is a managed legal service provider. A real and engaging exchange between two law company CEOs on leadership. [00:44] Varun’s journey [03:18] Taking the CEO seat [07:01] The Pandemic CEO [09:40] The opportunity for law companies [11:55] Factor … an authentic brand [14:41] There is no reason Law Companies can’t be billion-dollar businesses [15:57] Mentorship ...
Mar 02, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 23
This Next Normal leadership series podcast features the Chairman and CEO of Elevate, Liam Brown, and Bill Horne, the CEO of Quovant. Quovant is a legal spend management and data analytics solution provider, clearly a competitor of Elevate. It's refreshing to hear this exchange between two experienced CEOs talking about leadership in these challenging times. [01:46] A career fixer, Bill enlightens us to his process and the path to becoming a fixer – not a role you see advertised [03:54] A surpris...
Feb 23, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Welcome to our Elevate Debate series. Featuring industry leaders and Elevate Experts supporting and defending an approach, a viewpoint, or a practice. This episode features Elevate co-founder and Head of Innovation, Pratik Patel, with Jason Barnwell, Microsoft, Assistant General Counsel, and leader of Modern. Modern is driving the strategy and execution to digitally transform and modernize Microsoft's legal department practices and ways of working. [01:22] Topic: If you're a general counsel and ...
Feb 16, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Welcome to the first episode of the 'Inside the Engine Room' series on the Elevate.Together.Podcast. Hosted by Elevate's Dan Katz, Vice President Data Science Innovation at Elevate. Dan's guest for this episode is Eric Detterman, Elevate's Vice President of Data Engineering and Solutions. Dan and Eric focus their discussion on the business of law problem resolution. [01:50] Eric is an economist with a statistical background [04:30] Statistical models for prediction – quantitative trading [09:15]...
Feb 02, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Elevate’s Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talks with Carolyn Herzog, EVP and General Counsel of ARM Limited, the worlds leading semiconductor and IP company. During this episode, Carolyn shares her career journey, a focus on culture and ethics. Why meeting people where they’re at is essential. Listen closely to the section on the value of feedback. Once again, we’re hearing a legal leader focused on business and enterprise thinking. [01:15] Speaking French and playing the violin… [03:36] The World...
Jan 26, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 19
This episode is part of our Next Normal leadership series featuring Elevate’s Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talking with Nick Humphrey, the Managing Partner at Hamilton Locke. Hamilton Locke is an agile corporate law firm - with offices in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. A firm established as an evolution of the legal industry focused on aligning its people with clients. Skeptical? 27 minutes from now – you won’t be. [01:40] Right place, right time [02:25] Nick interviews 100s of people on lead...
Jan 19, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 18
This Next Normal Leadership series podcast features Elevate'sElevate's Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talking with Jason Boehmig, CEO of Ironclad, a digital contracting platform for legal teams. During this episode, we learn why the Ironclad solution is not just another CLM and how Jason and his team are leading the transition from start-up to a thriving law company. Episode highlights include: 1. [01:44] – Ironclad traces back to Jason's early career on Wall Street 2. [02:38] – Legal professiona...
Jan 12, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 17
This Next Normal Leadership series podcast features Elevate's Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talking with Esther Cho, Shareholder and Chair of the Executive Committee at Keesal, Young & Logan. KYL is doing innovative work in financial services, maritime, environmental, employment, and complex business litigation. Esther took on her role as the Chair of the Executive Committee at KYL immediately before COVID and the need for a WFH directive. Esther has engaged in several firm initiatives in th...
Jan 05, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 16
This Next Normal Leadership series podcast features Elevate's Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talking with Danny Gilbert, the Managing Partner of Gilbert + Tobin. Gilbert + Tobin is a firm of over 830 persons with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. During this surprising episode, Liam and Danny cover BIG topics in a quick 20 minutes. Including leading during challenging and changing times, the need to embrace change - specifically technology, and meeting and exceeding expectations – as a lea...
Dec 15, 2020•21 min•Ep. 15
In this Expert Series episode, Elevate's President, John Croft, talks with Elevate's Global Head of Equitability and Inclusion, Jacquie Champagne, and Elevate's Vice President of Technology and Digital Consulting, Brian Kuhn. John, Jacquie, and Brian discuss a digitally enabled diversity, equitability, and inclusion strategy. Placing a focus on data, trends, insights, and actions. Identification adds complexity to the task on hand. Jacquie Champagne says there is a 'reliance on asking people to ...
Dec 08, 2020•19 min•Ep. 14
In this Expert Series episode, Elevate’s President, John Croft, talks with the Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Hogan Lovells, Bendita Cynthia Malakia. This is a real conversation on deliberate equitability, diversity and inclusion. Bendita and John touch on the need for change specifically on unconscious bias. They talk about recognizing our legal colleagues who are underrepresented, the key issues facing the legal industry, and the impact of diversity initiatives on business. Episode ...
Dec 01, 2020•29 min•Ep. 13
In this Next Normal podcast episode, Elevate’s Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talks with Elevate’s General Counsel and Secretary, Steve Harmon. A Co-founder of CLOC, Steve joined Elevate from Cisco in November of 2018. In this episode you’ll learn of Steve’s journey to Cisco and Elevate. His mission to push simplification and the importance of simplification in the business of law. Steve will elaborate on his non-legal duties as an executive leader - and offer insight into the CEO, General Counse...
Nov 24, 2020•32 min•Ep. 12
In this Next Normal podcast episode, Elevate’s Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talks with Monica Risam, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary of Lombard International, a global leader in wealth structuring solutions. Monica describes her career journey, the mentorship she received, and the leadership approach she embraced in this thoughtful conversation. Balancing kindness with getting things done - and a quote from Maya Angelou - this 25-minute episode is a must-listen for the lawyer transi...
Nov 17, 2020•27 min•Ep. 11
Law company Level Legal is focused on giving legal and corporate customers the best possible solutions, simply, efficiently and for the best value. As the Level Legal leader and CEO, Joey Seeber is focused on results and leading with optimism. In this Next Normal podcast episode, Elevate’s Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, talks with Joey about running a law company in 2020, the changes in the legal industry driving an accelerated pace, and Level Legal’s investment in infrastructure. Episode highlig...
Nov 10, 2020•17 min•Ep. 10
Richard Given thrives on re-thinking the way to provide legal services. As General Counsel and Company Secretary of 10X Future Technologies, a FinTech established to transform banking; he is responsible for corporate governance, partnership compliance, and best practices at 10x. In this Expert Series episode, Richard Given joins Elevate’s President, John Croft, to discuss deliberate equitability and inclusion. We're pleased to share this conversation between two white, non-diverse men talking di...
Nov 03, 2020•23 min•Ep. 9
Caryn Sandler, Partner and Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer at Gilbert + Tobin, joined our Impact Podcast Series to share her experience implementing a significant and disruptive document review unit. Her goal? Deliver the best document review solutions to clients. GT Docs is the name of this innovative, centralized document review unit and platform to support regulatory and litigation matters. In this episode, Stephen Allen, the VP of Get Sh*t Done at Elevate, and Caryn Sandler talk abo...
Oct 27, 2020•24 min•Ep. 8
Matt Fawcett, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer handles legal affairs worldwide at NetApp. Under his leadership, NetApp's digitally optimized legal department has earned several innovation awards. Elevate's Chairman and CEO, Liam Brown, and Matt cover the concept of digital work, the burnout some are experiencing as digital workers, and transitioning from lawyer to lawyer leader to business leader. Matt said – "Every Lawyer would do themselves a huge favor if t...
Oct 20, 2020•28 min•Ep. 7
Karen Klein, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Relativity and Liam Brown discuss legal professionals as leaders, identifying several reasons we're seeing legal leaders advancing within a business. In this episode, Karen elaborates on leadership traits of lawyer leaders – several of which were clearly (and naturally) on display in this conversation. Karen explains that to help make a best-informed business decision, a lawyer should provide a balanced view to management, influencing w...
Oct 12, 2020•26 min•Ep. 6
Dole Food Company, Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary – Jared Gale joins Next-Normal Leadership Series host - Liam Brown, Elevate’s CEO, to reflect on the general counsel role and the opportunity to be a business adviser with legal expertise. As an early career firm lawyer, Jared recalls working with a General Counsel fully engaged in the company’s business, participating in non-legal business decisions. After joining Dole Food Company, Jared similarly approached his in-ho...
Oct 06, 2020•25 min•Ep. 5
This episode features Liam Brown, Elevate’s CEO and Chairman, and Nicolette Henfrey, EVP, General Counsel and Company Secretary of the Intercontinental Hotels Group. Nicolette reflects on how IHG, a global hospitality company, managed rolling closures and the regulatory requirements for reopening. She talks about the New Normal and how IHG ensures their teams have the energy for the Next Normal. Nicolette joined IHG in 2001, her role includes overseeing the IHG approach to corporate governance, ...
Sep 29, 2020•25 min•Ep. 4
In this episode, host Nicole Giantonio welcomes Nick Humphrey, Managing Partner at Hamilton Locke, to talk about how Nick and his colleagues created a law firm with a structure and culture they call ‘THRIVE’. Nick and his team spent a couple of years on research and planning to develop “THRIVE” to build a firm that is both agile and lean; focuses on client and people experience. They have built a people-centric business by creating a vibrant culture that drives the best client experience. Nick e...
Sep 21, 2020•18 min•Ep. 3
This episode features Pratik Patel, the Head of Innovation at Elevate, and Joe Woods, COO at Lane Powell, a nearly 200 lawyer firm in the Pacific Northwest. Pratik and Joe talk about Technology, the transition to a work from home environment, and the results of effective technology implementation. Joe Woods describes his journey to COO, sharing insights and specifically how Lane Powell transitioned to remote work; including the centralization of billing processes and choosing the right partner. ...
Sep 14, 2020•22 min•Ep. 2
In this episode, Brian Kuhn, Vice President & General Manager of Elevate’s Digital Strategy & Solutions Business, joins host Nicole Giantonio to discuss digital design thinking, digital transformation - which represents one-third of all IT spend globally, - and that today’s organizations are using digital to get closer to end-users by accessing know-me insights. Brian said - "The machine will be a blunt instrument unless it incorporates the understanding of human beings who know those pr...
Aug 26, 2020•18 min•Ep. 1
Launching this September The Elevate.Together.Podcast. Voices of Change in the Business of Law. Each 20-minute weekly episode is an interview-style podcast with thought leaders from law departments, law firms, and law companies. We’re launching our podcast with episodes from our Expert Series; putting a spotlight on industry leaders executing bold positions. These Experts offer unfiltered viewpoints, practical insights, and suggest changes to implement now. Building on the success of our video p...
Jul 10, 2020•2 min
