This week on Legaltech Week, we share a moment of silence to remember Gayle McCormick O’Connor, a stalwart of the legal technology industry who died last Sunday. We also discuss the remarkable story of an indicted former legaltech founder whose published a book claiming he was an FBI mole. Other stories this week include: a legal analyst gets caught with his pants down, Baker McKenzie launches an AI project to anticipate clients’ legal needs, legaltech veterans launch major growth capital fund a...
Oct 30, 2020•52 min
This week on Legaltech Week, our panel of legal tech journalists offer their views on the virtual version of the Clio Cloud Conference. Plus, our panel of legal journalists discuss the week’s top stories, including a new global directory of legaltech, a new ethics opinion on tech competence, a $60 million investment in discovery company DISCO, and more. This week’s panelists are: Nicole Black , legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Victoria Hudgins , reporter for Legalte...
Oct 30, 2020•54 min
This week on Legaltech Week, Nicole Bradick, founder and CEO of legal tech design firm Theory and Principle, joins us to discuss Read the F*ing Directions , a voter education site developed for Spread the Vote . She also gives a preview of the upcoming Justice Tech & Design Gathering . Plus, our panel of legal journalists discuss the week’s top stories, including the glut of virtual conferences, a report on captive ALSPs at Am Law 100 firms, new ‘Market Standards’ from LexisNexis for data-dr...
Oct 09, 2020•58 min
This week on Legaltech Week, our panel of legal journalists discuss a range of stories. Among this week’s stories: the Legalweek New York conference makes it official, going virtual and rebranding as Legalweek(year); two legal industry veterans launch LexFusion, aiming to change the legal tech sales paradigm; a law firm battles to use a trade name in states that still prohibit it; Minnesota launches a pilot program for paraprofessionals to provide legal services; and a Good Housekeeping seal of ...
Oct 02, 2020•50 min
This week on Legaltech Week, our panel of legal journalists discuss a range of stories. Among them: the acquisition of practice management company Rocket Matter, scalability vs. headcount at ALSPs, the challenge of naming a legaltech company, Fragomen’s acquisition of SimpleCitizen, Texas judiciary embraces long-term virtual hearings, man sentenced to death via Zoom, U.K. returns to lockdown, and the continuing foibles of the bar exam. This week’s panelists are: Nicole Black , legal technology c...
Sep 25, 2020•49 min
After a week off, our panel of legal journalists has a lot of news to catch up on. Among this week’s stories: the acquisition of MyCase, the rise of deposition tech, the new Lexis+, Casetext extends its AI brief writing, Winston & Strawn’s new virtual support center, SCOTUS telephonic arguments, WFH ethics opinions, self-driving car homicide, and Goodnight Moon meets court tech. Plus, we consider the future of legal tech conferences. This week’s panelists are: Nicole Black , legal technology...
Sep 20, 2020•59 min
Fastcase CEO and cofounder Ed Walters joins us as a guest to discuss his company’s acquisition of the innovative California legal research company Judicata . Plus, after a week off, our panel of legal journalists has a lot of news to catch up on. Among this week’s stories: Arizona approves nonlawyer ownership of law firms, ILTA wraps up its first virtual annual conference, testing finds risks in bar exam software, a bank puts out a legal tech product, and Litera and iManage both make notable acq...
Sep 05, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Our panel of legal journalists discusses the week’s top stories in legal technology and innovation. This week’s topics include: a look-ahead to ILTA>ON, the virtual version of the world’s largest legal tech conference; BlackBerry, once the favorite of lawyers, is building a 5G smartphone; legal AI company Kira leverages its product for police reform; Texas lawyers say no to virtual jury trials; the crimes AI could create; and Thomson Reuters’ new AI-driven brief-checking tool for judges. This...
Aug 21, 2020•49 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Our panel of legal journalists discusses the week’s top stories in legal technology and innovation. This week’s topics include: the Utah Supreme Court approves sweeping regulatory changes to address access to justice, e-discovery company Reveal acquires AI company NexLP, Biglaw lawyers flock to distributed firms, the Wall Street Journal issues a robot lawyer scare, and a possibly more palpable purpose for facial recognition technology. This week’s panelists are: Victoria Hudgins , reporter for L...
Aug 14, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 12
A panel of legal journalists discusses the week’s top stories in legal technology and innovation. This week’s topics include: how Zoom helped a law firm avoid layoffs, new data on the pandemic’s impact on law practices, technical difficulties for online bar exams, big tech companies face the fire on Capitol Hill, ‘legal deserts’ and how tech can help, and New Zealand sets standards for algorithms. This week’s panelists are: Nicole Black , legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at My...
Jul 31, 2020•59 min•Season 2Ep. 11
The Legaltech Week panel of journalists tackles another week of legal news. Among the top stories we discuss this week: fun with mute buttons, civil rights edition; the privacy and due process dangers of Zoom courts; excessive attorneys’ fees in a data breach case; and a new legal news service from Thomson Reuters. This week’s panelists are: Nicole Black , legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Victoria Hudgins , reporter for Legaltech News; Molly McDonough , media consul...
Jul 24, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 10
The Legaltech Week panel of journalists convenes for another look back at the week’s top stories in legal technology and innovation. Among the stories they discuss this week are a Law.com series on the machines influencing criminal justice decisions, ROSS’s response to Thomson Reuters’ lawsuit, an EU court quashes the Privacy Shield, a bail hearing illegally recorded, and the California bar exam goes virtual. This week’s panelists are: Nicole Black , legal technology columnist and legaltech evan...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 9
The Legaltech Week panel of journalists is back for a look at the week’s top stories in legal technology and innovation. Among the topics this week are a new legal research service from LexisNexis, concerns about self-driving cars and crime, another naked lawyer on Zoom, possible backlash against DoNotPay, law firms commit to a data-driven diversity initiative, a look at the law firm of the future, and the legal tech companies that received PPP loans. This week’s panelists are: Nicole Black , le...
Jul 10, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 8
On this episode of Legaltech Week, we invite the audience to put their questions to our panel of legaltech journalists. Among the questions we answer: How best to pitch us with a story, what’s our favorite type of story, how to break into legal journalism, how to get assignments as a freelance writer, and the worst pitch any of us received. This week, a new panelist joins our line-up: Victor Li , assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal. The other panelists are Nicole Black , legal technolog...
Jun 30, 2020•52 min•Season 2Ep. 7
The Legaltech Week panel of journalists is joined this week by Jack Newton , cofounder and CEO of Clio , to discuss new research findings on COVID-19’s impact on the legal industry. With findings based on both anonymized customer data and surveys of lawyers and consumers, the research suggests business may be picking up for law firms, but there are still reasons for concern. Newton discusses the findings and takes questions from the panel and audience. Also, our panelists discuss their top stori...
Jun 19, 2020•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 6
The Legaltech Week panel of journalists is joined this week by Rohan Pavuluri , cofounder and CEO of bankruptcy platform Upsolve , to discuss his recent article arguing that rules prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law -- rules that he says give lawyers a monopoly on providing legal services -- effectively work to promote racial inequality. Also, we’re joined by a new panelist this week: Victoria Hudgins , reporter for Legaltech News , for our usual roundtable on the week’s top stories. Th...
Jun 12, 2020•56 min•Season 2Ep. 5
At the close of a week in which issues of racism and racial injustice have consumed the nation and the world, we abandon our usual news round-up for an in-depth conversation about diversity in law. Joining us to share his insights and perceptions is Bryan Parker , cofounder and CEO of Legal Innovators , a startup dedicated to changing the hiring, pricing and diversity of junior legal talent. Parker joins this week’s line-up of panelists: Nicole Black , legal technology columnist and legaltech ev...
Jun 05, 2020•59 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Our weekly Legaltech Week journalist roundtable, rounding up the top legaltech news, kicks off this time with news that one of our panelists was a contestant on Cash Cab . And if you don’t know what that is, then you’ll have to listen to the episode. Joining host Bob Ambrogi this week are Nicole Black , legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill , editor in chief, Legal IT Insider ; Molly McDonough , media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ...
May 30, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 3
The Legaltech Week journalist roundtable is back, with a week-in-review discussion by leading legaltech journalists from the U.S. and U.K. who discuss and dissect the week’s top stories. Joining host Bob Ambrogi this week are Nicole Black , legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill , editor in chief, Legal IT Insider ; Molly McDonough , media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; and Joe Patrice , editor, Above the Law. Among the ...
May 22, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Legaltech Week takes a turn in a new direction this week, presenting a week-in-review discussion by leading legaltech journalists from the U.S. and U.K. who discuss and dissect the week’s top stories. Joining host Bob Ambrogi are Nicole Black , legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill , editor in chief, Legal IT Insider ; Molly McDonough , media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice , editor, Above the Law; and Zach W...
May 20, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Top stories this week include sweeping proposed liberalization of lawyer regulation, a watershed Supreme Court victory for open-law advocates, a national COVID-19 pro bono portal born out of a unique collaboration among the ABA and legaltech companies, and the first public statements by Epiq Global’s CEO on its ransomware attack and layoffs. Our guest this week is Mark C. Palmer, chief counsel of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Story Sources (hyperlinks available at www...
May 02, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This week’s top story is the release of the first ethics opinion to outline and address the issues raised by working from home due to the coronavirus crisis. We’re joined by an author of that opinion, Pennsylvania lawyer Daniel Siegel, to discuss its key points. Also this week: the first major virtual legal conference of the coronavirus era is held, ILTA’s CEO says its annual ILTACON conference is a go for August, and a contracts-technology company, saying corporations face a state of emergency,...
Apr 18, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Top stories this week include more layoffs in legal tech as Epiq, suffering the double blow of a ransomware attack and the pandemic is reported to let go as many as 200. Also in the news, cutbacks at other legal tech companies, a report on the state of legaltech Down Under, Fastcase says its taking a bigger cut of the BigLaw market, former Atrium lawyers land at a law firm, case management company Filevine makes its first acquisition, and Wolters Kluwer releases a comprehensive free resource on ...
Apr 10, 2020•16 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Top stories this week include the first coronavirus casualties in legaltech as e-discovery company DISCO lays off staff. Also in the news: a new legal analytics product from LexisNexis, a virtual legal conference to benefit charity, and a rash of notable hires. Finally, we’re joined from London by Richard Tromans, legal economist and founder of the blog Artificial Lawyer , for his perspective on the pandemic’s potential impact on the legaltech industry. Story Sources Disco layoffs (1:18): Legal ...
Apr 03, 2020•16 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Top stories this week include a legal profession in lockdown and how legal technology companies are stepping up to help with offers of free products and services. Among the most notable: Clio’s commitment of $1 million to a disaster relief fund. Also in the news: Litera makes another acquisition, Casetext raises new funding to drive development of its brief analysis product, and vLex rolls out a new legal research platform in the UK.
Mar 31, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 1
