Business of Law Podcast

“It’s pretty rare for a law firm to undertake something like this”  (Mike Fekete (Technology Partner and National Innovation lead @ Osler) and Jennifer Thompson (Head of Osler Works)).  Mike and Jennifer joined me for this podcast to discuss how Osler is driving innovation, building tools, and launching platform solutions with reusable elements to help … Continue reading "Osler Undertakes Legal Innovation"

“On the edge of the uncomfortable“. Words spoken by Chris Clearfield (Coach, author, consultant) as he reflects with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft) and Candice Carr (Senior Corporate Counsel, Storyteller at Microsoft) on tackling change and complexity. How do we get comfortable with the uncomfortable (the podcast in its entirety – no timestamps … Continue reading "Tackling Change & Complexity"

Join Modern CELA as we speak with Alan Gibson (Attorney, Business Developer at Microsoft) and Matt Kral (Director, Digital Risk Solutions at PwC) about their partnership in building predictive analytics tools. We know data is important. We know it helps us to make better decisions, spot trends, and mitigate risks. As an attorney, I always … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast – Predictive Analytics, Compliance and Risk"

In Part 2 of this 2-part series, Candice Carr speaks with Beth Henderson (Pro Bono Director and Senior Corporate Counsel at Microsoft) and Pablo Castro (Business Program Manager for CELA Programs at Microsoft) about the digital transformation story supporting an incredible pro bono initiative that tackles the right to information. First, Revisit Part 1 for refresher and … Continue reading "Business of Law: Protecting Journalists Part 2 (the part about digital transformation)"

In Part 1 of this 2-part series, Jason Barnwell speaks with Thomas Burke (Partner and Chair, Pro Bono & Social Impact Committee at Davis Wright Tremaine), Beth Henderson (Pro Bono Director and Senior Corporate Counsel at Microsoft), Sima Sarrafan (Senior Corporate Counsel at Microsoft), about their partnership in the “Protecting Journalists” pro bono program. Learn about the issue being solved … Continue reading "Protecting Journalists Pro Bono Program Part 1"

Microsoft’s Pro Bono program supports its employees in doing righteous work.  Jason Barnwell speaks with Beth Henderson (Pro Bono Director at Microsoft; Senior Corporate Counsel), Megan Yoshimura (Principal Corporate Counsel), and Jen Scully (Assistant General Counsel) about their experiences with various Microsoft Pro Bono programs. They discuss Beth’s unique role in an in-house counsel legal … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast – Microsoft’s Pro Bono Program, Dilley Detention, and Election Protection"

Nicola Shaver (Managing Director, innovation and knowledge, at the law firm Paul Hastings) was recently named 2020 Innovative Leader of the Year in the International Legal Technology Association’s Distinguished Peer Awards. Candice Carr (Senior Attorney, Storyteller, Modern CELA at Microsoft) sits with Nicola to discuss her innovative solution around empowering new attorneys with digital transformation skills … Continue reading "Business of Law-LegalTech University"

Kenneth Kozakura (Advisory Analytics & Automation Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers), Rob Greenall (Sr. Program Management Manager-Legal Operations at Microsoft), Tom Orrison (Director of Legal Operations at Microsoft) talk with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel-Modern CELA (Legal) at Microsoft Corporation) about the decision to partner with PwC [2:26], the kinds of digital transformation projects that the PwC … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-We have Robots!"

David Rudin (Assistant General Counsel – Open Source and Standards at Microsoft) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel-Modern Legal at Microsoft Corporation) about David’s path and interest in law [5:57], standard’s in open source [8:04], training process to become an attorney [8:55], big to small common ground [9:51], skill sets to solve the problem … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-How to Scale a Practice?"

Jeff Carr (race car driver, Manhattan Mixologist and former General Counsel) talks with Candice Carr (Senior Attorney, Storyteller, Modern Legal at Microsoft Corporation) and Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel, Modern Legal at Microsoft Corporation) about his journey through his career [0:50], business of law [4:46], role of general counsel within a business [8:12], progress with … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-How to run a Legal Department like a Business"

Melissa Prince (Chief Client Value and Innovation Officer at Ballard Spahr LLP), Sarah Happy (Director of Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence at Ballard Spahr LLP) and James Boyer (Director of Matter Management and Efficiency at Ballard Spahr LLP) talk to Candice Carr (Senior Attorney, Storyteller, Modern Legal at Microsoft) about Ballard Spahr’s LLP COVID-19 Legal … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast – Ballard Spahr’s COVID-19 Legal Response with Digital Transformation."

Clive Gringras (Head of Technology at CMS) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel-Modern Legal at Microsoft Corporation) about Clive’s path and interest in law [8:28], different view on law [10:04], greatest love is the law [10:58], seeing Microsoft from the inside [12:12], how decisions are made [14:56], what is judgement [19:31], value based billing … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Clive Gringras discusses an International Legal Practice Built for the Future"

A video version of this episode is available here. Krishna Sood (Senior Attorney Experiences and Devices Product Group at Microsoft) and Laura Ewbank (Senior Attorney AI & Research Product Group at Microsoft) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) and Devon Johnson (Business Program Manager at Microsoft) … Continue reading "The Business of Law Podcast-The Episode about Podcasts"

Joshua Kubicki (Chief Strategy Officer at Bold Duck), Kim Craig (Co-founder & Experience Designer at Bold Duck), Joe Nord (Attorney, Competition Law Group at Microsoft), and Grant Hewlett (Manager | Client Business & Advisory Solutions at Reed Smith LLP) talks with Rebecca Benavides (Director of Legal Business at Microsoft) about how we integrate design thinking … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Design Thinking"

Sarah Tansey (Legal Intern at Microsoft) and Craig Maughan (Legal Intern at Microsoft) talk with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about their experiences as early career legal professionals and their summer intern experience in Microsoft’s Legal Department, including: their backgrounds [2:43]; what skill sets are being … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Super Interns"

Martha Sperry (Director – Legal Operations & Analytics / Senior Counsel at Travelers) talks with Deborah Pursifull (Principal Program Manager at Microsoft), Amitabh Mukherjee (Principal Program Manager at Microsoft), Mahendra Kumar Arvapalli (Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft), Prasanna Balaraju (Senior Program Manager at Microsoft), and Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Building an Enterprise Ready Bot"

Danielle Johnston Holmes (Associate General Counsel of Patents at Microsoft Corporation) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) and offers an incredibly thoughtful retrospective on her 21 year tenure at Microsoft, including: why partnership with outside counsel matters [1:55]; her work leading patent portfolio development [3:00]; … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Danielle Johnston Holmes discusses how she crafted a career by owning her definition of success"

A video version of this episode is available. Lane Powell hosted a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellows Alumni Speaker Series event focused on Pathways to Leadership where Katina Thornock (LCLD 2014, Director, Corporate Counsel, Global Litigation at Starbucks Coffee Company) moderated a conversation among Caldwell Camero (LCLD 2014, Senior Global Trademark Counsel at … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-LCLD Fellows Alumni Speaker Series: Pathways to Leadership, hosted by Lane Powell"

Vedika Mehera (Innovation Advisor at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP), Aneesh Mehta (Attorney for Experiences and Devices Engineering Organization at Microsoft, South Asian Bar Association of North America President), and Lydia Petrakis (Attorney for Experiences and Devices Engineering Organization at Microsoft) talk about the process of fostering ground-up innovation in legal business focused organizations. This … Continue reading "Business Law Podcast-Orrick and Microsoft Legal Productivity Hackers discuss innovation and Microsoft Teams"

Microsoft Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy demonstrated a proof of concept project called Tagulous at CLOC’s 2019 Las Vegas Institute. This project is designed to instrument communications like email with text tags to create a flexible and extensible approach that enables data collection and workflow automations. It allows organization to develop domain specific training sets … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Tagulous Demo for CLOC Las Vegas Institute 2019"

Reshmi Paul Choudhury (Program Manager at Integreon), Danielle Haugland (Director at Integreon), Tony Breidenbach (Vice President at Integreon), Dave Schell (Contracting Process Architect at Microsoft), Rob Greenall (Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation), and Tom Orrison (Director of Legal Operations at Microsoft Corporation) talk about Integreon and Microsoft’s decade of partnership. Integreon is a critical … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Integreon and Microsoft Legal Operations discuss long-term partnership"

Gloria Hong (Director, Corporate Counsel, Litigation, Law & Corporate Affairs at Starbucks Coffee Company, 2016 LCLD Fellow), Jennifer Ivan (Assistant General Counsel Enterprise Experience and Management and Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance/Diversity and Inclusion Lead for Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs at Microsoft Corporation), and Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Gloria Hong and Jennifer Ivan talk about incentives for outside counsel diversity"

Karen Kepler (Law Procurement Manager at Cargill) talks with Rebecca Benavides (Director of Legal Business at Microsoft Corporation) and Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about the process of designing and building an outside counsel panel and how to ensure outside counsel bring diverse teams to our … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Karen Kepler and Rebecca Benavides talk about outside counsel selection"

Elke Suber (Assistant General Counsel of Microsoft Store at Microsoft Corporation, 2011 LCLD Fellow) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation, 2016 LCLD Fellow) about why she became an attorney (0:45); how she built her litigation practice after law school (8:45); how she built a new intellectual … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Elke Suber talks about business and career development"

Kate Ross (Assistant General Counsel of Gaming at Microsoft Corporation) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about her many experiences as a counselor (1:00), the very special artifact that is the source of her powers (4:00), why she became a lawyer (4:30), the breadth of … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Kate Ross talks about effective teamwork"

Jon Palmer (Associate General Counsel of Litigation at Microsoft Corporation) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about his experiences in big law firms (1:30), his path to Microsoft (4:00), how and why he partners multiple outside counsel on complex matters (6:30), how he manages outside … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Jon Palmer talks about teaming outside counsel"

Isabella Fu (Associate General Counsel of Intellectual Policy Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about why she chose an undergraduate physics degree (2:00), decision making (4:00), designing decisions and products for change (8:15), avoiding loss aversion bias (12:00), why she went … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Isabella Fu talks about decision making and leadership"

Demonstrates how to publish a video using Microsoft Azure. I start by downloading a video from Microsoft Stream. That video was created by recording a screen share meeting in Microsoft Teams. That video was automatically uploaded by Teams to Stream when the meeting finished. I uploaded the video I downloaded to Azure so people outside my organization can view … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Upload video to Azure blob storage"

Demonstrates how to import an existing Microsoft Flow that creates To-Do items from tags in emails you send.

Jay Christian (Microsoft Corporation Attorney) walks through the creation of a Microsoft Flow recipe that sends notices to a Microsoft Team when new blog post entries are published.

Jae Um (Founder and Executive Director of Six Parsecs) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about her work as a legal business strategist, how she creates the rich and data driven content she produces so efficiently, her thoughts on the systematic issues that impact innovation of … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Jae Um talks about legal innovation"

Rebecca Benavides (Director of Legal Business at Microsoft Corporation) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about her career as a chameleon in the legal profession, how she thinks about value in the delivery of legal services, and what law firms can do to delight Microsoft’s legal … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Rebecca Benavides talks about the business of law"

Billy Rusteen (Cloud and AI Platform Attorney at Microsoft Corporation) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about his practice counseling Microsoft’s Developer Tools business and his legal career journey traversing insurance coverage, asbestos litigation, and commercial transactions, and technology product counseling. He offers helpful insights … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Billy Rusteen talks about his path to in-house counsel"

Tom Orrison (Director of Legal Operations at Microsoft Corporation) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about what he expects from his tools and processes partners in the future. Specifically: accessing third party tools using APIs (application programming interfaces); and direct access to the rich data that … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Tom Orrison talks about the future state of legal operations process and tools partnerships"

Judy Jennison (Partner at Perkins Coie) and David Daggett (Partner at Davis Wright Tremaine) talk with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about how they partner across firm boundaries to better serve their client. They also discuss how they want to evolve their firms’ business models to … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Judy Jennison and David Daggett talk about being law firm relationship partners (part 2)"

Judy Jennison (Partner at Perkins Coie) and David Daggett (Partner at Davis Wright Tremaine) talk with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about what it means to be a relationship partner for institutional clients like Microsoft. This is part 1 of a 2 part podcast.

Makalika Naholowa’a (Head of Trademarks at Microsoft Corporation) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about the cost of law school, the role premium law firm salaries play in making that cost more accessible, the cognition that makes $190k starting associate salaries sound extreme, and what … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Makalika Naholowa’a of Microsoft talks about the cost of law school"

Lisa Konie (Senior Director of Legal Operations at Adobe Systems Incorporated) talks with Jason Barnwell (Assistant General Counsel of Legal Business, Operations, and Strategy at Microsoft Corporation) about the implications for corporate legal departments of outside counsel law firms moving to $190,000 per year base salaries for first year associate attorneys.

This demonstration of how to deploy a web chat enabled bot powered by QnAMaker.ai to Microsoft Azure was prepared for a demonstration given at Davis Wright Tremaine’s 2017 Download event (http://aka.ms/dwt). The video shows you how to deploy a simple bot in fewer than 10 minutes using Microsoft Azure. Note that the Bot Framework is … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Deploying a Basic Web Chat Bot to Microsoft Azure"

This demonstration of how to create a basic AI (natural language processing) powered service that can provide static answers to basic questions was prepared for a demonstration given at Davis Wright Tremaine’s 2017 Download event (http://aka.ms/dwt). The video shows you how to create a simple bot brain in fewer than 8 minutes using Microsoft Azure … Continue reading "Business of Law Podcast-Creating a Bot Brain using QnAMaker.ai, a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service"

This episode offers a tech tip that shows you how to set alerts on file changes in SharePoint Online that can help you stay aware of your team’s work.

This episode offers a tech tip that shows you how to use Outlook to help you manage RSS feeds.