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We wrap up this season with a long-time friend of the show, Allen Rodriguez. is a legal product development strategist who has been serving the legal industry for over 20 years. Over the course of his career, Allen has built a reputation for creating innovative #legalservices products as well as developing highly effective law firm business and marketing strategies. Allen is a valued speaker on the topics of law marketing, legal services product development, and future of law issues. He has provided consulting and marketing services for companies such as McKinsey & Co., Coleman Research Group, LexisNexis, and Littler. Before starting The Singular Law Group under the Arizona alternative business structure for #lawfirms, Allen founded law innovation agency ONE400 and was the Director of Attorney Services at LegalZoom. While there, his work contributed to a substantial portion of overall revenue at the company and helped LegalZoom move from a provider of “do-it-yourself” legal services to a comprehensive legal solutions provider, incorporating attorney-fulfilled work across all U.S. jurisdictions. Additionally, this was a special evening event on #VeteransDay and Allen is a United States Army veteran. We were honored to have him join to tell us about the Singular Law Group on such a special day. For those considering building a law firm in Arizona, that allows for non-lawyer ownership, you're going to want to catch this replay. Allen doesn't only give us the vision of Singular Law Group, he also lays out the exact steps he went through to apply to the Arizona bar and the efforts it took to be approved to offer legal services under the ABS model. Thanks for spending time with us this season... we'll be back in the future! More about Allen Rodriguez & Singular Law Group: Allen Rodriguez on Twitter: https://twitter.com/allen_rodriguez. Allen Rodriguez on LinkeIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenrodr... The Singular Law Group: https://singular.law/. ONE400: https://one400.com/.

In a change of pace for our show, we do not cover a legaltech startup in this episode. Instead, we take a look at The Effectiveness Project, which is a legal technology collaboration through the Legal Technology Core Competencies Certification Coalition and a variety of legal technology vendors. The Effectiveness Project is an international working group of legal professionals, with support from LTC4, collaborating to establish best practices and baseline skills for creating effective legal documents. They are focusing, at present, on what is called Document Competency. The first release from The Effectiveness Project, is the Document Competency Best Practices Guide. This guide is free and can be downloaded right now. See the link below. The Best Practices Guide was created with the understanding that the legal document-creation process is highly individualized. As such, The Effectiveness Project sought to provide guidance that is specific, yet flexible. To meet that goal, the Best Practices Guide is divided into drafting stages so it can be used as a modular part of a workflow. Two participants in the collaboration are friends, and former guests, of LegalTechLIVE. They joined us to describe the goals and mission of The Effectiveness Project. Ivy Grey is the Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Wordrake. Ivy has been the driving force behind the effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of document creation through The Effectiveness Project. Chris Cangero is the Chief Executive Officer of DocStyle, LLC and another of the leading voices behind push for better document creation via The Effectiveness Project. Take a listen and download the Best Practices Guide. Connect with our guests and get involved!

FairClaims is an easy alternative to court. With nearly a decade of experience as a leading online dispute resolution provider, we've resolved thousands of disputes online. We believe everyone deserves a chance to be heard and are here to help. Here is how it works: 1) Tell us about your dispute. We will invite the other side to resolve it and assign a qualified and friendly Arbitrator. 2) You will upload evidence and have a live phone or video hearing where the Arbitrator will hear both sides of the story. 3) Your Arbitrator will issue a decision within 8 days of your hearing. This decision is legally binding and enforceable. Stephen Kane is a former practicing lawyer who has been working on this #accesstojustice solution since before 2016. As an attorney, he saw how unfair the legal system can be for both individuals and businesses. As a result, he built a platform where parties can be heard, regardless of who they are. Learn more about this online dispute resolution ( #ODR ) platform for binding arbitrations. In the discussion, we cover a variety of issues, from fundraising, to founding, and beyond. Sit down and watch and enjoy another discussion with a #legaltech founder. More about Stephen Kane & FairClaims: Stephen Kane on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephenlkane. Stephen Kane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenlkane. FairClaims on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fair_Claims. FairClaims website: https://www.fairclaims.com/.     SHOW LESS      

With award-winning technology, eCourtReporters gives attorneys and schedulers direct access to experienced, certified court reporters and legal videographers all across the country. Karen Renee owns Milwaukee Court Reporters and actively provides court reporting services. Graduated 2008 cum laude from Alfred State College, New York, associates degree. She was awarded Innovator of the Year from the State Bar of Wisconsin, Innovation Use of Technology from the National Court Reporters Association, and Bright New Idea award from the Governor's Business Plan Contest. Karen is a lifelong entrepreneur to say the least. In this episode, she tells a story about her introduction to the Uber app which inspired her idea to do the same thing with court reporting, as it has inspired a wide number of other technology innovations. There is a need for "gig" work and coordination. That's what eCourtReporters is offering to court reporters, legal videographers, and attorneys. A simple and effective way to coordinate freelance work. It is also helping court reporters, who are certified in more than one state, to accept work from all of the jurisdictions in which they're certified. More about Karen Renee and eCourtReporters: Karen Renee on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-ren.... Karen Renee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eCourtReporter. eCourtReporters on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eCourtReporters. eCourtReporters website: https://www.ecourtreporters.com/.     SHOW LESS      

Whether you need occasional help from a freelance lawyer or a long term subscription associate, thousands of law firms rely on us to bill more hours and reduce overhead. LawClerk is where attorneys go to find virtual associates and freelance attorneys. For episode 127, and in continuation of our #femalefounder series, we are joined by Talitha Gray Kozlowski and Kristin Tyler, co-founders of LawClerk. Talitha and Kristin were associates and a large regional firm before they made the move to a boutique law firm in Las Vegas. Near the time they made the change from "BigLaw" to the boutique firm, they also started the development of their #legaltech startup. Solution born from the problem they were facing now that they didn't have the massive number of associates and staff with which to turn to when things got busy, they began developing their own solution. A solution, meant to provide attorneys with greater control over their careers and help small and medium law firms find the expertise they required. Learn more about their journey and #startup life from two practicing attorneys and company founders! More about Talitha, Kristin and LawClerk: Talitha Gray Kozlowski on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/talitha-g.... Talitha Gray Kozlowski on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TalithaBGray Kristin Tyler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-t.... Kristin Tyler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KristinTyler. LawClerk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lawclerklegal. LawClerk website: https://www.lawclerk.legal/

Our guest, Sophie Walker, is an experienced human rights practitioner, having previously spent five years as a US Attorney representing death row prisoners, and three years as a solicitor, before being called to the Bar in 2016. She completed a two-year legal fellowship at the not-for-profit Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, representing death row prisoners in both state and federal courts. She also challenged the incarceration of terminally ill prisoners and was part of the team that successfully challenged sentencing of children to whole-life sentences at the US Supreme Court, Graham v Florida, 560 U.S.48. As you can see, Sophie has quite the history in #accesstojustice. In Just Transcription, she's bringing her expertise to improving access to legal transcripts and reducing the cost and nightmare involved in obtaining transcripts for #lawyers and their clients. Check out this interview with a passionate founder intent on improving access to legal records necessary for appeals and more. #legaltech More about Sophie Walker & Just-Transcription: Sophie Walker on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-wa.... Just Transcription on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeechToJustice. Just Transcription website: https://www.just-access.org/just-tran.... Just Access website: https://www.just-access.org/.     SHOW LESS      

Coming hot off of a $3.5M fundraising round, Jacqueline Schafer joined LegalTechLIVE to share her experience as a practicing lawyer turned #legaltech founder. Here's a little background on the impressive pedigree of Jacqueline Schafer: Jacqueline began her career as a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison, and spent much of career as an Assistant Attorney General in the Washington and Alaska Attorney General's Offices, where she specialized in appellate practice and complex litigation. Before joining the startup world and founding Clearbrief, Jacqueline also served as Senior Director, Program Counsel for the national child welfare nonprofit Casey Family Programs, negotiating agreements with courts across the country and managing litigation and amicus efforts in impact litigation. Jacqueline was recognized by VentureBeat as one of four semi-finalists for the 2020 Women in AI Rising Star award for founding ClearBrief, as well as for her Dec 2020 law review article describing how AI and natural language processing (NLP) will transform courts and government social services. We won't tell you the story that changed how Jacqueline started to think about clarity and facts that led to the creation of Clearbrief... you'll want to catch that story in in the episode. Clearbrief allows you to know the record inside and out. The only tool that instantly finds and links to the best record documents (facts and evidence) to support each sentence in the brief, while you write! All while using #NLP. More about Jacqueline Schafer & Clearbrief: Jacqueline Schafer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiesch.... Jacqueline Schafer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackiegschafer. Clearbrief on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Clearbriefai. Clearbrief website: https://clearbrief.com/. #startups

We cannot pretend to be objective about this interview. Erin Levine has been a friend of the show for several years. She's previously been a co-host and has been a huge supporter for other women founders who have been on the show. In the episode Erin takes us from inception of Hello Divorce to her decision to fundraise (coming off a recent $2M raise). Her company has faced many difficulties including a patchwork of jurisdictional and local rules, the difficulties of reframing the idea of divorce and the approaches to wellness they've employed in a more holistic approach to the termination of the marital contract. Further, we dive into finding the right investors and moving from an small "all hands on deck" #legaltech #startup into a more refined operationalized and systematized company. A necessary change for a growing #justicetech company. We do not want to ruin this candid conversation by over-describing the interaction. Get to know Erin and Hello Divorce. They're leading the way on direct-to-consumer legal assistance. More about Erin Levine & Hello Divorce: Erin Levine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hello_divorce. Hello Divorce on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hellodivorce. Hello Divorce on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellodivorce. Hello Divorce website: https://hellodivorce.com/.     SHOW LESS      

If you've been following the news at all in the last 5 years, you're going to be inspired by this #startup. Felicitas Ukert is the Founder & CEO. Iraida Herrera is the Founder and VP. They met at Cornell Law School in 2019 when they were both pursuing their LLM's. It was during that time in law school that Get The Docs was born. They were aware of the crisis at the US border for those migrating from Central America. As they researched the issue of #immigration, they discovered many people already in the US often need to obtain documentation from their country of origin. They set out to make it easier to obtain documents from countries of origin. In order to do so, they needed to have contact with lawyers on the ground in those countries. That's what they did. Expecting they would have huge demand from immigrants moving to the United States, they were surprised to learn that was only about 50% of their inquiries. In fact, they also had significant inquiries from those in the US who were moving outside the country. Also, they have those in countries outside the US who need to obtain documents from an entirely separate nation state. Having such a broad total addressable market is both a blessing and curse. As it is difficult to describe to potential market to investors. You cannot tell investors the entire world is your market. So, they describe some of their experience in refining the product, the software, and their pitch. Felicitas and Iraida are most definitely addressing an issue where #legaltech can improve efficiency and help customers to rest at ease as the tracking of documents is outsourced to Get The Docs. Learn more about Felicitas, Iraida, and Gethedocs.com: Felicitas Ukert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felicitas.... Iraida Herrera on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iraiherrera/ Iraida Herrera on Twitter: https://twitter.com/iraiherrera Gethedocs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gethedocs. Gethedocs website: https://www.gethedocs.com     SHOW LESS      

Haley Altman has had a notable legal and #legaltech career. She's steadily moved forward from legal associate, to partner, to legaltech co-founder and CEO, and now sits as the Global Head of Corporate Development for the company that acquired her legal technology startup. In this episode, Haley shares her outstanding journey from legal practice into technology and entrepreneurship. Her experience should be shared with as many #startup founders as possible. Two takeaways that stood out in the conversation. Haley described what her startup offered, with precision. Make sure to listen to that aspect of her interview and refine the description of your startup. The second great takeaway was how her previous company found a sweet spot on the pain point lawyers were having in managing transactions. Lawyers knew it was a problem that required a solution. The added benefit, was many investors had been on the other side of closing transactions and therefore understood the problem her company was solving. As such, it put Doxly in a good place for selling the software as well as finding funding. Lastly, we touched on the recent acquisition of Kira Systems by Litera. There appears to be a focus on Litera becoming the one-stop shopping experience for legal transactions via #LiteraTransact. More about Haley Altman & Litera: Haley Altman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haley-alt.... Haley Altman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Haley_Altman. Litera Microsystems website: https://www.litera.com/.

Andy Wilson knows a thing or two about #legaltech. He's been operating in the legal technology space since 2004. Back when legal technology was eDiscovery and eDiscovery was legaltech. We were lucky to have him join the show because he has incredible experience in building a company, building the product, building the cloud, and then building a new version of his #eDiscovery company in cloud-based service on AWS. Not only did he build a venture backed company, but he built a bootstrapped company for many years, which allowed them to build the cloud service, before becoming venture-backed. At the point they decided to seek outside capital, it was all about growing at a faster rate. It wasn't a decision made easily. Andy spends a lot of time describing the thought process he went through before accepting outside money and from who to accept that money. Bottom line, if you are a #startup founder in the legal space, you're going to want to watch/listen to this episode because Andy shares some incredible knowledge and experience. More about Andy Wilson & Logikcull: Andy Wilson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/idedupe. Andy Wilson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylogik. Logikcull on Twitter: https://twitter.com/logikcull. Logikcull website: https://www.logikcull.com/.

Drew Amoroso founded DueCourse to address a big problem he saw in the legal community: a lack of effective, modern development resources for lawyers. He believe's in the power of providing lawyers with the information they need to take control of their practice and career. He started his career as a senior associate at Reed Smith and was the immediate past president of the Barristers Club at the Bar Association of San Francisco. Drew is a visiting lecturer at UC Davis School of Law, the University of San Francisco, and Golden Gate University, where he teaches a Practice Ready Seminar designed to prepare law students to make the transition from students to practice-ready lawyers. As you will learn in this episode, Drew is a believer in health and fitness and upon leaving Reed Smith, he branded himself as a fitness lawyer. That is the way he carved out his individual practice area in the space he desired to practice. His underlying belief in wellness drove him to #professionaldevelopment, training, and coaching for #lawyers. After on-premises training, Due Course became a software-as-a-service tool connecting lawyers with coaches to help them achieve their personal and professional goals. Wellness is an ongoing problem in the legal industry, so anything that focuses on the wellness and personal growth is worth paying attention. #legaltech More about Drew Amoroso & DueCourse App: Drew Amoroso on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewamoroso/. Drew Amoroso on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewamoroso. DueCourse on Twitter: @DueCourse__. Due Course website: https://www.duecourseapp.com/.

BNH.ai is a law firm and data science company serving enterprise organizations using #artificialintelligence applications in their business processes. BNH.ai helps the world's largest and most innovative organizations ensure the privacy, security, fairness, and transparency of their AI and analytics. Our clients rely on us for concrete, highly technical advice to manage the risks of models that affect millions of people around the world. In this episode, we were joined by firm co-founder and resident data scientist, Patrick Hall. Patrick Hall is principal scientist at bnh.ai. Patrick also serves as a visiting professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at The George Washington University. He is a frequent writer, speaker and advisor on the responsible and transparent use of AI and ML technologies. In this episode we discuss a variety for AI use cases in which their firm has been involved. DC allows for non-lawyer ownership of law firms, which makes this firm really fascinating. It gives them a lot of flexibility to provide services as a full-service consultancy and law firm. The most poignant and probably highest profile topic we discussed is that of #algorithmicbias. Naturally, this is a topic that rears its ugly head in the #legaltech and justice technology discussions and topics. The nice thing about hiring a law firm with a scientist as a co-founder is your company has a full staff available to guide you through issues to avoid algorithmic bias. More about Patrick Hall & bnh.ai: Patrick Hall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jpatrickhall. Patrick Hall on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpatrickh.... bnh.ai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bnh_ai. bnh.ai website: https://www.bnh.ai/.

The failure of his first business led him to the civil court process where he was inspired to fix problems within that space. Callum Murray is the founder and CEO of Amiqus.co, a #legaltech company located in Scotland. Amiqus helps law firms to remotely verify and onboard staff and clients in minutes. In the UK, the rules on law firms and preventing money laundering are much more advanced than the US. As such, law firms have to conduct background checks or identity checks of staff and clients before accepting the engagement. That's where Amiqus get involved. They are a market leading compliance platform for legal, recruitment, public sector and financial services. The company offers pre-employment checks, AML compliance, identity checks, and enhanced background checks when necessary. They began their work with lawyers and law firms and partnered with Clio as Clio grew into the UK. During the pandemic, they pivoted to working with the NHS in order to keep working while law firms were mostly on hold. Callum shares some great suggestions for other founders and outlines the benefits of #AML and #KYC rules and regulations. Some of which he expects will come into play in the US in the not-too-distant future. More about Callum Murray & Amiqus.co: Callum Murray on Twitter: https://twitter.com/callumurray1. Callum Murray on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/callum-mu.... Callum Murray in the Scotsman: https://www.scotsman.com/business/how.... Amiqus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amiqus. Amiqus website: https://amiqus.co/.

Alexsei's advanced #artificialintelligence platform delivers affordable and high-quality answers to legal questions in memo format. Alexsei's platform provides fast and reliable #legalresearch memos (memorandum of points and authorities). Their artificial intelligence is also supported by 6 full time lawyers conducting legal research so that there's a human element to confirm the data provided to customers. Mark Doble practiced law for a year before he decided #legaltech was the way for him. His company has been in operation for nearly 4 years at the time of this interview. Founders really need to watch this interview because Mark provides some candid answers to overcoming obstacles and the mentality needed to do so. Especially with years of people telling you "your idea is a bad idea." Don't let us convince you you need to hear Mark's story. Just give it a listen. He's got some great insights for a startup founder. More about Mark Doble & Alexsei, Inc.: Mark Doble on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-doble/. Mark Doble on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mkrdoble. Alexsei on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexseiLaw. Alexsei website: https://www.alexsei.com/

CEO and founder Nicole Bradick is a former litigator turned three-time legal technology entrepreneur. Nicole is the leading industry expert in legal technology product design and development. You can often find her doing talks on this topic (as well as belting out Britney Spears tunes at karaoke) on stages around the world. She has been the driving force behind some of the most ambitious digital products in the legal industry and is definitely not afraid to tell you if your product's design is awful. You're going to want to watch this episode. Before this interview, we only knew Nicole Bradick a little. Although we'd heard incredible things over the years, we didn't get to see those amazing things in full until this interview. We are upset it took us so long to have her on the show. Nicole does an amazing job of telling founders why she chose to avoid funding on her business. She designed the business to operate and serve those she wanted to serve without being reliant or accountable to anyone else. Theory and Principle is the dev shop in the #legaltech industry. No other dev shop comes to mind immediately. They serve the #legalaid industry, legal technology companies and #lawfirms. More about Nicole Bradick & Theory and Principle: Nicole Bradick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-br.... Nicole Bradick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NicoleBradick. Theory and Principle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theoryprinciple. Theory and Principle website: https://www.theoryandprinciple.com/.     SHOW LESS      

Jason Boehmig is CEO at Ironclad, the intelligent contract management system for in-house legal teams. Prior to Ironclad, Boehmig was a corporate attorney in the Startups and Venture Capital group at Silicon Valley firm Fenwick & West LLP, where he worked on early stage venture financings as well as complex corporate transactions for several well-known technology companies. If you've been paying attention to the #legaltech space for any amount of time, you've heard about Ironclad. They are one of the most successful startups in the contracting and #CLM space. Their founder, Jason Boehmig, joined us for an evening to discuss his founder experience and the company's rocket ship growth. He even mentions that he's happy it looks like a rocket ship from the outside, but goes on to describe what the journey was like on the inside. In a very transparent interview, Jason even shares with us his views on the political discussions taking place in Silicon Valley #startups and how he and his company are addressing these issues. We are grateful for the time he took and the candid discussion. Show hosted by Nick Rishwain. More about Jason Boehmig & Ironclad: Jason Boehmig on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jboehmig/. Jason Boehmig on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jboehmig. Ironclad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ironclad_inc. Ironclad website: https://ironcladapp.com/.          

Hailey Lennon is a shareholder in Anderson Kill’s Technology, Media and Distributed Systems Group. She is based in California and affiliated with Anderson Kill’s Los Angeles office. Prior to joining Anderson Kill, Hailey was regulatory counsel at leading cryptocurrency platforms Coinbase and bitFlyer. At Coinbase, Hailey helped oversee regulatory relationships with the SEC, CFTC, OFAC and state regulators. Hailey Lennon is a powerhouse guest who is known for both her regulatory expertise and twitter shenanigans. It was her shenanigans that led us to her in the first place, but we hung around and discovered she's a brilliant lawyer with a breadth of knowledge and expertise. We think you'll find the same in this interview. Hailey even made time for us while she was taking meetings on the East Coast. During the interview she was "live from New York!" In this episode, she gives us a bit of a "#crypto regulation 101" course. Covering state regulations and the variety of federal regulations impacting #web3 projects. We even cover the phraseology of "sufficiently decentralized." As Hailey explains, she hasn't many projects that fall within that criteria from a regulatory point of view. Stay tuned as this tour de force guest has been asked to return in the future! More about Hailey Lennon: Hailey Lennon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HaileyLennonBTC. Hailey Lennon on Anderson Kill website: https://www.andersonkill.com/People/H.... Law firm website: https://www.andersonkill.com/. #legaltech     SHOW LESS      

Armen Margarian is a lawyer and serial entrepreneur with a track record for success. In need of appearance attorneys in his practice, he and his brother co-founded AppearMe, where other lawyers can find appearance attorneys in sixty seconds. Here are some of their offerings at AppearMe. - Find appearance attorneys within 60 seconds anywhere, anytime – even 10 minutes before the hearing. A nationwide network of over 10,000 attorneys at your fingertips.​ - Find a deposition attorney across the country within 60 seconds. AppearMe helps you save your valuable time and find solutions that are efficient and cost-effective. - Have a lot of work to get done? Use AppearMe to easily delegate some of your legal work to freelance #lawyers so you can focus on more important matters. In this episode, we speak with Armen about AppearMe's rapid growth. In just over 3 years, they now have a staff of 28. They are solving a very specific issue experienced by lawyers all over the US. How to find someone to make an appearance when you cannot... It is an excellent conversation with a founder solving a legal solution with #legaltech. More about Armen Margarian & AppearMe: Armen Margarian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armenmarg.... Armen Margarian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArmenMargarian. AppearMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AppearMeApp. AppearMe website: https://appearme.com/. #legaltechlive     SHOW LESS      

Michael Tam has been specifically focused on venture investing since early in his career. It is the trajectory he chose. Here's a little background about our guest: Michael is a principal at Craft on the investment team, based in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Craft, he was an investor at Crosscut, where he led investments and participated on the boards of consumer and enterprise companies. As an operator, Michael managed Uber's business in Southern California markets and launched L., a direct to consumer brand acquired by Procter & Gamble. Michael began his career in venture at Bullpen Capital. Previously, he worked at BofA Merrill Lynch's tech investment banking group and began his career at PwC. In this episode we discuss the investment thesis of Michael Tam and Craft Ventures. B2B enterprise Saas is where their venture team focuses and specializes. Michael was asked to join the show as he led the round in former guest and #legaltech​ startup Trellis.law (also a sponsor of the show). I made it clear we were interested in everything startup fundraising and we did not expect him to be a legaltech focused investor. However, as Michael discussed, he's probably looked at 8 to 10 legal technology companies in his experience. He provides us with some excellent early stage (seed and Series A) investment suggestions. Including, what concerns most of our founder-listeners: #venturecapital​ is booming and investments are flowing for #startups​. More About Michael Tam & Craft Ventures: Michael D. Tam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelDTam​. Michael D. Tam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldtam/​. Craft Ventures on Twitter: https://twitter.com/craft_ventures​. Craft Ventures website: https://www.craftventures.com/​.

As the CEO and Co-founder of Clio and a pioneer in cloud-based legal technology, Jack Newton has spearheaded efforts to educate the legal community on the security, ethics, and privacy issues surrounding cloud computing, and has become a nationally recognized author and speaker on these topics. He co-founded and is President of the Legal Cloud Computing Association (LCCA), a consortium of leading cloud computing providers with a mandate to help accelerate the adoption of cloud computing in the legal industry, and is the author of The Client-Centered Law Firm, a bestseller that's helping law firms thrive in today's experience-driven era. Jack joined #LegalTechLIVE​ to provide his experience as a #startup​ founder and CEO. The conversation covered an extensive amount of information for founders from early stage onwards. We covered the origin story of Clio, the two years of difficulties while they struggled to find funding during an economic recession. How getting the first million is far more difficult than getting $250 million in investment. Finally, we wrapped up with Jack's description of the latent legal market and the opportunities for more companies in the #legaltech​ space. Tune in to check out the episode hosted by Nick Rishwain. More about Jack Newton & Clio.com: Jack Newton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jack_newton​. Jack Newton on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackbnewton/​. Clio on Twitter: https://twitter.com/goclio​. Clio website: https://www.clio.com/  

What does OlyverApp allow you to do? Start: Form corporations and LLCs, register trademarks, create website terms of service, get common business contracts. Manage: Maintain cap tables, appoint managers, notice and hold meetings, get registered in any state, file reports and returns. Grow: Provide potential investors with due diligence documents and records and 'wow' them with your management skills. Steven Fried is the founder, CEO and General Counsel of OlyverApp. He shares his experience over the last few years, from learning to code to hiring developers. Creating an application that has been serving customers from the very beginning and just recently opened to the public. It's a good story from a founder who discovered, making Nick Rishwain laugh, is the best way to be invited onto the show. It was from the fun Twitter interactions that the invite happened. #legaltech​ #business​ #startups​ More About Steven Fried & OlyverApp: Steven Fried on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OlyverApp​. Steven Fried on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olyver/​. OlyverApp website: https://www.olyverapp.com/​.

We envision a new era where buying your house, refinancing your mortgage or running your real estate business will be powered by technology instead of paperwork and rubber stamps. As it happened in other industries, software will give us more freedom by unlocking full control and flexibility of what we own. This is what Federico Pomi, CEO of Fabrica, and Legal Counsel, Daniel Rollingher joined us to discuss. At present, they are focusing on transferring real property where title is held in a trust. The trust is then transferred via #blockchain​ in the form of an #NFT​. Currently, Fabrica is working on proving the concept... proving that property ownership can be successfully transacted in this fashion. Lawyers and #legaltech​ communities need to pay attention. This can be done and is being done. Right now, it's being done with vacant land. But it is showing promise! This episode co-hosted by LexDAO member, James McCall for his first repeat appearance. More About Federico, Daniel & Fabrica: Federico Pomi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fedepo​. Daniel Rollingher on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DBRolling​. Fabrica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fabricaland​. Fabrica website: https://www.fabrica.land/​. More about co-host James McCall: James McCall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mccallios​.

Prelimine has created a drafting and editing tool specifically for litigators! LitKit automates tasks that waste litigators’ time when drafting briefs and other legal documents so they can focus on substance rather than form. With Prelimine's LitKit, litigators can stop wasting time on redaction, citation, and formatting issues that are regular pain points for lawyers and paralegals, especially at crunch-time when that deadline is rapidly approaching. Another great aspect of this interview, is we finally got the episode where the tool was born out of necessity with the COVID-19 pandemic acting as the catalyst. After working from home in the middle of the pandemic, Jacob was able to see the headaches his litigator-wife, Florentina, was experiencing trying to format legal documents. He had a built in user to immediately test what he was developing! In this episode, recent guest Kristin Hodgins, joined us again as a co-host. Coming from her experience on the buy-side of #legaltech​, she had some really great questions and feedback for these #startup​ founders. More about Florentina & Jacob Field: Florentina Field on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FieldFlorentina​. Florentina Field on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fdragulescu/​. Jacob Field on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobfield/​. Prelimine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/prelimine​. Prelimine website: https://www.prelimine.com/​. More about Kristin Hodgins: Kristin Hodgins on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kristinhodgins​. Kristin Hodgins on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinho...​.     SHOW LESS      

Priori is the global legal marketplace for in-house teams. Submit an RFP and find the right attorney for your next legal project. A streamlined #marketplace​ for in-house legal departments to locate engage outside counsel. Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt are Yale Law grads who tell an outstanding founder story, from inception through negotiating fundraising terms while being driven to the hospital to give birth. This is an outstanding story with fantastic founders! They share some of the biggest obstacles they experienced from the beginning through their Series A investment. If you are struggling with your own #legaltech​ #startup​, I think you'll find this interview both inspiring and the founders empathetic towards those who have tried and failed to build a successful startup. More about Basha Rubin, Mirra Levitt & Priori: Basha Rubin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/basharubin​. Basha Rubin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/basharubin/​. Mirra Levitt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirralevitt/​. Priori on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PrioriLegal​. Priori website: https://www.priorilegal.com/​.          

Trokt stores Thumbprints of sensitive documents in its distributed network. A thumbprint is a #cryptographic​ hash number that determines a documents authenticity, at the time you applied the hash number. Demonstrating that a file’s Thumbprint is held in Trokt’s network proves – in nearly any court – that the file has not been modified in any way since the date and time it appeared in the Trokt network. Every file that can be instantly proven valid – or invalid – by Trokt reduces the need for costly forensic analyses. Storing file Thumbprints for rapid validation reduces the time and cost of compliance audits or incident response and forensics efforts. All Trokt file Thumbprinting processes occur on the machines that hold the sensitive files. No sensitive file is opened or held by Trokt. The only data that is sent to Trokt about a sensitive file is the irreversible file Thumbprint. Chris Draper is also a regular host on Clubhouse, where he has done a wonderful job of creating wide-ranging conversations on #legaltech​, justice, and access to #justice​ issues. He's built quite the diverse community on Clubhouse discussing pressing issues where law and technology intersect in our world. More about Chris Draper & Trokt.com: Chris Draper on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theotherdraper​. Chris Draper on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph...​. Trokt.com website: https://www.trokt.com/​.     SHOW LESS      

Noah Waisberg has been in the #legaltech​ space as founder and CEO of Kira Systems for nearly a decade. In this episode, he shares with us how they overcame obstacles, grew the business from 2 people to more nearly 100 people before ever taking any venture capital. Additionally, he provides a great recap of the last 10 years of Kira Systems and the actions they took to bring #artificialintelligence​ into the contract analysis space. If you're a founder, much like our co-host Devshi Mehrotra, you're going to want to listen to this episode. There is a wide variety of struggles and success in the #founder​ journey. Noah has clearly refined the experience and shared his knowledge! More about Noah Waisberg & Kira Systems: Noah Waisberg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nwaisb​. Noah Waisberg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahwaisb...​. Kira Systems website: https://kirasystems.com/​. Noah's book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Lawyers-Artifi...​. More about Devshi Mehrotra: Devshi Mehrotra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevshiMehrotra​. JusticeText website: https://justicetext.com/​.     SHOW LESS      

What is LexDAO (The Decentralized Legal Engineering Guild)? LexDAO is a non-profit association of legal engineering professionals that brings the traditional legal settlement layer to code, and coded agreements to the masses. They believe that everyone deserves access to justice provided in a quick and efficient manner. If legal services were easier to use, verify, and enforce, we could live in a fairer world. #Blockchain​ technology offers solutions too many problems in the legal space. Their mission is to research, develop and evangelize first-class legal methods and blockchain protocols that secure rules and promises with code rather than trust. They do this by training LexDAO certified legal engineers and building LexDAO certified blockchain applications. We strive to balance new deterministic tools with the equitable considerations of law to better serve our clients, allies, and ultimately citizens. The perfect association for a #legaltech​ discussion! #DAO​ More about LexDAO: LexDAO website: https://lexdao.coop/​. LexDAO on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lex_DAO​. LexDAO on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/qbUhmH4​. More about our LexDAO Guests: R. Ross Campbell on Twitter: https://twitter.com/r_ross_campbell​. James McCall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mccallios​. Adam Kerpelman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thekerp​.

Kristin Hodgins leads organizational strategy, transformation and service design projects in the legal & justice sectors. She helps organizations and legal departments think about problems holistically and how they can more effectively and creatively leverage internal people, knowledge, data and technology to deliver more efficient, responsive and innovative services. Her domain is legal services, but her approach & background are multidisciplinary and draw on elements from organizational behavior, design, leadership studies, information science and data science. Kristin is an impressive woman of #legaltechnology​ with an extensive journey as a #legaltech​ buyer. In this episode, she provides some outstanding insights to those who are looking to sell to legal departments, #legalops​, law firms, and government. Full disclosure, Kristin is a friend of the show. Nick and Kristin have been a part of a weekly meetup as a result of the pandemic. More about Kristin Hodgins: Kristin Hodgins on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kristinhodgins​. Kristin Hodgins on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinho...​.

Welcome back! After nearly a 3 month hiatus, we have returned and we're out of the gate with an in-depth discussion about digital operations platform Autologyx with their director Jason Moyse. Many in #legaltech​ are familiar with Jason's experience and activity in the space. He's had quite the extensive career in #legal​ and legaltech. Now, he's responsible for bringing Autologyx to North America with a focus on the legal vertical. Autologyx is a no-code Digital Operations Platform Automate any process across your organization with a single, connected environment. As Jason describes in this episode, Autologyx is the perfect solution for those processes that still require a human element. This is not a fully-automated system. Listen to this episode if you're into #legalops​ and looking to level up your processes while making significant savings. More about Jason Moyse: Jason Moyse on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jasonmoyse​. Jason Moyse on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasonmoyse​. More about Autologyx: Website: https://www.autologyx.com/​. Autologyx on Twitter: https://twitter.com/autologyx​.     SHOW LESS      

When we were just a fledgling little show with no community, Julia Shapiro agreed to join and tell us about her #legaltech startup, Hire an Esquire. This started a mutual friendship between her legal technology staffing company and LegalTechLIVE. Her company has grown and expanded significantly since that first interview in 2015. HAE maintains some incredible data on the legal industry including trends and forecasting. They joined us now, in October of 2020, which has not been the easiest of years for legal practitioners or anyone else for that matter. As we expect more of the same come 2021, I wanted to get a feel for the data HAE is seeing. We talk a lot in this episode about the following topics impacting the #legal community: chaos, adaptability and resiliency. Members of the HAE team joining us for this conversation include: CEO - Julia Shapiro COO - Catherine Enck Director of People Analytics - Eric Fox More About Hire An Esquire & our Guests: Julia Shapiro: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliaclai.... Catherine Enck: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine.... Eric Fox: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-fox-.... Hire An Esquire website: https://hireanesquire.com/.

6Clicks.io is a early stage startup addressing a wide range of compliance, risk management and regulation technology ( #regtech ) issues. Their risk management, governance and compliance software is quick to implement and easily scales to meet changing needs. 6Clicks has a variety of solutions for startups, enterprise, and government. We were only able to touch on a variety of #artificialintelligence creations by the company, in a 45 minute interview. One of the most interesting compliance solutions for those of us in the #legaltech space, is the Modern Slavery Compliance. Allowing a company to protect their supply chains from slavery risk with assessments linked to regulations built-in to 6clicks. We discuss this and more in this analysis, including, how they got the name 6Clicks. Spoiler alert... 6 clicks is not a lot of clicks. Which means it is pretty easy to set up this compliance and risk management software. Special thanks to first time co-host Josh Jackson of the The AI Association. Learn more about Josh Jackson and our guest Anthony Stevens, below: More about Anthony Stevens & 6Clicks.io: Anthony Stevens on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antpstevens/. 6Clicks on Twitter: https://twitter.com/6clicksOfficial. 6Clicks website: https://6clicks.io/. More about Josh Jackson & The AI Association: Josh Jackson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshjacks.... Josh Jackson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshJackson_co. The AI Association on Twitter: https://twitter.com/growaitoday. The AI Association website: https://www.theaiassociation.org/. More episodes at https://legaltechlive.com/. On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast....

What if we told you the annual international arbitration market was worth $2 Trillion? Would that make you more interested in what this #legaltech #startup is offering? Would it help you to see the value? Arbitrator Intelligence Reports contain crucial data and feedback about international arbitrators and arbitrations. This information and related analytics enable users to make better-informed decisions about arbitrator selection and case strategy. Data in Reports can be used to narrow a party’s pool of possible arbitrators to appoint, compare arbitrators being considered for appointment, and learn about arbitrators appointed by opposing parties or institutions. LegalTechLIVE has dealt with online dispute resolution options in the past, but we had not specifically dealt with international #arbitration and arbitrators. After learning more about the value of the matters in dispute as well as the lucrative nature of international arbitration, we think you'll pay closer attention to this market. Our guest Catherine Rogers has an impressive career in academia. She's also now the founder and CEO of this legaltech startup. She did what we'd like to see more startup founders do on the show... pitch her company and seek funding! More about Catherine Rogers & Arbitrator Intelligence: Catherine Rogers on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine.... Arbitrator Intelligence on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Arbintelligence. Arbitrator Intelligence website: https://arbitratorintelligence.com/. More episodes on: https://legaltechlive.com/.     SHOW LESS      

Josh Maley is the founder of Theorem LTS, what is billed as the first operating system for legal. His platform enables legal operations teams to enhance service delivery without introducing new systems, forms, or processes–while granting access to a whole new world of alternatives, connections and collaboration. One of the most difficult aspects for legal technology is law firms and vendors connecting with one another. Theorem LTS makes it easier for firms to identify the technology they need while helping vendors to be pre-vetted for firms. The TheoremLTS #marketplace remains neutral and works to make this experience easier for law firms, legal departments, and #legaltech vendors. Take a watch/listen to this episode to see what TheoremLTS offers. We were joined by #startup founder and CEO, Pieter Gunst, of Legal.io. It was his first time joining us as co-host and we think you'll agree that Pieter had some incredible questions, which always makes Nick uncomfortable. More about TheoremLTS & Joshua Maley: Joshua Maley on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-ma.... Joshua Maley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JDMaley. TheoremLTS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheoremLTS. TheoremLTS website: https://www.theoremlegal.com/. More about Pieter Gunst & Legal.io: Pieter Gunst on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pietergunst/. Pieter Gunst on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalLawyer. Legal.io on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Legal_io. Legal.io website: https://www.legal.io/.

In a first of its kind takeover, we decided to remove ourselves entirely from the experience and allow for an entire takeover hosted by four amazing female founders. Full creative control for the show, choosing of guests, and content was handed over to our host Kristen Sonday, co-founder & COO of Paladin, for the planning and execution of this episode. As you'll see, she knocked it out of the park. Kristen did a fantastic job of selecting some outstanding #femalefounders in the #legaltech space to join the show and talk about their companies and their experience as #startup founders. You will hear from a wide variety of legaltech founders in this episode. You may be familiar with past guest, Cami Lopez. She joined our show in episode 077 when her small claims guidance company was named CourtAm. The company has now changed names, and is known as PeopleClerk. Joining Cami and Kristen, you'll hear from Aydé Soto, CTO of SimpleCitizen, a company making US immigration easy. Rounding out our fantastic takeover, is Jenny Xia, founder & CEO of Freewill, a company making estate planning, warm, intuitive, and totally free. More about Host Kristen Sonday & Paladin: Kristen Sonday on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristenso.... Kristen Sonday on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kristensonday. Paladin website: https://www.joinpaladin.com/. More about Cami Lopez & PeopleClerk: Cami Lopez on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camila-lo.... Cami Lopez on Twitter: https://twitter.com/camilopez. PeopleClerk website: https://www.peopleclerk.com/. More about Aydé Soto & SimpleCitizen: Aydé Soto on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayd%C3%A9.... SimpleCitizen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SimpleCitizenUS. SimpleCitizen website: https://simplecitizen.com/. More about Jenny Xia & Freewill: Jenny Xia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenxia/. Freewill website: https://www.freewill.com/. More episodes available: https://legaltechlive.com/ Podcast available: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...     SHOW LESS      

Michael Rinehart is the CIO of Fox Rothschild, LLP. He is responsible for leadership and management of the firm's information services department and directs the development, implementation, support and use of the firm's information and technology systems. Michael continually assesses the firm's technology needs to meet and exceed client needs and recommends practical, cost-effective solutions that offer improved service and functionality. Michael came armed with 9 years of experience in his role as a chief information officer at a large law firm. He provided some outstanding input on evaluating technology and sharing practical examples of what a firm like Fox Rothschild looks for when selecting vendors. This was a great conversation that went longer than usual and we had to ask Michael to spend a few more minutes with us, because he had such wonderful insights. To really get full value from Michael's time, we invited #legaltech #startup founder Nicole A. Clark, founder & CEO of Trellis Law to co-host the show. You will see the value in having her as a co-host as she asks questions directly related to her experience as a startup founder selling to law firms. More about Michael Rinehart & Fox Rothschild, LLP: Michael Rinehart on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-rine.... Michael Rinehart on Fox Rothschild website: https://www.foxrothschild.com/michael.... Fox Rothschild, LLP: https://www.foxrothschild.com/. More about Nicole A. Clark & Trellis Law: Nicole A. Clark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nicole_A_Clark. Nicole A. Clark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-a-.... Trellis Law website: https://trellis.law/. More episodes available at: https://legaltechlive.com/. #biglaw     SHOW LESS      

Want to watch an interview with a founder who is truly a subject matter expert? This is that interview. Simone Spence has been acting a child support consultant for more than 20 years. She's been in this field long before she digitized her offerings into Don't Get Mad Get Paid. Need to know how to retrieve back #childsupport, that's what this company offers! This was a powerhouse interview of a magnetic founder. Our live audience had dozens of questions and we were unable to get to all of them. Needless to say there was a lot of excitement around #legaltech startup Don't Get Mad Get Paid. Don't Get Mad Get Paid enables you to collect your back child support in less time and for less money. Their self-guided solution will: Help you to navigate the court system; No more forms that you can't find or figuring out how to complete them; they remove the burden of people searching and asset finding for you. They find the payors real and personal assets, employment records, and bank accounts. Their technology generates the state-specific and customized legal documents that you will need, and more. We are joined by special co-host Natalie Anne Knowlton, Director of Special Projects for the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) and a subject matter expert in her own right, on this subject. Natalie focuses her efforts on legal and empirical research and analysis, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders, and undertaking national outreach and advocacy to enable continuous improvement in practices and procedures for divorce and child custody matters. More about Simone Spence & Don't Get Mad Get Paid: Simone Spence on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-sp.... Simone Spence on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Simonerspence. Don't Get Mad Get Paid on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mamasgetpaid. Don't Get Mad Get Paid website: https://dontgetmadgetpaid.com/. More about Natalie Anne Knowlton: Natalie Anne Knowlton on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliean.... Natalie Anne Knowlton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/natalalleycat. Natalie Anne Knowlton's Blog: https://medium.com/@natalalleycat. More Episode available on https://legaltechlive.com/. #startups     SHOW LESS      

From tragedy to triumph? Or, is the saying "from tragedy to legaltech?" It is hard to say. In the case of Mike Zouhri, it was the difficulties from a motor vehicle accident, caused by a drunk driver, and the ensuing troubles of trying to understand the legal system and how to file a claim. Even after filing a claim, how do you determine the value of your claim? This is the problem Mike Zouhri and Chris Trudel set out to solve. Here is what PainWorth offers. PainWorth is the world's first fully-automated app that helps you calculate the potential value of your: Personal injury claim; car accident settlement; medical malpractice lawsuit; slip & fall injury or tripping injury; assault & battery injury. So, if you have ever tried to calculate your injuries and the damages associate with those injuries, you've probably found a lead generation tool on a law firm website that doesn't actually calculate the damages for you. Rather, puts you into contact with a law firm. PainWorth actually gives you court data to help you review similar claims and the amount of compensation for those claims. Check out this episode and see what this #accesstojustice #legaltech company is doing to build transparency in the court system by making data available to injured parties. #startups More about the Founders & PainWorth: Mike Zouhri on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikezouhri/. Mike Zouhri on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeZouhri. PainWorth website: https://painworth.com/

This is the re-record of our fantastic interview with the team at Define. After some technical difficulties, the team agreed to come back on the show and share their experience with us... AGAIN! Get to know this team, they have an amazing story. Very inspiring! Define has a simple mission: to make the reading, understanding and #drafting of documents simple. By simply highlighting any term in your document, Define instantly displays the full meaning of the term, allowing immediate editing or review without ever needing to scroll away from the relevant provision, saving time and reducing inefficiency. Nnamdi and Feargus created Define as an accessibility solution, first and foremost. We will not give away the story, but allow us to say this much, we were very impressed with the catalyst for this #legaltech #startup. More about the Define & the Co-Founders: Nnamdi Emelifeonwu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nnamdieme.... Feargus MacDaeid on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/feargusma.... Define on Twitter: https://twitter.com/trydefine. Define website: https://trydefine.com/.

Ken Jones is the Chief Technologist of Tanebaum Keale LLP. He's also the Chief Operating Officer of Xerdict Group LLC, a subsidiary of Tanenbaum Keale LLP. Ken has more than 18 years experience in the legal technology space, in-house, at a mid-sized law firm. He's written extensively on #legaltech topics for publications like the Legal Executive Institute and Legal Evolution. Ken joined Nick Rishwain in this discussion about purchasing from legaltech vendors. He offers a different perspective from other guests who have biglaw purchasing experience. Also, as he develops technology in-house, he has a different perspective on purchasing from smaller legaltech #startups. Ken maintains an entrepreneurial perspective and an open mind. He's familiar with the development of software and how to approach information professionals when selling your software or service to a #lawfirm. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed our chat with Ken. More about Ken Jones & Tanenbaum Keale LLP: Ken Jones on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethej.... Ken Jones on Twitter: https://twitter.com/realkenjones. Tanenbaum Keale LLP website: https://www.tktrial.com/. Xerdict Group LLC: https://www.xerdict.com/.

Jeff Rovner is the Managing Director of Information at O'Melveny & Myers. He was a practicing lawyer for 14 years. As time went on, he worked to automate more of his own practices. After a while, his experience of trying to automate his own practices, turned into his full-time job. Now he's responsible for selecting technology to be used at the firm. If you are a vendor selling to law firms, we highly recommend watching this episode. Mr. Rovner, provides 7 different elements he looks for when selecting technologies for the lawyers at his firm. This episode was specially requested from the LegalTech Community on Facebook. Many of the startup founders and developers in the community requested information on selling #legaltech to #biglaw. We cannot take any credit for the episode, as we just facilitated it. We appreciate the community telling us what information they needed. We are bringing more similar interviews in the future. More about Jeff Rovner: Jeff Rovner on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrovner/. Jeff Rovner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffrovner. Jeff's personal website: https://www.jeffrovner.com/. O'Melveny & Myers: https://www.omm.com/. #legaltechlive

If you haven't heard of Trellis Legal Intelligence, Trellis.Law for short, we recommend you start paying attention. This #legaltech #startup is on fire! With more than $6M in funding and famed board member and venture capitalist, David O. Sacks on board, we're expecting continued explosive growth for this company. If you want to experience the most powerful legal research and analytics platform designed specifically for state court practitioners, we recommend you give this software a try. There are dozens of other platforms focused on federal practice, but we know of no other companies focused where most lawyers practice... State court! Whether you want to see how specific legal issues are decided across counties, understand how your judge has ruled on similar motions, or gain strategic insights on your opposing counsel. Trellis is intelligent research for smart litigators. Upon watching this episode, we'll understand if you become a raging fan of Nicole A. Clark. She is the kind of energized founder we wish we could have on the show every week. Prior to founding Trellis, Nicole Clark was a business litigation and labor and employment attorney who handled litigation in both state and federal courts. Get to know this amazing #femalefounder. We are joined once again by co-host Kimberly Bennett, of K. Bennett Law. You'll see how wonderful Kimberly is as a co-host. During the interview, Nick messaged the live audience to say "see why I have Kimberly co-host, it makes my job so easy." More about Nicole A. Clark & Trellis.Law: Nicole A. Clark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-a-.... Nicole A. Clark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nicole_A_Clark. Trellis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/trellis_law. Trellis website: https://trellis.law/. LTL Episode 041 with Trellis.Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast.... More about Kimberly Y. Bennett: Kimberly Y. Bennett on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kybennett/. Kimberly Bennett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kbennettlaw. Kimberly Bennett website: https://www.kbennettlaw.com/.

We committed to doing at least one episode a month on the topic of #accesstojustice. This is one of those episodes. The way Amanda Brown came to our attention was her incredible hustle to improve access to justice for consumers in Louisiana. She definitely encompasses the entrepreneurial spirit, even though she works in the #legalaid field. Amanda Brown's personal website refers to her as "young lawyer and #legaltech geek." Legaltech geek? That's our entire demographic! Amanda recognized a need for a centralized technology resource center, so she formed Lagniappe (LAN-Yap) Law Lab to serve Louisiana's civil justice system. Her organization, she is the founder and Executive Director, provides direct technology consulting and project management services to legal service providers and justice community members across the state. Through the use of technology, design thinking, and operations principles, Lagniappe Law Lab aims to put people at the center of the legal process, bringing a more streamlined legal service experience to Louisiana’s underprivileged populations. After continually seeing amazing efforts by Amanda, Nick Rishwain asked her to join and share about her innovative solutions to civil justice problems. During the recent COVID-19 crisis, Amanda went to work using document automation service, Community Lawyer, to create several simple solutions for those impacted by the crisis. She created a rent relief "letter generator" where consumers could input their data and have a professional letter drafted, which they could then send to their landlord asking for a rent reduction or other relief. Soon thereafter, Amanda noticed the need for some guidance with the economic impact navigator related to the CARES Act stimulus program. Being proactive, she created a simplified version to help marginalized populations discover if they could expect any stimulus money. There was only one co-host to be chosen for this episode. Diego Alcala, a past guest-host, assisted Amanda in creating the Spanish-language version of the rent relief tool. We hope you enjoy this episode and Amanda's proactive efforts to better serve consumers in her state. More about Amanda Brown & Lagniappe Law Lab: Amanda Brown on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-le.... Amanda Brown on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BDashAmBrow. Amand's personal website: https://www.amandaleighbrown.com/. Lagniappe Law Lab: https://lagniappelawlab.org/. More about Diego Alcala, Esq.: Diego Alcala on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diegoalcala/. Diego Alcala on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DiegoAlcalaPR. Diego Alcala's law firm: https://www.defensorialegal.com/. More episodes available: https://legaltechlive.com/.

Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones-Dove were graduating seniors at the University of Chicago, when they created their criminal justice reform #startup, JusticeText. Their company enhances the legal discovery process with a comprehensive video evidence management tool, created initially for public defenders. Public defenders can upload body camera footage, interrogation videos, and jail calls up to 4 hours in length to our online portal. JusticeText generates an automated transcription of the uploaded video evidence, notifying you upon completion. Public defenders can then use the JusticeText interactive editor to edit, comment on, and export the generated transcript. In essence, they have created a productivity tool to help speed the analysis of audio and video used in criminal justice matters. Check out these inspiring guest, youngest founders to date, and learn how they're putting their computer science skills to use to improve the criminal justice system. #legaltech #justicetech We're joined for the first time by former guest and now co-host Johann Drolshagen of Judicial Assessment Solutions. More About Devshi, Leslie & JusticeText: Devshi Mehrotra on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devshi-me.... Leslie Jones-Dove on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie-jo.... JusticeText website: https://www.justicetext.com/. More About Johann Drolshagen: Johann Drolshagen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndro.... Johann Drolshagen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JDrolshagen. Judicial Assessment Solutions website: https://www.judicialassessment.com/. More episodes available: https://legaltechlive.com/.

We have all seen the stories about lawyer well-being and mental health. There have been some unfortunate stories covered in the news in the last 18 months, involving legal professional suicides. Our guest this week, is hard at work to combat mental health issues faced in the legal profession. SunsetHealth is an app created to help legal professionals, assess and recover from isolation, exhaustion, cynicism, and helplessness. As a human resources tool for law firms, we think you'll to be impressed with this solution to increase productivity and well-being. Everett Crosland is the co-founder of this application. He has a background in law, in that he went to law school, but spent a significant amount of his professional career in the healthcare field. Give it a listen. This episode solo-hosted by Nick Rishwain. #legaltech #legaltechlive #mentalhealth More about Everett Crosland & Sunset.Health: SunsetHealth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SunsetHealth. SunsetHealth website: http://sunset.health/. Everett Crosland on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/everett-c....

In an effort to provide #legaltech #startups with some more valuable information, we switched it up in this episode and brought on a venture capital investor, to give us all the information he was willing to give about fundraising for an early stage startup. Nick Moran is a founder and General Partner of New Stack Ventures. He is also the host of startup investing and venture capital podcast The Full Ratchet. Nick has held positions in Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategy and Product Management. Nick has experience across a range of verticals, including Industrial Automation, Robotics, Aerospace and Defense, Renewable Energy and Water Analytics. New Stack Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing in remarkable founders at the earliest stages of formation. New Stack invests out of a fund and also leads the largest Angel syndicate based in the Midwest; an angel group of over 700+ investors that co-invest in New Stack deals. To bring some additional fire power to a financial discussion, Nick Rishwain was once again co-hosted by the always spectacular Hannah Konitshek. Watch or listen! #legaltechlive More About Nick Moran, New Stack and The Full Ratchet: Nick Moran on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-mora.... New Stack Ventures website: http://www.newstack.vc/. The Full Ratchet website: https://fullratchet.net/. TFR on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheFullRatchet. TFR on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast.... More About Hannah Konitshek: Hannah Konitshek on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-ko.... Hannah Konitshek on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahKonnn. Hannah's legaltech experience: https://www.legal.io/. Hannah's venture experience: https://www.polymathcp.com/. More episodes at https://legaltechlive.com/.

Esquire’d is a platform for lawyers. We help connect attorneys through our technology. If you cannot appear at a hearing, a deposition, or even a client meeting, you can come to our platform to create a request. One of our vetted lawyers will happily appear for you. Despite COVID technical difficulties, which removes Nick Rishwain from most of the video in this episode, we pushed forward and spoke with Matthew Barhoma, founder of lawyer appearance platform, Esquired (Esq'd). Esquired is still in beta, anticipating exponential growth as hearings expand post shelter-in-place. Take a look at their offerings and see how Matthew is working on creating a solution for an issue he's personally faced as a practicing attorney in Southern California, which moved him into the arena of #legaltech #founder. More about Matthew Barhoma & Esq'd: Matthew Barhoma on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewba.... Esquire'd website: https://www.getesquired.com/. #legaltechlive

Jorge Izquierdo, CEO of Aragon.one, believes that decentralized organizations can solve the world's problems. He and his team are working to create a decentralized autonomous organization, #DAO, capable of solving those problems. We had him on the show to discuss the AragonProject, found at aragon.org, and their digital jurisdictions and digital court. You can actually sign up to be a juror and help solve disputes taking place in their system. You do have to use Ethereum coins to buy tokens on the Aragon system in order to be a juror. But in order to see how a digital court is already working, testing out this service is valuable. Nick Rishwain was joined, again, by former guest and friend Adam Kerpelman of Juris. Adam is quite knowledgeable in a variety of technology areas and has written a white paper on #blockchain technologies similar to what Aragon has instituted. If you really enjoy seeing Nick Rishwain out of his depth... which isn't too hard to do, you'll enjoy this episode where Jorge and Adam talk shop and Nick listens. #legaltech #crypto More About Jorge Izquierdo & Aragon: Jorge Izquierdo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/izqui9. Aragon.one website: https://aragon.one/. Aragon Project website: https://aragon.org/. Aragon Court: https://court.aragon.org/. Discord Community: https://discord.com/invite/ruBR6GN. More About Adam Kerpelman & Juris: Adam Kerpelman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamkerpe.... Adam Kerpelman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thekerp. Juris website: https://getjuris.com/. Lex DAO Community: http://lexdao.chat/.

While under quarantine, from across the pond, Richard Tromans of ArtificialLawyer, joins Nick Rishwain for episode 82 of #LegalTechLIVE. It has been 52 episodes since Richard had joined the show. Much has changed in the years since that first interview, when Richard and Nick were new to reporting on #legaltech. Their approaches to their respective reporting has changed, but the interest level is still there. As we describe in this interview, Richard and Nick have teamed up as media partners for Legal Innovators California. Which was supposed to take place in June, but has been postponed until November as a result of COVID-19. So this leisurely Saturday chat encompassed #legaltechnology more thoroughly. Nevertheless, we recommend you get your tickets for Legal Innovators California: https://www.legalinnovatorscalifornia.... More About Richard Tromans & Artificial Lawyer: Richard Tromans on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tromansco.... Artificial Lawyer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtificialLawya. Legal Innovators California: https://www.legalinnovatorscalifornia.... Legal Innovators: https://www.legalinnovators.co.uk/. ArtificialLawyer website: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/. LegalTechLIVE Episode 30: https://legaltechlive.com/episodes/le.... Episode 30 on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast....   Category Science & Technology

Are you experiencing workplace discrimination or a custody battle? Are you in bankruptcy or a debt collection case? Are you struggling with a personal injury case or facing foreclosure? Arm yourself with the tools to fight. The legal toolbox at Courtroom5 levels the playing field so you get a fair hearing in court. See why 7 out of 10 people who resolve their cases at Courtroom either win or settle. Winner of the 2019 Duke Law Tech Lab pitch competition, Courtroom5 is helping self-represented litigants to represent themselves more effectively in court. For $25 a month, they are offering informational assistance and guidance through their SaaS product. This is a real #accesstojustice play from an innovative #legaltech #startup. Learn more about their offering by watching this replay. This is legaltech created by self-represented litigants for self-represented litigants. More About Sonja Ebron & Courtroom5: Sonja Ebron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonjaebron/. Sonja Ebron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SonjaEbron. Courtroom5 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Courtroom5Legal. Courtroom5 Website: https://get.courtroom5.com/. More episodes at: https://legaltechlive.com/.   Category Science & Technology

Contract Canvas is the easy way for creative professionals to create and e-sign client agreements. This platform for creative professionals, makes contract language, humans can read. Create, preview, e-sign, and save. That’s all there is to it. Take a listen to this very refined pitch from #legaltech founder, Chris Brown. How does it work? Here are the steps outlined on the Contract Canvas website: 1. Tell them about your project: their user-guided contract wizard will ask you to provide the important details about your project–payment terms, termination rights, ownership of work product, and more. 2. Preview your contract: All Contract Canvas contracts include a summary designed for humans not lawyers and also a legal version designed for lawyers and judges. You can preview your contract, return to the wizard to make changes, and edit as much as you’d like. 3. Send your contract to your client: Next, click “Send to Client” and we’ll email your client a secure link where they can access your contract online. 4. Client preview: Your client can securely review both the human summary and the legal terms on our platform. If they have questions or changes, they can email you directly. 5. Client e-signs: Once approved by your client, they can easily provide their e-signature using our platform (through an integration with HelloSign). 6. You e-sign: We’ll let you know as soon as your client e-signs your contract. After they sign, you can e-sign too (again, using an integration with HelloSign). 7. We share the final contract: After you e-sign, we will save the final, fully-signed contract to your dashboard. We’ll also send a PDF copy of the contract to both you and your client via email. Check out the episode. You'll see that Chris Brown knows his product inside and out. Also, a special thanks to Katia Alcantar for co-hosting this episode, her first, with Nick Rishwain. More About Chris Brown & Contract Canvas: Chris Brown on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csbcounsel/. Chris Brown on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSBCounsel. Contract Canvas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ContractCanvas. Contract Canvas Website: https://contractcanvas.com/. More About Katia Alcantar & Fast Expunge: Katia Alcantar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katianalc.... Katia Alcantar on Twitter: https://twitter.com/katiainpdx. Katia's Company: https://www.fastexpunge.com/. Katia is also the COO of Text A Lawyer: https://textalawyernow.com/. More episodes available on https://legaltechlive.com/. #startups #founder   Category Science & Technology