Notes To My (Legal) Self

In this episode of Notes to my (Legal) Self, we dive into the fascinating world of open source software with Heather Maker, an accomplished lawyer and venture capitalist. Heather, who has been a mentor and inspiration for many years, shares her journey from practicing law in Silicon Valley to joining OSS Capital, a venture fund focused exclusively on commercial open source development. Her unique blend of legal expertise and investment acumen offers a compelling perspective on the intersection of law, technology, and business. Heather's story is one of unexpected twists and passion for open source. Starting as a lawyer specializing in software licensing, she transitioned into the venture capital world, bringing a deep understanding of open source legal issues to her investment strategy. Heather discusses her career trajectory, from working at prestigious law firms to co-founding a fund that supports innovative open source projects. In this engaging conversation, we explore the nuances of open source business models, the role of intellectual property rights, and the symbiotic relationship between open source and artificial intelligence. Heather explains how open source projects can thrive in recessionary periods due to their capital efficiency and community-driven nature. She also addresses the complexities of making money from open source software and the importance of trademarks in building a successful open source business. Heather's insights are invaluable for entrepreneurs, developers, and legal professionals navigating the open source landscape. Whether you're curious about the legal aspects of open source, interested in starting your own open source project, or just looking to understand how open source can drive business innovation, this episode is packed with practical advice and thought-provoking ideas. Open Source Business Models: Learn about the most effective open source business models, including the popular software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach, and understand why these models are particularly suited to inflationary and recessionary periods. Intellectual Property in Open Source: Discover the critical roles of copyright and trademarks in open source, and how these IP rights can shape your business strategy. AI and Open Source: Explore the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and open source, and why transparency in AI development is crucial for fostering innovation and trust. Investing in Open Source: Gain insights into why venture capital funds are increasingly interested in open source projects and how specialized knowledge in this area can streamline investment processes and drive success. Join us for this enlightening episode and delve into the dynamic world of open source with one of its foremost experts. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the field, you'll come away with a deeper understanding of how open source can transform businesses and drive technological advancement.

Kassi Burns is an attorney who has been using AI and Machine Learning for 10 years. Her legal career is defined by a continued curiosity in emerging technologies, technical and client services skills, understanding of data's impact to legal issues, and a desire to engage with others in and beyond the eDiscovery community. Over the years she has built a unique and diverse background in transactional law, eDiscovery, privacy law, data breach response, information law, and legal operations and regular collaborations with Partner/GC/C-suite clients. Her curiosity about emerging technologies, such as blockchain, NFTs and web3, and their impact to the legal profession, puts her on a continued path of constant discovery and educational growth. Her social media presence, including content through @eDiscoverist, is motivated by a desire to teach non-practitioners about eDiscovery and the legal community about web3. In this episode we explore the Data Provenance Standards by the Data & Trust Alliance!nLearn how these standards, akin to food safety labels, promise greater transparency in data's journey from source to application. Discover how integrating these standards can address AI adoption challenges. Uncover the potential for these standards to revolutionize sectors from healthcare to finance, ensuring data integrity and fostering trust in AI systems.

In this episode, we discuss the AWS Report. The AWS 'NOV 2023: ACCELERATING AI SKILLS' report is a comprehensive study commissioned by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and prepared by Access Partnership. It explores the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on various industries and the skills required to prepare the workforce for the jobs of the future. The report is based on extensive primary research, including surveys of 3,297 employees and 1,340 organizations in the United States (US) across various sectors. Predicted Impact on the Legal Industry: The report predicts a significant transformation in the legal sector as AI technologies automate routine tasks, leading to increased efficiency and accuracy. Efficiency and Role Shift: AI adoption is expected to improve legal task efficiency, allowing legal professionals to focus on strategic activities, such as legal strategy and client counseling. Enhanced Access to Legal Services: AI-driven tools are anticipated to reduce legal costs, making legal services more affordable and accessible to a broader audience. Ethical and Regulatory Considerations: The report acknowledges the importance of addressing ethical and regulatory concerns as AI becomes integral to the legal field. Key Takeaway - Skill Requirements: Legal professionals are predicted to require a blend of legal expertise and AI skills, including AI literacy, ethics, adaptability, and collaboration.

Kassi Burns is an attorney who has been using AI and Machine Learning for 10 years. Her legal career is defined by a continued curiosity in emerging technologies, technical and client services skills, understanding of data's impact to legal issues, and a desire to engage with others in and beyond the eDiscovery community. Over the years she has built a unique and diverse background in transactional law, eDiscovery, privacy law, data breach response, information law, and legal operations and regular collaborations with Partner/GC/C-suite clients. Her curiosity about emerging technologies, such as blockchain, NFTs and web3, and their impact to the legal profession, puts her on a continued path of constant discovery and educational growth. Her social media presence, including content through @eDiscoverist, is motivated by a desire to teach non-practitioners about eDiscovery and the legal community about web3. The FTC has made a pivotal move, authorizing compulsory AI-related products and services processes. This includes issuing civil investigative demands (CIDs) akin to subpoenas to tackle potential challenges like fraud, deception, and privacy issues. The big question: How will this shape the future of AI and its interaction with consumer rights and competition laws? Additionally, the FTC's Voice Cloning Challenge is stirring the pot in the AI world. It's a call to action for multidisciplinary solutions against the misuse of AI in voice cloning, focusing on consumer protection and the integrity of biometric data. In this episode we'll share unique insights on how these developments might impact businesses, innovators, and consumers. Plus, we'll explore what it means for future AI advancements and regulatory landscapes.

Kassi Burns is an attorney who has been using AI and Machine Learning for 10 years. Her legal career is defined by a continued curiosity in emerging technologies, technical and client services skills, understanding of data's impact to legal issues, and a desire to engage with others in and beyond the eDiscovery community. Over the years she has built a unique and diverse background in transactional law, eDiscovery, privacy law, data breach response, information law, and legal operations and regular collaborations with Partner/GC/C-suite clients. Her curiosity about emerging technologies, such as blockchain, NFTs and web3, and their impact to the legal profession, puts her on a continued path of constant discovery and educational growth. Her social media presence, including content through @eDiscoverist, is motivated by a desire to teach non-practitioners about eDiscovery and the legal community about web3. In this episode we discuss the key differences between California's and Florida's approaches to regulating lawyers' use of AI.

Duane Valz has led the legal and IP functions at prominent Silicon Valley companies operating at a variety of scales and growth stages. He has been broadly recognized over the past 10 years as one of the world's leading IP strategists. Duane is currently VP & General Counsel of Insitro, a venture-backed company applying machine learning and automation to disease target identification and new drug development. Prior to Insitro, he was VP & General Counsel of Zymergen Inc., a molecular technology growth company operating at the intersection of biology, chemistry, automation and machine learning. Duane was previously a senior member of the Patent Team at Google, where he led strategic IP initiatives bearing on mobile, cloud, web, and open source technologies. He was also previously Associate General Counsel in charge of patent development at Yahoo! Duane began his career at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin (now combined with Arnold & Porter LLP). Duane serves on the Board of Directors for SMASH.org, is an advisory board member for UCOP's MESA program, and is on the advisory Board for the National Society of Black Physicists — all organizations focused on supporting underrepresented students in the pursuit of educations and careers in STEM fields. In this episode we dive deep into a topic that's been buzzing in the tech world – the corporate governance failure at OpenAI. We're peeling back the layers of what happened at OpenAI, exploring the intricate details of corporate governance, and the whirlwind of events that led to Sam Altman's surprising exit. Duane's insightful Medium article has set the stage, and now we're bringing it to life in an interactive session you won't want to miss! Here's a sneak peek of what we'll cover: The complexities of OpenAI's corporate structure and how it played a role in recent events. The dramatic aftermath of Altman's departure and its impact on the AI industry. Lessons in corporate governance and foresight for rapidly evolving tech companies. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a governance guru, or just love a good corporate drama, this is the perfect opportunity to gain some valuable insights.

Kassi Burns is an attorney who has been using AI and Machine Learning for 10 years. Her legal career is defined by a continued curiosity in emerging technologies, technical and client services skills, understanding of data's impact to legal issues, and a desire to engage with others in and beyond the eDiscovery community. Over the years she has built a unique and diverse background in transactional law, eDiscovery, privacy law, data breach response, information law, and legal operations and regular collaborations with Partner/GC/C-suite clients. Her curiosity about emerging technologies, such as blockchain, NFTs and web3, and their impact to the legal profession, puts her on a continued path of constant discovery and educational growth. Her social media presence, including content through @eDiscoverist, is motivated by a desire to teach non-practitioners about eDiscovery and the legal community about web3. This episode is a deep dive into the world of AI, sparked by the insights from NIST's recent workshop on AI safety and trustworthiness. NIST, a leader in the world of standards and technology, recently hosted the "A USAISI Workshop: Collaboration to Enable Safe and Trustworthy AI." This event wasn't just about advancements in AI; it was a forward-thinking exploration into making AI safe, reliable, and ethical. We're talking about a future where AI not only propels us forward but does so with a strong moral compass. What we explore: Innovative strategies for marrying AI's potential with ethical practices. How do we navigate this new frontier responsibly? The synergy between tech leaders and policymakers in shaping AI's trajectory. It's a collaboration that's setting new standards! Cutting-edge tools and models are the new benchmarks in AI safety. These are the innovations that will define our future!

Kassi Burns is an attorney who has been using AI and Machine Learning for 10 years. Her legal career is defined by a continued curiosity in emerging technologies, technical and client services skills, understanding of data's impact to legal issues, and a desire to engage with others in and beyond the eDiscovery community. Over the years she has built a unique and diverse background in transactional law, eDiscovery, privacy law, data breach response, information law, and legal operations and regular collaborations with Partner/GC/C-suite clients. Her curiosity about emerging technologies, such as blockchain, NFTs and web3, and their impact to the legal profession, puts her on a continued path of constant discovery and educational growth. Her social media presence, including content through @eDiscoverist, is motivated by a desire to teach non-practitioners about eDiscovery and the legal community about web3. Imagine this: It's a typical Monday morning at a bustling law firm. Lawyers are deep in case files, paralegals are juggling deadlines, and suddenly, everything changes. A new team member arrives, but this one is a bit different - it's an AI agent powered by Agent GPT!

Kassi Burns is an attorney who has been using AI and Machine Learning for 10 years. Her legal career is defined by a continued curiosity in emerging technologies, technical and client services skills, understanding of data's impact to legal issues, and a desire to engage with others in and beyond the eDiscovery community. Over the years she has built a unique and diverse background in transactional law, eDiscovery, privacy law, data breach response, information law, and legal operations and regular collaborations with Partner/GC/C-suite clients. Her curiosity about emerging technologies, such as blockchain, NFTs and web3, and their impact to the legal profession, puts her on a continued path of constant discovery and educational growth. Her social media presence, including content through @eDiscoverist, is motivated by a desire to teach non-practitioners about eDiscovery and the legal community about web3. In this episode, we explore the fascinating world of AI Pin, the latest innovation from Humane.  We ponder the future of technology and communication. Some insights: The tech world seems to be inching towards a screenless era, with AI Pin leading the charge. This shift could redefine our daily interactions, even if AI Pin itself doesn't become the standard. It's not just about a new gadget; it's about how we interact with technology on a fundamental level. How we communicate and create is evolving, and AI Pin is a glimpse into that future. It's not just about the here and now but where we're headed with each technological advancement.

Steven Kelts is a lecturer in Princeton's University Center for Human Values (UCHV). He is also an ethics advisor to the Responsible A.I. Institute. His recent research focuses on the special nature of today's tech firms and their potential for ethical action, including an article in a special issue of IEEE's Technology and Society Magazine. He is the recipient of a grant from Princeton's Council on Science and Technology for a program called “Agile Ethics,” teaching undergraduate computer science and engineering majors how to consider ethical issues within their professional workflows. He also received a seed grant from Google to apply findings from this program in corporate environments, looking specifically at the uses and misuses of utilitarian logic by engineers on Agile teams (incl. Scrum, Kanban, MLOps, etc.). Kelts also has led the GradFutures initiative on Ethics of AI for the Graduate School, with the objective of encouraging Ph.D. candidates in all disciplines to apply their expertise in the field of tech ethics, at universities or in corporations. Biden's sweeping new AI executive order will change everything! What do your clients need to know about it? In this episode, we'll cover the executive order and the NIST risk management framework at its core, to give you the jump on regulatory and compliance concerns. Who will have to register foundation models? What are the implications for clients selling to the government? How will market regulation change? And much more!

Rayan and Langston recently finished their undergrad at Stanford and are taking time off from their masters to work on PlaygroundRL. Together, they have worked at seven big tech firms, four startups, as well as three machine learning labs on campus. Rayan's most recent publication presented a new evaluation metric for generated radiology reports. The attention for this paper led them to consider the commercial applications, of which legal seemed the most exciting. LLMs are taking the legal industry by storm but there are significant unsolved problems in verifying that the work they do is a high quality. The models are very capable but it is challenging to check that they are accurate and safe within specialized legal disciplines. Are we going to need to hire lawyers to teach models how to perform well? Will engineers be the ones making the decisions on how the model behaves? This podcast episode engages Rayan Krishnan and Langston Nashold from PlaygroundRL who are grappling with these questions. They are building a more rigorous system which can be used by lawyers and engineers alike to build more capable, reliable legal AI systems. Their conversation explores existing trends in the model evaluation work, their unique approach, and the core challenges that will remain in the industry.

descrybe.ai is a new and free legal search engine built in Greater Boston by Richard DiBona and Kara Peterson, a husband and wife team who share an interest in technology, the law, and the democratization of information. As a software engineer, Rich brings deep experience in using emerging technology to solve complex problems and Kara is a communications expert with a special focus on social justice. In this podcast, we'll be talking to Richard DiBona, a software engineer and co-founder of descrybe.ai, about ways to use AI in Legal Tech, natural language searching, and how to get more out of your AI prompts. Learning outcomes: - How to use prompts to dig deeper into legal documents - How does natural language search actually work? - The importance of trial and error in using AI

Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York attorney, author, journalist, and Senior Director, SME and External Education, at MyCase, legal practice management software. She is the nationally-recognized author of "Cloud Computing for Lawyers" (2012) and co-authors "Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier" (2010), both published by the American Bar Association. She also was the co-author of "Criminal Law in New York," a Thomson Reuters treatise. She writes regular columns for Above the Law, ABA Journal, and The Daily Record, has authored hundreds of articles for other publications, and regularly speaks at conferences regarding the intersection of law and emerging technologies. She is an ABA Legal Rebel, and is listed on the Fastcase 50 and ABA LTRC Women in Legal Tech. She can be contacted at niki.black@mycase.com. In this episode, we'll explore whether to integrate ChatGPT into modern legal practices, discussing its potential benefits, challenges, and opportunities. The legal sector is no exception as AI continues to reshape various industries. Whether you're a seasoned attorney, a tech enthusiast, or just curious about the future of law, this discussion offers valuable insights into how ChatGPT fits into the bigger picture. Don't miss out on this opportunity to be at the forefront of legal innovation!

An impressive background in legal innovation, Larry is a co-founder of the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM). Pushing the boundaries of legal innovation has resulted in global recognition and accolades. Larry co-founded Lipscomb University‘s highly regarded Institute for Conflict Management and Vanderbilt Law School's Program on Law & Innovation. An advocate for improving legal service delivery through technology, Larry is a patent holder of legal technology applications. Now that the world is aware of Generative AI (GAI), the legal sector is not far behind. Law firms have rushed to be the first in their market to announce their own GAI applications. However, the risks of hallucination, fake news, and misrepresentation of facts pose significant risks to the ethical duties and reputations of lawyers. Navigating the risks while riding the waves of innovation, requires extreme ethical due diligence. Responsible AI takes center stage as an antidote to these risks and the optimizer of value. This session will provide guidance in: 1. Benefits and challenges of practicing law in the AI Era 2. Ethical duties of lawyers in the face of exploding technology advances 3. Overcoming the 90% AI implementation failure factor 4. Will AI take lawyers' jobs 5. Will GAI finally destroy the billable hour business model?

Jacqueline Schafer is a career appellate litigator and the founder and CEO of Clearbrief, winner of Litigation Technology Product of the Year at Legalweek 2023. Schafer was named to the American Bar Association's “2022 Women of Legal Tech” list, the 2022 Fastcase 50, Honoring ‘Innovators, Techies, Visionaries and Leaders' in Law, and also received the 2021 Washington State Bar APEX Award for Legal Innovation for founding Clearbrief as well as for her 2020 law review article ("Harnessing AI for Struggling Families"). In this episode, Jacqueline Schafer will share why Clearbrief's AI platform in Word is used by hundreds of firms, including Biglaw, as well as courts and government agencies. She'll share the design thinking behind Clearbrief's generative AI features that produce instant hyperlinked timelines from discovery docs, score your opponent's accuracy, and more.

Ms. Hoffman is an accomplished leader and expert in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain, with a distinguished career spanning industry and government. Prior to her current role, she served as the Chief Technology Leader of Legal Strategy and Operations at Dell Technologies and spent a decade at IBM in Digital Transformation and Strategy, including as Co-Leader of the Global Watson AI Legal Practice. Her expertise in AI and Blockchain has earned her invitations to speak at prestigious events such as the Blockchain for Impact held at the UN in 2018 and the UN Data Forum in 2020 and 2021. Her expertise in AI and Blockchain has earned her invitations to speak at prestigious events such as the Blockchain for Impact held at the UN in 2018 and the UN Data Forum in 2020 and 2021. Ms. Hoffman was also appointed as Chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Distributed Ledger Technology and Market Infrastructure Subcommittee for the 2018 – 2021 term. The world woke up to the power of AI in late 2022 when OpenAI's ChatGPT sprang fully formed as if from Pandora's Box. Since that time the progenitors of Generative AI have proclaimed it an "existential threat" to the human race. Others proclaim it the savior of human kind. What is fact and what is fiction? This podcast will clear the air to answer the the following questions: * What is AI's proper role for humans? * What is Responsible AI? * Are there guardrails for the development and use of AI? * How do we shape a future where AI serves as a force for good? * Can AI protect human well-being, fairness, transparency, and accountability?

Jey Kumarasamy is an associate at BNH.AI - a boutique D.C.-based law firm that specializes in AI and data analytics. Prior to this, Jey worked as a corporate and commercial lawyer in Toronto, Canada with a focus on technology transactions. He also has a technical background with software engineering experience in both the private and public sectors. Jey studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Toronto, and is a graduate of McGill University Faculty of Law. There is a lot of buzz around AI audits, especially with New York City's Local Law 144 coming into enforcement recently. However, for many lawyers there are still many points of uncertainty about implementing AI audits in practice. The goal is for in-house counsel walking away from this discussion to be able to answer the essential questions about an AI audit: What are they? What do they look like in practice? If and why their company may need one?

Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York attorney, author, journalist, and Senior Director, SME and External Education, at MyCase, legal practice management software. She is the nationally-recognized author of "Cloud Computing for Lawyers" (2012) and co-authors "Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier" (2010), both published by the American Bar Association. She also was the co-author of "Criminal Law in New York," a Thomson Reuters treatise. She writes regular columns for Above the Law, ABA Journal, and The Daily Record, has authored hundreds of articles for other publications, and regularly speaks at conferences regarding the intersection of law and emerging technologies. She is an ABA Legal Rebel, and is listed on the Fastcase 50 and ABA LTRC Women in Legal Tech. She can be contacted at niki.black@mycase.com. Join us for a deep dive into the world of AI in the legal industry with our special episode “Generative AI in law: Resistance is futile.” This comprehensive discussion explores not only the technology's evolution but also focuses on its real-world implementation within the legal field. Whether you're an experienced practitioner or new to legal tech, this episode will offer valuable insights. Learning Outcomes: 1) Understanding the Evolution and Landscape of AI in Law: Learn about the journey and growth of AI technology, including ChatGPT, and how it's been adapted specifically for the legal profession. 2) Exploration of Practical Applications: Discover 10 practical applications where AI has been instrumental in the legal field, including document summaries, drafting assistance, and more. 3) Insight into Ethical and Technical Challenges: Delve into the critical issues of ethical concerns, algorithmic bias, accuracy, and the relative infancy of this rapidly evolving technology. Understand how these challenges can be navigated in practice. 4) Strategies for Implementation: Gain actionable insights on how to harness AI's power and successfully implement it into your legal practice, regardless of your technology background. 5) Fostering a Forward-Thinking Legal Practice: Engage with the ideas and techniques that will enable you to stay ahead of the curve, embracing AI as a tool for efficiency, accuracy, and innovation in your legal work. Tune in to this enlightening episode and arm yourself with the knowledge to lead the way in the integration of AI into the legal landscape. Whether you're seeking to streamline your practice or understand the potential pitfalls, this podcast is an essential listen for today's legal professionals.

As our lives become increasingly intertwined with digital platforms and services, our digital assets have taken on greater significance. From cherished memories on social media to extensive digital libraries and online subscriptions, these assets need to be accounted for and properly managed after our passing. Without a comprehensive digital estate plan, our loved ones may face difficulties accessing, preserving, or distributing our digital legacies. Some of the questions we go over: How is artificial intelligence (AI) transforming will and estate planning in the digital era? What are the challenges associated with managing and preserving digital assets after someone passes away? How can AI technologies, such as natural language processing and machine learning algorithms, streamline and automate complex legal processes in estate planning? What are the benefits of using AI-powered platforms for digital estate planning? How can AI help individuals in creating a comprehensive inventory of their digital assets? What role does AI play in simplifying the responsibilities of executors and beneficiaries in managing and distributing digital assets? How can AI ensure that the wishes of individuals regarding their digital legacies are honored and maintained for future generations?

Join us for an engaging conversation as we delve into the fascinating world of Legal Prompt Engineering with Dazza Greenwood. This thought-provoking session will explore the dynamic relationship between law and technology and how they intertwine to shape our rapidly evolving digital society. As technology continues to transform the way we live, work, and interact, understanding the legal implications and ensuring ethical and responsible practicesbecome paramount. Dazza brings his extensive knowledge and expertise to shed light on this critical topic. During this insightful conversation, Dazza Greenwood will share his deep insights into the emerging field of Legal Prompt Engineering, a multidisciplinary approach that combines legal analysis, systems design, and data governance. Through real-world examples and case studies, Dazza will illustrate the challenges and opportunities that arise when the law and technology converge. He will discuss how legal professionals and engineers collaborate to develop innovative solutions that comply with legal requirements and promote transparency, accountability, and fairness in our increasingly digital world. Whether you are a legal professional, technologist, policymaker, or simply intrigued by the fascinating relationship between law and technology, this conversation is a must watch.

In this engaging session, we will explore the evolving challenges and legal dilemmas surrounding the use of AI in client consent processes. As AI continues to revolutionize the legal industry, it brings both immense potential and complex ethical considerations. Aileen Schultz will discuss various aspects of this important topic, including: Defining the role of AI in client consent: We will examine how AI is currently being utilized in client consent processes, its advantages, and potential risks associated with privacy, data protection, and informed consent. Legal and regulatory frameworks: The panel will shed light on the existing legal and regulatory frameworks that govern AI and client consent, discussing areas of compliance and potential gaps that need to be addressed. Ethical considerations: We will delve into the ethical implications arising from the use of AI in client consent, including the importance of transparency, fairness, and accountability and how these principles can be upheld in an AI-driven landscape. Balancing innovation and risk mitigation: The conversation will revolve around striking a balance between leveraging AI technologies to enhance client consent processes while ensuring robust safeguards are in place to protect clients' rights and privacy. Best practices and future outlook: The panelists will share practical insights, case studies, and emerging best practices that can help legal professionals navigate the legal complexities surrounding client consent in the age of AI. Additionally, they will discuss the future trajectory of AI in this domain and the potential impact on legal practice.

Ashlee Best is passionate about the future of work, humans and technology. She's an innovative legal operations leader with over 20 yrs of experience. Her mission is to transform how the legal ecosystem collaborates and delivers services to in-house legal teams & business stakeholders and she's experienced working with Fortune 500, Start-Ups, High Growth Tech Companies (PeopleSoft/Oracle, Zynga, Pandora, Dropbox, Asana) Welcome to today's podcast where we challenge the notion that wellness is solely focused on mental health and that one-size-fits-all corporate wellness programs are enough. A comprehensive approach to wellness is necessary to addresses the unique needs of the individual and the interconnectedness of the mind, body, belief systems, connections and environment. Ashlee is recent graduate of Mindvalley's Holobody Coaching certification program, this program is designed to help each human achieve balance in each of the five wellness pillars. Join us as we delve into each of these pillars, through Ashlee's personal journey and start of her career transition from legal operations innovator to legal wellness. Let's embark on a path to better health and wellbeing together!

Director of Legal Operations, Managing Attorney (ex Hasbro). Strategic legal operations for in house legal departments; design thinking; product counsel and bringing together 12 years in-house with experience and skill in game design and software development. Bo has just finished the first-phase of his legal-ops career after building Hasbro, Inc.'s legal operations from scratch. He did so while maintaining a rich legal practice in kids' data privacy, digital product counsel (including for almost all of Hasbro's connected toy products between 2016 and 2023). But law was not Bo's first career – Band Life. After graduating UC Santa Cruz (modern literary studies, highest honors), he spent the rest of the 1990s playing guitar in the San Francisco indie rock/shoegazer/neo-psychedelic California-pop band “Pete,” (Instagram page) creating this release: https://peterecords.bandcamp.com/releases – while working at Polygram Group Distribution. PS2 Game Designer By 2002, Bo was now a game designer at Idol Minds, LLC, a developer near Boulder known for the “Coolboarders” and “Rally Cross” franchises. Wait, what? He shipped “Neopets: The Darkest Faerie” in 2005 as lead game designer. How? He learned C, studied lots of books on game design and development and put together a Windows game demo himself that helped to get his foot in the door. His experience as a web application developer for UC Santa Barbara (where his (now) wife was an English PhD. candidate) in creating applications using SQL and ASP technologies to deliver dynamic web pages in HTML and VB Script also helped open that door. And, those apps were aimed at helping administrators administer the English Department. Sound familiar? Legal Practice Bo went to law school in his mid-thirties. He graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 2009 and managed to get his foot in the door at Hasbro. During that time he worked on Hasbro's growing entertainment portfolio: television for the Hub (a JV with Discovery Channel) and on a massive software implementation of a rights-management system for Hasbro Studios. Full Circle: The Digital Practice & Legal Ops From the beginning, as the “tech guy” within Hasbro's legal department, Bo worked on things that would be recognizable as legal ops now. This started with Access databases to track contract rights. It ultimately led to fully embracing building full-blown applications in Microsoft 365 tools for CLM and process management, building an Innovation Committee, a Legal Ops Advisory Committee, and evangelizing legal ops for years in the department. Bo was almost single-handedly responsible for getting the whole department to adopt SharePoint along a (semi!) rational framework in the department. Full Ops Now, Bo is committed to legal operations as his core passion, and wants to be a part of the transformation that's happening both from within a smart, ambitious department ready to embrace the digital transformation journey to across the ops community, taking part in the amazing conversations that are happening every day. This is an amazing community to be a part of! Bo wants to build amazing programs. In both senses of the word: (a) ops programs for legal departments and (b) amazing, creative software and tech programs. Build them. Not just implement them. He says his true superpowers are seeing the connections between what others may see as disparate parts and then demonstrating how to synthesize these into . . . the art of the possible. He is a big-picture thinker who uses some pretty technical specifics and insight to make it happen.

Laurie David-Henric joined her currently role for a Fortune 500 in June 2022. Laurie serves as the Head of Operations & Strategy for the Law, Compliance, Audit and Government Relations (LCAG) function, consisting of over 1,300 professionals across North America, Asia and Europe. In this role, Laurie leads the execution of LCAG's global strategy and has responsibility for LCAG's operations globally, including the prioritization and implementation of the group's technology roadmap, the optimization of the Law Department operating model, and oversight of strategic cost management, financial planning, monitoring and reporting. Laurie reports to the company's global General Counsel and is part of his Leadership Team. Laurie has substantial expertise in strategic planning and management for complex global operations and projects. She has served in senior roles at The Citco Group of Companies (Citco), most recently as Head of Business Process Optimization, where she led continuous improvement of internal business processes to enhance efficiency, quality, and controls while mitigating risks and increasing revenue and competitiveness. At Citco, Laurie also earlier served as International Project and Program Lead, as the Country Head and Operations Lead in France, and as an international corporate and business lawyer, both in-house and in law firm. Laurie holds a Master's Degree in International Commercial Law from the Centre du Droit de l'Entreprise in France, and a Master's Degree in International and European Law jointly from the Business School and Law School of Aarhus in Denmark and the Law School of Avignon in France. All in all, Laurie has worked on 2 continents, lead teams across 4, collaborated with colleagues in 25+ jurisdictions around the globe, and worked with almost as many regulators. So you are this seasoned professional with a successful double-digit career, and you decided to go for this new exciting challenge. First day on the job and it's much, much bigger than you were expecting, All of a sudden you got overwhelmed with the question "OMG where do I start??". Sounds familiar? Well, natural reaction is to want to deliver something ASAP to prove to your boss they have made the right decision by selecting you, isn't it? There is no better recipe to deliver something not aligned with the needs of the business, but rather with your need of feeling reassured. And when the first one will happen, the second will not. You will likely end up with raised eyebrows from your boss, and merely a ‘hmm hmm' in lieu of approbation. In this discussion, Laurie David-Henric will share her personal experience of how in 100 days she successfully positioned herself and her function as a strategic partner to her boss and other key leaders without formerly delivering anything for 3 months.

In the world of law, often known for its conservatism, Ramtin Taheri is revolutionizing the approach. Alongside co-founder Brian Potts, he's established a pioneering marketing agency connecting brands with social media influencers focused on lawyers and law students. Ramtin's agency breaks the mold by leveraging influencers specializing in legal content, bridging the gap between the legal field and modern digital trends. Their curated influencer group offers unique insights into effective strategies for marketing to lawyers. This journey has been an exploration of innovation, distilling legal complexities into concise social media posts and crafting narratives that resonate with legal professionals. Ramtin's agency embodies a shift in redefining how legal practitioners interact with the digital landscape, breathing new life into marketing and the legal community's connection with contemporary dynamics. As law embraces the digital era, Ramtin's agency underscores innovation, collaboration, and progress.

Christi Disparte is an in-house legal counsel at ENGIE Impact - a company committed to sustainability now. Prior to joining the In-House ranks, Christi worked as a litigation associate gaining experience in complex civil litigation. The transition from litigation to in-house counsel is often surrounded by myths and misconceptions, leaving many aspiring legal professionals wondering about the path they should take to make such a shift. In this episode, we delve deep into the realities of this transition, debunking common misconceptions, and shedding light on the key factors to consider when contemplating a move from the courtroom to the corporate environment. Christi shares her personal journey, recounting the challenges she faced and the insights she gained while navigating the path to becoming an in-house counsel. Her story serves as a source of motivation for others who may be considering a similar career change but are unsure about the best course of action. Together, we explore the various aspects involved in transitioning from litigation to in-house counsel, discussing the skills and qualities that can be leveraged from a litigation background and how they seamlessly translate into the corporate setting. Moreover, we discuss the importance of timing and readiness when making this significant career shift, ensuring that aspiring in-house counsels are well-prepared to tackle the unique challenges and responsibilities that come with this role.

Mary Smith is President-Elect of the American Bar Association (ABA), and is the first Native American woman in this role. Mary is an independent board member and former CEO of a $6 billion national healthcare organization, the Indian Health Service. Mary currently serves on the board of PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT), a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of medicines that provide benefits to patients with rare disorders. She also serves on the board of HAI Group, a leading member-owned property-casualty insurance company for the affordable housing industry. Mary is also Vice Chair of the VENG Group, a national consulting firm. Earlier in her career, Mary served as an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, as a senior in-house counsel at Tyco International, and in government, both as Associate Counsel to the President in the White House and as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. In her bar association activities, Mary is the immediate past National Secretary of the ABA and a former president of the National Native American Bar Association. She was the first Native American to serve as a commissioner on the ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession, and she has received the ABA Spirit of Excellence award for her trailblazing work on diversity and inclusion. She is also the founder and president of the only national organization that promotes Native American girls in STEM, the Caroline and Ora Smith Foundation. As you move up the leadership ladder, what brought you to the table might make you lunch or cause you to fail. As your legal career progresses, your view of your work is broader and your impact expands. What does it mean to be a leader? What is your leadership style? How do you develop leadership skills. Join Mary Smith, President-Elect of the American Bar Association, to discuss moving into leadership, mistakes along the way, and how to become the best leader you can be.

Stefanie Frank is Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Thriveworks. For three years, so far, she's been able to support a large admin and clinical team helping people live happier lives through counseling and therapy. Prior to Thriveworks, Stefanie was Associate Counsel at the Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. In her free time, she loves weightlifting, running, and some hard rock with a bit of metal on the side. She spends her time with her fiancé and cat, Bella. When constant fires pop up in a corporate situation, an in-house legal generalist is there to assist. Join Stefanie as she discusses her journey though being a in-house attorney generalist for the past eight years. How to navigate every day problems, big projects, and a generalist legal team. She shares where she gets her inspiration from, and her current journey into thought leadership. Diving into how these two things work together to make a better in-house attorney.

Sara Ajmi works as a Legal Operations Specialist for a global beauty and personal care manufacturer after she served as a Paralegal and Board Secretary Assistant for a Public Media Company in Canada. As part of her current job, she focuses on matter management, contract management, legal process improvement and legal metrics. Before moving to Canada in late 2019, Sara worked for more than 5 years as an in-house counsel in her home country, Morocco, where she held a master's degree in Business Law. Even though she accidentally fallen into the legal industry, Sara is passionate about the legal departments and teams' management, a topic she always loves talking about. During all her years working in-house, Sara was always frustrated with the way the legal departments are managed. This is why she is actively involved in raising awareness within the legal community about how to effectively run legal department and show the real value of this high strategic function. She even started recently creating content on LinkedIn on everything related to legal operations, legal department management and legal leadership. The legal operations' main role is to be the GC and the company leadership advisor and right hand on everything related to the legal department operations. To achieve their business and strategic goals, the GC should run their department as a Business, focusing on competencies such as Financial Management, Strategic Planning, Business Intelligence, Technology, Knowledge Management, etc. Legal operations is not a new concept but, with the COVID-19 pandemic, we noticed a forced evolution of this function within the legal industry. Many GCs found themselves with no other choice but to implement a legal ops function to help them revamping the way their department works to keep achieving their goals while navigating this change. The other side of the coin is that, with this ‘new age' of legal operations, so many legal professionals (GCs included) still hire a legal ops as a ‘fashion hiring trend' without proper understanding the real importance of this highly strategic function. As a result, unsuccessful function, and unachieved business goals. This is exactly what this talk with Sara is about.

Karna Nisewaner is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. She is responsible for Cadence worldwide legal operations, covering matters such as corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, commercial transactions, employment, export compliance, government affairs, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and stock administration. Prior to this role, she was Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Cadence where she led many key functions in the legal department. Prior to joining Cadence in 2011, Nisewaner held in-house counsel roles at Intuit and IBM and was in private practice at Finnegan, Henderson, Farbow, Garrett, and Dunner, LLP focused on intellectual property. Nisewaner received her BSE in civil engineering and operations research from Princeton University and her Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School. How do you build great teams? Create a trusted environment. For Karna Nisewaner, trust is the foundation of her strong legal team and her relationships with fellow executives. Through trust, Karna was able to build her career at Cadence to reach the level of General Counsel. She thinks there are great lessons to be learned in how you create trust and how that makes you a great leader.

Logan Maley is someone who really likes what she does. She believes she found her niche. She loves being in-house in tech because she gets to do all of the things she enjoys doing and that she think she's good at; strategy, advisory work, negotiating, making an impact, being creative, working and collaborating with a variety of people who have diverse skill sets and strengths. What really makes her job--and her life--fulfilling, however, is connecting with people. Logan likes to say that she's a serious professional who doesn't take herself too seriously. The second attorney in at Procore, she's seen the company scale from a private company with sub-500 employees, US only, to a NYSE-listed global company with over 3,000 employees and growing. She helped the company prepare for its IPO in every way (twice actually, thanks pandemic). Logan loves the journey of scaling a company and continues to enjoy each new phase of maturity. She has worn many hats and supported just about every practice area possible. She is currently supporting legal and compliance for their new ventures in FinTech, broadening her experience out of B2B SaaS. Aside from being a lawyer/tech exec, Logan is a mom of two awesome little humans, a spouse to one awesome very tall gentleman, a lover and player of music, and the one always hosting the parties. Molly Graham, a seasoned tech-exec, wrote an amazing piece about scaling a tech company in which she said "if you personally want to grow as fast as your company, you have to give away your job every couple months." Logan Maley has taken this approach to heart and will talk about how a "team of generalists" in a high-growth tech company can help legal teams meet each phase of maturity and help legal leaders keep not-yet-GC-level employees on board and engaged long past IPO or other late-stages of growth.

Olivia Vizachero, a former BigLaw commercial litigator and criminal defense attorney, runs The Less Stressed Lawyer, a boutique life coaching practice for lawyers. As a Certified Life Coach, she works with lawyers who are over the overwhelm and want to live lives with less stress and far more fulfillment by teaching them how to manage their mindset and make themselves and their well-being their top priority. She's also the host of The Less Stressed Lawyer Podcast and a co-author of the book #Networked, a pandemic anthology written by 20 women lawyers about networking and building successful businesses during a global public health crisis. So many attorneys struggle with achieving balance between their personal and professional lives and end up feeling overwhelmed and anxious as a result. One of the most helpful solutions they can implement to start living lives with less stress and far more fulfillment is to stop people pleasing and to start setting and honoring healthy boundaries. But that's easier said than done. Join Olivia Vizachero, certified life coach to lawyers and founder of The Less Stressed Lawyer, as she teaches you how to put an end to your people-pleasing tendencies once and for all.

James Bellerjeau was General Counsel of an S&P 500 company for 20 years, and then Head of its Global Sustainability Program. He served as President of the Association of Corporate Counsel Europe and writes the Career Path column for the ACC Docket, the magazine for in-house lawyers. He is a Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University and teaches at the University of Zurich. He serves as an executive coach for newly promoted General Counsels and other senior executives. James is currently focused on applying principles of Stoic philosophy to live a good life and achieve satisfaction. Check out some of his thoughts on his blog at www.klugne.com, where he writes about happiness, thinking and decision-making, and moving back to the U.S. after 25 years abroad. He's also recently published a modern version of Seneca's Moral Letters to Lucilius. What happens when you get an ESG skeptic to run a global, public company Sustainability Program? Interesting things. For one, a strategic focus on creating real impact. For another, battles with stakeholders who each think THEIR issue should be in your strategic focus. Ultimately, you get the No BS Approach to ESG. James served for 20 years as the General Counsel of an S&P 500 company, a U.S. global multinational headquartered in Switzerland. During that time, he worked on the company's public sustainability reporting. How well did his GC role prepare him for then running the Sustainability Program for the coming 2 1/2 years? We'll discuss how (and why) James made the switch from the GC role to Head of Sustainability. What surprised him about the role. And why he thinks the ESG movement is headed for hard times.

Megan Lutes is the General Counsel and CHRO at Glowforge, Inc., a Seattle-based technology start-up that designs and produces 3D laser printers. Megan also oversees the HR team, customer support organization, recruiting, and the facilities team at Glowforge. Megan joined Glowforge's executive team during a period of rapid growth. Megan came from heading up the legal team at Convoy, Inc. another Seattle-based technology start up. In addition to her day job, Megan founded and runs Diversity University, a company that provides diversity, equity, and inclusion tools such as trainings, project management, or assists in investigations for companies, law firms, and organizations. Megan's background includes both law firm and in-house experience with previous senior legal positions at Moss Adams, one of the country's largest public accounting firms and Expeditors International, a Fortune 500 international logistics company. Megan serves on the board of directors for Providence Pediatric Hospice of Seattle, sits on the executive board for ACC - WA, co-chairing the sponsorship committee. Recently she was awarded the top ten 30 somethings by ACC national, received the "Legal MVP Award" by SimpleLegal, received the Championing Diversity in Tech award at the Leaders in Tech Law award in New York, she was listed in Marquis 2022 Who's Who in America, was featured in InView magazine and on the International "The Counsel" Podcast, and was recognize by Women, Influence and Power in Law for Championing Diversity in-house and for Innovative Leadership. She has spoken around the country on a wide range of topics and is seen as a prominent leader in the legal community. She recently published her book The Art of Networking, providing tangible advice for those wanting to work on their career progression or to grow a more robust network. Her robust network has brought her board seats, speaking opportunities, awards, and put her on her path to General Counsel. Building a robust network is crucial to taking your successes in most areas of your life to the next level. Many people advocate networking, but rarely do people provide actionable and tangible advice on how to network well. Join Megan Lutes, General Counsel and CHRO of a tech start-up in Seattle and author of the Art of Networking for tools and resources to build an incredible network. She will share several tips from her book. Her insights are valuable to any professional or individual looking to open opportunities and connections.

Since 2020, SALI has had great success in bringing together stakeholders — lawyers, vendors, and clients — to come together toward standardizing legal data. This discussion will explore how vendors like Thomson Reuters, Lexis, and Fastcase — as well as some of the largest law firms (e.g., Ogletree) and clients (e.g., Microsoft, Intel) — are implementing SALI. We will also discuss how the SALI API project is making the legal ecosystem more interoperable.

Alex Khachaturian serves as a Director in FINRA's Office of Financial Innovation (OFI) in Washington, DC. Alex supports OFI's mission in the identification and analysis of emerging technologies, laws and regulations, business models, and industry practices (both domestic and international) to inform FINRA's risk management and strategy goals. His primary area of focus, in recent years, has been at the intersection of technology, law, and regulatory compliance. Alex's professional background includes several years of federal government service, law firm practice, and operations within global financial institutions. Facilitating compliance through innovation will be a key area of focus for years to come in the financial services industry. The industry is increasingly relying on technology to improve both internal operational functions as well as regulatory compliance. In this context, regulatory taxonomies (i.e., a method of classifying and categorizing a hierarchy of key legal, business, and regulatory terms and concepts) have been seen as a way to make regulations more easily processed by a computer and, therefore, potentially less time-consuming and costly for a firm's legal and compliance staff to review. In addition, application programming interfaces (APIs) can be used to ingest rule content, including the application of regulatory taxonomies to rules. Join Olga and Alex as they discuss how technology-based tools can allow financial market participants to potentially enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of their compliance efforts, thereby supporting investor protection and market integrity.

Tom Stephenson currently serves as Director of Legal Operations at Credit Karma. In his role, he focuses on strategic financial management, technology and innovation, operations, and knowledge management for Credit Karma's global legal function. Over a decade of varied leadership roles within the legal industry, Tom has worked alongside global law firms, Fortune 500 corporations, legal tech vendors, and consultants to address issues impacting today's evolving legal operations workplaces. He challenges the next generation of legal operations leaders to dig deep to find and release their inner brilliance through courageous conversations, mentorship, and educational opportunities. Tom is a national thought leader in alternative pathways for legal operations professionals and regularly speaks as an authoritative voice on innovative legal operations strategies that drive efficiency, innovation, and transparency within an organization, including Harvard Law School. Driving value through innovation is a core element that moves the legal operations function from a cost center to a value creator. But how do law firms fit into legal ops equation? Join Tom Stephenson & Olga Mack as they pull back the curtains explore how legal ops professionals propel their departments into the future by partnering with law firms and legal tech to deliver strategies focused on collaboration, process efficiency, and operational excellence.

Jordan Chapnik-Kadec brings 15 years of Operations background, 7 of them specializing in Legal Operations for In-House legal department. Jordan holds MBA degree and graduated MIT Sloan School of Management program for AI business Implications. In this podcast we will talk about Artifactual Intelligence(AI) evolution to our days and where it meets Legal Industry. We will analyze and compare changes AI brought to other industries. Are we heading into the future where machines replacing attorneys and paralegals? What would that be like....

Robin Taylor leads the global nonprofit, Lawyers Without Borders, harnessing the power of pro bono service to promote the rule of law and increase access to justice. Under her leadership, Lawyers Without Borders trains human rights lawyers, builds case management and trial advocacy skills, provides technical assistance to combat transnational organized crime such as human trafficking and wildlife poaching, and creates sustainable institutions, including the new Kenyan Prosecution Training Institute. Ms. Taylor has extensive trial and international experience serving more than 20 years at the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) as an Assistant United States Attorney Investigating and prosecuting cases in federal court specializing in international cybercrime and fraud. Ms. Taylor served overseas as USDOJ's legal advisor in Stuttgart, Germany as part of a newly-created U.S. interagency team advising the U.S. Department of Defense and European officials on transnational threats, foreign influence, illicit finance, and cyberspace challenges. As the legal advisor to the U.S. Embassies in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Nairobi, Kenya she provided technical assistance to combat terrorism, transnational organized crime, and money laundering, creating trusted networks and multi-agency working groups to improve financial integrity and inclusion. Reflecting on her service, the Kenyan Director of Public Prosecutions said publicly that Ms. Taylor came to Africa not as a doctor with a cure, but as a highly experienced and competent advisor and collaborator to help solve vastly complex and often polarizing issues. Ms. Taylor is a frequent public speaker who briefed the Joint Chiefs of Staff and regularly lectured at the USDOJ's National Advocacy Center, the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, European Commission, Eurojust, Global Counterterrorism Form, Defeat ISIS Working Group, United Nations, U.S. Department of State, and Cambridge University, among others. She co-founded "Operation Protect & Defend,” a nationally recognized civil education program; served as a Judicial Applicant Evaluator for the State Bar of California; as the President, Vice President, Treasurer, of Sacramento's Federal Bar Association, and was named a Master of the Bench for the Sacramento Inn of Court. The military cannot bring peace and security down the barrel of a gun alone. Prosecution will not by itself decrease crime. Global, national, and regional challenges require an integrated and whole-of-government approach. Join Robin Taylor, the Executive Director of Lawyers Without Borders, an international not-for-profit, and former US Federal Prosecutor, for this conversation. She will share real-world stories from prosecuting cases; living overseas in Kenya and Indonesia working for the US Department of Justice; her four years advising and collaborating w US Military; and new assignment leading a global nonprofit to explain how a whole-of-government effort is essential to addressing significant, headline-grabbing criminal and security threats.

Aparna Dasai Williams joined Coalfire Systems, Inc. in 2022 as General Counsel. She is an accomplished in-house legal leader with over 20 years of experience scaling and managing global legal teams for high growth private and public software companies. She was previously Head of Legal at Shippo, a venture backed ecommerce company, AGC at Imperva, Inc., a privately held application security technology company, and Senior Director at Symantec Corporation, the world's largest public cybersecurity company at the time. She is excited to be a board member of the Pride Hockey Association, fostering youth hockey for girls and propelling them into success in their education and sports careers. Aparna received her B.A. in Literature and History from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and a J.D. from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law. Aparna is admitted to practice in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC. It's easy to impress young lawyers with your story and how you overcame obstacles and became a seasoned and respected in-house leader; but usually we leave out a lot of the mundane and repetition and frustration to spin a good tale. It's important not only to share your story, with brutal truth, but to coach the next generation to use their own strengths and perspectives to achieve their own style of success. Join Aparna Dasai Williams, a 20+ year veteran of in-house tech legal, for this episode of NTMLS. She will reveal her trials and errors, and some successes in the journey to learning how to coach and develop the next generation to be invaluable business partners and leaders in their organizations.

Since 2003, Alex has been advising tech's leading companies on complex commercial arrangements and the handling of personal data. Alex focuses on new products and services and on commercial arrangements involving personal data, responding to data breaches, cross-border data transfers, marketing/ad tech, and data governance. He has provided trainings on evolving areas of data privacy law such as cookie compliance and was recently named to the 2022 Top 50 Lawyers In America list. Alex is certified by the IAPP in both the U.S. and in the E.U. and holds a global MBA from INSEAD in France. Do you know just how much information companies around the world collect about you? If you did, would this change your behavior online or even in the real world? There is a massive sea change in the way governments around the world are looking at personal data and consumer rights are at the heart of this debate. The companies that "get" privacy will lead the transition to a future where our personal data will be seen for what it is...a global currency...those that don't will lose not only consumer trust but also market share. Big Brother has been watching for a long time. How this story ends is in the hands of big tech and the in-house legal teams that advise them.

Gisele Kalonzo-Douglas is an accomplished legal counsel and trusted advisor to senior management and boards of directors on risk mitigation, ethics and compliance, litigation, and corporate governance. Currently, Gisele is the General Counsel and Director of Business Affairs for Bethel Gospel Assembly Inc. and The Pavilion Off The Park, LLC. In this role, Gisele is responsible for guiding the organization's leadership in the identification and mitigation of risk, ensuring adherence with applicable laws and regulations governing tax-exempt and religious corporations and providing oversight over its growing real estate portfolio. Gisele was previously a criminal defense attorney for a prominent firm in New York City where she represented clients in a variety of cases including white collar crimes and high level felonies. She has argued and litigated in state and federal courts, managing cases throughout all stages of litigation, including disposition at trial. Gisele, who was born in the Democratic Republic of The Congo, received a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts, from The City College of New York. She has been a prior speaker on risk management, property development for churches, and diversity, equity and inclusion. She serves as a Senior Editorial Advisor to Church Law and Tax which engages over 4.5 million Christian leaders worldwide and provides critical content and practical solutions on important issues pertinent to religious organizations. Gisele is an advocate for women, youth and immigrants. She, her husband and son currently reside in Atlanta, Ga. In 2019, while at a football game, my son asked me what I had wanted to be growing up. I said, I am doing it, I am a lawyer. He looked at me casually and asked, "but what's your more?". How do we get to our more? Gisele will share her search for her more. She will help you discover your "more" and how you can harness this discovery for personal and professional growth.

Chad Aboud tries hard to be an approachable General Counsel that focuses on genuine and fun relationships built on selflessness and curiosity, so that we all create amazing solutions and find fulfillment in our careers. Chad currently holds a position of a General Counsel at AudienceView, where he creates and leads the Legal function for an int'l portfolio of tech companies. There, he is responsible for developing scalable LegalTech, systems and tools to empower the business and leading cross-functional projects. In the Legal industry we 've been inundated with self-promotion and the pressure to get the bigger title, salary increase, or book of business. Yet we know that even after meeting these milestones, so many Lawyers remain unfulfilled and dissatisfied with our profession. That's because we've had it backwards. Lifting others first, lifts us in a way that's more rewarding internally and creates greater external success. The best news is that there are so many fast and no/lost cost ways to prove this to ourselves. It just takes a bit of curiosity and humility for our outlook to change.

Dr Louis Sanchez de Lozada is Director Legal Counsel at Unigestion (UK) Limited, a Swiss management company based in London. He has more than 20 years' experience as a financial and corporate legal counsel in international banks and asset management companies all over the world. Louis has a solid educational foundation with a PhD in Financial comparative law from University Paris 2 Pantheon-Assas and an infinite passion for LegalTech. During his PhD, he wrote a book on all kinds of fiduciary Funds and investment companies that was published in 2012. He is a qualified lawyer in France and Bolivia and interchangeably uses English, French and Spanish as his working languages and rely heavily upon Common Law, French and European Law for work and for his academic writing. Instead of painfully negotiating long contracts in Word to set up Investment Funds, you can set up a DAO in the DLT, give some nodes to your investor friends, get some Oracles for the external data, and code a few smart contracts to automate all operational obligations. The machine will do the investor's ID checks for you, receive their investments and issue some security tokens for them to trade. Meanwhile, you will have time to finally chill, spend time with your family and learn how to code your next contract. Are you a beginner in Blockchain and this sounds like Japanese to you? Or are you an expert and you think that this is too good to be true? Join Dr Louis Sanchez de Lozada, LegalTech expert and authorfor this episode of NTMLS. He will explain step by step how to automate investment Funds. He will help to understand and use the Blockchain, DAOs, smart contracts and Oracles. Most importantly, he will inspire you to find your own path to begin, continue or enhance the automation of your own legal and operational activities. Time to full automation is here. Let's move forward to the future now.

Mindy S. Berkower is Chief Client Officer and General Counsel of iRelaunch, LLC. iRelaunch, a consulting, events, and content firm founded in 2007, is the pioneer, industry leader, and chief innovator in the return to work space, bringing progressive employers together with “career relaunchers”: educated, experienced professionals seeking to return to work after a career break. Since joining iRelaunch in 2013, Mindy has held multiple cross-functional roles encompassing marketing and communications, audience development, strategic planning, business development, client and partner relationship management, and legal. Currently, Mindy develops and manages key corporate client relationships, shapes iRelaunch's overall corporate client practice and policies, and leads iRelaunch's legal function as the sole in-house attorney. A career relauncher herself, Mindy practiced corporate and securities law in major New York City law firms before taking a multi-year career break to raise her two children. During her time away from paid work, Mindy used and enhanced her skills by project-managing important family undertakings and volunteering extensively in her community, including in what she calls “skin-thickening” PTA leadership roles. She is a lifelong New Yorker and received her JD from New York University School of Law and her BA in Political Science from Binghamton University (SUNY). Many of us pursue career paths because of parental expectations or fall into a career by accident. Taking a career break can often shed light on one's true interests and provide direction, leading to a career pivot. In other cases, as with Dorothy in ”The Wizard of Oz,” one's heart's desire has actually been close at hand all along. Mindy Berkower shares her story of leaving the grueling life of “big law” to raise her family, having a multi-year career break as a recovering lawyer and community volunteer, relaunching her career in a marketing role for a small company, and eventually, and happily, becoming the solo general counsel at the same company.

Duane Valz has led the legal and IP functions at prominent Silicon Valley companies operating at a variety of scales and growth stages. He has been broadly recognized over the past 10 years as one of the world's leading IP strategists. Duane is currently VP & General Counsel of Insitro, a venture-backed company applying machine learning and automation to disease target identification and new drug development. Prior to Insitro, he was VP & General Counsel of Zymergen Inc., a molecular technology growth company operating at the intersection of biology, chemistry, automation and machine learning. Duane was previously a senior member of the Patent Team at Google, where he led strategic IP initiatives bearing on mobile, cloud, web, and open source technologies. He was also previously Associate General Counsel in charge of patent development at Yahoo! Duane began his career at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin (now combined with Arnold & Porter LLP). Duane serves on the Board of Directors for SMASH.org, is an advisory board member for UCOP's MESA program, and is on the advisory Board for the National Society of Black Physicists — all organizations focused on supporting underrepresented students in the pursuit of educations and careers in STEM fields. The assemblage of computing devices, sensors, cloud-based services, artificial intelligence and software applications that make up the internet have transformed our daily lives quite remarkably over the past 25 years. We enjoy connection, information, entertainment and host of conveniences with an ease and utility previously unimaginable. But along with those positives has come a shadow side that is increasingly concerning. This includes intrusive user tracking and targeting, secret government surveillance, cyber bullying, misinformation and distortions of history, election interference and voter manipulation, wide dissemination of conspiracies and violent ideologies, large scale cyber breaches, etc. Can Web 3 save us from the various ills that are afflicting the Internet? Its proponents suggest that a new approach to designing web services can help address many of the problems impacting internet users. In this discussion, Duane Valz will address the promise and possible shortcomings of Web 3. We'll also discuss what else might be needed to create a more positive internet experience going forward.

Kevin Keller counseled, advised, invested and been an inventor for a wide variety of start-ups and emerging tech businesses, including being the first in-house legal support for moonshots of some of the worlds largest tech companies. Kevin is an engineer and attorney with broad experience that includes privacy, intellectual property, employment, regulatory, compliance, complex commercial contracts and general product counseling. He has developed and led diverse and inclusive teams that supported the development and worldwide launch of innovative consumer and enterprise hardware, software and services, including innovative retail and payment solutions, advanced autonomous robotics, social media, text, audio and video content and physical retail and delivery services. Law schools rarely show students more than a handful of possible career paths, leading a lot of students to believe that one of the only ways to be successful is to run the BigLaw gauntlet and then turn to working in-House at similarly big and apparent stable companies. In this episode, Kevin Keller will discuss his walk down one of those conventional paths, but also why some of his best career moves and the best career moves of those he knows were not those imagined by law school career counselors and were real leaps of faith. In addition Kevin will explore some of his insights after meeting with hundreds of law students and practitioners over his career to discuss career paths and choices.

Fatima Jafri is a Lead Product and Privacy Counsel at Facebook where she leads the Social Impact, Election and Health product teams. She manages all of the legal and compliance issues related to the Blood Donation Products, Covid-19 Information Hub, Racial and Social Justice, Facebook Health Groups, Preventive Health, Voter Information Center and Voter Registration drives. She was previously at ChargePoint where she focused on the privacy, legal and regulatory regimes around electric vehicle charging stations in the US, EU and Asia. Prior to that she was at Inventus Law, where she practiced corporate law and advised startups on venture financings and other corporate matters. Fatima is involved with and on the board of a variety of organizations focused on women's leadership, startup growth and legal services including Leading Women in Technology, Asian Law Alliance, TechWadi, Lazardis Institute and Founder's Space. She has a JD from Northeastern School of Law, a Masters in International Relations and Economics from the Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University and a BA in International Relations and Economics from Trinity College. Can technology save the world? For decades, tech enthusiasts have made grandiose statements about the power of technology, how lines of code can change the world. Join Fatima Jafri, the Lead Attorney for Social Impact for a LinkedIn this conversation. She will talk about her path into social impact and synthesizing her passion for social justice, impact and equity through the channels of technology.

Robert Esposito spent the first eight years of his career as a litigator at the law firms Morrison & Foerster and Bryan Cave in San Francisco, focusing on intellectual property, consumer protection, and business disputes. In 2018, on the verge of GDPR's enforcement date, Robert made the jump in-house as a product counsel at Facebook, where he helped launch social good products and programs. Later, Robert joined Pandora Media, where he led the development of Pandora's privacy program and worked on digital entertainment services. Robert currently serves as Senior Legal Counsel, Technology and Product Counsel at Hillspire, LLC, which advises a number of initiatives such as Schmidt Futures, which partners with leaders in the public and private sectors to help scale promising new ideas in science, technology, and society. In the past decade, in-house legal departments, primarily at large technology companies, began creating a new role called "product counsel." The product counsel role is amorphous. Most in-house lawyers don't know what product counsel do, let alone the product, engineering, and marketing teams they're meant to serve. Join Robert Esposito, law firm litigator turned in-house product counsel to learn about this "new" type of attorney and how to become one.

Wei Chen is the SVP and Associate General Counsel, Strategic Transactions, at salesforce.com, inc., the global CRM leader that empowers companies to digitally transform and create a 360° view of their customers. Wei and her team are responsible for providing legal support of Salesforce's global mergers & acquisitions, strategic investment, real estate and data center transactions. Wei founded The Atticus Project, a non-profit organization and the curator of CUAD, an open-sourced high quality AI training dataset of legal contracts with 13,000+ annotations crowd-sourced under the supervision of experienced lawyers, and the dataset powering the 2021 ABA Public Target Deal Points Study. Wei is a member of the Advisory Board of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business and a frequent lecturer on the topics of AI innovations in Legal, including at various legal conferences hosted by TechGC and Transaction Advisors Institute, as well as law schools such as Columbia, Berkeley and Stanford. As part of The Atticus Project, Wei has mobilized over 50 experienced lawyers to create rich learning materials and provide hands-on legal training to nearly 100 law students and volunteers around the world. Wei started her legal career at Skadden Arps and then at Cooley. Prior to joining Salesforce, Wei served as the Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems responsible for all of its M&A legal activities. Wei is a sub-4-hour marathoner and an active volunteer in her community and local schools. Very few legal professionals understand the secret of success of the modern-day AI - it requires a large amount of training data to be able to perform a task that surpasses human accuracy. The only group of people who can create the training data or perform quality checks are highly skilled legal professionals, but many are oblivious of the fact that their contributions are required to advance the quality of the AI. A successful legal transformation depends on creating a human-centric strategy that motivates legal professionals to take part. Its success depends on our ability to design systems and workflows that make the human lawyers' experience more rewarding than before.

Adele Tegger is a 20+ year attorney having practiced in-house the entirety of her career. She has spent her career at some of Orange County's best companies including Boeing, Yamaha, Arbonne and now Western Digital. Our culture, and the legal field particularly, says you should always be striving for the next level, the next promotion and if you do not you must be lazy. Adele disagrees, you can be an amazing attorney and contributor without wanting to become the General Counsel. You can be a great attorney and not be reaching for the next big client or next big promotion.