Episodes
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...
Published 11/23/21
Published 11/23/21
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...
Published 11/18/21
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...
Published 10/21/21
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...
Published 10/15/21
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...
Published 10/07/21
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...
Published 09/30/21
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...
Published 09/23/21
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...
Published 09/09/21
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...
Published 09/02/21
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...
Published 08/26/21
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...
Published 08/05/21
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...
Published 07/29/21
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...
Published 07/09/21
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...
Published 06/24/21
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....
Published 06/17/21
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...
Published 06/10/21
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...
Published 06/03/21
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...
Published 05/20/21
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...
Published 05/13/21
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...
Published 05/06/21
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...
Published 04/15/21
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...
Published 04/08/21
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...
Published 03/30/21
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,...
Published 03/19/21