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This week Caroline Hill, Legal IT Insider Editor-in-Chief, talks with Joy Heath Rush, ILTA CEO, about preparation for this year's in-person only ILTACON. Kicking off the event will be keynote speaker, Patrick Schwerdtfeger, an author, and business futurist, specializing in big data and AI. Joy expects his ideas will resonate throughout the conference as subthemes as we question what is practical technology, where will we work, how will we work, and how will we keep up with the pace of change

LEGALTECH MATTERS host, Adriana Linares, talks with Chris Kragthorpe about his role at Litera and his team’s work to empower smaller firms and corporate legal to focus more on the practice of law and less on the management and production of documents. With 60% of attorneys working in firms with ten employees or less, small law is big.

Our LEGALTECH MATTERS podcast host, Ari Kaplan, talks with Sherry Kappel, Litera evangelist, about her involvement with various legal tech groups and shows dedicated to helping the community adapt and change to new technologies. She shares her experience attending ILTACON conferences and offers advice on getting the most from this year’s National Harbor event in August.

Our LEGALTECH MATTERS podcast host, Adriana Linares, talks with Jon Tobin, Founder and Partner for Counsel for Creators LLP, about his subscription-based law firm and how it helps creative professionals access legal services more easily. He explains why he needed to redesign the law firm experience from the ground up.

Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief at Legal IT Insider, talks with Debbie Ting, Practice Innovation Manager, and Molly Wolfe, Knowledge Management lawyer - both at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. They discuss their work with Jigsaw on a real estate deal involving 700 properties to generate automatic structure charts for the deal. The resulting technology won ILTA’s 2021 Distinguished Peer Trailblazer Award.

Ari Kaplan speaks with Ebru Metin, founder, and CEO of Legal Design Turkey, about the appeal of legal design in the profession generally and in Turkey specifically. They also discuss the practical applications for legal design, the connection between legal tech and legal design, and career change best practices.

Taking a proactive and integrated approach to talent management appears obvious, but many firms struggle to do it correctly. Adrian Pylypec, VP, Cochran Client Development, leads a panel discussion on what law firms need to do to win the battle for talent and prevent attrition.

Legal tech journalist, Bob Ambrogi, leads a panel discussion on the results of a recent Litera report into the adoption of technology in Mergers and Acquisitions practice. It finds widespread adoption of software tools specific to M&A practice and reveals the changing attitudes of M&A lawyers toward the benefits and impact of technology on their work and teams.

Bob Ambrogi leads a panel discussion with Adrianne Linares, Jared Correia, and Theo Lister on the findings from a recent survey of the legal industry. It looks specifically at how technology, mobile devices, and AI are shaping the industry in 2022 and beyond. Some of the survey findings may surprise you, and others may not.

Lawyer and legal journalist Bob Ambrogi leads an expert panel to discuss the findings of a new report, “Betting on the Post-Covid Future: The Litera PitchBook Venture Capital Report,” which analyzes the venture capital market. His guests, Sherry Kappel, Evangelist at Litera, and Alex Lykken, Senior Analyst at PitchBook, consider the implications for lawyers and the legal industry.

Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider, talks with Susan Sommers, Director, KM Innovation and Solutions at Ogletree Deakins, about the revamp of its SharePoint Online-based ODConnect platform, which won the ILTA Transformative Project of the Year Award in 2021. ODConnect provides a central location for Ogletree Deakins' systems, resources, and applications.

Adriana Linares talks with Chris Draper, Chief Technology Officer at Third Coast Commodities LLC and former Director of Trokt, provider of end-to-end workflow management platforms for contract management, execution, and validation. They discuss his involvement in the development of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) standards, and other challenges facing legal: access to justice, law schools, the importance of data, and intellectual property protection.

Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel interviews legal management consultant George Rudoy about trends in law firms and corporate legal departments. As a consultant to both firms and in-house legal, Rudoy has a unique perspective on an industry emerging from the pandemic.

Litera’s VP, Go-to-Market, Drafting, shares stories of successful legal technology adoption with two law firm technology leaders.

Litera Evangelist Curt Meltzer speaks with three experts in driving technology adoption in law firms. The conversation focuses on aspects of adoptions such as communications, planning, understanding the underlying problems, and using metrics to show ROI.

Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel interviews Tiffany Graves, pro bono counsel at Bradley, about the state of Access to Justice generally, and the role that law firm pro bono programs can play. They discuss the important advances in technology that have taken place in part because of the need to connect people virtually during the pandemic. Graves also provides some advice to lawyers who might want to engage more in Access to Justice activities and initiatives.

Litera’s Global Head of Corporate Development Haley Altman is joined by Richard Susskind for this podcast from Litera’s Changing Lawyer Summit. Susskind has been a well-known observer of innovation in the legal space for many years, and his recent book, on Online Courts and the Future of Justice, has been a timely source of guidance as courts have automated processes during the pandemic. Altman and Susskind discuss recent legal innovation developments from the point of view of the courts, law firms, clients, and legal tech providers in this wide-ranging look at the state of innovation.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) issues have become more pronounced during the pandemic. Litera Sales Director Abhijat Saraswat is joined by a panel discussing the ways that technology can assist DEI professionals in building a new way of working. Using technology and data to change the way work is allocated was one of the key strategies the panel focused on.

Litera Evangelist Sherry Kappel hosts seven legal technology and innovation experts who have guided their organizations through the pandemic and into a new world. They describe an industry that is seeing some genuinely profound shifts in the way lawyers and firms think about the role of technology in their work and their organizations.

Pieter van der Hoeven, Senior Director of Business Development at Litera and co-founder of Clocktimizer hosts Jessica Davis, Director of Matter Performance and Service Innovation at McCarter & English, for a discussion of the ways that smart use of data can enhance pricing and Legal Project Management practices in a law firm.