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In this fifth episode of DISCO’s Just Hearsay podcast series, Tony Baskin, Senior Discovery Consultant for Perkins Coie, is our guest. Baskin has a long history of working in legal technology, including a stint with DISCO, and knows what it’s like to convince attorneys why they need to adopt new platforms and tools that allow them to work smarter. Just Hearsay hosts Kristin Zmrhal, DISCO Vice President of Product Strategy, and Katie DeBord, Vice President of Product Strategy at DISCO, also discuss with Baskin how technologies like e-discovery evolved from its earliest days and why developments like these still matter to the legal industry. Just Hearsay is a podcast series sponsored by DISCO. In the first two episodes, Zmrhal and DeBord spoke about career development and what led them on the road to legal technology. Other guests in the series include Casey Flaherty of LexFusion and Jen Lenander of CSL Behring.

In this fourth episode of DISCO’s Just Hearsay podcast series, Jen Lenander, Global Head of Legal Operations for CSL Behring, is our guest. Lenander has a long history of working at the intersection of legal, technology and innovation to help law firms and lawyers work smarter, not harder. Just Hearsay hosts Kristin Zmrhal, DISCO Vice President of Product Strategy, and Katie DeBord, Vice President of Product Strategy at DISCO, discuss what it’s like to get the LegalOps process under control, how to create end-to-end solutions with technology such as contract lifecycle management, and what it takes to get lawyers to change the mind about the tech they use.   Just Hearsay is a podcast series sponsored by DISCO. In the first two episodes, Zmrhal and DeBord spoke about career development and what led them on the road to legal technology. In the third episode, Zmrhal spoke to Casey Flaherty of LexFusion about the importance of community and collaboration in the legal tech space.

In this third episode of DISCO’s Just Hearsay podcast series, legal industry innovator Casey Flaherty is our guest. Casey is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of LexFusion, a go-to-market collective of leading innovation companies. Just Hearsay hosts Andrew Shimek, Chief Revenue Office at DISCO, and Kristin Zmrhal, DISCO Vice President of Product Strategy, speak to Casey on the importance of community and collaboration to legal innovation, and share insights for any team wanting to fully embrace technology to deliver better legal outcomes.  Just Hearsay is a podcast series sponsored by DISCO. In the first two episodes, Shimek and Zmrhal were joined by Katie DeBord, former Global Chief Innovation Officer at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. They discussed how their careers led them to legal technology, and how advanced technologies are altering the legal landscape.

The proliferation of technology, from cloud computing to mobile devices to advances in AI, is changing the legal profession in profound ways. At the same time, clients are asking more pointed questions about what technologies are being used to create better legal outcomes efficiently.  In this second episode of DISCO's Just Hearsay podcast series, hosts Andrew Shimek, Chief Revenue Office at DISCO, and Kristin Zmrhal, Vice President of Product Strategy, speak to Katie DeBord, who recently joined DISCO after working as the Chief Innovation Officer at BCLP, about how technology is altering the legal profession. DeBord shares her insights into how technology affects the relationship between attorneys and their clients, how technology solutions are selected and onboarded, and how legal tech professionals can leverage their role as trusted advisors. Just Hearsay is a new podcast series sponsored by DISCO. In Part 1, Shimek, Zmrhal and DeBord discuss how their careers led them to legal technology.

When it comes to forging a career in the legal industry, technology might not seem the obvious path. Over the last several years, however, tech has come to play an increasingly important role for attorneys as well as for their clients. In turn, a legal tech career is not only seen as essential to the business of law but one that can provide significant opportunities for those willing to travel that path. In this first episode of Disco's Just Hearsay podcast series, hosts Andrew Shimek, Chief Revenue Office at Disco, and Kristin Zmrhal, Vice President of Product, talk in-depth with Katie DeBord, who recently joined Disco as Vice President of Product Strategy, about how all their careers eventually led them to legal technology and how the reliance on technology in the legal space has changed over the years. Just Hearsay is a new podcast series sponsored by Disco. In the second episode, Shimek, Zmrhal and DeBord return to discuss what specific technologies are changing the legal landscape.

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Mitratech and hosted on Corporate Counsel in partnership with Law.com, we’ll hear highlights from the April 28 presentation, Legal Reimagined: Rethinking Your Technology Approach.   Throughout the last two to three years, the climate has forced an accelerated adoption of digital transformation across in-house legal departments. As a result, many organizations have rushed their technology investment decisions and have ended up with technology stacks consisting of multiple point solutions that don’t always work or fit together.   During this episode, Brian McGovern, Executive Director of CLC Solutions at Mitratech; Elizabeth "Liz" Lugones, Legal Operations Senior Advisor at UpLevelOps; and Wafik Guirgis, Senior Managing Director, Legal Operations, at FTI Consulting, discuss recent research developed by ALM and Mitratech that show how the COVID-19 pandemic has actually increased the speed at which organizations have adopted legal operations technology. Some of the topics covered include:   An understanding of the benefits of consolidating your technology stack. An idea of how others are taking steps to simplify or consolidate siloed systems. Insight into what others in the industry are prioritizing when reviewing their technology.   The webcast can be found in its entirety on demand at https://www.law.com/2022/03/08/legal-reimagined-rethinking-your-technology-approach/

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Nuance Communications and hosted on Law.com, we’ll hear highlights from the April 28th presentation titled, The Modern Legal Practice: Remain Competitive, Secure New Clients and Attract the Best Talent.    Today, the modern law firm looks different than it used to. Yet, the pace of change in the legal sector can be slower than other industries. Indeed, the past year has shown how important it is to stay up to date with industry changes and technological advancements, but it has not always been an easy job to implement these.   The speakers in this session — Janet Sullivan, eDiscovery Counsel & Global Director of Practice Technology at White & Case; David Dummer, Global Litigation Lead at Sidley Austin; Eric La Scola, Manager, Solutions Marketing at Nuance Communications; and Bill Geyer, Regional Account Manager at Nuance Communications — discuss how technology, such as speech recognition, can help firms improve their internal processes, how to build bridges and collaborate with clients by differentiating through efficiency and innovation, new workflows and techniques to remain competitive, and much more. The full on-demand webcast can be found here: https://www.law.com/2021/03/26/the-modern-legal-practice-remain-competitive-secure-new-clients-and-attract-the-best-talent/ Janet Sullivan | eDiscovery Counsel & Global Director of Practice Technology | White & Case In her current role as eDiscovery Counsel & Global Director of Practice Technology at White & Case, Ms. Sullivan is leading litigation practice technology innovation for the firm, and finding new ways to leverage cutting edge technologies to better serve firm clients. She also serves as legal advisor on issues related to firm clients’ preservation, identification, collection, and use of data in litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Sullivan has significant experience in facilitating communications between business, legal and technology teams. In addition, Ms. Sullivan is responsible for transforming the firm’s in-house eDiscovery operational model which focuses on the tactical implementation of industry leading technology to achieve cost savings and strategic advantage. Ms. Sullivan has over twenty years of experience as a trial attorney and over a decade of internal and client facing technical consulting in eDiscovery. She is a past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Product Liability and Toxic Tort Section, a former Special Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, and a former Adjunct Professor of Legal Reasoning and Writing at New York Law School. She is admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and Washington D.C. David Dummer | Global Litigation Lead | Sidley Austin David Dummer is the Global Litigation Lead for Sidley Austin’s Knowledge Management team. Sidley’s KM team aims to find relevant information and provide access to it, when and where the firm needs it in a way that improves client service and firm performance. We focus on the capture, organization and re-use of information related to our people and their experience, the work we have done, and other information useful to the practice of law. Before joining the KM team, David practiced complex commercial litigation for almost 20 years and focused on the representation of companies, boards of directors, and private equity funds in business litigation and internal investigations. Outside of work, David is the father of 2 boys who turn 5 and 7 this summer and enjoys being active in the Dallas community. He is a Board member of USA Film Festival, and for the past two years has been the co-chair of KidFilm, the nation’s longest running children’s film festival. Originally from Kentucky, David attended Tulane University and Duke University School of Law. He clerked for the United States District Judge Thomas B. Russell (retired) before joining private practice. Eric La Scola | Manager, Solutions Marketing | Nuance Communications Eric La Scola is the Manager of Solutions Marketing for the Dragon Professional team at Nuance. In this role, he drives the marketing strategy and develops the product positioning and messaging that distinguish Dragon voice recognition solutions in document-intensive sectors such as the legal, law enforcement, finance, and enterprise sectors. Before joining Nuance, Eric held key B2B technology sales and marketing positions, bringing computing solutions to market that solved mission-critical business problems, improved organizational processes, and mitigated risk for enterprise, creative and technical, and educational technology users. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Boston College. Bill Geyer | Regional Account Manager | Nuance Communications Bill Geyer is an experienced sales executive focused on leveraging cloud-based speech recognition solutions to accelerate turnaround times & lower costs of Time-Sensitive, Revenue Critical and Compliance-Required documentation within the Legal Services industry.