Episode 13 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our “Voices” podcast from the Clio Cloud Conference in New Orleans. We asked a range of lawyers and technologists attending the conference for on-the-spot short answers to a range of questions about ClioCon, the technological needs of small law and solo practitioners, and trends on the legal technology landscape more broadly. Their reactions and impressions created this pod, which captures a snapshot of the ClioCon experience and provides a window into the important conversations currently taking place in small law-focused legal tech community.

The Questions:

1. What’s the most important difference between the tech needs of small firm or solo practitioners and those of large firm lawyers?
2. What has been the most important technological advance for small firm and solo lawyers over the past five years?
3. What will be the most important technological advance for small firm and solo lawyers over the next five years?
4. (a) [For practitioners:] If you could snap your fingers and magically create the perfect app or service to help or fix a part of your practice, what would it be and why? (b) [For non-practitioners:] What’s the biggest unmet technological need for small firm or solo practitioners?
5. What’s been the most interesting or surprising thing you’ve been hearing or seeing around ClicoCon?
6. In your opinion, what’s the most valuable part of the ClioCon experience?

Special thanks to all of guests (in order of first appearance):

• Ernie Svenson, LawFirmAutopilot.com
• Dan Lear, Right Brain Law
• Gyi Tsakalakis, AttorneySync
• Allen Rodriguez, ONE400
• Jae Um, Six Parsecs
• Chad Burton, Curo Legal & Modern Law Practice
• Jason Tashea, Legal tech writer & Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law
• Jared Correia, Red Cave Law Firm Consulting & Gideon
• Allen Weinberg, Family law attorney
• Keith Lee, LawyerSmack.com
• Joshua Lenon, Lawyer in Residence at Clio
• Adam Camras, Legal Talk Network
• Amanda Brown, Legal tech consultant
• Joyce Schwensen, Attorney
• Krista Coggins, Remedy Outside Counsel
• Mike Whelan, Jr., Lawyer Forward
• Sarah Glassmeyer, Project Specialist Manager at ABA Center for Innovation
• Irene Mo, Attorney
• Jules Miller, Prose Ventures

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Episode 12 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: the next installment of our “Voices” series--this time from National Harbor, Maryland at ILTACON 2018. We asked a range of lawyers and technologists attending the conference for on-the-spot short answers to a range of questions about ILTACON and the legal technology landscape more broadly. Their reactions and impressions created this pod, which captures a snapshot of the ILTACON experience and provides a window into the important conversations currently taking place in the legal tech community.

The Questions:

1. What makes ILTACON interesting or unique as a legal tech conference?
2. In your view, what (a) legal tech development or (b) motivating force/pressure is most likely to generate meaningful, short-term innovation in the practice of law?
3. Rewind 3 years, what’s a development on the legal tech landscape that you would have expected to have happened by ILTACON 2018, but still hasn’t?
4. Conversely, what’s an innovation or development on the legal tech landscape that’s happening more quickly than you expected?
5. What information about legal technology and the legal tech market do you wish you had, but you find is actually quite difficult to obtain?
6. What part of the legal landscape is most in need of significant innovation?
7. If, as part of the ILTACON package, you received a 1% equity stake in a legal tech company of your choice, which company would you choose and why?
8. What’s the most valuable part of the ILTACON experience?

Special thanks to all of guests (in order of first appearance):

• Michael Callier, Senior Corporate Counsel at Darigold
• Melvin Evans, Director of Information Technology at Hand Arendall Harrison Sale
• Ginevra Saylor, Secretary of the ILTA Board
• Will Norton, CEO & Founder of Simply Agree
• Kevin O’Keefe, CEO & Founder of LexBlog
• David Hobbie, Director of Knowledge Management (Litigation) at Goodwin
• Matt Homann, CEO & Founder of Filament
• Ed Sohn, Vice President, Product and Partner Management at Thompson Reuters
• Felicity Conrad, CEO & Co-founder of Paladin
• Jeff Pfeifer, Vice President & Chief Product Officer at LexisNexis
• Nicole Bradick, CEO & Founder of Theory & Principle
• Jeanne Marie Boswell, Director of Technology Training at Paul Hastings
• Owen Byrd, Chief Evangelist & General Counsel at Lex Machina
• James Desjardins, Associate Director of Practice Technology at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• Carol Lynn Grow, VP of Marketing & Sales & Co-owner of LawToolBox
• Jason Dirkx, Knowledge Management Counsel at Littler Mendelson
• Monet Fauntleroy, Senior Manager of Practice Innovation at White & Case
• Courtney Murphy, eDiscovery & Litigation Technology Attorney at Clark Hill
• Anand Upadhye, Vice President of Business Development at Casetext
• Tessa Ramanlal, Solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills & Co-founder at ANIKA

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Episode 11 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with Nick West, Chief Technology Officer of Mishcon de Reya and Director of MDR Lab, a legal tech incubator run out of Mishcon’s offices in London. Building on the discussion begun in our blog post entitled “Law Firm.VC?  Law Firms Launching Legal Tech Incubators, Accelerators, and Venture Arms” and continued in our conversation with Dan Jansen of Nextlaw Labs on Ep. 6, our conversation with Nick explores the structure and purpose of MDR Lab, Mishcon’s motivations for starting the Lab, the successes of its first cohort, trends on the legal tech landscape, and the key distinctions and differences between the UK and US legal tech markets.

For more information about MDR Lab, please visit: https://lab.mdr.london/.

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Summary: The next installment of our “Voices” series—this time from the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium’s 2018 Institute in Las Vegas. Armed with a portable microphone and eight questions about CLOC and legal technology and innovation, we asked a range of lawyers and technologists to share their views on key issues facing the legal and legal technology ecosystems. Their short, on-the-spot answers created this “Voices of CLOC 2018” podcast (Episode 10 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast). 

The Questions:

1. As a legal technology conference, what makes CLOC special?
2. What's something you'd like to see or hear more at CLOC?
3. What's something you'd like to see or hear less at CLOC?
4. What’s the most significant difference between the legal tech needs of corporate legal departments and law firms?
5. Which legal innovation or technology product has been most significant for your professional life over the last three years?
6. What’s the most interesting company, product, or innovation (with which you’re not affiliated) that you’ve seen at CLOC?
7. What part of the legal landscape is most in need of significant innovation?
8. What’s your favorite source of information about what’s happening in legal technology and innovation?

Special thanks to all of our guests (in order of first appearance):

• Chris Chin, Deputy General Counsel at Google
• Scott Weber, General Counsel at Lumina Networks
• Janelle Belling, Managing Director of E-Discovery Services & Strategy at Perkins Coie LLP
• Ken Adams, President at Adams Contracts Consulting LLC
• Susan Raridon Lambreth, Principal at LawVision Group
• Ameen Haddad, Assistant General Counsel at Oracle
• Carlos Gámez, Senior Director of Innovation – Legal Business at Thompson Reuters
• Bill Henderson, Law Professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law
• Paul Lippe, Member of the Advisory Board, Elevate Services
• Noah Waisberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Kira Systems
• Kingsley Martin, Chief Contract Scientist at Akorda
• Susan Hackett, CEO at Legal Executive Leadership LLC
• Ron Friedmann, Partner at Fireman & Company
• Brian Kuhn, Global Leader and Co-Founder of IBM Watson Legal
• David Cambria, Global Director of Operations for Law, Compliance, and Government Relations at Archer Daniels Midland
• Dean Sonderegger, VP Legal Markets, Innovation at Wolters Kluwer
• Byron Buck, Senior Corporate Counsel at Caterpillar

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Armed with a portable microphone and eight questions on the past, present, and future of the legal tech industry, we struck out to capture a taste of the #Legalweek18 experience for our listeners. A compilation of short answers to important question from 18 of legal tech’s key thinkers and innovators, this “Voices of Legalweek18” podcast encapsulates some of the most important trends in legal technology and reflects the important conversations happening at one of the world's largest legal tech conferences.

The Questions:

1. Looking back, what was the most important legal tech trend or development of 2017?
2. Looking forward, what will be the most important legal tech trend or development of 2018?
3. What’s something that over-hyped on today’s legal tech landscape?
4. What’s something that under-hyped on today’s legal tech landscape?
5. Who is your favorite legal tech Twitter/social media follow?
6. What’s the most significant current obstacle to the wider adoption of legal technology?
7. Name an institution on the legal landscape (firm, school, corporate, etc.) doing something particularly innovative.
8. What has been (or do you expect to be) your favorite part of Legalweek18?

A special thanks to all of our guests (in order of first appearance):

• Dan Jansen, CEO of Nextlaw Ventures
• Catherine Krow, Founder and CEO of Digitory Legal
• Casey Flaherty, Procertas
• Daryl Shetterly, Director of Orrick Analytics
• Andrew Arruda, Cofounder and CEO of ROSS Intelligence
• Oliver Goodenough, Professor at Vermont Law School, VP and Director of Skopos Labs
• Nehal Madhani, Founder and CEO of Alt Legal
• Haley Altman, Founder and CEO of Doxly
• Dan Linna, Professor and Director of Legal RnD at Michigan State University College of Law
• Alma Asay, Chief Innovation Officer of Integreon
• Bob Craig, CIO of Baker & Hostetler
• Stephen Allen, Global Head of Legal Service Delivery of Hogan Lovells
• Ryan Alshak, CEO of Ping
• Bob Ambrogi, Creator of Law Sites, Editor and Publisher of LexBlog
• Emily Foges, CEO of Luminance
• Patrick Fuller, VP of Legal Intelligence at ALM Intelligence
• Nick Bruch, Senior Legal Market Analyst at ALM Intelligence
• Bill O’Boyle, Founder and CEO of North State Consulting

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Episode 8 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our discussion with Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase, on the accelerating march of artificial intelligence and its implications for the law and its consequences for lawyers (and the public at large).

In this episode, we take a fascinating tour through some of the most important and dizzying technological developments of the day, and Ed’s unique brand of incisive, yet level-headed analysis helps us make sense of where we stand, where we’re likely headed, and what the implications are for lawyers, law practice, and our legal framework more broadly.

The fascinating discussion dives into a wide range of topics relating to the development of artificial intelligence and autonomous machines, including: (a) exploring the background and pedagogy of Ed’s course at Georgetown Law and Cornell Tech on “The Law of Robots,” which seeks to engage conversations about the potential need for new legal and regulatory approaches to governing AI-driven technologies; (b) analyzing why NOW is the critical time for lawyers and lawmakers to grapple with foundational legal, moral, and ethical questions raised by the development of adaptive machine learning; and (c) dealing with the social impact—from job losses to over-reliance on technological crutches—of increasingly powerful and autonomous machines.

For more of Ed’s singular perspective, follow him on Twitter @EJWalters.

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Episode 7 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with guest-poster Patrick Delaney to follow up on his blog piece entitled "In-House Looking Out: 4 Tips for Outside Counsel."

Part of B&B's "View from the Client Side" series and one of the blog's most popular posts to date, "In-House Looking Out: 4 Tips for Outside Counsel" details four general, yet essential tips that help law firm associates deliver the best possible advice to their clients. Building upon his blog post and drawing on a wealth of experience as a firm-lawyer-turned-in-house-counsel at one of the Big Four accounting firms, Patrick lays out specific tips and tricks--as well as their underlying rationale--to help law firm associates understand not just what they should be doing, but WHY they should be doing it.

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Episode 6 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with Dan Jansen, CEO of Dentons-backed Nextlaw Labs, which describes itself as a “global collaborative innovation platform focused on developing, deploying, and investing in new technologies and processes to transform the practice of law around the world.” Picking up on the discussion begun in our blog post entitled “Law Firm.VC? Law Firms Launching Legal Tech Incubators, Accelerators, and Venture Arms,” our conversation explores Nextlaw Labs’s “value-added VC” model that seeks to drive the reinvention of the practice of law via technology, examines law firms’ potential motivations for engaging with and investing in the legal tech startup ecosystem, and highlights key trends in the broader legal tech landscape.

For more information about Nextlaw Labs, visit: http://www.nextlawlabs.com/.

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