Summer is a busy season, so we recapped the latest episodes of LegalTechLIVE for you to enjoy! From founder journeys to buyer insights, Nick and Hana captured these stories so you can stay in the know. Check out Episodes 140-147!
Episode 140 highlights Dorna Moini, our first returning guest on LegalTechLIVE, who updates us on Gavel and the company’s recent acquisition by Relativity! Gavel underwent several changes outside of the rebrand. The company now has AI-native products to complement its original document automation service, and Dorna hired a CTO to help cement Gavel's position in the AI-forward legal tech industry. A lot has changed in nearly 100 episodes!
Ian O’Brien and Dory Lord, co-founders of CounselPro, are our guests on Episode 141. After going through a divorce and experiencing the tediousness of financial document management, Ian built a tool to make it easier. With his engineering background and Dory’s marketing skills, the pair created a platform that sifts through thousands of financial statements and provides a court-ready output.
You may know him as the Closing Folders founder, but Episode 142 highlights Gordon Cassie’s latest venture, Eno PDF (Eno). Attorneys can’t afford to communicate paraphrases of the law to clients, so this “fuzzy Control+F” tool helps you find what you need in your own source material at 10x speed. It’s evidence-based AI that’s locally run on your desktop with zero retention, and something Nick wishes he had for his master’s classes.
Jennifer Waite, Chief Knowledge and Information Officer at Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, is our MVP of Episode 143! She kindly yet candidly shares her take on understanding AI strategy, her criteria for evaluating and retaining tools, and what she really doesn’t want to hear or see in vendor pitches and communication. Want to know how a buyer thinks? Then this is the episode for you!
Who knew a LinkedIn post and X exchanges could kick off a new podcast episode! Episode 144 features Jonathan Watson, Chief Technology Officer at Clio. You’ll hear about his unconventional path to engineering and how businesses can protect themselves from attackers using LLMs to hack systems. Maybe it’s time to enable multi-factor authentication on your devices!
If you’ve been reading it wrong like Hana was before this episode launched, it’s pronounced “Cynthia,” not “Syn-theia.” And Episode 145 highlights its founder, Horace Wu! Syntheia is a transactional lawyer’s dream. It breaks down legal documents into clauses, subclauses, and definitions and surfaces differences and risks across multi-document comparisons.
The seventh American Legal Technology Awards are around the corner, and co-founder Tom Martin gives us all the details in Episode 146! Learn about the event’s origin story, memorable moments from years past, the sponsors who make it possible, and how it highlights innovators shaping the legal industry. Also get your tickets now if you haven’t already!
Jasmine Singh, General Counsel at Ironclad, talks to us about the GC life and more in Episode 147. She’s a former litigator turned in-house professional with deep experience as a buyer and vendor of legal technology. We discuss why she left BigLaw, how in-house roles let her use her “superpowers,” perception management, and what she’s looking for when buying legal technology.