Episodes

June 23, 2022

The Impact of Blockchain on the Law – Now and Beyond (Jacob Robinson, Law of Code)

Blockchain lawyer and fellow podcaster Jacob Robinson visits Technically Legal to talk about how blockchain technology is impacting the law now and how it will in the future. Jacob hosts the Law of Code Podcast covering bloc…
June 9, 2022

Krystal Kovac (GC Oncore) on Building a Legal Function by Fostering Relationships and Using Accessible Tech

Krystal Kovac, Head of Legal & Compliance at Oncore, visits Technically Legal to share her story about building a legal department from the ground up. Like many, Krystal decided to become a lawyer without a good understandin…
May 26, 2022

How to Connect Real World Contracts to Blockchain Technology (Aaron Powers, CEO Hunit)

Aaron Powers, CEO and co-founder of Hunit, talks SLCs or, Smart Legal Contracts, that are natural language contracts but utilize blockchain technology to record certain aspects of contractual relationships. Hunit enables use…
May 12, 2022

Slack’s Cyndi Wheeler & Mark Pike on Automating Legal Workflows And (Not) Using Email (2020)

Do you want to spend less time dealing with email? Are you interested in automating repetitive work tasks? Cyndi Wheeler and Mark Pike offer some tips on how to do just that in this episode from 2020. Cyndi and Mark are both…
April 28, 2022

Using AI to Match Clients with the Right Personal Injury Attorney (Victor Bornstein, CEO Justpoint)

Victor Bornstein tells us how Justpoint, the company he co-founded and now heads, is taking advantage of changes to Rules of Professional Conduct to build artificial intelligence that matches personal injury clients to the b…
April 14, 2022

How to Build a SaaS Company for Legal (Andy Wilson, CEO Logikcull)

Right out of college with a computer science degree in hand, a buddy helped Andy Wilson (now CEO of SaaS based e-discovery software company ) get a job at a printing company because Andy’s friend said there was a technology …
March 31, 2022

How a Legal Evolution Can Save PeopleLaw – Professor William Henderson (Indiana University School of Law)

“You’re marrying a firefighter. That’s all I’ll ever be.  I’m never going to finish college.”  That’s what Bill Henderson told his soon to be wife many years ago, but thankfully that was not true. Fast forward to today and B…
March 17, 2022

Fisher Broyles: From 5 Attorneys to AmLaw 200 and Doing it all Remotely (James Fisher & Kevin Broyles)

SCENE: Afternoon. Early 2000s. Because the first internet bubble is popping, two tech lawyers find themselves with not much to do so they go to a matinee showing of Black Hawk Down. Those two attorneys are James Fisher and K…
March 3, 2022

Code is Law? Blockchain Technology and the Future of Antitrust Law (Thibault Schrepel of Codex and Free University of Amsterdam)

Thibault Schrepel joins the podcast to talk blockchain, antitrust and competition law. He is a professor at the Free University in Amsterdam and on the faculty of the Codex Center at Stanford University. At Stanford he is in…
Feb. 17, 2022

Using Legal Tech to Create Sustainable Social Change (Jazz Hampton, CEO Turnsignl)Using Legal Tech to Create Sustainable Social Change (Jazz Hampton, CEO Turnsignl)

De-escalation. That is what Jazz Hampton and two friends from college set out to achieve when they co-founded . An app used during traffic stops to access legal help in real time to de-escalate what is often a very tense sit…
Feb. 3, 2022

Reaching Collaboration Nirvana Between Client, Law Firm & Other Legal Service Providers (Michael Callier & Ed Sohn of Factor)

Michael Callier, Head of Legal Solutions and Consulting and colleague Edward Sohn, Head of Solutions at legal services company Factor discuss how in-house legal teams, their outside counsel and new law players like alternati…
Jan. 20, 2022

Avoiding Tech First Failures When Improving Legal Workflows & Processes with Casey Flaherty (Lex Fusion)

Casey Flaherty, Chief Strategy Officer for Lex Fusion, makes his second appearance on Technically Legal. This time around, Casey discusses his thesis that organizations often turn to technology as an avoidance mechanism for …
Jan. 6, 2022

Mike Suchsland (The LegalTech Fund) on Investing in Legal Technology in 2022 and Beyond

In the first episode of 2022, Mike Suchsland of the  and  talks about investing in legal technology. Mike has been in legal tech before it was even a thing. He started his career with Wolters Kulwer in the 1990s and ultimate…
Dec. 22, 2021

Jim Doppke on the Ethics of Legal Tech and the Duty to Supervise Robots (2019)

Legal ethics attorney Jim Doppke returns for an encore appearance to discuss the impact that legal tech and legal innovation have on the Rules of Professional Conduct and other rules that govern how lawyers practice law. Jim…
Nov. 24, 2021

Using Tech to Provide Access to Affordable Legal Services for Creators (Eric Farber of Creators Legal)

Eric Farber, attorney and writer, visits the Technically Legal Podcast to talk about Creators Legal, a LegalZoom like app for creators and those in the entertainment industry. Creators Legal offers self serve industry contra…
Oct. 28, 2021

The Nuts and Bolts of Ransomware Insurance & Ransomware Attack Response With Kelly Geary (EPIC) & Rich Gatz (Coalition)

The ransomware episode. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so how couldn't we do this episode? Our guests are Kelly Geary, National Practice Leader of Executive Risk & Cyber/Professional Services Claims for E…
Oct. 14, 2021

What's Going on With Blockchain and the Law (2021 Edition) With Lewis Cohen of DLx Law

Blockchain. Crypto mining. Proof of stake. Smart contracts. Non Fungible Tokens (NFT). DAOs. Crypto regulation. We talk about all of the above and more with Lewis Cohen of the blockchain focused law firm of DLx Law. Lewis br…
Sept. 15, 2021

Using Tech To Rate Contracts & Streamline Negotiations With Otto Hanson (Term Scout Founder)

Otto Hansen, the founder of , visits Technically Legal to talk about the company he founded that uses machine learning to analyze and rate contracts. Specifically, it analyzes contracts to determine whether they are in line …
Sept. 2, 2021

The Impact of Technology on Critical Legal Thinking With Michael Zuckerman (Northwestern Law School)

“Whatever benefits advanced legal technology may bring to lawyers, I am concerned about this sort of technology seeping into the legal writing classroom,” writes Northwestern University Legal Writing Professor Michael Zucker…
Aug. 18, 2021

Contract Automation & Building a Law Firm ALSP With Eric Baker and Michael Case (Transaction Expeditors / Frost Brown Todd)

Contract automation and building an  within a law firm is the topic of Episode 52. Eric Baker and Michael Case, transportation attorneys with , talk about their journey founding , an AI enabled contracts automation platform …
July 27, 2021

Cyber Incident Response: What Really Goes On Behind the Scenes – Luke Green (Beazley) & Josh Sudbury (Lodestone)

Cyber incident response. Cyber attacks. Unfortunately, we hear these terms daily nowadays. But what really goes on behind the scenes in a cyber incident? To answer that question, we asked Luke Green, a Breach Response Servic…
July 8, 2021

Implementing Data Analytics Maturity Models & Tackling Legal Spend Management (Peter Eilhauer – EPIQ)

Data analytics maturity models (and legal operations maturity models in general) are the topic of discussion with Peter Eilhauer, Managing Director for Legal Spend Solutions at Epiq. Peter knows his stuff about legal spend m…
June 10, 2021

Using AI to Find the Best Legal Hire and Increase Diversity (Suited)

Using artificial intelligence to help make hiring decisions is the topic du jour of Episode 49. Matt Spencer and Aaron Meyers, the CEO and CTO of Suited, respectively, explain how their AI powered, assessment-driven recruiti…
May 19, 2021

Using Legal Analytics to Find Your Best Legal Argument, Hire the Right Lawyer & Retain the Best Expert (Serena Wellen Context/LexisNexis)

"The fundamental tool of lawyers is language" explains Serena Wellen in this episode. Serena is a Senior Director for LexisNexis and works on the Context legal analytics platform. Context leverages machine learning and natur…