In this episode, I catch up with Horace Wu, Managing Director at Syntheia. Syntheia’s mission is to make life easy for lawyers and to help them do their best work. In practice, that means Syntheia has designed its software to fit existing workflows. Horace and his team talk to law firms, understand: how are they…
In this episode, I interview Matt Peacock from OMC Partners. Matt specialises in improving legal operations, and has designed legal strategies and implemented a range of legal delivery models, leveraging his deep experience in legal process redesign, resourcing technology, risk management, and project management. Matt explains the “eye-opening” value doing an MBA has brought to…
In this episode I speak to Roman Koch from Bridgestone who is helping lead a global legal tech programme for the company. His initial local idea quickly became a global project with regions including the US, Japan, Singapore, Brazil as well as his own in Europe. He is currently focused on contract review software and…
Casey Kuhlman is the CEO of Monax, a leader in digital legal infrastructure. A respected blockchain-native Software-as-a-Service company, Monax builds decentralised systems and growing ecosystem applications. They describe themselves as dog-lovers and do-gooders, ex-marines and mindfulness-advocates, photographers and music-lovers, artists and craftsmen, gamers and cooks, athletes and tinkerers. “We are some of the brightest minds in the…
In this episode, Tom Dunlop, CEO at Summize tells us why he founded his own legal tech software company. As a practising lawyer himself, he found a lot of products were obviously very technologically advanced, but they required a lot of implementation time. But secondly, cost was quite prohibitive for smaller in-house legal teams. And…
Robert Johnson is the Managing Director of Onit in Europe, which, at its core, is a leading provider of enterprise legal management solutions. Robert’s mission since his start at Onit has been to facilitate workflow and collaboration in legal, freeing up time to let legal teams focus on the work they truly love, and leaving the “boring…
Vasilis Tsolis is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cognitiv+, a leading AI solution that helps professionals review and extract information from their documents and ensure regulatory compliance. He is on a mission to take the “boring” out of “law” by helping law firms and companies understand their legal documents and review them with artificial intelligence,…
This week I caught up with chief legal counsel at Clif Bar, Marjorie Goux, and her colleague, Shannon Pedroni, who is senior contracts manager. They discussed how legal tech has helped their business leaders focus on running the business, and doing the stuff they really enjoy. They trumpet the use of Contract Express which they’ve…
In this episode, I caught up with Jos Lloyd from The AA to understand how in-house teams are harnessing legal tech to drive efficiencies. NDAs being a classic example of legal automation, a really good starting point for that journey, freeing up lawyers from doing tedious low-level work, and then move up to basic T&Cs,…
Stephanie Hamon is the Head of Legal Operations Consulting at Norton Rose Fulbright and a former Managing Director, Head of External Engagement, Legal for Barclays. She has extensive experience of setting and delivering commercial and business management strategies for in-house legal departments. Stephanie led the Barclays team that was named “Legal Operations Team of the…