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Episodes
Friday Jul 29, 2022
Remote Working: What Does the Future Hold?
Friday Jul 29, 2022
Friday Jul 29, 2022
In this podcast session, we will discuss if continue to work remote, what needs to change? What do we stand to gain and what do we stand to lose?Questions Marlene will ask the speakers:1. What is the current state of remote work? Who is working remotely in law and are we seeing changes in who or how much in the last few months?2. A recent ALM survey on incoming summer associates reported that only 25% percent of the respondents felt concern about connecting with colleagues and getting adequate training in remote programs. This was down from 53% last year. Does that surprise you?3. Have you heard of any particularly creative methods organizations are using to keep communication going in remote teams?4. What is the economic and financial impact of remote work on organizations?5. If organizations are seeing remote work as a solution long term, what sort of skills and characteristics should they be looking for in their hiring and retention practices?
Moderator:@Marlene Gebauer - Co-Host of The Geek in Review PodcastSpeakers:Richard Hsu - Managing Director, Major, Lindsey & Africa@Sang Lee - CEO and Co-Founder, Thine
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Data and the Strategic Business Decision
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Friday Jun 24, 2022
More and more law firms are turning to analyzing their data to drive business decisions. What is the main driver behind this and what do firm leaders see data providing today that would help make decisions? In addition, we will discuss in this interview what types of data should they be looking at and what tools are or should they be using?Questions that Tracey will ask speakers:-What is the main driver behind more and more law firms turning to analyzing their data to drive business decisions?-What do firm leaders see data providing today that would help make decisions?-What types of data should they be looking at?-What tools are or should they be using?
Moderator:@Tracey Pardo - IS Improvement and Reporting Analyst, Cooley LLP
Speakers:@Royale Price - Director of Pricing and Matter Management, Greenberg TraurigKatie Styler - Principal, Axiom Consulting Partners
Recorded on 06-24-2022
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Sentiment Analysis – Real World Results
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Now that Sentiment Analysis has gone live within RelativityOne, Relativity has gotten feedback of how clients are using this form of analytics. This podcast session will detail real world examples of how sentiment analysis has added to successful review.The AI-powered Sentiment Analysis feature is now in Advanced Access and will be available to RelativityOne users later this year. Sentiment Analysis will allow users to identify positive and negative sentiment in their data. The analysis is conducted on a sentence-by-sentence basis so that even if negative sentiment is buried within a longer conversation, users will not miss that key information.Moderator:@Andrea Shirey - IT Consultant, Bayer Corporation Legal Department
Speaker:Dilan Dubey - Product Manager, RelativityRecorded on 06-16-2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
The Rise of Legal Operations in Law Firms
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
There is current trend towards legal ops in law firms, but not all is equal. It is quite common to see difference in titles, department names and even what is being covered.How are legal operations shaping up in the law firm space and how will these departments help to meet the evolving market demands?Specific interview questions Tracey asked Chris:1. If a firm is looking to start a legal operations department, what are the key components?2. How does having a legal operations team increase efficiency? How does legal operations improve value for the client?3. Are there any tools your recommend to improve performance?4. What are the latest trends in legal operations? What departments are new?5. What are the biggest obstacles in growing the legal operations team?6. How do you justify additional headcount on the legal operations side?
Moderator:@Tracey Pardo - IS Improvement and Reporting Analyst, Cooley LLP
Speaker: @Christopher Emerson - Chief Legal Operations and Innovations, Quarles & BradyRecorded on 04-08-2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
How to Become a Great Mentor in a Remote Working Environment: Mentor/Mentee Edition
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
In the second part of this podcast series, the speakers will talk about successful strategies to mentor young or new colleagues in the legal IT space when being remote. In addition, we will learn what is a great mentor, how do you find a mentor, how does it change working remotely and why is mentoring so important?Moderator:@Carolyn Bragiel - Advisor, Legal E-discovery, Cardinal Health
Speakers:@Joy Murao - Founder and CEO, Practice Aligned Resources (Mentor)@Candi Smith, CEDS - Sr. Legal Technology & eDiscovery Specialist, Jabil Corporation (Mentee)
Recorded on 01-26-2022
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Sentiment Analysis - How Are You Using It?
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Sentiment analysis is becoming more and more standard for eDiscovery review. In this podcast session, the speaker will give some real life examples of how this AI technology has helped in litigations and investigations.Questions Andrea will ask Paul:1. What is sentiment analysis?2. How could this help an organization?3. Can you give 3 examples of possible workflows on how to use it?
Moderator: @Andrea Shirey - IT Consultant, Bayer Corporation Legal Department
Speaker:Paul Park - Senior Product Manager AI, Relativity
Recorded on 12-17-2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
How to Best Protect Yourself Against Rising Phishing and Smishing Tactics
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
In this brief podcast, we hope to bring continued awareness to current cybersecurity vulnerabilities and how cybercriminals are evolving to target individuals/businesses using legitimate-looking emails and social media messages.Moderator: @Carolyn Bragiel - Advisor, Legal E-discovery, Cardinal HealthSpeaker:Marissa McDermid - Program Manager, Security Awareness, ResilienceRecorded on 10-28-2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Joining a corporate or government legal department as a young professional can be quite intimidating. As a rule, these organizations tend to skew older since they often hire lawyers who have already worked in law firms for an extended period of time.In this podcast, learn about effective methods of bridging this potential gap with your new colleagues and receive tips and suggestions.Moderator:@Will Pett - Senior Business Analyst, Fidelity Investments
Speaker:@John Crawshaw - Business Analytics Manager, PNC
Recorded on 10-15-2021
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Monday Jul 26, 2021
***Please note this podcast is in Spanish!
In this third part of the series, the idea is that the speaker talks about the benefits of using Artificial Intelligence to optimize the work of the lawyers in generating the first draft of any legal document that they have to create. *** Please know the podcast is in Spanish only. Moderator:@Rodolfo Christophersen -Sr. Manager, Head of Legal Operations, Mercado LibreSpeakers:Nicolas Vilela - Co-Founder & CEO, ZTZ TechPablo Balancini - CEO, LegalHub
Recorded on 07-26-2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Apps for Career Development
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
In this podcast, the speaker will offer suggestions of places or apps to increase your overall skills, discuss how to access them and if there are any costs involved. An example would include LinkedIn learning.Moderator:@Josh Lazar, Chief Information Officer, 18th Judicial Circuit, FloridaSpeaker:@Sean McGinty, Learning Product Engineer, Simplify Compliance
Recorded on 05-04-2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Talking to Lawyers Series: Collections - Part 3
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Join us in learning the perspectives of three eDiscovery practitioners on two common scenarios that lawyers may encounter. In this podcast, we will address production and data exchange.
All opinions or personal views expressed are their own and not those of their organizations. As the title mentions, this will be a series of podcasts highlighting practical considerations when talking to your lawyers about data. We encourage you to follow the series and provide feedback in the evaluation link below!Moderator: @Charles Neal - Litigation Support/eDiscovery Manager, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLLPodcast Speakers:@Jennifer Bernstein - Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase & Co.@Kate Collum- VP - US Operations Manager, JPMorgan Chase & Co.@Cameron Herzog - Director of IT, Brownstein Rask LLP Recorded on 04-14-2021