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#0099: (CT) DEI Cannot Die

With changes to the DEI landscape rapidly changing, many companies and organizations are choosing to reverse or eliminate corporate DEI initiatives and programing. 
In this podcast panel discussion, the speakers discuss the DEI community’s current response and action plan to this trend. Panelists will also speak on their own behalf based on their experiences within the DEI space. 
 
Moderators:Ravan L. Roddy,  eDiscovery Manager, ZoetisM. Kara Hill, Project Manager, Eversheds Sutherland
Speakers:Darwin Conner, Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer (US), Eversheds SutherlandKori Carew, Esq., Chief Catalyst Officer and Founder of Bridge 68 LLC

#0088: (CT) Beyond the Tech

In this podcast session, the speaker will provide a deeper dive into all the prospective questions organizations must ask their technology providers prior to moving forward with a deal.
 
Although, the technology works, great, but does the company as a whole?
 
Moderator:
@Christina Wojcik - Head of Innovation & Partnerships, Pierson Ferdinand LLP
 
Speaker:
@Krishna Vyas - Director of Third Party Risk Management and Information Security, CITI
 
Recorded 5-15-2025

#0084: (CCT) Byte-Sized Justice: Upskilling Legal Teams for an AI-Driven Future

In this podcast interview, the speaker will do a deep dive into what skills are needed for corporate legal departments to stay on top of all the various new technologies. 
 
Moderator:@Andrea Shirey - eDiscovery Expert, Bayer Corporation Legal Department
 
Speakers:@Reid Cram - Product Marketing Manager, NetDocuments@Paul Park - Director, BDO USA

#0078: (CCT) Missing Pieces: Using Legal Data Intelligence to Eliminate Gaps in Law & Technology

In this podcast panel discussion, the speakers provided an introductory discussion on LDI and its impact on how data is reviewed, analyzed and used to identify relationship trends.
 
Moderator:
@Ravan Roddy - eDiscovery Manager, Zoetis
 
Panelists:
@Chris Acosta - Director, eDiscovery Resources, Morrison Foerster
@Carl Morrison -  Senior Manager, Legal Operations, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies (U.S.)Recorded 3-14-2025

#0051: (CCT) Driving Law Department Change with Technology

GenAI technology provides groundbreaking opportunities for corporate law departments to innovate the legal service delivery model, take the wheel on legal costs, and strategically implement use cases which can drive these opportunities for their companies.
Join us in this podcast panel interview to learn how in-house teams are using these tools to steer their organizations towards meaningful change in legal service delivery. Our panel will also discuss the environment in which we are making decisions, how to strategically insert GenAI in technology roadmaps, expectations on what tools can do, and how new technologies are changing the law firm/law department relationship. Additionally, we will explore how legal industry regulators are starting to govern AI use. 
 
Moderator:@Reid Cram - Product Marketing Manager, NetDocuments
 
Speakers:@Brad Blickstein - Principal, Blickstein Group, Inc.@Thomas Daemen - Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation@Ed Sohn - Global Head of Insights and Innovation, Factor
Recorded 11-6-2024

#0045: (CCT) Championing Diversity: How to Drive Greater Diversity in Outside Counsel Engagements

In this podcast interview, we will learn best practices to achieve greater diverse teams, influence origination credits and support diverse development in legal engagements.
 
Moderator: 
Caren Ulrich Stacy - CEO, Diversity Lab
 
Speaker:
@Deepa Zavatsky - Assistant General Counsel, Wells FargoRecorded 10-16-2024

#0033: (CCT) How to Successfully Get Buy-In for Change

In this podcast interview, the speaker will showcase how to best build business cases for legal and compliance projects and how to best get the funding you need. 
 
Moderator:
@Charisma Starr - VP, Legal Operations, JPMorgan Chase
 
Speaker:
Jeffery Salling - Chief of Staff, ModernaRecorded 07-26-2024

#0019: (CCT) Frenemies: Building a Collaborative Legal Ops Program with Outside Counsel

In this podcast panel, the panelists will share tips on how to work with, not against, outside counsel to achieve cost and matter management objectives.
 
Moderator:
@Andrea Webster - Associate Director, Legal Innovation and Operations, Novartis  
 
Panelists:
@Heather Newton - Lead Counsel, Wells Fargo
@J. Tracy Walker - IV - Partner, McGuireWoods
 
Recorded 05-14-2024

#0003: (CCT) Incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs) in the Legal Arena

In this podcast interview, the speaker will share experiences and challenges in utilizing Large Language Models in the legal arena. 
 
Questions the moderator asked the speaker:General -What are some of the key challenges that legal departments face in adopting and integrating LLMs into their workflows?  -How can legal departments overcome the initial resistance or skepticism that may exist towards using LLMs? -How can legal departments ensure that LLMs are being used responsibly and ethically, without perpetuating biases or producing inaccurate or misleading results?  People -How can legal departments train and empower their lawyers to use LLMs effectively? -How can LLMs be used to augment and complement the skills and expertise of lawyers, rather than replace them? -What are the potential long-term benefits of using LLMs in legal departments? Technology -What are the challenges of integrating LLMs with existing legal software and systems? -Provide examples of specific use cases (e.g., information governance, contract management review and drafting, eDiscovery, and/or R&C) -How can legal departments ensure that LLMs are aligned with security and privacy and regulatory compliance? Process What are the challenges of evaluating and selecting the right LLM for a specific legal task? How can legal departments ensure that LLMs are being used in a way that is aligned with their overall legal strategy? 
 
Moderator:
@Carolyn Robinson - Senior eDiscovery Paralegal, Bosch  
 
Speaker:
@Chistine Livingston - Managing Director of AI and IOT, Protiviti

What’s Up: The Retention of Work-Related Messages

In this podcast session, the speaker will discuss practical guidelines for the retention of informal means of (evidence collection) communications sent via text (such as, Short Message Service (SMS)) and messaging apps (such as, WhatsApp iMessage, and GroupMe).Questions the moderator will ask the speaker:-What are some considerations that need to be made when setting a retention policy or responding to a litigation hold from the technology side?-What are some challenges that people might not expect from extracting text messages or messages from a source that isn’t their computer?-What are some applications or places in a network or computer that people might not think about but would likely have a lot of that data that would be asked for?-What’s a good way to handle privileged materials that may be in those formats or apps?-What are just some simple best practices in communication data retention?
Moderator:@ Andrea Shirey - eDiscovery Expert, Bayer US LLC
Speaker:@George Socha - Senior Vice President of Brand Awareness at Reveal
Recorded on 10-19-2023.

The Rise of the ”Non-Lawyer” – Threat or Opportunity

Some people predict that by 2025 half of legal teams will be staffed by non-lawyers. Will that be perceived as a threat or an opportunity? Do lawyers need to learn legal tech, or can they just hire people who specialize in it but are not lawyers? Do you need to be a lawyer to effectively use legal tech?Questions moderator will ask speakers: - The term “non lawyer” is sometimes perceived as quite controversial. Many people who support the business of law feel it is used to marginalize expertise. With the development of legal technologies being a lawyer is not always a needed qualification to plan, implement and use the tools. In your experience how does it help to be a lawyer or not, when using legal technologies?- Where do you see non lawyers working cases, supporting transactions, being part of case teams, etc. today?- With more and more demand on expertise to “drive” legal technologies, or perform data analysis, do you think layers need to learn these skills? Or can they just hire non-lawyers to work side by side with lawyers? Or both?- Do you think the balance could even tip that within law firms more non-lawyers are leveraged to work and manage cases and lawyers solely focus on the parts that require analysis and practice of the law?- What does all this mean for the legal profession, will the job description of lawyers change over time? Why or why not?
Moderator:@Christiane Matuch - Legal Innovation Manager, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Speakers:@Alyssa Cowley - Associate Director, Knowledge Management, Shearman & Sterling LLP@Harriet Joubert-Vaklyes - Senior Project Manager, Legal Operations, CBRE  @Josh Lazar - Founder and Chief Everything Officer, TechThinkTank 
Recorded on 07-18-2023