ILTA Voices

Fresh Voices of LegalTech - Interview #4

There are a lot of different roles within legal technology. KM, content management, marketing, applications development, etc. How do we get young employees excited about their potential paths and make sure they have a path towards a long-term career in legal tech?Interviewer:@Holly Hanna, KM Firm Solutions Manager, Perkins Coie LLPInterviewee:​@Tara Ratliff, ​Knowledge Management Analyst, Perkins Coie LLP
Recorded on 02-02-2021

Fresh Voices of LegalTech - Interview #5

There are a lot of different roles within legal technology. KM, content management, marketing, applications development, etc. How do we get young employees excited about their potential paths and make sure they have a path towards a long-term career in legal tech?Interviewer:@Holly Hanna, KM Firm Solutions Manager, Perkins Coie LLP
Interviewee: ​@Kelly Harbour, Director of Client Relations & Innovation, Goulston & Storrs PCRecorded on 02-02-2021

The ILTA Influential Women in Legal Tech Honorees Discuss: Episode #3 - How the Client Behavior Has Changed

Tune in for a discussion about data and the legal industry in this 25-minute podcast brought to you by the 2020 Influential Women in Legal Tech list honorees.María Jesús González-Espejo moderates a discussion around how client behavior has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The featured guests are Alice Namuli Blazevic, Partner at Katende, Ssempebwa & Company Advocates and Co-Founder of The Legal Innovation Hub; and Jackie Nagtegaal, Futurist & Managing Director, Law for All.
They chatted about client buying behaviors (1:51), the criteria clients they're using to chose lawyers (9:20), how you build virtual chemistry with clients (12:40), the client journey and service touch points (15:43), and more!
Learn more about the ILTA 2020 Influential Women in Legal Tech List honorees here. 
Listen to the other episodes here:
Episode 1 - The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lawyer's Role
Episode 2 - Data, Algorithm, and Legal texts: How can we utilize them to improve justice
Episode 4 - Is the Pandemic Triggering Transformation in the Legal Industry?
Episode 5 - Future Skills of Lawyers

Testing External Facing Systems Against Known Vulnerabilities

While law firms continue to push applications to the cloud, there are still a whole host of systems currently on-premise. With limited resources and staff, how can a firm ensure their on-premise applications are safe? In this podcast, experts will discuss the resources available to firms to ensure their external facing systems are secure, some common misconfigurations that can be easily corrected, and provide some best practices for continuous threat monitoring.Moderator:@David Whale, Information Security Manager, Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP
Speakers:Brian Carey, Manager, Consulting Services, Rapid7Jon David, Manager, Proactive Services, Mandiant Services
Recorded on 1-22-2021

Winter 2020 ILTA CEO Podcast - Peer to Peer magazine

Beth Anne Stuebe, ILTA Director of Publications and Press, chats with Joy Heath Rush for a complementary podcast interview for the 2020 Winter issue of Peer to Peer magazine.
They chat about how the events of 2020 have impacted the legal technology community, the importance of empathy, what to expect in 2021, and more!
Find the Peer to Peer column here.

The ILTA Influential Women in Legal Tech Honorees Discuss: Episode #2 - Data, Algorithm, and Legal texts: How can we utilize them to improve justice

Tune in for a discussion about data and the legal industry in this 35-minute podcast brought to you by the 2020 Influential Women in Legal Tech list honorees.Kelley Kage, a member of the ILTA WWL Advisory Group, moderates the discussion among María Jesús González-Espejo, Vice President at European Legal Technology Association (ELTA) and Managing Partner at Instituto de Innovación Legal; Maya Markovich, Chief Growth Officer, Nextlaw Labs at Dentons; and Nicole Bradick, CEO at Theory and Principle.They chatted about why legal data is relevant to improving justice (0:59), specific datasets needed to improve Justice more effectively (7:08), necessary transparency in algorithms (14:46), examples of algorithms causing human rights violations (21:10), pitfalls to automation (24:47), and more!
Learn more about the ILTA 2020 Influential Women in Legal Tech List honorees here. 
Listen to the other episodes here:
Episode 1 - The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lawyer's Role
Episode 3- How the Client Behavior Has Changed
Episode 4 - Is the Pandemic Triggering Transformation in the Legal Industry?
Episode 5 - Future Skills of Lawyers

Litigation Support/eDiscovery Considerations During Mergers

Please enjoy this podcast that will discuss key litigation support/eDiscovery considerations during mergers.
Specifically, the podcast will cover the following key considerations:Business continuity for electronic discovery to support firm/corporation needs
Technology and software
Data and documentation integration
Staff and roles
Normalization of operating procedures
The Soft Skills (this will be an underlying theme across the 5 topics above)
Speakers:@Richard Brooman - Litigation Support Senior Manager, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP@Steven Heitz - Litigation Technology Manager, Troutman Pepper eMerge LLCRecorded on 1/14/2021

The ILTA Influential Women in Legal Tech Honorees Discuss: Episode #1 - The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lawyer's Role

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Tune in and hear from three of the five 2020 ILTA Influential Women in Legal Tech Honorees discuss how COVID-19 has  impacted the lawyer's role in the business of law in this 48-minute podcast.Episode 1 includes Jackie Nagtegaal, Futurist & Managing Director at Law for All as moderator and Alice Namuli Blazevic, Partner at Katende, Ssempebwa & Company Advocates and Co-Founder of The Legal Innovation Hub, and María Jesús González-Espejo, Vice President at European Legal Technology Association (ELTA) and Managing Partner at Instituto de Innovación Legal, as guests.The three virtually sit down and chat about how lawyers have created survival plans for their clients (2:30), their ethical role to the society at large (7:08), what students and lawyers need to adopt to drive innovation in the business of law (20:00), the main changes/innovations that have happened in 2020 (34:45), and more!
Listen to the other episodes here:
Episode 2 - Data, Algorithm, and Legal texts: How can we utilize them to improve justice
Episode 3- How the Client Behavior Has Changed
Episode 4 - Is the Pandemic Triggering Transformation in the Legal Industry?
Episode 5 - Future Skills of Lawyers

Emerging Roles in Legal - Episode #3

Please enjoy the next Emerging Roles in Legal podcast episode where I chat with Danielle Haugland, Global Alliance Director at Agiloft.  Danielle is a trail blazer in many ways and has created her own unique path in legal.  I truly enjoyed our conversation and hope that you do too! 
Topics we discuss include:
 The Microsoft Legal Business Design Challenge, where Danielle and I met
Myth of work life balance
The realness of flexibility, especially during this pandemic era
Impostor syndrome (Tip: Have a mantra! Danielle’s is particularly great!)
Badassery
Skills and mindsets needed for pursuing an emerging role
What’s on the horizon for our industry
Interviewer:@Amy Monaghan, Senior Practice Innovations Manager, Perkins Coie Speaker:@Danielle Haugland, Global Alliance Director, Agiloft

eDiscovery Processing, a Deep Dive

Processing is key part of the EDRM, however, it's often under appreciated. This podcast dives into the intricacies of processing, from its relationship with the other stages of the EDRM, what exactly goes on during processing, and what can go wrong. Daniel Smith, Associate Director at Control Risks will be sharing his experience and giving us key insights into the technical challenges and opportunities within the processing stage.Podcast HostRachel McAdams - eDiscovery Technical Specialist at A&L Goodbody SolicitorsPodcast GuestDaniel Smith - Associate Director at Control Risks

Fresh Voices of Legal Tech - Episode #3, Special Edition - Rebecca Baker & Joy Heath Rush

For Episode Three, Mercedes Brown, ILTA UK Membership Engagement Manager, sits down with Rebecca Baker and Joy Heath Rush for a special edition of Fresh Voices of Legal Tech. As the Global Editor of The Legal Technologist and the CEO of ILTA, both interviewees have an interesting perspective of the legal sector. 
Tune in to learn about their experience within the sector, how they entered it, advice on how to maintain your social media presence, their current reads, and more!
Interviewer: Mercedes Brown, ILTA UK Membership Engagement ManagerSpeakers: Rebecca J.K. Baker, Trainee Solicitor, RPC and Global Editor, The Legal Technologist and Joy Heath Rush, CEO, ILTA
About the SeriesThis ILTA podcast series showcases the new voices of legal technology. It features those who have three or less years of experience within the community in hopes to showcase and educate the future of the legal landscape