Sinopse
The business of providing professional advice is changing. Today, anyone can go online and access a wealth of information about any topic, from legal and medical advice to financial planning and accounting suggestions. This podcast is designed to offer ideas, guidance, and perspectives on how to effectively navigate a perpetually shifting professional landscape, with a unique focus on the legal industry and the technology that is driving its evolution.
Episódios
-
Reinventing the Job Interview
17/04/2012 Duração: 13minI spoke with Todd Moster, the director of recruitment & placement for Moster Legal Placement in Beverly Hills, about his new book, The Underground Guide to Job Interviewing (CreateSpace, 2011), which he describes as “entertaining and funny as a teaching device to keep the reader’s attention.” He notes that “there is no silver bullet; the main rule is preparation in job interviews.” His tips include: Think about whether you want to make a job move and if it is appropriate. Find out as much information as possible about the position, e.g., day-to-day responsibilities, what happened to the last person in the role, and the reporting structure, among other elements. Practice articulating highlights of your experience in a way that should be clear to the interviewer. Think about questions to ask; not having questions could be fatal. That is a one-way ticket down the elevator shaft without an elevator. Know the questions you should not ask, including what the position pays or the amount of training involved.
-
Reinventing Litigation
02/04/2012 Duração: 06minI spoke with Charlie Gollow, an investment manager with IMF Australia, a publicly traded Australian company that finances legal claims in excess of AUD $5 million, which recently launched a wholly-owned subsidiary, Bentham Capital, in New York City to fund large-scale cases in the U.S. We discussed IMF, its goals for 2012, the state of the litigation funding market, and the advantages/disadvantages of enlisting a financial partner of this type.
-
Certified E-Discovery Specialists and the 2012 ACEDS Conference
30/03/2012 Duração: 03minI spoke today with Robert Hilson, the editorial director for the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists, which is hosting its 2012 Annual Conference next week (April 2-4) at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida. We discussed the organization’s growth, its impact on the legal community, and his expectations for the upcoming event.
-
Embracing the Globalization of Professional Services
06/03/2012 Duração: 07minI spoke with Simon Truskett, a Sydney-based senior partner at Clayton Utz in the firm’s Corporate Advisory / M&A group, who is the new chair of Lex Mundi, a global association of independent law firms, with 160 member firms in 102 countries. The association features a client advisory council in which leading in-house counsel advise on ways to improve client service. Members also exchange information on practice management, administrative support, and technology usage. In terms of trends, he noted Lex Mundi’s interest in broadening its reach in Africa and Asia because of increased competition from international firms and a more globalized client base that expects its professionals to provide services where they are.
-
Building a Unified Company Following Multiple Acquisitions
02/03/2012 Duração: 02minI spoke with Jim Hammond, the Vice President for Global Marketing at Aderant about the company’s recent acquisitions and the cohesion of its various brands. He noted that the new company has a wider footprint in legal, financial, and practice management systems with Client Profiles, is fully integrating Compulaw for seamless integration, and has a larger market share with CRM for business development used by firms all around the world. He described it as “one company with multiple products” that is focusing on providing high value to its clients.
-
Why Contract Lifecycle Management Matters
17/02/2012 Duração: 01minI spoke with Tim Sparks, the CEO of CLM Matrix about contract lifecycle management. He noted that the company’s Matrix software solutions are uniquely designed for Microsoft SharePoint, automatically draft contracts in Word, and dynamically create an essential workflow.
-
The Rise of Enterprise Apps
10/02/2012 Duração: 01minI spoke with Eric Elfman, the CEO of Onit at Legal Tech NY 2012. We discussed the company’s business process and productivity apps designed to solve very specific problems, including contract review and approval, ethics violation tracking, and whistleblower reporting.
-
Strengthening Litigation Support Career Opportunities
08/02/2012 Duração: 02minI spoke with David Netzer, the President of LitigationSupportCareers.com, which he describes as “an alternative to Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com,” at Legal Tech NY 2012. In a continuing trend of leveraging the web to pursue local opportunities, Netzer created LitigationSupportCareers.com to provide a portal for the industry to specifically advertise legal technology and litigation support positions. He notes that it builds efficiency by increasing the number of qualified applicants while reducing the number of resumes that employers ultimately need to evaluate. Job seekers can also proactively search for positions by location, category, and employer type.
-
Perspectives on Contracts from Legal Tech New York 2012
01/02/2012 Duração: 03minI spoke with Ken Adams, an ABA Legal Rebel, the author of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (ABA 2d ed. 2008), and the founder of Koncision, discussing his 2012 alliance with global contracts powerhouse, Business Integrity, makers of ContractExpress.com.
-
Perspectives from Legal Tech New York 2012 on the CODiE Award for Best Legal Solution
01/02/2012 Duração: 01minI spoke with Samantha Miller, the director of product management for website services at LexisNexis, who discussed Client Center’s 2012 Software & Industry Information Association (SIIA) CODiE Award for Best Legal Solution.
-
Perspectives on Client-Centered Technology from Legal Tech New York 2012
01/02/2012 Duração: 01minI spoke with Bob Krantz, the CEO of Mindseye Solutions about the company’s technology and its impact on the discovery process.
-
The Rise of Meaning-Based Coding and the Changing Landscape for Information Governance
30/01/2012 Duração: 05minI spoke with George Tziahanas, the senior vice president for legal and compliance solutions at Autonomy. We discussed the rise of meaning-based coding, the convergence of Stratify and Introspect, and the changing landscape for information governance.
-
Fixed-Fee Document Review and the Automation Revolution
26/01/2012 Duração: 06minI spoke with Steve Harber, the President and co-founder of DiscoverReady, a leading provider of e-discovery services. Steve and I have been discussing fixed-fee document review services and innovations in automated review for a few years. He shared his views on how the market has changed, as well as key trends for 2012 and beyond.
-
Reinventing Law Practice Management
24/01/2012 Duração: 01minI spoke with Paul Unger of Affinity Consulting Group about reinvention in law practice management. He discusses the impact of cloud computing, online learning, and how the use of technology in the courtroom is “breathing new life into what [lawyers] do.”
-
AllAboutLaw and Empowering Career Decisions
09/01/2012 Duração: 01minI spoke with Paul Harris, founder of AllAboutLaw and AllAboutCareers, to talk about how he and his team are making career advice more accessible to students across the globe. We discussed why he founded AllAboutLaw in September of 2008 and its growth to about 25,000 members, who regularly access a wealth of information about law schools, courses, internships, jobs, and firms in the UK.
-
Law Firm Challenges in 2012: Sophisticated Buyers, Globalization, and Profitability
03/01/2012 Duração: 02minI spoke with Tony Williams, the founder of Jomati Consultants and the former managing partner for Clifford Chance, for Reinventing Professional Services and during my visit to London late last year. We discussed trends in the legal profession for 2012 and Williams noted that “Law firms are going through a massive transformation … and it is really just beginning.” He highlighted that law firms are coming to terms with a more sophisticated buyer, globalization, and relatively flat profitability. These factors, among others, are causing firms to think about how they operate, the clients they target, and the markets in which they provide services.
-
Getting Business By Getting Published
22/12/2011 Duração: 01minI spoke with Andrew Partridge, the co-founder of Mondaq, about the evolution of content distribution and the value of metrics in marketing. He noted that since the market has changed, professionals are much more focused on who reads their work, why and for how long. Metrics that can profile those readers and permit organic follow-up are increasingly important. Ultimately, content generation is about showcasing your expertise, he notes. “The key is getting to the detailed analytics behind the readership.”
-
Reinventing Records Management
18/11/2011 Duração: 07minI spoke with Noel Rath, Worldwide Product Marketing Manager, for HP TRIM Software in Brisbane, Australia, and Peggy Milovina-Meyer, Global Records Manager for Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto. We discussed the information explosion over the past few years and how different legal technologies, including HP TRIM, have evolved. We also addressed key considerations for developing a records management strategy, and the specific challenges of those facing them in the current market.
-
Atdaa and Istanbul: Reinventing Travel With Local Access
10/11/2011 Duração: 12minI spoke with Kaan Çaglar, the co-founder of Atdaa, a social travel platform about Istanbul, Turkey. We discussed his new venture, the convergence of social media, and local travel.
-
Where Technology Companies See Growth Opportunities and Why
08/11/2011 Duração: 16minI spoke with Sean Regan, the director of product marketing for Symantec‘s information management group about the integration of Clearwell into his organization. We also discussed his unique background, including his role as Editor-in-Chief for The Sedona Conference’s International Overview of Discovery, Data Privacy & Disclosure Requirements, the reasons for the mainstream technology industry’s current attraction to successful e-discovery vendors, and, of course, why he says that “It is a dream come true for Clearwell to join this company.”