Episode 13 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our “Voices” podcast from the Clio Cloud Conference in New Orleans. We asked a range of lawyers and technologists attending the conference for on-the-spot short answers to a range of questions about ClioCon, the technological needs of small law and solo practitioners, and trends on the legal technology landscape more broadly. Their reactions and impressions created this pod, which captures a snapshot of the ClioCon experience and provides a window into the important conversations currently taking place in small law-focused legal tech community.

The Questions:

1. What’s the most important difference between the tech needs of small firm or solo practitioners and those of large firm lawyers?
2. What has been the most important technological advance for small firm and solo lawyers over the past five years?
3. What will be the most important technological advance for small firm and solo lawyers over the next five years?
4. (a) [For practitioners:] If you could snap your fingers and magically create the perfect app or service to help or fix a part of your practice, what would it be and why? (b) [For non-practitioners:] What’s the biggest unmet technological need for small firm or solo practitioners?
5. What’s been the most interesting or surprising thing you’ve been hearing or seeing around ClicoCon?
6. In your opinion, what’s the most valuable part of the ClioCon experience?

Special thanks to all of guests (in order of first appearance):

• Ernie Svenson, LawFirmAutopilot.com
• Dan Lear, Right Brain Law
• Gyi Tsakalakis, AttorneySync
• Allen Rodriguez, ONE400
• Jae Um, Six Parsecs
• Chad Burton, Curo Legal & Modern Law Practice
• Jason Tashea, Legal tech writer & Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law
• Jared Correia, Red Cave Law Firm Consulting & Gideon
• Allen Weinberg, Family law attorney
• Keith Lee, LawyerSmack.com
• Joshua Lenon, Lawyer in Residence at Clio
• Adam Camras, Legal Talk Network
• Amanda Brown, Legal tech consultant
• Joyce Schwensen, Attorney
• Krista Coggins, Remedy Outside Counsel
• Mike Whelan, Jr., Lawyer Forward
• Sarah Glassmeyer, Project Specialist Manager at ABA Center for Innovation
• Irene Mo, Attorney
• Jules Miller, Prose Ventures

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Episode 12 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: the next installment of our “Voices” series--this time from National Harbor, Maryland at ILTACON 2018. We asked a range of lawyers and technologists attending the conference for on-the-spot short answers to a range of questions about ILTACON and the legal technology landscape more broadly. Their reactions and impressions created this pod, which captures a snapshot of the ILTACON experience and provides a window into the important conversations currently taking place in the legal tech community.

The Questions:

1. What makes ILTACON interesting or unique as a legal tech conference?
2. In your view, what (a) legal tech development or (b) motivating force/pressure is most likely to generate meaningful, short-term innovation in the practice of law?
3. Rewind 3 years, what’s a development on the legal tech landscape that you would have expected to have happened by ILTACON 2018, but still hasn’t?
4. Conversely, what’s an innovation or development on the legal tech landscape that’s happening more quickly than you expected?
5. What information about legal technology and the legal tech market do you wish you had, but you find is actually quite difficult to obtain?
6. What part of the legal landscape is most in need of significant innovation?
7. If, as part of the ILTACON package, you received a 1% equity stake in a legal tech company of your choice, which company would you choose and why?
8. What’s the most valuable part of the ILTACON experience?

Special thanks to all of guests (in order of first appearance):

• Michael Callier, Senior Corporate Counsel at Darigold
• Melvin Evans, Director of Information Technology at Hand Arendall Harrison Sale
• Ginevra Saylor, Secretary of the ILTA Board
• Will Norton, CEO & Founder of Simply Agree
• Kevin O’Keefe, CEO & Founder of LexBlog
• David Hobbie, Director of Knowledge Management (Litigation) at Goodwin
• Matt Homann, CEO & Founder of Filament
• Ed Sohn, Vice President, Product and Partner Management at Thompson Reuters
• Felicity Conrad, CEO & Co-founder of Paladin
• Jeff Pfeifer, Vice President & Chief Product Officer at LexisNexis
• Nicole Bradick, CEO & Founder of Theory & Principle
• Jeanne Marie Boswell, Director of Technology Training at Paul Hastings
• Owen Byrd, Chief Evangelist & General Counsel at Lex Machina
• James Desjardins, Associate Director of Practice Technology at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• Carol Lynn Grow, VP of Marketing & Sales & Co-owner of LawToolBox
• Jason Dirkx, Knowledge Management Counsel at Littler Mendelson
• Monet Fauntleroy, Senior Manager of Practice Innovation at White & Case
• Courtney Murphy, eDiscovery & Litigation Technology Attorney at Clark Hill
• Anand Upadhye, Vice President of Business Development at Casetext
• Tessa Ramanlal, Solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills & Co-founder at ANIKA

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Episode 11 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with Nick West, Chief Technology Officer of Mishcon de Reya and Director of MDR Lab, a legal tech incubator run out of Mishcon’s offices in London. Building on the discussion begun in our blog post entitled “Law Firm.VC? Law Firms Launching Legal Tech Incubators, Accelerators, and Venture Arms” and continued in our conversation with Dan Jansen of Nextlaw Labs on Ep. 6, our conversation with Nick explores the structure and purpose of MDR Lab, Mishcon’s motivations for starting the Lab, the successes of its first cohort, trends on the legal tech landscape, and the key distinctions and differences between the UK and US legal tech markets.

For more information about MDR Lab, please visit: https://lab.mdr.london/.

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