Ep 83: The 2025 Legal Ops Playbook with Brightflag's Kevin Cohn & Priori's Matt Wheatley

What does 2025 hold for legal tech and the legal ops profession? Will legal ops ever become a standard part of every in-house legal team?

Join us in this very special episode as Tyler invites Kevin Cohn, Chief Customer Officer at Brightflag, and Matt Wheatley, VP of Client Strategy at Priori, for a very special, no-holds-barred discussion about  legal operations in an ever-changing industry.

Listen as Matt and Kevin share their thoughts on legal ops conferences, gender and wage disparities, whether legal ops is more of a legal role or an operational role, 2025’s uncomfortably tight labor market, AI disrupting the legal ops field, and much more.

Read detailed summary:  https://www.spotdraft.com/podcast/episode-83

Topics:
Introduction: 0:00
Working with customer advisory boards: 3:11
Are there too many legal ops conferences?: 12:34
Connecting GCs and legal ops professionals: 20:10
Analyzing survey data: 34:52
Do you need a JD?: 40:28
Thoughts on hiring: 46:57
AI in the legal landscape: 53:04
Market consolidation: 57:19
Rapid-fire questions 1:04:44

Connect with us:
Kevin Cohn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinacohn/
Matt Wheatley - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-wheatley-288146a2/
Tyler Finn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhfinn

SpotDraft - https://www.linkedin.com/company/spotdraft

SpotDraft is a leading contract lifecycle management platform that solves your end-to-end contract management issues.

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