Reinventing Professionals Ari Kaplan

For this mixtape from Tuesday, May 16, 2023, on-site at the 2023 Corporate Legal Operations Consortium Global Institute, I had the privilege of speaking with John Patzakis, the Executive Chairman and Chief Legal Officer at X1, Kris Satkunas, the Director of Strategic Consulting at LexisNexis CounselLink, Sean West, the Co-Founder of Hence Technologies, and Vishal Sunak, the Founder and CEO of LinkSquares.

I spoke with Matt Patel, the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Malbek, a contract lifecycle management software platform. We discussed the advantages for law departments that use a CLM platform versus handling their contracts manually, how legal teams are deploying AI in their contract management processes, ways that legal is collaborating with procurement, and mistakes legal teams leveraging CLM should avoid.

I spoke with Andy Cosgrove, the Chief Strategy Officer at TCDI, a provider of e-discovery software and services. We discussed how legal teams distinguish between technology and services in a crowded marketplace, ways that innovation differs between legal teams in corporations, law firms, and legal tech service providers, and how to manage the complexities of data-driven legal risks.

I spoke with Anthony Davies, the Chief Revenue Officer and a Senior Partner at Forrest Solutions, an onsite outsourcing, flexible staffing, and alternative legal services provider. We discussed how law firms are preparing for a return to the office, how they are creating an ideal workplace experience, and ways that the workplace is evolving.

I spoke with Marc Zamsky and Marla Crawford, the CEO and general counsel, respectively, for Cimplifi, an integrated legal services provider that aligns e-discovery and contract analytics for corporate legal departments and law firms. We discussed Cimplifi’s new market research report, The Expanding Influence of Legal Operations: An Inside Look at AI, CLM, and Law Department Transformation, the trends driving change in corporate law departments, how CLM and AI are affecting in-house strategic initiatives, and the trajectory of digital transformation in legal.

I spoke with Alaa Pasha, the CEO of Maptician, an end-to-end solution for hybrid operations with a focus on law firms. We discussed what firms that are finding success in a hybrid workplace are doing to thrive, mistakes law firms are making in managing their teams and training their employees, and balancing a return to the office full-time and working in a hybrid manner.