Our guest today is Andrew Goldner. Andrew is a lawyer and Co-Founder & CEO of GrowthX - a venture capital fund based out of San Francisco.  Andrew’s resume doesn’t read like a typical VC Partner. Although Andrew started his career in New York, it wasn’t on Wall Street, nor was it in finance, or even as a startup founder. Andrew started his journey as an internet lawyer, back when the internet was an emerging technology. Though successful by every measure, Andrew became restless after several years of practice. Specifically, he took issue with the fact that the legal profession emphasi ..read more

Our guest today is Bryce Tingle. Bryce is a person who has worn many hats over the course of his career.  He was a co-founder and partner of TingleMerrett LLP, which focused on securities and corporate finance for growth companies.   He has been a founding member of multiple companies active in the technology, energy and financial industries. He is currently an Associate Professor and holds the N. Murray Edwards Chair in Business Law at the University of Calgary.  On top of all of that, Bryce literally wrote the textbook on Startup Law in Canada. Bryce was kind enough to br ..read more

Our guest today is Aaron Wenner, the founder and CEO of CiteRight, a Toronto-based legal technology startup that makes it simple for litigators to find, cite and reuse the work they’ve already done. Prior to founding Citeright, Aaron received his law degree from McGill University, a masters degree in Middle Easter Studies from Harvard University, and also practiced at a national firm on Bay Street in Toronto.  Our wide ranging conversation covers: Aaron’s journey from academic & lawyer, to CEO of a startup; How the idea for CiteRight originated and developed; The landscape and a ..read more

Our guest today is Erin Durant (she/her). Erin founded Durant Barristers after practicing law as a partner at one of the largest law firms in Canada. Erin has represented clients at essentially every level of court, and regularly provides barrister services to other lawyers to assist with trials, appeals and other complex situations. Erin left Big Law to start her own firm after experiencing mental health challenges during the pandemic, and is using it to bring a fresh approach to the practice of law.  Our wide ranging conversation conversation covers: The reason Erin left the big firm ..read more

Our guest today is Dr. Jacqueline Walsh, a lawyer, professor, and the Director of the initio Technology and Innovation Law Clinic at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.  Dr. Walsh has practiced corporate and intellectual property law for over 20 years, spending time both in Big Law, and working directly with small technology startups.  Our conversation centers around Dr. Walsh’s journey from Big Law to running the initio law clinic, which helps Nova Scotia based technology startups get the early stage legal information they need to properly set up their venture, all w ..read more

Our guest this week is Pina Di Biase a lawyer, life coach, fashion blogger, and one of our very own goodlawyers.   As you will hear, Pina’s legal journey is a little unconventional. After law school, she quickly discovered that a traditional law firm wasn’t a great fit for her, and decided to strike out on her own.  Despite forgoing the conventional mentorship found to one degree or another in a firm, Pina was able to build a successful and diverse practice. Her curiosity and her genuine desire to add value to her clients motivated her to develop pretty much any  skill or c ..read more

By many standards, Aaron Baer had it made.  He was young. He was a Partner at a major law firm. And had already built an impressive book of business.  His continued trajectory up the Partnership ladder seemed to be a foregone conclusion.  Yet, something was missing...  As an improvement and progress junky, Aaron was getting frustrated by his firm's lack of innovation, and their unwillingness to depart from the traditional method of practice.  Despite his professional success, Aaron made the unconventional decision (especially for a Partner) to leave the relative safety ..read more

It is tough to debate that the legal profession, as a whole, is behind the times.  Why?  Well...simply put, because we haven't been forced to change.  However, those days of complacency appear to be over.  Clients are demanding more transparency and fairness in pricing.  Lawyers are demanding modern tools to do their job more effectively.  And it seems that every other day you are hearing about some legal tech startup raising a big round of funding.  But what exactly can we expect from the technological revolution that it is upon us?  While there is no q ..read more

For those of you who regularly listen to the Future of Law podcast (and yes...there are a growing number of you), today’s show is a little different. As many of you know, Goodlawyer recently put on our very first Summit. Over the next several weeks, we will be releasing some of the incredible conversations we were able to have right here on this  podcast. To lead us off, I could think of no better that my good friend, and Goodlawyer's Chief Legal Officer, Josh Weinberger. Josh began his career in Big Law, and practiced at a major firm for over 5 years before taking the entrepreneurial lea ..read more

On the show this week, we are delighted to have on Ken Murphy, the Founder and CEO of IRIS. Ken earned his law degree from Queen’s University in 1999, but instead of pursuing the traditional path of practicing at a law firm, Ken launched his own startup...just as the dot com bubble was about to burst, which needless to say made it a very difficult time to be a founder.  While Ken’s first start-up didn’t achieve the success he was hoping for, he was able to parlay that experience into a product development role at Thomson Reuters Canada, where he has worked in various capacities for the pa ..read more