We wrap up this season with a long-time friend of the show, Allen Rodriguez. is a legal product development strategist who has been serving the legal industry for over 20 years. Over the course of his career, Allen has built a reputation for creating innovative #legalservices products as well as developing highly effective law firm business and marketing strategies. Allen is a valued speaker on the topics of law marketing, legal services product development, and future of law issues. He has provided consulting and marketing services for companies such as McKinsey & Co., Coleman Research Gr ..read more

In a change of pace for our show, we do not cover a legaltech startup in this episode. Instead, we take a look at The Effectiveness Project, which is a legal technology collaboration through the Legal Technology Core Competencies Certification Coalition and a variety of legal technology vendors. The Effectiveness Project is an international working group of legal professionals, with support from LTC4, collaborating to establish best practices and baseline skills for creating effective legal documents. They are focusing, at present, on what is called Document Competency. The first rel ..read more

FairClaims is an easy alternative to court. With nearly a decade of experience as a leading online dispute resolution provider, we've resolved thousands of disputes online. We believe everyone deserves a chance to be heard and are here to help. Here is how it works: 1) Tell us about your dispute. We will invite the other side to resolve it and assign a qualified and friendly Arbitrator. 2) You will upload evidence and have a live phone or video hearing where the Arbitrator will hear both sides of the story. 3) Your Arbitrator will issue a decision within 8 days of your hearing. This decision i ..read more

With award-winning technology, eCourtReporters gives attorneys and schedulers direct access to experienced, certified court reporters and legal videographers all across the country. Karen Renee owns Milwaukee Court Reporters and actively provides court reporting services. Graduated 2008 cum laude from Alfred State College, New York, associates degree. She was awarded Innovator of the Year from the State Bar of Wisconsin, Innovation Use of Technology from the National Court Reporters Association, and Bright New Idea award from the Governor's Business Plan Contest. Karen is a lifelong entreprene ..read more

Whether you need occasional help from a freelance lawyer or a long term subscription associate, thousands of law firms rely on us to bill more hours and reduce overhead. LawClerk is where attorneys go to find virtual associates and freelance attorneys. For episode 127, and in continuation of our #femalefounder series, we are joined by Talitha Gray Kozlowski and Kristin Tyler, co-founders of LawClerk. Talitha and Kristin were associates and a large regional firm before they made the move to a boutique law firm in Las Vegas. Near the time they made the change from "BigLaw" to the boutique firm ..read more

Our guest, Sophie Walker, is an experienced human rights practitioner, having previously spent five years as a US Attorney representing death row prisoners, and three years as a solicitor, before being called to the Bar in 2016. She completed a two-year legal fellowship at the not-for-profit Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, representing death row prisoners in both state and federal courts. She also challenged the incarceration of terminally ill prisoners and was part of the team that successfully challenged sentencing of children to whole-life sentences at the US Supreme Court, Graham v Fl ..read more

Coming hot off of a $3.5M fundraising round, Jacqueline Schafer joined LegalTechLIVE to share her experience as a practicing lawyer turned #legaltech founder. Here's a little background on the impressive pedigree of Jacqueline Schafer: Jacqueline began her career as a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison, and spent much of career as an Assistant Attorney General in the Washington and Alaska Attorney General’s Offices, where she specialized in appellate practice and complex litigation. Before joining the startup world and founding Clearb ..read more

We cannot pretend to be objective about this interview. Erin Levine has been a friend of the show for several years. She's previously been a co-host and has been a huge supporter for other women founders who have been on the show. In the episode Erin takes us from inception of Hello Divorce to her decision to fundraise (coming off a recent $2M raise). Her company has faced many difficulties including a patchwork of jurisdictional and local rules, the difficulties of reframing the idea of divorce and the approaches to wellness they've employed in a more holistic approach to the termination of t ..read more

If you've been following the news at all in the last 5 years, you're going to be inspired by this #startup. Felicitas Ukert is the Founder & CEO. Iraida Herrera is the Founder and VP. They met at Cornell Law School in 2019 when they were both pursuing their LLM's. It was during that time in law school that Get The Docs was born. They were aware of the crisis at the US border for those migrating from Central America. As they researched the issue of #immigration, they discovered many people already in the US often need to obtain documentation from their country of origin. They set out to mak ..read more

Haley Altman has had a notable legal and #legaltech career. She's steadily moved forward from legal associate, to partner, to legaltech co-founder and CEO, and now sits as the Global Head of Corporate Development for the company that acquired her legal technology startup. In this episode, Haley shares her outstanding journey from legal practice into technology and entrepreneurship. Her experience should be shared with as many #startup founders as possible. Two takeaways that stood out in the conversation. Haley described what her startup offered, with precision. Make sure to listen to that asp ..read more