LawNext
LawNext is a weekly podcast hosted by Bob Ambrogi, who is internationally known for his writing and speaking on legal technology and innovation. Each week, Bob interviews the innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in the legal industry. From legal technology startups to new law firm business models to enhancing access to justice, Bob and his guests explore the future of law and legal practice.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 315
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Ep 054: The AI Behind ROSS, with CTO Jimoh Ovbiagele and Head of Engineering Stergios Anastasiadis
In LawNext Episode 48, host Bob Ambrogi traveled to Toronto to record a live interview with the founders of the AI-driven legal research platform ROSS Intelligence, CEO Andrew Arruda and CTO Jimoh O…
Ep 053: Longtime Orrick Chair Ralph Baxter on Innovating Law Practice
Ralph Baxter spent nearly a quarter century as chairman and CEO of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, leading its growth from a regional San Francisco law firm specializing in municipal finance to one of…
Ep 052: Exclusive Report: Clio CEO Jack Newton on His Company’s $250 Million Investment
On Sept. 4, 2019, the cloud practice management company Clio announced $250 million funding round -- one of the largest ever for a legal technology company. Shortly after making the announcement dur…
Ep 051: Reynen Court CEO Andrew Klein on Creating the App Store for Law
Often called the app store of law, Reynen Court has fast become one of the most talked-about companies in legal technology. Its mission is to make it easy for law firms and legal departments to adopt…
Ep 050: Legal Talk Network’s Adam Camras and Laurence Colletti
For the 50th episode of LawNext, we could think of no more appropriate topic than the state of podcasting in the legal industry. And we could think of no one better suited to the topic than Adam Camr…
Ep 049: Dean Sonderegger of Wolters Kluwer on the ‘Future-Ready Lawyer’
Which firms are best prepared to keep pace with changes in the legal market? That was the question explored in a recent survey of U.S. and European law firms, the 2019 Future Ready Lawyer Survey, co…
Ep 048: ROSS Intelligence Founders Andrew Arruda and Jimoh Ovbiagele
On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi travels to Toronto to sit down for a live recording with the founders of the AI-driven legal research platform ROSS Intelligence, CEO Andrew Arruda and CT…
Ep 047: Casepoint CEO Haresh Bhungalia on Growth without Funding
E-discovery company Casepoint is unusual among legal technology companies in that it has achieved significant growth in recent years, without taking on outside funding. Since 2015, the company has gr…
Ep 046: Incoming ABA President Judy Perry Martinez
Judy Perry Martinez is a lawyer who has made public service a part of her career from the start. She continues that legacy in August as she assumes the presidency of the 400,000-member American Bar A…
Ep 045: As Fastcase Turns 20, Founders Recount Its History and Predict Its Future
It was 20 years ago that two Covington & Burling associates, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal, made the audacious move of quitting their jobs and launching the legal research company Fastcase. Their goa…
Ep 044: Luminance CEO Emily Foges on AI’s Tipping Point in Law
By any measure, the London-based legal AI startup Luminance has had spectacular success. Not yet three years old, it has raised $23 million in funding, has achieved a valuation of $100 million, is us…
Ep 043: LexLab’s Alice Armitage on Teaching Innovation and Mentoring Startups
As director of applied innovation at UC Hastings College of the Law, Alice Armitage oversees two innovation-focused projects at the law school: LexLab, a multifaceted innovation program for students,…
Ep 042: The AALL’s Femi Cadmus on the Changing Face of Law Librarians
“We are not your grandfather’s law librarian.” As president of the American Association of Law Libraries, Femi Cadmus makes that point emphatically. Her organization recently completed it first-ever …
Ep 041: Tom Bruce on 27 Years of Disrupting Legal Information
Disruption is a word that gets thrown around easily these days. But the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School truly was a disruptor. Founded in 1992 with the mission of making legal infor…
Ep 040: Gillian Hadfield on Redesigning Our Legal Systems
A lawyer, economist and scholar, Gillian K. Hadfield has devoted much of her career to studying how legal systems can be improved to ensure they meet the needs of the people they are meant to serve. …
Ep 039: An Exclusive Look at the New LegalZoom-backed Project to Develop Better Contracts for Small Businesses
This week on LawNext, we get to reveal a project that could change the face of contracting for small businesses worldwide. Pulse -- backed by LegalZoom -- is a new initiative to deliver better contra…
Ep 038: EY’s Purchase of Pangea3, with Pangea3’s Joe Borstein and Ed Sohn
A tremor rolled through the legal industry recently when Thomson Reuters announced that it had sold its managed services business, Pangea3, to global Big Four professional services firm Ernst & Youn…
Ep 037: Logikcull Cofounder Andy Wilson on His Mission to Democratize Discovery
“Our mission is to make discovery instant and accessible for everyone,” says Andy Wilson, cofounder and CEO of the e-discovery technology company Logikcull. “We believe that quick and affordable acce…
Ep 036: Atrium Cofounder Augie Rakow on the Alternative Firm’s Successes and Challenges
Silicon Valley-backed Atrium is a different kind of law firm -- a dual entity that is part law practice and part legal technology company. The goal is to provide corporate clients with a more efficie…
Ep 035: Felicity Conrad, Cofounder and CEO of Paladin
Felicity Conrad is on a mission to help expand pro bono legal services. The legal technology company she cofounded, Paladin, helps corporations, law firms, law schools and legal service organizations…