The business of providing professional advice is changing. Today, anyone can go online and access a wealth of information about any topic, from legal and medical advice to financial planning and accounting suggestions. This blog is designed to offer ideas, guidance, and perspectives on how to effectively navigate a perpetually shifting professional landscape, with a unique focus on the legal industry and the technology that is driving its evolution.
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Bob Ambrogi interviews leaders in the legal technology space about their news and press releases.
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Jon and Chris get a film education, one filmmaker at a time. Each month, we pick a famous filmmaker and watch every film that he or she wrote and directed. Then, we research the filmmaker’s history and critical assessments of the work. Finally, we talk about the films, consistent themes throughout, and answer definitively: Are they an auteur and do we like them?
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A podcast about data innovation, regulations and data privacy. We will bring you exciting and inspiring stories from the frontiers of data and privacy management. Think AI, fairness, privacy-compliance, synthetic data, data literacy, and more. Hosted by Alexandra Ebert, MOSTLY AI's Chief AI & Data Democratization Officer. If you have any suggestions or questions, send a voice recording or an email to [email protected]!
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Open-Source Intelligence and Why it Has Become Vital to Modern Legal Operations
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11:02I spoke with Rick Campbell, the Executive Chairman and CEO of @GROUP, and Matt Winlaw, the CEO and Managing Director of @ID, one of three divisions that includes @DOCS and @SOFT, within @GROUP. We discussed open-source intelligence, why OSINT has become vital to modern legal operations, the blind spots in traditional legal risk models, predictive b…
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You may not know this writing team's credits, but if you are our age, you know Can't Hardly Wait. You may also consider Josie and the Pussycats a cult classic. Hop into a time machine with us to examine the films of Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan. As always let us know what we got wrong on Facebook or email us at [email protected]. Show Note…
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*Special Episode* Featuring Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief of Legal IT Insider, on Charting Change in Legal Ep 41
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22:28In this 41st episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed value-based billing, driving firmwide innovation, and cultivating a willingness to be engaged.By Ari Kaplan
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I was lucky to have many great conversations with industry leaders at the 2025 CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) Global Institute, which I captured in this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape 😀 Thanks to the following participants for sharing their insights: 🎙️ David Blazejewski (David Blaze), Chief Revenue Officer, TruthOrLie.ai 🎙️ Tim B…
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Enhancing a Legal Practice with Generative AI-Empowered Conversational Intelligence
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13:09I spoke with Hilary Bowman, a healthcare attorney, who is the Founder of Querious, an application that facilitates virtual lawyer-client conversations using generative AI. We discussed how artificial intelligence can help legal professionals optimize client conversations, the value of real-time legal insights, and how the attorney-client relationsh…
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Reshaping the Competitive Landscape for Solo Practitioners and Small Firms
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11:51I spoke with Ruchie Chadha, the President of Smokeball US, an AI-powered legal practice management software platform that helps small law firms stay organized, productive, and profitable. We discussed the importance of trust accounting, empowering lawyers by partnering with state bar associations, and leveraging technology to reshape the competitiv…
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I spoke with Matthew Rasmussen, the CEO, and Ryan Frye, the Chief Innovation Officer, at ModeOne, a targeted remote smartphone data collection provider. We discussed the risks involved in extracting company data from personal devices, the biggest misconceptions about mobile data collection, and how organizations can ensure their mobile data collect…
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I spoke with Ted DeBettencourt, a Co-Founder of Juvo Leads, a company that provides human-powered chat services. We discussed the benefits of human-powered chat for law firms, use cases where prospective clients prefer technology to human interaction, and the mistakes professional services firms make when deploying human-powered chat.…
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Whether to Buy or Build Generative AI Applications
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22:19I spoke with Uwais Iqbal, the Founder of Simplexico, a UK-based AI consulting firm helping legal teams with AI adoption. We discussed the most common use cases for generative AI, how legal professionals can maximize their use of generative AI, whether law firms should build or buy generative AI applications, and how the use of AI in law firms is ev…
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How AI is Changing M&A and Corporate Transactions
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17:06I spoke with Katya Fisher, CEO of Aracor, a software platform to streamline M&A, private equity, and venture capital transactions. We discussed the evolving M&A lifecycle, the changing relationship between in-house counsel and outside counsel, and how AI has changed M&A and corporate transactions.By Ari Kaplan
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ClauseBase expansion into North America welcomes former Deloitte Legal leader Jan Roggen as VP of growth
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14:30Montreal, April 24, 2025 – ClauseBase, the all-in-one legal drafting platform, is proud to announce its expansion into North America with the opening of a new office in Montreal. This strategic move is driven by the appointment of Jan Roggen as Vice President of Growth. “At Deloitte, I had the opportunity to work extensively with ClauseBase and was…
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I spoke with Danny Thankachan, the Head of Partnerships at CaseGuild, an AI-powered platform that finds key evidence in litigation. We discussed how legal teams can use artificial intelligence to find crucial evidence, ways that lawyers are currently trying to solve this problem, and the ideal users of this technology.…
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*Special Episode* Featuring Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief of Legal IT Insider, on Charting Change in Legal Ep 40
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25:55In this 40th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed bringing back boring, legal operations trends, and embracing automation.By Ari Kaplan
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Empowering Platform Business Services for Legal
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14:46I spoke with Ciprian Şaramet, Managing Director of Modular Services, a Romanian company focused on providing technical support and business services to global law firms. We discussed how law firms can strengthen their cybersecurity posture, the influence of AI on law firm security, vulnerability management, and the value of continuous education for…
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Bookkeeping Best Practices for Law Firm Leaders
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13:34I spoke with Matt Tait, the CEO of Decimal, a tech-enabled services firm focused on bookkeeping, tax filings, and tax preparation. We discussed how the economy is affecting the way law firm leaders manage their practices, the business mistakes they are making, ways to balance the application of technology and talent, and best practices for leveragi…
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I spoke with Thomas Bueler, the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Vecflow, a legal AI platform designed to help lawyers review and draft documents for use cases in M&A and class action litigation. We discussed the role of AI in expanding legal workflows, the importance of minimizing hallucinations in large language models, and the best practi…
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The Difference Between RAG and Agents in AI
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16:06I spoke with Laurie Ehrlich, the chief legal officer, and Farah Gasmi, co-founder and chief product officer at Dioptra, an AI-powered contract redlining and playbook generation tool. We discussed the difference between RAG and Agents in AI, the challenges associated with AI adoption, and how lawyers can secure buy-in for new AI tools more effective…
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I was fortunate to speak with these leaders on the third day of Legalweek 2025 for this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape: Valerie Chan, CEO, Plat4orm Dan Ruderman, Director, Strategic Alliances, LexisNexis Legal - CounselLink Alex Sappington, Co-CEO, Page Vault *Background music credit: Upbeat Indie by Lowtone Music…
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*Special Episode* Featuring Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief of Legal IT Insider, on Charting Change in Legal Ep 39
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24:46In this 39th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed Legalweek 2025, Skills.Law, generative AI use cases, and accelerating innovation in legal.By Ari Kaplan
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I was fortunate to speak with these leaders on the second day of Legalweek 2025 for this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape: Tom Chapman, CEO, IcebergStephen Goldstein, Chief Product Officer, AltorneyRoss Guberman, CEO, BriefCatchJosh Janow, CEO, SMI Aware Subroto Mukerji, CEO, IntegreonJoey Seeber, CEO, Level LegalThomas Suh, COO, LegalMation *Bac…
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Megan Park is an up and coming filmmaker. After a lengthy career as an actress, she has now directed two films: The Fallout and My Old Ass. We saw My Old Ass on some top ten lists last year and the level of praise from Chris Columbus had us intrigued: "“My Old Ass” is an instant classic, this generation’s “It’s A Wonderful Life.” Over the past deca…
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I was fortunate to speak with these leaders on the first day of Legalweek 2025 for this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape: Josh Baxter, CEO, NetDocuments Milan Bobde, CEO, Oddr Edward Chick, Chief Revenue Officer, NopalCyber Dan Hauck, Chief Product Officer, NetDocuments Brandon Hollinder, Vice President, eDiscovery and Cyber Solutions, Epiq John …
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I was fortunate to speak with these leaders the day before Legalweek 2025 for this Mixtape: Bradley Collins, Co-Founder and CEO, LegalTechTalk Dan Malgran, VP, Marketing, Steno Patricia Nagy, Chief Strategy Officer, The Proxy Agency Alaa Pasha, CEO, Maptician Steven Salkin, Editor-in-Chief, Law Journal Newsletters Abhijat Saraswat, Chief Revenue Of…
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IP and Ethical Concerns for AI-generated Content
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13:29I spoke with Vincent Allen, partner at Carstens, Allen & Gourley, an IP-focused law firm that helps companies with patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and intellectual property strategies. We discussed how current copyright laws address authorship and ownership of AI-created works, strategies content creators can use to protect their intel…
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How Fixed-Price Legal Services Expedites the Adoption of New Technology
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17:05I spoke with Adam Philipp, the founder of AEON Law, an intellectual property law firm. We discussed the benefits of fixed-price legal services, how a fixed-price model expedites the adoption of new technology, and best practices for law firms interested in pursuing and implementing innovation-focused initiatives.…
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I spoke with Edward Chick, the Chief Revenue Officer at NopalCyber, a managed security service provider that offers outsourced cybersecurity support, seeking to democratize enterprise-level security for law firms and organizations in other sectors. We discussed best practices to help law firm leaders identify cyber threats, mistakes they are making…
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CEO Roundtable: Legal Industry Leaders Share Perspectives on Challenges and Opportunities Ahead of Legalweek 2025
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21:19I spoke with the following chief executive officers in a CEO Roundtable discussion about challenges and opportunities ahead of Legalweek 2025: Ray Biederman, Proteus Discovery Group Chris Cartrett, Aderant James Ding, DraftWise Tom Dunlop, Summize Sirisha Gummaregula, QuisLex Scott McFetters, CoreTech Renee Meisel, UnitedLex Sarai Schubert, Hanzo J…
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The Benefits of Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Public Relations and Marketing
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11:44I spoke with Amy Juers, the CEO of Edge Marketing, a marketing and PR agency serving the legal, accounting, and professional services industries. We discussed the benefits of leveraging artificial intelligence in public relations and marketing, how it enhances client service, and the best practices for AI implementation.…
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How AI Gives Law Firms the Data They Need to Grow
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10:09I spoke with Jack Weinberger, the Co-Founder of Ajax, an AI company that helps lawyers manage their time. We discussed the need to secure data in AI timekeeping applications, the promise of capturing more time in legal services, and how legal timekeeping is evolving.By Ari Kaplan
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Algorithms and the Optimal Allocation of Legal Work
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11:02I spoke with William Dougherty, the Co-founder and CEO of Capacity, a work allocation solution designed to help law firms optimize their resources. We discussed how Capacity addresses the most common inefficiencies in law firm resourcing, the benefits of optimal work allocation to lawyers and their clients, and how the distribution of legal work is…
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I spoke with Ray Biederman, the Co-Founder and CEO of Proteus Discovery Group, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and is a founding partner of Mattingly Burke Cohen & Biederman. We discussed the genesis of Proteus Discovery Group, the benefits of simultaneously managing a law firm and a legal services company, and how e-discovery is evolvin…
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*Special Episode* Featuring Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief of Legal IT Insider, on Charting Change in Legal Ep 38
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32:20In this 38th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed achieving work-life balance, building momentum in 2025, and preparing for Legalweek.By Ari Kaplan
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*Lexpo Special* How AI is Reshaping Corporate Law Departments
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13:14I spoke with Douwe Groenevelt, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Head of Legal at ASML, and a featured speaker at the Lexpo Conference, taking place in Amsterdam on June 16th and 17th. We discussed the mission of Law & Ops, the Tech in Legal initiative, the most significant opportunities for in-house legal teams to innovate, and how AI is re…
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Thread Legal Announces Launch of Version 3
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18:10Estera Orsolic, Operations Lead at Thread Legal Software, discusses the launch of Thread Legal Version 3 on February 24th on behalf of CEO Shane Branagan. Estera highlights the key new features, including a modernized UX, Kanban task management, an integrated matter calendar, enhanced time tracking, and streamlined document management—allowing user…
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How Information Governance Affects an Organization's Data Security
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10:01I spoke with Doug Kaminski, the Chief Revenue Officer at Infinnium, a data governance platform. We discussed how information governance affects an organization's data security, best practices for organizations to build better data hygiene, and ways that artificial intelligence is affecting these efforts.…
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Perspectives on Advancing Litigation Support to Fuel Growth in a Changing Legal Market
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10:36I spoke with Lynn Tubalinal, the Director of Litigation Support at Dykema, and Julia Voss, the Director of Litigation Support and eDiscovery at UB Greensfelder. Both are among the industry leaders who contributed to the recently published report - Advancing Litigation Support to Fuel Growth in a Changing Legal Market - supported by Opus 2. We discu…
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Democratizing AI? Not Without Data Intelligence & Synthetic Data—Ari Kaplan on the Biggest Roadblocks to Scaling AI
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54:00AI democratization sounds great in theory, but why do so many enterprises struggle to make it work? In this episode, Ari Kaplan, Head of Tech Evangelism at Databricks, breaks down the biggest roadblocks to scaling AI—and what’s needed to overcome them. From data intelligence and synthetic data to why leading enterprises rely on unified data and ana…
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Richard Curtis is one of the mosty successful screenwriters to come out of Great Britain, but he's also directed three films of his own. From the modern Christmas classic of Love Actually to the underseen About Time, we will discuss the films written and directed by Curtis. Our Holiday episode made it out while there is still snow on the ground, so…
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How Leaders Can Promote a Culture Emphasizing Innovation, Collaboration, and a Unified Sense of Purpose
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12:18I spoke with Renee Meisel, the CEO of UnitedLex, a tech-enabled legal services provider. We discussed what differentiates UnitedLex from other providers of legal services, how leaders can promote a culture emphasizing innovation, collaboration, and a unified sense of purpose, and trends driving the most significant change in legal.…
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Streamlining Document Management for Law Firms
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6:15I spoke with Daniel Booter, the Director of Marketing of MacroAgility Systems, an iManage partner specializing in integrating tailored solutions and implementations for law firms. We discussed how MacroAgility Systems provides tailored technology solutions for law firms, the problems iSyncKit and Uplift Migration solve, ways to streamline document …
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How Law Firms Can Use AI to Capture More Time
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12:17I spoke with Joseph Frantz, the Founder of TimeSentry, an AI native time tracking solution for hourly billing professionals. We discussed how law firms can use artificial intelligence to capture more value from clients and work smarter, ways that organizations currently approach this process, and where legal technology is headed in 2025.…
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SimpleDocs Launches SimpleAI: An AI-Powered Playbook Builder for In-House Legal Teams
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17:05In this episode of LawNext PR, Bob Ambrogi interviews Preston Clark, CEO of SimpleDocs, about the launch of SimpleAI, an AI-powered playbook builder designed for in-house legal teams. About the Press Release: SimpleDocs, the creator of AutoNDA, today announced the launch of SimpleAI, an advanced playbook builder designed specifically for in-house l…
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*Special Episode* Featuring Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief of Legal IT Insider, on Charting Change in Legal Ep 37
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26:56In this 37th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed the market moves in January 2025, the accelerating pace of change in legal, and AI pitfalls to watch.By Ari Kaplan
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Insights Into ILTA's 2025 EVOLVE Conference
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12:24I spoke with Josh Smith, the Information Security Manager at Ogletree Deakins, and Ken Jones, a Lecturer at the Seton Hall University Stillman School of Business and the Principal Consultant with Xerdict Group, the technology subsidiary of Tanenbaum Keale. The two leaders are the co-chairs of ILTA's 2025 EVOLVE conference. We discussed how the even…
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Best Practices for Selecting, Implementing, and Setting Expectations for Generative AI
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8:58I spoke with Chris Williams, the Growth and Partnership Lead at Leya, an AI-powered legal workspace that integrates with firm knowledge systems to automate tasks like due diligence and legal research. We discussed how law firms are implementing generative AI, how they overcome the fear of using AI, best practices for getting started with generative…
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I spoke with Melissa Rogozinski, the founder of RPC Strategies, a growth marketing consulting firm specializing in due diligence, revenue operations, and B-to-B growth marketing, including for organizations in the legal sector. We discussed how legal teams can evaluate the security and compliance of AI products, the risks associated with AI deploym…
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New research from Ari Kaplan Advisors and Opus 2: Litigation department growth, challenges, and tech
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19:18In this episode of Law Next PR, Bob Ambrogi interviews Ari Kaplan, principle of Ari Kaplan Advisors, and Greg Blackman, CEO of Opus 2, about a new research study on the litigation technology landscape. Ari Kaplan Advisors, in partnership with Opus 2, has released new research that provides industry benchmarks, analysis of challenges and market tren…
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