Legal Tech in Love – Married Couple with Separate Start-Ups
[Note: As of 27 October 2021, InCloudCounsel changed its name to Ontra. This note added 29 Jan 2022.] In networking for a new job, I recently met (remotely) Troy Pospisil, the Founder and CEO of InCloudCounsel. Two surprises stood out in speaking with him. First,...
Ron Friedmann,
6 years ago
7 min read
The Rise of Legal Operations and What Comes Next
Legal operations started as a handful of people two decades ago. Today, it has become a robust discipline with many practitioners. I was delighted to have the chance to interview one of the leading legal operations pioneers, Steph Corey of UpLevel Ops. I met Steph...
Ron Friedmann,
6 years ago
7 min read
The Last Mile of Contracts: Why Human Teams Are Still Essential
You might think that everything about contracts has been automated. But in fact, that’s not true. Here’s a quick rundown on technology for contracts and why we still need humans to help create, analyze, and manage contracts. Mainstream media regularly reports about robots and artificial intelligence...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
5 min read
The Future of Contract Management
What is the future of contract management? I ask for two reasons. First, we have seen an explosion in software start-ups focused on various elements of drafting or managing contracts. And second, in the last month I saw demos of synergist.io and LawGeex. Synergist’s tag line is...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
6 min read
How BT Manages Contracts: Provision Extraction with AI (live IACCM event)
The session Contracts and Big Data Analytics is the opening for a DC-area IACCM contract management event; it covers how BT manages contracts and extracts provisions with AI. The presenter is Paul Branch, Head of Deal Assurance at BT Americas. This is a live post; please forgive typos...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
5 min read
ILTA Recap – Spot Video Interviews and Blog Posts
Last week I attended ILTACon, the 2016 conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Here is a recap of my activities for the week. The first section has links to the three sessions I attended and live blogged. The second has a pictorial summary of the session...
Ron Friedmann,
9 years ago
3 min read
Law Department Trends + Contract Management Opportunities
Now is law department survey season. In my prior post, GCs Now Do Less Law, I reported on the Altman Weil survey of Chief Legal Officers. Here, I report highlights of two other recent surveys: The Annual Law Department Operations Survey by the Blickstein Group surveys law department directors of operations....
Ron Friedmann,
10 years ago
4 min read
The Future of Law & Contracting (live from IACCM)
This is a live blog post from the International Association for Contracting & Commercial Professionals (IACCM) Americas Forum. [Please forgive any typos or misunderstandings in meaning.] This session is The Future of Law & Contracting (live from IACCM) with Mark Harris, Founder, Axiom and moderated by Tim Cummins...
Ron Friedmann,
10 years ago
3 min read
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