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Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastHow Legal Tech Startup, Abstract, Turns Laws And Regulations Into Actionable StrategyCharlie Uniman, your podcast host, and Pat Utz, CEO and co-founder of Abstract (https://www.abstract.us/), explore how Abstract turns legislative and regulatory noise into real-time, client-specific strategy, and why deterministic workflows beat agentic dreams for now. Pat shares candid lessons on funding, traction, hiring, and building a product that actually moves the needle.• origins in AI research and mission to make government transparent• proactive monitoring of bills, regulations, executive orders, and local agendas• real-time enrichment with client context to flag risks and opportunities• strategy layer and workflows that move from alert to outreach...
2025-12-2331 minLegal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastAI-Powered Patent Drafting with Deep IPWhen you're a patent attorney facing the challenge of creating high-quality patents in half the time you once had, technology isn't just a luxury—it's survival. FX Leduc, co-founder and CEO of DeepIP (https://www.deepip.ai), joins Charlie Uniman to reveal how artificial intelligence transforms intellectual property practice from the ground up.Patent practitioners who once had 40 hours to draft applications now operate under 20-hour constraints. DeepIP addresses this pressure by providing an AI assistant that saves attorneys 20-50% of their drafting time while actually improving patent quality. Among the features that make DeepIP's approach to pa...
2025-04-1630 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastBeyond Generic AI: Luminance's Specialized Approach to Legal Contract IntelligenceBeyond Generic AI: Luminance's Specialized Approach to Legal Contract Intelligence - Episode 65 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- A conversation with Eleanor Lightbody, CEO of Luminance In this episode, recorded at the Legal Tech Fund Summit in Key Biscayne, Florida, host Charlie Uniman interviews Eleanor Lightbody, CEO of Luminance, about the company's innovative AI-powered legal technology platform and its impact on the legal industry. Key Discussion Points Luminance's origin story: Founded in 2015 by Cambridge mathematicians responding to lawyers' needs for automation of repetitive tasks The company's proprietary Legal Pre-trained Transformer (LPT) model...
2024-12-2321 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 64 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Time, Money, and AI – Ajax’s Mission to Modernize Legal TimekeepingIn this episode of the Legal Tech Startup Focus Podcast, host Charlie Uniman interviews Jack Weinberger, co-founder of Ajax (www.joinajax.com), a cutting-edge AI-powered timekeeping solution designed specifically for law firms. Join Charlie Uniman, your podcast host, and Jack as they explore: The challenges lawyers face in accurately tracking their billable hours and their impact on law firm revenue. The origins of Ajax were born from a personal experience of witnessing the tedious and time-consuming nature of manual timekeeping. The unique features and benefits of Ajax, highlighting its seamless integration with widespread practice management software...
2024-12-1632 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 61 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- An Interview with Michael Stych, Co-Founder and CEO of ContendAfter Charlie introduces Mike and congratulates him on the recent Time of London article about Contend, Charlie and Mike discuss: Just what it is that Contend (at https://contend.legal) does to provide safe, accessible, and affordable information for "regular people" when those people confront a legal issue (principally, providing both signposts to information resources (often secondary sources aimed at non-professionals) and connecting people to legal professionals and other organizations that can provide additional help) Why Contend at present operates only in England and Wales (primarily because (i) the UK's regulation of the legal services delivery system is...
2024-09-0336 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 60 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast - An Interview with Chris Cartrett, CEO of AderantIn this podcast episode, Chris and your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, discuss: What Aderant’s (https://www.aderant.com) software offers its large law firm customers generally and, most significantly, how Aderant’s new offering, 'Stridyn,' brings a real platform technology to Aderant’s suite of practice management and related tools. The Stridyn technology enables Aderant’s customers to integrate all Aderant tooling and third-party software seamlessly. How Aderant is bringing GenAI’s natural language processing features (and other machine learning architectures) to Aderant’s software suite, especially with Aderant’s MADDI “legal a...
2024-07-1231 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastAn interview with Jim Sullivan, founder and CEO of legal tech startup eDiscoveryAIPodcast host, Charlie Uniman, and Jim cover the following in this episode: How Jim’s undergrad major in computer science and his graduation from law school took him from his first job as a lawyer doing document review to working for over a decade in e-discovery. Eventually leaving e-discovery work to found his own company offering services outside the legal tech field, Jim nonetheless kept track of the immense benefits accruing to document review from the use of NLP and, eventually, GenAI solutions. Jim realized how these GenAI-driven solutions could solve longstanding problem...
2024-07-0829 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 58 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast - A conversation with Peter Duffy, founder of Titans, a legal tech and innovation consulting company, and publisher of the Legal Tech Trends newsletterYour podcast host, Charlie Uniman, and Peter discuss: Peter’s professional background and his founding of Titans (https://www.titans.legal) and the creation of the Legal Tech Trends newsletter (https://www.legaltechtrends.com/) Adoption trends, including the factors promoting (or hindering) legal tech adoption by large law firms Where large law firms are when it comes to the GenAI “hype cycle” Peter’s most contrarian view on legal tech What are the biggest mistakes (“own goals”) or oversights that legal tech vendors suffer from Peter’s (surprising vie...
2024-05-0438 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 56 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- A conversation with Jackie Schafer, founder and CEO of ClearbriefIn this podcast episode, Jackie shares her personal journey from working as a lawyer to founding Clearbrief, an AI-powered litigation analysis tool that integrates with Microsoft Word to assist with research, citations, and document management. Jackie and Charlie discuss the challenges women founders face in getting venture capital attention and support, even when their offerings are high quality. Jackie spoke about the importance of women legal tech startup leaders speaking confidently about their product and its market prospects (especially when, as was the case with Jackie’s own early product development efforts, the assessment of product prospects is...
2023-11-2438 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 55 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- An interview with Dan Broderick, co-founder and CEO of BlackboilerIn this episode, your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, and Dan Broderick discuss: How Dan started BlackBoiler after practicing law for 7 years, having gotten the idea for Blackboiler while reviewing large numbers of contracts for a client and realizing how much of the work could be automated. BlackBoiler’s focus on automating high-volume contract review and markup during the negotiation phase, with BlackBoiler using machine learning AI to learn from historical edits and rule sets in order to suggest edits in tracked changes. BlackBoiler’s target market consists principally of corporate legal departments, with peop...
2023-11-0137 min
BE THAT LAWYERBE THAT LAWYER LIVE - Tech Talk Part 2In this episode, Steve Fretzin, Charlie Uniman, Colin Levy, and Maya Markovich discuss:Best questions to ask a legal tech vendor. Choosing the right tech choice, not just the impulsive decision. Looking for bottlenecks in your firm’s day-to-day productions and bringing your team into the changes. Pros and cons of working with early stage legal tech startup firms. Budgeting for legal tech. Key Takeaways:While you should ask questions about data security and customer support, you want to tailor your questions to what solution you are looking for. Involve your team in the tech choi...
2023-10-1629 min
BE THAT LAWYERBE THAT LAWYER LIVE - Tech Talk Part 1In this episode, Steve Fretzin, Charlie Uniman, Colin Levy, and Maya Markovich discuss:The disconnect between legal tech and lawyers. Great online resources to stay ahead of legal tech. The AI impact on the legal tech industry. Best legal tech products for startups. Key Takeaways:To get over the hurdle of choosing tech and having people change the way they do business, make a good business case and make someone the champion for the change. Ask yourself why you want to learn about legal tech and let that drive what you look for to avoid...
2023-10-1234 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 54 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- A Conversation with Otto Hanson, CEO of TermScout · Otto is CEO of TermScout, which provides data and analytics on market terms in contracts to reduce friction in negotiations. · Otto was motivated to start TermScout after seeing startups overpay for legal services due to a lack of data on market terms. · TermScout uses AI and human review to analyze contracts and provide market data on common clauses. · TermScout's offering helps lawyers know what's "market" to resolve disputes over contract terms. TermScout's customers are both the contracting parties and their legal teams. · TermScout also offers contract certificat...
2023-08-0735 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 52 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast - A Conversation with Steve Fretzin, Podcast Host of BE THAT LAWYER and Legal Business Development Coach for LawyersPodcast host, Charlie Uniman, and Steve Fretzin discuss: Lawyers need training in business development and client relations, which is not taught in law school. Technology can help lawyers be more efficient, so they have time for business development. Social media is a great marketing equalizer that allows individual lawyers, as well as small-to-medium-sized firms, to build their brand and get their voice out, social media's certainly not just for big firms. Automating scheduling, email outreach, and content creation through technology frees up lawyer time and builds relationships through organization and consistency. Becoming a thought leader takes consistency and mul...
2023-07-1545 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 51 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast)-- An Interview with Gaurav Oberoi - CEO and co-founder of LexionIn this 51st podcast episode, your podcast host Charlie Uniman interviews Gaurav Oberoi, CEO and co-founder of Lexion (www.lexion.ai). Gaurav talks about how, as a software developer and not a lawyer but who recognized the potential of natural language processing AI, he ventured into the legal tech industry. He co-founded Lexion to focus on making sense of contracts for corporate enterprises. During its history, Lexion transformed from being a simple repository for contracts to a CLM for an entire organization that serves as an operational workflow platform to speed up deals. Gaurav also d...
2023-05-2243 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 50 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast) -- An Interview with Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifter (www.legalsifter.com)Among the subjects that your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, discusses with Kevin are: What does LegalSifter do and how does it do it? The hype cycle of AI. The growth of the company? Finding the right investor for a legal tech startup. Partnering with other companies. Regulatory reform in Arizona.
2023-05-0240 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 49 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast) -- An Interview with Andy Hoyt, CTO of Aderant (www.aderant.com)At the outset of the podcast, Andy shares his professional background, which spans over 20 years in the technology industry, building software solutions for various industries. He also talks about his transition to legal tech and his excitement about the future of innovation in the industry. Charlie and Andy discuss Aderant's broad functionalities, including practice management, litigation management, billing, recruiting, and knowledge management. Andy turns next to his current focus on innovation and disruption in the legal industry through data analytics and AI. Andy mentions Aderant's upcoming Momentum conference (May 2023), where it plans to unveil new technology for...
2023-04-1336 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastLegal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Episode 48 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast) - An Interview with Mike Zouhri and Bryan Saunders of Painworth (www.painworth.com)Our guests today are Mike Zourhi, the co-founder and CEO of Painworth, and Bryan Saunders, Painworth's Director of Growth, Marketing, & UX/UI. Mike kicks off the podcast by telling us his story where, as the victim of a hit-and-run by a drunk driver, Mike was inspired to create Painworth. Mike and Bryan describe Painworth's aim: to be the "voice" of the personal injury victim in settlement discussions of the victim's claims. Painworth does this by educating the victim with award estimates for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages that will carry weight with lawyers and insurance adjusters b...
2023-02-1339 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 47 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast - A Conversation with Jerry Ting, Founder and CEO of EvisortPodcast host, Charlie Uniman, sits down (virtually) with Jerry Ting of Evisort to talk about: (i) How Jerry planted the seed for founding Evisort while still a student at Harvard Law School (and the role that serendipity played in Jerry's finding his co-founder), (ii) what law schools can (should?) do when it comes to training lawyers-to-be in the art of legal innovation and what perspective law students can bring to innovation in legal, (iii) just what it is that Evisort does in the contract lifecycle management space (with the discussion focusing on, among...
2022-09-2240 min
BE THAT LAWYERCharlie Uniman: The Godfather of Legal TechIn this episode, Steve Fretzin and Charlie Uniman discuss:The relationship between time and value. The evolution of practicing law. Adopting good legal tech. Utilizing tech to allow you to do the best job possible for your client. Key Takeaways:There are many websites that review legal tech. Check them out and see what can help you to become more productive and more efficient in your firm.There are local meetups as well as LinkedIn groups that can help you understand legal tech. AI is not going to substitute for judgment and creativity, but it wil...
2022-05-0233 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 40 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- An Interview with Christy Burke founder of Burke & CompanyEpisode 40 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- An Interview with Christy Burke, Founder of Burke & Company In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Christy Burke, founder of Burke & Company (www.burke-company.com). As Burke & Company says on its website, "Legal technology providers need strong, creative PR representation to market successfully. Since 2004, Burke & Company has provided the highest standard in PR and marketing for legal tech." In addition to discussing how Christy came to found her company and what kinds of communications-related services her company provides...
2022-03-2336 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastLegal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast - An Interview with Stephen Dowling, founder and CEO of TrialViewIn this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), podcast host Charlie Uniman interviews Stephen Dowling, founder and CEO of Dublin, Ireland-based Trialview. As TrialView puts it on its website (www.trialview.com}: "Quickly and easily digitise the trial process and save time, effort and money. . . . [Moreover,] TrialView’s unique synchronising technology enables document led hearings to be conducted remotely." We learn from Stephen how his founding of TrialView began, as is the case with many other legal tech startup founders, with frustrations he faced while practicing law. Stephen explains that, as a juni...
2022-01-2736 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 38 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast — Interview with Zeb Anderson, co-founder and CEO of LegalQEpisode 38 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast — Interview with Zeb Anderson, co-founder and CEO of LegalQ In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Zeb Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Legal Q (www.legalq.io). As LegalQ describes its offering on its website, “Searching [for an attorney] online feels overwhelming. Referrals from friends and family leading to dead ends. Often the only way to get legal help is by talking to an attorney. Use the LegalQ app to get help today [and] a licensed atto...
2022-01-0333 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEpisode 37 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- An Interview with Mat Rotenberg, founder and CEO of Dashboard LegalEpisode 37 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- An Interview with Mat Rotenberg, founder and CEO of Dashboard Legal In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Mat Rotenberg, founder and CEO of Dashboard Legal. On its website (www.dashboardlegal.com), Dashboard Legal writes of its value proposition: "Tired of switching between email threads, apps and workarounds? Dashboard Legal lets you and your team work right from your inbox - by transforming it into a unified workspace for all the materials related to a case o...
2021-11-1522 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastLegal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast - Interview with Rich Lee, co-founder and CEO of New Era ADREpisode 36 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast — Interview with Rich Lee, a co-founder and CEO of New Era ADR In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Rich Lee, a co-founder and CEO of New Era ADR. On its website (www.neweraadr.com), New Era ADR says “Use smarter, more intuitive tools to get to resolution faster with some of the most experienced mediators and arbitrators in the industry. Do it all from home or anywhere in the world on our fully-digital platform. Get everything done...
2021-11-0134 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 035 Interview with Senne Mennes, a co-founder of ClauseBaseEpisode 35 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast — Interview with Senne Mennes, a co-founder of ClauseBase In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Senne Mennes, a co-founder of ClauseBase. On its website (www.clausebase.com), ClauseBase speaks of itself as “. . . [going] beyond simple template editors, offering you all the power you need to draft complex documents.” Here are some of the topics that Charlie and Senne discuss in this episode: How did Senne find his way to co-founding a legal tech startup?
2021-10-1441 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 034 Interview with Jeremy Small and Jon Bartman of Jameson Legal TechIn this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Jeremy Small, CEO of Jameson Legal and Jon Bartman, Head of Jameson Legal Tech, a division of Jameson Legal (www.jamesonlegal.com/jameson-legal-tech). On its website, Jameson Legal Tech describes itself as follows: “With a focus on Legal Tech software sales and strategic advice, as well as Legal Tech recruitment, our specialist team is a trusted adviser to Legal Tech Vendors as well as In-House and Private Practice Legal Operations departments.” Here are the highlights what Jeremy, Jon and...
2021-09-2744 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 033 Interview with Jonathan Fish and Kyle Richles of Cap Gains Inc.Episode 33 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Interview with Jonathan Fish and Kyle Richless, co- founders of Cap Gains Inc. and QSBS Expert In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Jonathan Fish and Kyle Richless of Cap Gains Inc. and QSBS Expert (www.qsbsexpert.com). QSBS Expert is Cap Gains Inc.’s first offering, one that helps startup founders, investors, and lawyers (among other startup stakeholders) understand the nuances of a significant US tax exemption that’s available to eligible startups and their inve...
2021-09-0748 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 032 Interview with Jason Gabbard, Founder of JUSTLAWEpisode 32 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Interview with Jason Gabbard, founder of JUSTLAW In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Jason Gabbard, the founder of JUSTLAW(www.just.law) a startup that, as it writes on its website, offers families, individuals and small business “legal matters covered by our [monthly] protection plan.” Jason dives right into a recounting of his career and, we learn, it is a varied one from a business standpoint. After law school, Jason spends four...
2021-08-0537 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 031 Interview with Michael Levy, Solutions Architect at TonkeanEpisode 31 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast - Interview with Michael Levy, Solutions Architect at Tonkean In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Michael Levy, Solutions Architect at Tonkean (www.tonkean.com). Tonkean describes itself on its website as a set of no-code software tools that enables business people (including, of course, lawyers and allied legal professionals) to “Automate complex business processes, fast.” Michael begins the podcast by describing how he arrived at Tonkean. Michael’s journey saw him begin his career as a s...
2021-07-2030 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 030 Interview with Raj Goyle, co-founder and CEO of BodhalaEpisode 30 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Interview with Raj Goyle, co-founder and CEO of Bodhala In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Raj Goyle, the co-founder and CEO of Bodhala (www.bodhala.com). Bodhala assists in-house legal departments in managing their outside counsel spend and describes itself on its website as follows: "Bodhala’s mission is to create a transparent market for legal services. Using data to illuminate price discovery, we can drive competition and innovation not just for buyers of legal se...
2021-05-2632 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 029 Interview with Marc Doucette, Director, Strategic Partnerships at Koho SoftwareEpisode 29 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast - Interview with Marc Doucette, Director, Strategic Partnerships at Koho Software In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Marc Doucette, Director, Strategic Partnerships at Koho Software. Koho is a value added reseller (VAR) of contract lifecycle management software that describes its mission as ". . . mak[ing] the contracting processes faster, more collaborative, and more secure . . . by providing a solution that’s built around [a customer's] specific processes and [that] scales with [that customer's] organization." During th...
2021-05-1334 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 028 Interview with Jim Chiang Founder and CEO of My Legal EinsteinIn this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), Charlie Uniman, your podcast host, interviews Jim Chiang, founder and CEO of My Legal Einstein (www.mylegaleinstein.com). As My Legal Einstein puts it on its website, the company " . . . is an online software technology company . . . that leverages the latest AI NLP technology to transform the legal contract collaboration and negotiation process." The episode begins with Jim describing his professional journey in founding My Legal Einstein. Jim, with an engineering degree from MIT in hand, started his career by working (outside legal tech) on...
2021-04-2337 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 027 Interview with Tom Dunlop and Dave Smith of SummizeEpisode 27 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Interview with Tom Dunlop and Dave Smith of Summize Charlie Uniman, host of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), welcomes to this episode two co-founders of UK-based legal tech startup Summize (www.summize.com): Tom Dunlop, Chief Executive Officer, and Dave Smith, Chief Development Officer. Among just one of its several contract-related solutions, and as described on its website: "Summize is a lightweight assistant to the contract lifecycle. Upload any contract and the platform creates an instant, easy-to-read summary." The podcast kicks...
2021-04-0236 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 026 Interview with Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifterWith this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your host, Charlie Uniman, welcomes Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifter (www.legalsifter.com). According to its website, LegalSifter " . . . fixes many of the pre-signature contract challenges [its customers] face. It reads contracts and gives in-context advice. It's fast, easy-to use, and is configurable for [the customer's] organization." LegalSifter's website also describes its post-signature contract management tools where "[LegalSifter] keep[s] track of [a customer's] contracts using A.I., easy-to-use contract software, attorneys, paralegals, and a passion for technology and service." Kevin begins by describing his professional journey, fi...
2021-02-2235 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 025 Interview with Chris Draper, founder and CEO of TroktThis episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast) has your host, Charlie Uniman, interviewing Chris Draper, founder and CEO of Trokt (www.trokt.com). As Trokt describes itself on its website, ". . . we build technologies and engineer solutions designed to lessen the clutter associated with document collaboration and secure finalized versions of various digital file types with immutability against digital fraud." After learning of Chris's professional beginnings in engineering-related ventures (and also after learning just how the company's name, "Trokt," came to be), Charlie and Chris first discuss what it is that Trokt off...
2021-02-1541 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 024 Interview with Seb Shakh and Caroline Ragan of LoveLegalIn episode 24 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Seb Shakh, founder and CEO of LoveLegal (www.lovelegal.com) and Caroline Ragan, LoveLegal's COO. As stated on its website, LoveLegal wants to make "legal services easy, affordable and, dare we say, enjoyable" through a platform for lawyers (as well as accountants and financial advisors) that provides clients with legal documents such as wills, powers of attorney, advance directives, lifetime trusts and more. Seb and Caroline begin the podcast by talking about how LoveLegal came to be. Of...
2021-01-2831 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 023 Interview with David Chan, Co-Founder and CEO of IntellextEpisode 23 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast — Interview with David Chan, Co-Founder and CEO of Intellext This is episode 23 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast) where your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews David Chan, Co-Founder and CEO of Intellext (www.intellext.ai), a platform that offers tools for enhancing the efficiency of, collaborating on, and bringing actionable insights into the process of negotiating term sheets. As with many legal tech startup founders, David explains how his years of experiencing the pain of dealing with the contracting process; in David’s case...
2020-12-0129 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 022 Interview with Dan Sinclair, Head of MDR LABIn episode 22 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast, your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Dan Sinclair (email: dan.sinclair@mishcon.com), Head of MDR LAB (lab.mdr.london). MDR LAB, which is part of the Mishcon de Reya law firm in the UK, consists of (as stated on the LAB’s website) consists of a “series of programmes that seek to launch, improve and scale the next generation of LegalTech.” Dan kicks off the discussion by describing how he went from university to a career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) (where he worked in strategy initially and then helped...
2020-11-2032 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 021 Interview with Giles Thompson, Head of Growth at AvvokaThis is episode 21 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast) where your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Giles Thompson, Head of Growth at Avvoka (www.avvoka.com), a startup that automates the contract drafting, analysis, collaboration and management stack. Giles tells us about the route that he’s taken professionally to being hired at Avvoka. What’s prominent in the telling is Giles’ explanation of how someone like himself, with an educational and professional background in law, came to be hired for a marketing position at a legal tech startup. The key point here is tha...
2020-11-1336 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 020 Interview with Stephen Lai, Founder & Managing & Director at Conventus Law and VP - Legal Sector Solutions at ZegalIn episode 20 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Stephen Lai, Founder and Managing Director of Conventus Law and VP - Legal Sector Solutions at Zegal. Stephen, based in Hong Kong, is a keen observer of the market for legal tech solutions throughout Asia. As Stephen explains, Conventus Law provides a digital media platform that focuses on the purchasers and vendors of legal tech in Asia. Conventus Law also encourages a conversation that speaks to expanding the set of skills that lawyers bring to their clients to...
2020-11-0636 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 019 Interview with Daniel Porus, Chief Commercial Officer of LegaticsIn Episode 19 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Daniel Porus, Chief Commercial Officer of Legatics (www.legatics.com), a legal tech startup that offers transaction management solutions. Daniel starts off by telling our listeners how he moved from practicing law with firms in New Zealand and Australia, to obtaining a business degree from Cambridge's Judge Business School to meeting with Legatics' founder and deciding, after that meeting, to eschew plans to work in "big tech" and instead join the Legatics team. Charlie and Daniel...
2020-10-3038 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 018 Interview with Shrey Gosalia, Founder and CEO of DocketIn Episode 18 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Shrey Gosalia, founder and CEO of Docket (www.getdocket.com). We kick off with Shrey describing his journey into legal tech. That journey took him from business school at Chicago Booth to roles in corporate venture capital and a non-legal tech business and then eventually to founding Docket. At this juncture, Charlie and Shrey discuss how Shrey's conversations ("pre-Docket") with a former business school classmate who then worked as a trading firm's compliance officer inspired Shrey to focus...
2020-10-1529 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 017 Interview with Bill Henderson, law professor, editor of Legal Evolution and interim director of the Institute for the Future of Law PracticeEpisode 17 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Interview with Bill Henderson, Law Professor, Editor of Legal Evolution and Interim Director of Development, IFLP In this, one of the most wide-ranging episodes of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), Charlie Uniman welcomes Bill Henderson. Bill is a law professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, editor of the online publication, Legal Evolution (www.legalevolution.org) and Interim Director of the Institute for the non-profit Future of Law Practice (IFLIP) (www.futurelawpractice.org). Charlie and Bill kick off the podcast with...
2020-07-2840 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 016 Interview with Teruel Carrasco, Chief Revenue Officer of dealcloserEpisode 16 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast with Teruel Carrasco, Chief Revenue Officer at dealcloser In Episode 16 of the of Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Teruel Carrasco, Chief Revenue Officer at dealcloser (www.dealcloser.com). Teruel first talks about how his journey began with working in B2B marketing outside of legal tech. From there Teruel moved on to being involved with private equity investing and startup consulting. And then Teruel describes how he next joined dealcloser to head up revenue and growth. And...
2020-07-1737 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 015 Interview with Rhys Hodkinson - Head of Growth at DefineEpisode 15 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast with Rhys Hodkinson, Head of Growth at Define In Episode 15 of the of Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Rhys Hodkinson, Head of Growth at Define (www.trydefine.com). Rhys first discusses his professional background, describing how he moved from practicing at a UK law firm to earning his MBA in the UK and stepping next to heading growth at Define. Charlie and Rhys next talk about Define's product offering, with Rhys detailing how Define enables lawyers to...
2020-07-0736 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 014 Interview with James Quinn, co-founder and CEO of ClarilisEpisode 14 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Interview with James Quinn, Co-founder and CEO of Clarilis In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews James Quinn, co-founder and CEO of document automation startup, Clarilis (www.clarilis.com). Charlie and James discuss: (i) James' transition from corporate lawyering at Slaughter and May in London to co-founding Clarilis, (ii) how Clarilis' technology nvolves automating the preparation of a suite of highly complex documents (i.e., those with provisions that themselves consist of many "moving...
2020-05-0433 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp. 013 Interview with Alexander Sverdlov, co-founder of Atlant SecurityEpisode 13 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Interview with Alexander Sverlov of Atlant Security In this episode, Charlie Uniman, your host of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), interviews cybersecurity expert, Alexander Sverdlov, co-founder of Atlant Security (www.atlantsecurity.com). After a brief discussion of Alex's professional background, Alex gets right down to offering practical ( and immediately actionable) cybersecurity tips for working from home during the COVID 19 lockdown (and for working from anywhere outside an office when the lockdown is finally lifted). These tips include (i) video conferencing...
2020-04-1438 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 012. Interview with Tunji Williams, Director of Strategy for Transaction Management at Litera MicrosystemsEpisode 12 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast - An Interview with Tunji Williams, Director of Strategy for Transaction Management at Litera Microsystems In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast, Charlie Uniman, your podcast host (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), talks with Tunji Williams of Litera Microsystems (www.litera.com). Charlie and Tunji kick off the podcast by talking about how Tunji moved from corporate practice at a large law firm to founding dealWIP, a legal tech startup that aimed at becoming a "deal workflow information platform." While at dealWIP, Tunji and his...
2020-03-3034 min
The Geek In ReviewCharlie Uniman - Failure is not the Ugly F-Word Lawyers Think It IsWe try... and fail to stay off the COVID-19 topic this week, but it's just too ingrained in our lives right now. For those of you out there doing the remote work thing, we understand and hope you are adapting to the new work mode with little interruption. We, too, are working remotely, and hope there are not too many background noises of kids, refrigerators, or pets making cameo appearances on this week's show.
We have a great talk with Charlie Uniman, Legal Tech Startup Evangelist, and founder of Legal Tech Startup Focus. LTSF is an online...
2020-03-1947 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 011 Interview with Alice Armitage, Chief Executive Professor of the LaxLab at UC Hastings College of LawEpisode 11 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- An Interview with Alice Armitage, Chief Executive Professor of the LexLab at UC Hastings College of Law Episode 11 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast) finds your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviewing Alice Armitage, a professor at the UC Hastings College of Law who heads the LexLab at the law school. Charlie delves into Alice's professional background, and learns from Alice that, after law school, she practiced law at a law firm, from there founded two startups (outside of the legal tech...
2020-03-1644 minLegal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 010 Interview with Travis Luther, founder and CEO of TrialLineWelcome to episode 10 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast). In this episode your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Travis Luther, founder and CEO of TrialLine (www.trialline.net). As described on its website, TrialLine offers "cloud-based mediation, trial presentation and storytelling legal timeline software for lawyers." Charlie covers Travis' entré into legal tech, with Travis describing how it all began with a kiss (yes, really). Charlie and Travis next dive into the genesis, features and "special sauce" of the TrialLine application itself. From there, Travis discusses his customers' profile and his approach t...
2020-03-1032 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 009 Interview with Omer Hayun, Co-Founder and CEO of BestpractixWelcome to episode 9 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast). In this episode your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Omer Hayun, co-founder and CEO of Bestpractix (www.bestpractix.com), legal tech software that provides a customized and streamlined approach to contract drafting, review and negotiation. Charlie covers Omer's career path, with Omer explaining how he moved from obtaining his degree from law school, and practicing law in Israel, to working on the business side in Israel (including performing in-house counsel duties) and, inspired by a desire to minimize the repetitive "grind" that business...
2020-02-1144 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 008 Interview with Maya Markovich, Chief Growth Officer of Nextlaw LabsAfter a year-end holiday hiatus, we're back with another episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus podcast. In this episode your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Maya Markovich, Chief Growth Officer of Nextlaw Labs (www.nextlawlabs.com). Maya and Charlie launch this episode by delving into Maya's career and the path that took her from working as a consultant who dealt with change management and user buy-in issues, to law school, to practicing law in the high pressure environment of a law firm (where, as Maya points out, adoption of legal tech - then in its earlier stages...
2020-01-1342 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 007 Interview with Ben Chiriboga of NEXLI'm Charlie Uniman, your host of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus podcast. This episode departs from the guest-interview format that we've used in previous episodes. Instead, what we have here is a joint podcast with Ben Chiriboga, whom I'm very proud to call a friend. Ben is the Head of Growth at NEXL, a legal tech startup in its own right and a platform for growing lawyers' global referral network (www.nexl.io). Ben's also a mastermind marketing and growth strategist and hosts his own Legal Tech Growth podcast (more on Ben's podcast below). As you'll hear...
2019-12-1733 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 006 Interview with Raymond Blijd CEO of LegalComplex.com and LegalPioneer.comEpisode 6 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Interview with Raymond Blijd, Founder and CEO of LegalComplex.com and LegalPioneer.org In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus podcast, Charlie Uniman, your podcast host, discusses the legal tech industry with Raymond Blijd. Raymond is a master analyst when it comes to providing highly relevant data and outstanding visualizations to people who want to get insights into the direction in which legal technology companies (and companies in related fields like regulatory tech, financial tech and civics tech) are heading from a business standpoint. ...
2019-12-0336 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 005 Interview with Olga Mack of ParleyProCharlie Uniman, your podcast host and the host of the online Legal Tech StartUp Focus community (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com), welcomes Olga Mack to this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus podcast. Olga, who previously practiced as an IP lawyer in both law firms and in-house legal departments, is now CEO of legal tech startup ParleyPro (www.parleypro.com). After discussing the career path that took Olga from practicing law to stewarding a legal tech startup, Charlie and Olga talk about just what ParleyPro's contract management software offers its customers (including, in particular, that software's particular emphasis...
2019-11-2037 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp 004 Interview with Jeroen Plink of Clifford Chance Applied SolutionsIn this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus podcast, Charlie Uniman, your host, interview Jeroen Plink. Jeroen, as many of our listeners know, is the CEO of Clifford Chance Applied Solutions. Jeroen generously shares a great store of legal tech-related business knowledge from which legal tech startups, and their investors and customers, can benefit greatly. After a brief bit of background about Jeroen's wide-ranging career in legal tech and a discussion of the Cliffords Chance Applied Solutions group that Jeroen leads, Charlie poses the following questions: (i) Given the importance of timing when it...
2019-11-0633 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp. 003 Interview with Gabe Teninbaum of Suffolk Univ Law SchoolIn this, the third episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus podcast, Charlie interviews Gabe Teninbaum. Gabe is a law professor and legal technologist at Suffolk University Law School, where he is also Director of the Institute on Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT), the LIT Concentration (akin to an undergraduate major), and the LIT Certificate (an online program for legal professionals). Gabe also publishes the Lawtomatic newsletter, a weekly compilation of articles about legal tech that Gabe selects for its readership. Gabe and Charlie cover a lot of ground during the podcast, involving principally the intersection of legal...
2019-10-2135 minLegal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp. 002 Interview with Haley Altman of DoxlyThis episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus podcast finds Charlie interviews Haley Altman, the founder and CEO of Doxly. Doxly is a transaction management platform for law firms and legal departments. Charlie and Haley talk about what took Haley from a law firm partnership to the leadership of a legal tech startup, how Haley got Doxly off the ground with the assistance of a startup studio, how Doxly is meeting the challenge of offering both a cloud-based and on-premises solution for its customers (and what Haley sees to be the current status of “cloud acceptance” by those...
2019-10-0442 min
Legal Tech StartUp Focus PodcastEp. 001 Interview with Christian Lang of Reynen CourtIn this episode, Charlie Uniman, the host of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast, interviews Christian Lang, the Chief Strategy Officer of Reynen Court. Christian and Charlie cover a wide range of topics about Reynen Court, including (i) just what benefits Reynen Court offers to both legal tech purchasers and legal tech vendors, (ii) how Reynen Court's services help both purchasers and vendors deal with the cloud vs. on-premises app storage dilemma and (iii) just what Reynen Court means when it describes itself as the "App Store" for legal tech. Having just launched in beta, Reynen has...
2019-09-1837 min