Future Law Podcast
Future Law Podcast
This podcast cuts through the noise surrounding the future of law. All over the world and across all sectors, expanding and accelerating technologies are changing our lives and even changing us. How can the law and the legal profession keep up with all the changes? Law professors Michael Madison (US) and Dan Hunter (Australia) take a global view of the law and technology ecosystem, talking to law…Follow the podcast:
What We’ve Learned About ALSPs: Wrapping Up the Season
In this final episode of this season of The Future Law Podcast, Mike and Dan chat about what they’ve both learnt about ALSPs, what’s to come of them and how they impact both the legaltech world and the world of law generally. We’ll be back next season for more on law and technology. Head to www…
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What AI and Data Science Can Do For Law Firms
In this week’s episode, Mike Madison chats with Michael Morneualt, a senior lawyer and litigation consultant now with Lighthouse, who has watched ALSPs grow and evolve from multiple perspectives: as a practicing lawyer, in business development, and as a long-time leader of a tech-driven litigation …
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How Change Can Improve Law Firms
In this episode Dan Hunter chats with Isabel Parker, former Chief Legal Innovation Officer at Freshfields in London, and author of the recent book ‘Successful Digital Transformation in Law Firms’, about change management and structural transformation issues that law firms face nowadays, and how to …
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How To Fix America's Voting System
We’re back to continue the season for 2023! Every now and then we a broader view of the future of law, beyond ALSPs, and in this episode we do just that. Mike Madison chats with Eric Holder, former Attorney General of the US under President Barack Obama, about the critical importance of defendi…
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A Brighter, Balanced Future for AI and Law
This is a “big ideas” episode, part of our goal to bring out “big ambitious ideas about the future" as well as day to day concerns about ALSPs and legal services. Law professor Orly Lobel talks with host Mike Madison about her new book, The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Br…
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Speculation vs Data About Law's Futures
What if we stopped speculating about ALSPs and instead started collecting data to gather useful information? That’s exactly what this episode is about. Host Mike Madison talks with Lucy Ricca and David Freeman Engstrom from Stanford Law School's Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession abo…
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Taking The Long View With Alternative Providers
Mike chats with Bill Henderson, a law professor at the University of Indiana who has been studying the legal services marketplace closely for nearly 20 years. Looking at “alternative” providers, he tells us what’s changed, what’s more or less the same, and what’s coming. Make sure you tune in ever…
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What It Takes to Stay in the ALSP Game
In this week’s episode Dan Hunter chats with David Pierce, the Chief Commercial Officer of Axiom, an ALSP that provides legal talent in over fourteen legal practices and twenty-nine industries.. David tells us what it takes to be a successful ALSP, what an in-house lawyer looks like and also his …
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The Continuing Importance of Classic Legal Skills
The emergence of ALSPs and legaltech doesn’t change some fundamentals of lawyering and dispute resolution. Jon Harris, founder and managing partner of Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, a boutique law firm in New York specializing in employment law and white collar criminal defense, talks with Michael …
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How To Source Legal Talent
Despite double-digit salary growth in the legal industry, many firms are grappling with serious staffing concerns. So what do you do about it? Do you look outside your geographic boundaries? Or do you simply train up young lawyers? Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs) offer a range of solut…
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