Jared sits down with Chris Bennett from Bodhala and Rebecca Kocsis from Conga.

Highlights

• Who are the guests for today? – 1:27
• Cranberry sauce: Yay or nay? – 2:22
• The benefits of using matter and legal spend management software. – 6:48
• How to implement the tool. – 12:20
• Managing change management. – 14:25
• Defining roles and responsibilities for people affiliated with the software to maximize the tools they’re using. – 16:53
• Using alternative legal service procedures and managed service providers. – 28:23

Jared talks with Rob Stote of BigHand.

Highlights

• What is Rob’s favorite fall flavoring agent? – 2:09
• The differences between manner management versus law practice management. – 3:05
• How can you surface digestible data for lawyers? – 5:34
• It’s all about revenue: How to build tighter funnels for revenue and identify potential leakage or breakage? – 8:48
• The new non-lawyers or business professionals that most firms are bringing in. – 14:52
• What are the major shifts in firms? – 19:18
• The obligations law firms and legal departments have to match the sophistication of their own operations. – 25:32

Jared speaks with Jodie Baker of Xakia Technologies about how legal matter management software can help in-house teams.

Highlights

• Is Australian children’s television as amazing as it seems to those living in Australia? – 3:36
• What democratization of legal technology means to Jodie and why is it valuable in the legal tech space? – 5:20
• Is it cheaper to go with a cloud tool than a legacy? – 7:31
• Can you combine legal matters and spending management?
• How will it affect the software that the legal team will use? – 9:25
• How integrating two separate categories into one software can affect the marketplace. – 11:10
• The different kinds of business intelligence software should take a look at. – 12:11
• How a change in mindset has affected the software. – 14:27
• What you should look for, in terms of legal matter management, in an in-house team? – 16:50
• The kind of efforts Jodie Baker’s team has embarked on. – 19:00
• Advice to women who are interested in starting in technology. – 22:33

Jared talked to Matt DenOuden of Onit and Sam Kidd of LawVu on how to leverage matter and legal spend management software for in-house legal teams.

Highlights

• What is the latest in the legal space? – 1:00
• Value of leveraging software for managing matters – 4:40
• Value Proposition Software on matter management of in-house legal teams – 6:15
• How can software manage and control legal spending? – 7:42
• Benchmarking legal insights – 10:45
• How can we show value to the business? – 12:45
• The help of software inside the legal department in making their case – 15:30
• Pressures on legal teams – 17:23
• Sam’s favorite software feature – 19:53
• Matt’s favorite software feature – 21:25
• Future trends in legal space – 24:07