Tag: legal tech

Launching a tech company and hiring the right people with Chris Smith [GWL144]

As a practicing attorney himself, Chris understand how important a native mobile experience is for clients while interacting with lawyers online. Since he couldn’t find a white label native app for his firm, he built it himself.  He launched Your Firm App, a practical development in legal technology.  It may not be blockchain or AI, but it will help make life better for attorneys and clients.

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Defying Expectations as a Woman in Law and Tech with Catherine Krow [GWL 91]

 

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After practicing law for 17 years at top-tier firms, most recently as a Partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Catherine Krow founded Digitory Legal, a cloud-based legal budgeting solution for lawyers and clients.

What we chat about in this episode:

  • How and why
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On Building a Legal Tech Company with Alt Legal’s Nehal Madhani [GWL 87]

My guest in this episode is Nehal Madhani, attorney and founder and CEO of Alt Legal, a cloud-based IP docketing software. Nehal speaks regularly about the intersection of legal practice and technology.

What we discuss in this episode:

  • Why he decided to leave his BigLaw position to start a tech company
  • How he taught himself how to code
  • How Nehal gets the word
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The Trend Towards Freelancing Lawyers with Julia Shapiro [GWL 62]

Julia Shapiro CEO and Founder of Hire an Esquire, an online legal recruiting and staffing company which allows lawyers to be autonomous and entrepreneurial.

Julia herself stumbled upon freelance legal work when she became ill and was unable to commit to a full-time associate position. When she recovered, she realized that there was a huge gap in this space of freelance legal work. She also … Read More