I spoke with Ciprian Şaramet, Managing Director of Modular Services, a Romanian company focused on providing technical support and business services to global law firms. We discussed how law firms can strengthen their cybersecurity posture, the influence of AI on law firm security, vulnerability management, and the value of continuous education for safeguarding client data and firm operations.

I spoke with Thomas Bueler, the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Vecflow, a legal AI platform designed to help lawyers review and draft documents for use cases in M&A and class action litigation. We discussed the role of AI in expanding legal workflows, the importance of minimizing hallucinations in large language models, and the best practices for evaluating different AI products.

I spoke with Laurie Ehrlich, the chief legal officer, and Farah Gasmi, co-founder and chief product officer at Dioptra, an AI-powered contract redlining and playbook generation tool. We discussed the difference between RAG and Agents in AI, the challenges associated with AI adoption, and how lawyers can secure buy-in for new AI tools more effectively.

I was fortunate to speak with these leaders on the third day of Legalweek 2025 for this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape: Valerie Chan, CEO, Plat4ormDan Ruderman, Director, Strategic Alliances, LexisNexis Legal - CounselLink  Alex Sappington, Co-CEO, Page Vault   *Background music credit: Upbeat Indie by Lowtone Music

In this 39th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed Legalweek 2025, Skills.Law, generative AI use cases, and accelerating innovation in legal.

I was fortunate to speak with these leaders on the second day of Legalweek 2025 for this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape: Tom Chapman, CEO, Iceberg Stephen Goldstein, Chief Product Officer, Altorney Ross Guberman, CEO, BriefCatch Josh Janow, CEO, SMI Aware   Subroto Mukerji, CEO, Integreon Joey Seeber, CEO, Level Legal Thomas Suh, COO, LegalMation *Background music credit: Upbeat Hope by Lowtone Music

I was fortunate to speak with these leaders on the first day of Legalweek 2025 for this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape: Josh Baxter, CEO, NetDocuments Milan Bobde, CEO, Oddr Edward Chick, Chief Revenue Officer, NopalCyber Dan Hauck, Chief Product Officer, NetDocuments Brandon Hollinder, Vice President, eDiscovery and Cyber Solutions, Epiq John Hale, Chief Marketing Officer, Consilio LLC Scott McFetters, CEO, CoreTech Michael Murray, Director of Technology and Creative Solutions, Veritext Legal Solutions Anne Post, CEO, North America, Xakia Early Stephens, CEO, Actionstep  Rick Weber, Managing Partner, Arbor Ridge Partners Chris Williams, Head of Ecosystem & Community, Legora

I was fortunate to speak with these leaders the day before Legalweek 2025 for this Mixtape:Bradley Collins, Co-Founder and CEO, LegalTechTalkDan Malgran, VP, Marketing, StenoPatricia Nagy, Chief Strategy Officer, The Proxy AgencyAlaa Pasha, CEO, MapticianSteven Salkin, Editor-in-Chief, Law Journal NewslettersAbhijat Saraswat, Chief Revenue Officer, LuplKelly Twigger, CEO, Minerva26Beau Wysong, Chief Marketing Officer, Opus 2 *Background music credit: Upbeat Life by AudioCoffee Band

I spoke with Vincent Allen, partner at Carstens, Allen & Gourley, an IP-focused law firm that helps companies with patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and intellectual property strategies. We discussed how current copyright laws address authorship and ownership of AI-created works, strategies content creators can use to protect their intellectual property when AI tools are used, and measures that can be taken to ensure that human creators are fairly compensated and protected.

I spoke with Adam Philipp, the founder of AEON Law, an intellectual property law firm. We discussed the benefits of fixed-price legal services, how a fixed-price model expedites the adoption of new technology, and best practices for law firms interested in pursuing and implementing innovation-focused initiatives.

I spoke with Edward Chick, the Chief Revenue Officer at NopalCyber, a managed security service provider that offers outsourced cybersecurity support, seeking to democratize enterprise-level security for law firms and organizations in other sectors. We discussed best practices to help law firm leaders identify cyber threats, mistakes they are making with their cybersecurity protocols, how often they should test and update their cybersecurity procedures, and where to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance cybersecurity.

I spoke with the following chief executive officers in a CEO Roundtable discussion about challenges and opportunities ahead of Legalweek 2025: Ray Biederman, Proteus Discovery GroupChris Cartrett, AderantJames Ding, DraftWiseTom Dunlop, SummizeSirisha Gummaregula, QuisLexScott McFetters, CoreTechRenee Meisel, UnitedLexSarai Schubert, HanzoJoey Seeber, Level LegalTodd Smithline, Bonterms

I spoke with Amy Juers, the CEO of Edge Marketing, a marketing and PR agency serving the legal, accounting, and professional services industries. We discussed the benefits of leveraging artificial intelligence in public relations and marketing, how it enhances client service, and the best practices for AI implementation.

I spoke with Jack Weinberger, the Co-Founder of Ajax, an AI company that helps lawyers manage their time. We discussed the need to secure data in AI timekeeping applications, the promise of capturing more time in legal services, and how legal timekeeping is evolving.

I spoke with William Dougherty, the Co-founder and CEO of Capacity, a work allocation solution designed to help law firms optimize their resources. We discussed how Capacity addresses the most common inefficiencies in law firm resourcing, the benefits of optimal work allocation to lawyers and their clients, and how the distribution of legal work is evolving in an AI era.

I spoke with Ray Biederman, the Co-Founder and CEO of Proteus Discovery Group, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and is a founding partner of Mattingly Burke Cohen & Biederman. We discussed the genesis of Proteus Discovery Group, the benefits of simultaneously managing a law firm and a legal services company, and how e-discovery is evolving.

In this 38th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed achieving work-life balance, building momentum in 2025, and preparing for Legalweek.

I spoke with Douwe Groenevelt, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Head of Legal at ASML, and a featured speaker at the Lexpo Conference, taking place in Amsterdam on June 16th and 17th. We discussed the mission of Law & Ops, the Tech in Legal initiative, the most significant opportunities for in-house legal teams to innovate, and how AI is reshaping corporate law departments.

I spoke with Doug Kaminski, the Chief Revenue Officer at Infinnium, a data governance platform. We discussed how information governance affects an organization's data security, best practices for organizations to build better data hygiene, and ways that artificial intelligence is affecting these efforts.

I spoke with Lynn Tubalinal, the Director of Litigation Support at Dykema, and Julia Voss, the Director of Litigation Support and eDiscovery at UB Greensfelder. Both are among the industry leaders who contributed to the recently published report - Advancing Litigation Support to Fuel Growth in a Changing Legal Market - supported by Opus 2. We discussed the effect of the increasing volume and variety of data, how a team knows that it is time to upgrade its technology, successful strategies for driving adoption, and effective generative AI use cases.