Episode 53 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- A Conversation with Mathew Kerbis, founder of Subscription Attorney and evangelist for the subscription legal services business model
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
Release Date: 07/24/2023
Episode 57 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- An interview with Tanguy Chau, co-founder & CEO of Paxton and Michael Ulin, co-founder and CTO of Paxton
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
Tanguy's and Mike's Respective Backgrounds and Path into Legal Tech: Tanguy is an engineer with advanced degrees (including an MBA) from MIT and experience in venture capital, notably early-stage investing in legal tech startups (one of such startups being Ironclad) Mike has a background that includes working at the Federal Reserve, McKinsey, and co-founding a company that applied AI in the insurance space. Mike’s experience with AI and legal/regulatory challenges contributed to starting Paxton. Paxton's Recent Award: Celebrated being one of the winners at the 2024 ABA Tech Show Startup...
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Episode 56 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- A conversation with Jackie Schafer, founder and CEO of Clearbrief
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
In 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...
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Episode 55 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- An interview with Dan Broderick, co-founder and CEO of Blackboiler
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
In 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...
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Episode 54 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- A Conversation with Otto Hanson, CEO of TermScout
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
· 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...
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Episode 53 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- A Conversation with Mathew Kerbis, founder of Subscription Attorney and evangelist for the subscription legal services business model
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
Mat Kerbis founded Subscription Attorney LLC to offer legal services through recurring monthly fees rather than hourly billing; in that way better aligning incentives between lawyer and client. Going solo allowed Mat the freedom to innovate with new billing models, which is harder at larger firms wedded to the billable hour. The subscription model expands affordable access to legal help, helping close the "justice gap." Mat leverages legal tech and other automation strategies to work efficiently and keep costs low as a virtual...
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Episode 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 Lawyers
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
Podcast 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...
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Episode 51 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast)-- An Interview with Gaurav Oberoi - CEO and co-founder of Lexion
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
In this 51st podcast episode, your podcast host Charlie Uniman interviews Gaurav Oberoi, CEO and co-founder of Lexion (). 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 describes...
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Episode 50 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast) -- An Interview with Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifter (www.legalsifter.com)
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
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.
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Episode 49 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast) -- An Interview with Andy Hoyt, CTO of Aderant (www.aderant.com)
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
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...
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Legal 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)
Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
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...
info_outline- Mat Kerbis founded Subscription Attorney LLC to offer legal services through recurring monthly fees rather than hourly billing; in that way better aligning incentives between lawyer and client.
- Going solo allowed Mat the freedom to innovate with new billing models, which is harder at larger firms wedded to the billable hour.
- The subscription model expands affordable access to legal help, helping close the "justice gap."
- Mat leverages legal tech and other automation strategies to work efficiently and keep costs low as a virtual solo practitioner who charges on a subscription basis.
- When developing their product offerings, legal tech companies should consider the needs of subscription model law firms as a growing niche.
- An "all-in-one" solution tailored to subscription law firms could integrate practice management, document automation, intake, billing, etc.
- Mat's "Law Subscribed" podcast profiles lawyers using alternative fee arrangements and also features the tech enabling new models beyond the billable hour.
- The legal industry needs new models like subscription-based billing as it competes for talent against fields with better lifestyles and fewer grueling hours.
- Mat aims to spread the subscription model to save the legal profession and head off competition from alternative legal services.
Mat's Subscription Attorney Website: https://subscriptionattorney.com/
Mat's LawSubscribed Podcast: https://lawsubscribed.com/#podcast