Fringe Legal

Sam Moore is the Innovation Manager at Scottish firm Burness Paull.

Shannon Desmarais is the national manager, legal solutions at Canon

Maziar is the Innovation Manager at Linklaters in Italy. He has years of experience delivering supermassive legal matters and changing the way that law firms operate. He has held practice-wide, national, and global roles.

Torsten Torpe is the Head of Legal Tech Innovation at Bech-Bruun. Torsten will also be part of a panel at the Fringe Legal Virtual Summit 2020 on 7th May.

Seb Shakh is the Founder and CEO of Love Legal Caroline Ragan is the COO of Love Legal Love Legal is an online platform empowering you to offer modern estate planning services to your clients with ease.

Michele DeStefano is the Founder and Executive Director of LawWithoutWalls, and Professor of Law, University of Miami. She’s an author, speaker, independent consultant, and facilitator to law firms, corporate legal departments, and legal startups on innovation and technology, culture creation, teaming, and cross-practice, cross-border initiatives. Michele is the author of Legal Upheaval and New Suits.

Jan Roggen is the founder of Adhemar.law, a Belgian environmental and real estate boutique law firm. This is the last episode of the season.

Kim Lewis is the Legal Transformation Manager at Gilbert + Tobin.

Isabella Galeano is the founder of The Technolawgist. She is head of legal at Abertis Mobility Services, legal tech and legal innovation consultant and Director of the Legal Tech Programme at Esade Law School. Her mission is to contribute to the transformation of the legal industry and to inspire lawyers around the world.

Jackson Liu is a recovering lawyer and management consultant. He currently serves as Vice President, Markets & Growth for Neota Logic. In this role, he is responsible for growing the company’s presence across the globe by working with clients to create solutions and derive value out of the Neota Logic AI automation platform.

On the show today, we have Stewart Rasmussen. Stew is a friend, a technologist, and someone who is extremely knowledgeable about the Australian market, especially the legal segment. He's previously worked for the likes of Phoenix Business Solutions in the UK and APAC, served as the Head of Client Services APAC for HighQ, and most recently was the Director of Legal Technology for KPMG Australia.

Allison Hosking is the Head of Knowledge Management at Al Tamimi & Co where she oversees a team responsible for all aspects of the firm’s knowledge management strategy across their 17 offices. -- With the start of the new year we try a different format. We ask crowdsourced questions about Knowledge Management to a KM leader. --

Nina Gratrick is the Head of IT Services at the global law firm of Watson Farley & Williams. We talk about how the evolution of IT service delivery, and how by being customer centric, it's possible to push the boundaries of change at your firm.

Laura Collins Scott is the Innovation Lead for Clifford Chance in Singapore. In this episode we talk about Laura experience on leading the Create+65 Innovation Lab in Singapore. Laura Collins Scott began working with Clifford Chance in 2017 when she was initially engaged to define the strategy and business plan for Clifford Chance Applied Solutions.Laura founded BB Consulting in 2016 to help incumbent companies and start-ups design and build innovative products for their customers.

On this episode we have Peter Buck, VP, Product Strategy at NetDocuments. The core of the conversation focuses on tackling multi-teaming - the effects of having multiple people working on multiple projects simultaneously. We pivot then to focus on productivity, discussing how it can be measured and the impact of constant context switching, discussing against the background that it takes one around 25 minutes to reach full productivity, but people are interrupted every 3 minutes! Be sure to check the full show notes for links to articles and books mentioned in the episode.

Welcome to the 2nd season of the Fringe Legal podcast. In the first episode we speak with the Maya Markovich, Head of Product at Dentons Nextlaw Labs. The core theme of the episode is all around innovation; we cover three broad categories: 1) The 3 different pillars of NextLaw labs, and how innovation can take the robot out of the lawyer 2) How do you catalyze innovation? What that means, and the importance of becoming the connective tissue across the firm/business 3) Impact of legal tech on access to justice Thanks to Maya for taking the time, and also to Isabella Galeno (who’s featured later in the season) for introducing me to Maya.

A sneak peak into Season 2 of the Fringe Legal podcast. Episode one of the second season comes out of November 7, 2019. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to be notified of new episodes.

Clarissa Rayward, also known as ‘The Happy Family Lawyer’, specialises in helping couples stay out of Court and work together to reach a resolution to their relationship breakdown. A practising family lawyer,she is the Director of the Brisbane Family Law Centre, a multidisciplinary practice. Clarissa is based in Brisbane, Australia is a speaker, author, and hosts the popular podcast “Happy Lawyer, Happy Life”.

In this penultimate episode of season one, I speak with the fantastic Thao Tran. Thao is the Knowledge Manager at the international firm Fried Frank. She's based in New York, and is also the Member Liaison for ILTA in NYC.

Nicola Shaver is the global Director of Knowledge Management at Paul Hastings LLP in New York. In her role, she focuses on opportunities to optimize processes and introduce tools that will improve efficiency and productivity, and on leveraging the firm's intellectual capital to better serve clients. Nicola has worked in the legal services industry for over 15 years in three different jurisdictions. Nicola is passionate about finding innovative solutions to existing problems, building a culture of innovation within law firms, and instilling an empathic approach to design.