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Excerpts from The Modern Legal Practice: Remain Competitive, Secure Clients and Attract the Best Talent

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Nuance Communications and hosted on Law.com, we’ll hear highlights from the April 28th presentation titled, The Modern Legal Practice: Remain Competitive, Secure New Clients and Attract the Best Talent. Today, the modern law firm looks different than it used to. Yet, the pace of change in the legal sector can be slower than other industries. Indeed, the past year has shown how important it is to stay up to date with industry changes and technological advancements, but it has not always been an easy job to implement these. The speakers in this session — Janet Sullivan, eDiscovery Counsel & Global Director of Practice Technology at White & Case; David Dummer, Global Litigation Lead at Sidley Austin; Eric La Scola, Manager, Solutions Marketing at Nuance Communications; and Bill Geyer, Regional Account Manager at Nuance Communications — discuss how technology, such as speech recognition, can help firms improve their internal processes, how to build bridges and collaborate with clients by differentiating through efficiency and innovation, new workflows and techniques to remain competitive, and much more. The full on-demand webcast can be found here: https://www.law.com/2021/03/26/the-modern-legal-practice-remain-competitive-secure-new-clients-and-attract-the-best-talent/ [https://www.law.com/2021/03/26/the-modern-legal-practice-remain-competitive-secure-new-clients-and-attract-the-best-talent/] Janet Sullivan | eDiscovery Counsel & Global Director of Practice Technology | White & Case In her current role as eDiscovery Counsel & Global Director of Practice Technology at White & Case, Ms. Sullivan is leading litigation practice technology innovation for the firm, and finding new ways to leverage cutting edge technologies to better serve firm clients. She also serves as legal advisor on issues related to firm clients’ preservation, identification, collection, and use of data in litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Sullivan has significant experience in facilitating communications between business, legal and technology teams. In addition, Ms. Sullivan is responsible for transforming the firm’s in-house eDiscovery operational model which focuses on the tactical implementation of industry leading technology to achieve cost savings and strategic advantage. Ms. Sullivan has over twenty years of experience as a trial attorney and over a decade of internal and client facing technical consulting in eDiscovery. She is a past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Product Liability and Toxic Tort Section, a former Special Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, and a former Adjunct Professor of Legal Reasoning and Writing at New York Law School. She is admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and Washington D.C. David Dummer | Global Litigation Lead | Sidley Austin David Dummer is the Global Litigation Lead for Sidley Austin’s Knowledge Management team. Sidley’s KM team aims to find relevant information and provide access to it, when and where the firm needs it in a way that improves client service and firm performance. We focus on the capture, organization and re-use of information related to our people and their experience, the work we have done, and other information useful to the practice of law. Before joining the KM team, David practiced complex commercial litigation for almost 20 years and focused on the representation of companies, boards of directors, and private equity funds in business litigation and internal investigations. Outside of work, David is the father of 2 boys who turn 5 and 7 this summer and enjoys being active in the Dallas community. He is a Board member of USA Film Festival, and for the past two years has been the co-chair of KidFilm, the nation’s longest running children’s film festival. Originally from Kentucky, David attended Tulane University and Duke University School of Law. He clerked for the United States District Judge Thomas B. Russell (retired) before joining private practice. Eric La Scola | Manager, Solutions Marketing | Nuance Communications Eric La Scola is the Manager of Solutions Marketing for the Dragon Professional team at Nuance. In this role, he drives the marketing strategy and develops the product positioning and messaging that distinguish Dragon voice recognition solutions in document-intensive sectors such as the legal, law enforcement, finance, and enterprise sectors. Before joining Nuance, Eric held key B2B technology sales and marketing positions, bringing computing solutions to market that solved mission-critical business problems, improved organizational processes, and mitigated risk for enterprise, creative and technical, and educational technology users. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Boston College. Bill Geyer | Regional Account Manager | Nuance Communications Bill Geyer is an experienced sales executive focused on leveraging cloud-based speech recognition solutions to accelerate turnaround times & lower costs of Time-Sensitive, Revenue Critical and Compliance-Required documentation within the Legal Services industry.

Excerpts from Data Privacy: Where Are We Now? Plus, CCPA Updates and Impacts

Excerpts from Embracing Automation: Productivity Hacks for Transactional Legal Teams

Excerpts from "The Importance of Security and Integrity within the Virtual ADR Process"

How Firms, State and Local Government Attorneys Can Conquer Top Challenges

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by LexisNexis and hosted on Law.com, we’ll hear highlights from the May 27th presentation titled, How Firms, State and Local Government Attorneys Can Conquer Top Challenges. There’s a new legal landscape for government attorneys and the law firms that work alongside them. State attorneys general are approaching their work in new ways, spearheading litigation in targeted areas like data privacy and public health. And in the private practice world, there’s a complementary trend – a number of law firms are creating or building up their state AG practices in response. The speakers in this episode include Karl Racine, Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia; Natalie Ludaway, Partner at Crowell & Moring; Betsy Miller, Partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll; Lisa Helem, Editor in Chief of The National Law Journal; Cheryl Miller, Senior Writer at The National Law Journal; and Teresa Harmon, Vice President, SLG at LexisNexis. The full on-demand webcast can be found here: https://www.law.com/2020/04/14/how-firms-state-and-local-government-attorneys-can-conquer-top-challenges/ [https://www.law.com/2020/04/14/how-firms-state-and-local-government-attorneys-can-conquer-top-challenges/] Karl A. Racine • Attorney General • Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia Attorney General Racine draws on over 25 years of legal and leadership experience in his work on behalf of District residents. Over the course of his career, he has worked at the D.C. Public Defender Service, where he represented District residents who could not afford a lawyer, served as Associate White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton, and worked on criminal cases and complex civil litigation at private firms. While in private practice, he was elected managing partner of his firm, Venable LLP, and became the first African-American managing partner of a top-100 American law firm. Natalie O. Ludaway • Partner • Crowell & Moring LLP Natalie O. Ludaway is a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of its State Attorneys General Enforcement & Investigations and Advertising & Media groups. With both government and private practice experience, Natalie approaches matters with a true appreciation for the complexities of the regulatory, enforcement, and litigation spaces. She counsels and represents clients in connection with investigations, enforcement matters, and litigation. Natalie also provides unique representation for clients engaged in matters with the government of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Council. Betsy Miller • Partner • Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC Betsy A. Miller is a partner at Cohen Milstein and co-chairs the firm’s Public Client practice. Miller represents state attorneys general and municipalities in investigations and litigation involving consumer fraud. Previous roles for Miller include serving as the chief of staff and senior counsel to the D.C. attorney general and as counsel on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Miller is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. Lisa Helem • Editor-in-Chief• The National Law Journal | Legal Times Lisa Helem is the editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal. In this role, she oversees content and strategy for the publication, which covers the U.S. Supreme Court, litigation, federal agencies and key players in the legal profession. She also oversees publication of the NLJ’s monthly magazine, contributed columns and special reports—which include the NLJ 500 and the D.C. Litigation Departments of the Year. Lisa also writes about law firm leadership [https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/01/01/the-vanguard-and-the-vision-%E2%80%8E/], key D.C. lawyers [https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/12/30/d-c-s-attorney-general-on-big-law-and-building-coalitions/] and diversity [https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/04/06/diversity-lab-ceos-recession-advice-for-law-firm-leaders-double-down-on-diversity/]. Earlier in her career, Lisa, a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, practiced commercial litigation at an AmLaw 100 firm and wrote for outlets including Newsweek and People magazines. Cheryl Miller • Senior Writer • The National Law Journal Cheryl Miller, based in Sacramento, covers the California legislature, the state judiciary and state and local agencies, including the attorney general’s office. She also reports on emerging industries, such as state-legal cannabis. She authors the weekly cannabis newsletter Higher Law [https://www.law.com/static/briefings/#Higher-Law]. Teresa Harmon • Vice President, SLG • LexisNexis Teresa Harmon is Vice President of the State & Local Government business for LexisNexis North American Research Solutions. In this role, she serves practicing attorneys and government professionals in state & local government agencies. In this space, she is responsible for Market Strategy, Marketing, Customer Satisfaction, and Sales for legal research and practical guidance products. Previously, Teresa led product and go-to-market strategy for law schools and law firm markets (with 50 attorneys or more). Teresa joined LexisNexis in Dayton, OH in 2008 after obtaining her MBA from the University of Chicago. She also has a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Michigan.