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When legal research giant LexisNexis and legal AI giant Harvey announced a strategic alliance last month [https://www.lawnext.com/2025/06/legal-ai-platform-harvey-to-get-lexisnexis-content-and-tech-in-new-partnership-between-the-companies.html], legal tech commentator Richard Tromans called it [https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2025/06/18/lexisnexis-harvey-announce-alliance-will-share-legal-data/] “possibly the most important legal tech move in a decade.” On today’s episode of LawNext, we go deep into the partnership and its implications with Sean Fitzpatrick [https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanfitzpatricklexisnexis/], CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK & Ireland.  Through the partnership, LexisNexis will integrate its primary law content, Shepard's citations, and AI technology directly into Harvey's platform, and the two companies will jointly develop agentic AI workflows. The partnership comes on the heels of Harvey's remarkable Series E funding round, raising $300 million at a $5 billion valuation, in which RELX, LexisNexis's parent company, was a participating investor.  So what drove this alliance? In his interview with host Bob Ambrogi, Fitzpatrick reveals it wasn't a boardroom strategy session that sparked this partnership, but rather customer demand from large law firms seeking the combined power of LexisNexis's authoritative legal content and Harvey's AI capabilities. Fitzpatrick talks about what this means for the future of legal AI, how it addresses the persistent challenge of hallucinations in AI-generated legal content, and whether we're witnessing the emergence of a new model for legal tech partnerships. He also shares insights from recent ROI studies showing dramatic productivity gains for both law firms and corporate legal departments using AI tools.    Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out. * Paradigm [https://joinparadigm.com/], home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther [https://www.practicepanther.com/], Bill4Time [https://www.bill4time.com/], MerusCase [https://meruscase.com/] and LollyLaw [https://www.lollylaw.com/]; the e-payments platform Headnote [https://headnote.com/]; and the legal accounting software TrustBooks [https://trustbooks.com/]. * Briefpoint [https://rebrand.ly/briefpoint-lawnext-podcast], eliminating routine discovery response and request drafting tasks so you can focus on drafting what matters (or just make it home for dinner). * SpeakWrite [https://rebrand.ly/SpeakWrite-LNP]: Save time with fast, human-powered legal transcription—so you can focus on your practice * Paxton [https://rebrand.ly/Paxton-LawNext-Podcast], Rapidly conduct research, accelerate drafting, and analyze documents with Paxton. What do you need to get done today?,    If you enjoy listening to LawNext, please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.

Supio [https://www.supio.com/], an AI-driven platform developed specifically for personal injury lawyers, has been generating a lot of buzz. On the heels of reporting record growth last year and raising $25 million in Series A funding in October, last month it raised another $60 million [https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/legal-tech-startup-supio-secures-60-million-in-series-b-funding-to-expand-ai-platform-for-personal-injury-law.html] in a Series B round. But what do the lawyers who use the platform think of it? On today’s LawNext, we hear from one of those lawyers, as well as from the company’s cofounder and CEO. Our guests today are:   * Tyler Schneider [https://www.torhoermanlaw.com/team/tyler-schneider/], managing partner of the personal injury law firm TorHoerman Law [https://www.torhoermanlaw.com/]. Schneider was an early adopter of Supio. He and his firm used it to help obtain a $495 million verdict against Abbott Labs in a case involving allegations that cow’s milk-based infant formula caused intestinal inflammation in premature babies. * Jerry Zhou [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-zhou-supio/], the CEO of Supio who cofounded it in 2021 together with his childhood friend and coworker Kyle Lam after having held product management and engineering roles at Microsoft and Avalara.    In their conversation with host Bob Ambrogi, Zhou and Schneider talk about the development of Supio, its real-world impact on plaintiffs’ lawyers, and their wish lists for further development of the product. They also share their thoughts on how AI is likely to reshape PI practice more broadly.    Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out. * Paradigm [https://joinparadigm.com/], home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther [https://www.practicepanther.com/], Bill4Time [https://www.bill4time.com/], MerusCase [https://meruscase.com/] and LollyLaw [https://www.lollylaw.com/]; the e-payments platform Headnote [https://headnote.com/]; and the legal accounting software TrustBooks [https://trustbooks.com/]. * Briefpoint [https://rebrand.ly/briefpoint-lawnext-podcast], eliminating routine discovery response and request drafting tasks so you can focus on drafting what matters (or just make it home for dinner). * SpeakWrite [https://rebrand.ly/SpeakWrite-LNP]: Save time with fast, human-powered legal transcription—so you can focus on your practice   If you enjoy listening to LawNext, please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.

When Chris Cartrett [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriscartrett/] was named CEO of legal technology company Aderant [https://www.aderant.com/] in 2022, he did so with the mission of aggressively advancing a cloud-first strategy throughout the company’s suite of business and financial software for law firms. Given that Aderant is a nearly 50-year-old company with many customers who still use the on-premises version of its software, that was not an easy mission to fulfill.  So three years later, what grade does he give himself in delivering on that mission? That is one of the questions I put to him during a special live LawNext interview. We recorded the interview at Aderant’s Momentum Global 2025 [https://events.aderant.com/event/momentum/summary] user conference in Dallas last month, where Aderant graciously allowed me to use its Studio A recording equipment it had set up at the conference for its own podcast.    In a wide-ranging interview, Cartrett talks about his focus on the cloud, generative AI, and customer service, and why he believes all three are so important right now. He also talks about the company’s growth, reflected in the fact that 2024 was a record-breaking year for Aderant and 2025 is on track to be even stronger. We talk about the future of Aderant, the future of law practice, and the likely impact of generative AI, and I ask him how he uses gen AI in his own daily work.  Cartrett first came to Aderant in 2014 from Thomson Reuters as senior vice president of strategy and growth and was promoted to executive vice president in 2017 before becoming president in 2021 and CEO in 2022.. A big thanks to Aderant for letting me use its recording studio and for providing me with the final recording.    Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out. * Paradigm [https://joinparadigm.com/], home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther [https://www.practicepanther.com/], Bill4Time [https://www.bill4time.com/], MerusCase [https://meruscase.com/] and LollyLaw [https://www.lollylaw.com/]; the e-payments platform Headnote [https://headnote.com/]; and the legal accounting software TrustBooks [https://trustbooks.com/]. * Briefpoint [https://rebrand.ly/briefpoint-lawnext-podcast], eliminating routine discovery response and request drafting tasks so you can focus on drafting what matters (or just make it home for dinner). * SpeakWrite [https://rebrand.ly/SpeakWrite-LNP]: Save time with fast, human-powered legal transcription—so you can focus on your practice   If you enjoy listening to LawNext, please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.

What happens when a CEO steps away from a legal tech company just before the generative AI revolution explodes, then returns two years later amid a landscape that is being dramatically transformed? For Litera’s Avaneesh Marwaha [https://www.linkedin.com/in/avaneeshmarwaha/], that is exactly what happened.  As the CEO of Litera from 2016 to 2022, Marwaha led the legal tech company through a remarkable period of expansion and diversification, including growing its global customer base by over 1,500% and its annual revenues by 1200%, and overseeing some 14 acquisitions that transformed the company’s focus from document productivity to a broad range of legal workflows, ranging from transaction management and due diligence to litigation, firm intelligence, and more. Marwaha stepped down as CEO in 2022 [https://www.lawnext.com/2022/04/outgoing-ceo-avaneesh-marwaha-says-litera-has-redefined-the-legal-market-during-his-tenure.html] to become Litera’s chairman, just before the tidal wave of gen AI swept over legal technology, and then, in a surprising move last October, he returned to the CEO role [https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/literas-former-ceo-returns-to-that-role-as-current-ceo-moves-into-temporary-advisory-role.html]. On today’s LawNext, Marwaha shares how he was drawn to return as the company’s leader by the “perfect storm” of forces reshaping the legal industry of AI adoption, unprecedented legal tech investment, and evolving client expectations. In today’s conversation, Marwaha reveals how AI has fundamentally rewired Litera's internal operations – enabling his 1,000-person company to complete quarters' worth of development work in mere weeks and transforming everything from code generation to meeting management. He also shares his personal AI workflow, including how he uses Microsoft Copilot to review up to 20 meeting transcripts nightly, and explains why he requires every Litera employee to be using AI every day – and why he believes this mandate is reshaping the company's competitive edge. In addition, Marwaha unpacks Litera's strategic shift from acquiring dozens of companies during his first tenure to now favoring internal development – a change driven largely by AI's ability to rapidly accelerate innovation cycle, and he discusses Litera's evolution into what he calls "the experience company" for law firms, and how this transformation reflects broader shifts in legal technology, where success increasingly depends on workflow integration rather than standalone solutions. Marwaha was formerly on this podcast in 2020: LawNext Episode 68: Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha on Growth During A Crisis [https://www.lawnext.com/2020/03/lawnext-episode-68-litera-ceo-avaneesh-marwaha-on-growth-during-a-crisis.html].  Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out. * Paradigm [https://joinparadigm.com/], home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther [https://www.practicepanther.com/], Bill4Time [https://www.bill4time.com/], MerusCase [https://meruscase.com/] and LollyLaw [https://www.lollylaw.com/]; the e-payments platform Headnote [https://headnote.com/]; and the legal accounting software TrustBooks [https://trustbooks.com/]. * Briefpoint [https://rebrand.ly/briefpoint-lawnext-podcast], eliminating routine discovery response and request drafting tasks so you can focus on drafting what matters (or just make it home for dinner). * SpeakWrite [https://rebrand.ly/SpeakWrite-LNP]: Save time with fast, human-powered legal transcription—so you can focus on your practice   If you enjoy listening to LawNext, please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.

Cornell Winston [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cornellhwinston/], president of the American Association of Law Libraries [https://www.aallnet.org/], brings a unique perspective to law librarianship, having spent 45 years in libraries across diverse settings — from a hospital library where he started as a student worker; to the former Whittier Law School; to prominent law firms Munger, Tolles & Olson and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; and, for the last 24 years, as law librarian in the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles. Winston joined host Bob Ambrogi to record this interview just weeks before AALL's annual meeting in Portland, Ore., July 19-22, with the theme "Be Bold." It's a fitting theme for a profession that's undergone dramatic transformation, evolving from traditional book-focused roles to becoming essential gatekeepers and evaluators of legal technology and information. In their conversation, Winston discusses the evolving challenges facing law librarians — from safeguarding disappearing government information to testing AI-driven legal research tools. They explore why he considers it critical for law librarians to have "a seat at the table" in their organizations, the opportunities for newcomers to the profession, and why Winston believes the profession’s future remains bright despite predictions of its demise. Winston also shares insights on AI adoption, the importance of law librarians as strategic partners rather than just support staff, and how the profession continues to prove that while Google may find you a million answers, a librarian will find you the best one.    Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out. * Paradigm [https://joinparadigm.com/], home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther [https://www.practicepanther.com/], Bill4Time [https://www.bill4time.com/], MerusCase [https://meruscase.com/] and LollyLaw [https://www.lollylaw.com/]; the e-payments platform Headnote [https://headnote.com/]; and the legal accounting software TrustBooks [https://trustbooks.com/]. * Briefpoint [https://rebrand.ly/briefpoint-lawnext-podcast], eliminating routine discovery response and request drafting tasks so you can focus on drafting what matters (or just make it home for dinner). * SpeakWrite [https://rebrand.ly/SpeakWrite-LNP]: Save time with fast, human-powered legal transcription—so you can focus on your practice   If you enjoy listening to LawNext, please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.