The Future of AI + LegalTech @ SF Tech Week
As cloud computing and AI expert David Linthicum recently wrote, “AI is often described as a transformative technology, but transformation is anything but easy.”
That’s why, as AI transforms the legal sector, it was imperative to convene a panel during SF Tech Week composed of legal industry leaders who’ve made AI work – Okta’s Russell Philpott, Alight’s Martin Felli, Arc’s Rajiv Batra, and Salesforce’s Léo Murgel.
I was delighted to moderate, and our conversation couldn’t have been more timely, addressing the urgent questions that AI transformation is raising about implementation, change management, governance and ROI.
For this edition of Venture Legal, I wanted to dive deeper into important takeaways from our dynamic panel discussion.
This week’s feature story is a must-read for everyone buying, building, investing in or implementing AI LegalTech products, covering key learnings, including:
🔑 An in-depth look at the top-down/bottom-up pressures to move fast with AI implementation.
🔑 The on-the-court feedback from teams, including engaging with naysayers and the desire among employees for AI to allow them to focus on more “joyful creative work.”
🔑 Actionable strategies for successful vendor selection and implementation.
🔑 Why legal should lead, but not own, AI policy and governance.
🔑 The role of AI “power users” in leading change mangament.
🔑 How legal leaders can leverage data to make the case for ROI, and more!
➕ A great podcast interview with The Abstract’s delightful host Tyler Finn.
Follow me on Substack and subscribe to read the featured story!
Venture Legal, Ed. 17, The Future of AI + LegalTech @ SF Tech Week
-
Change management in the age of AI: What enterprises, individuals and investors need to know.
We are at a moment in which “innovation creates new industries and businesses and at the same time destroys, or at least destabilizes, jobs and companies,” wrote Axios last week in a story on the AI transition. The article notes that the PC industry did it to mainframe computers, then the mobile industry did it…
-
Contract Lifecycle Management Heats Up: Inside the Past, Present and AI-Powered Future
Is CLM a sleepy category of LegalTech or waking back up? When Ironclad announced that it had crossed $200 million in annual recurring revenue in February, Business Insider heralded the moment with a headline that stated the CLM sector “is showing new signs of life.” BI noted that Ironclad isn’t just competing with other CLM…
-
Inside the VC-Backed RegTech Momentum
This week, one of the year’s biggest cybersecurity conferences, RSAC, kicks off herein my backyard. With a packed agenda covering some of the most pressing issues in cybersecurity today, the conference takes place as the sector, along with others under the RegTech umbrella, are experiencing high levels of VC investment, as some of enterprise’s most…