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Stephanie Wilkins

Stephanie Wilkins

Stephanie Wilkins is the Editor-in-Chief of Legaltech News at ALM. She has spent the better part of the past decade following the evolution of legal tech and learning how it can help in-house counsel, law firms and others in the legal industry. As a former practicing litigator, she is particularly interested in how legal tech can and should be used in real-life practice and the valuable differences it can make. Stephanie is also keenly interested in shining a light on the ways legal tech is being used to help the greater good.

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May 24, 2023 | Legaltech News

Legal Ops' Path to the Future Is Paved With Generative AI, Teamwork

Generative AI took center stage at the 2023 CLOC Global Institute conference, as the legal operations community took stock of where it currently stands and where it hopes to go in the future.

By Stephanie Wilkins

9 minute read

May 24, 2023 | Legaltech News

Five Ways to Use ChatGPT for Investigations and E-Discovery

An overview of ChatGPT's capabilities in helping with keyword searches, summarizing documents, answering questions about specific documents, creating investigation reports, and document review.

By John Tredennick and Dr. William Webber

30 minute read

May 19, 2023 | Legaltech News

Lifetime Achievement, Law Firm: Chris Boyd, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Once a junior associate at Wilson Sonsini, Chris Boyd now leads attorney recruiting and retention, marketing and business development, diversity, equity and inclusion, human resources, knowledge management and practice management, to name just a few of his roles at the firm.

By Stephanie Wilkins

5 minute read

May 18, 2023 | Legaltech News

Lifetime Achievement, Law Firm: Jack Nelson, Reed Smith LLP

Jack Nelson has maintained a successful commercial and class action defense practice for more than 30 years, and has been a leader in Big Law since 1998. Today he's Reed Smith's Senior Director of Legal Operations, where he works with the management team on the next generation of high-level special projects.

By Stephanie Wilkins

4 minute read

May 17, 2023 | Legaltech News

Lifetime Achievement, Vendor: Eyal Iffergan, Epiq

Eyal Iffergan has had a distinguished 25-year career focused on advising the legal business community, during which he has been recognized for his drive to deliver operational expertise and innovation to Global 1000 corporations and AmLaw 200 law firms, helping clients execute legal transformation programs

By Stephanie Wilkins

4 minute read

May 16, 2023 | Legaltech News

Pramata Introduces GPT-Assist Tool and New Pre-Signature Contracting Functionality

Updates to the company's CLM platform include new pre-signature functionality that allows users to leverage their full contract repository, as well as a GPT-Assist feature that will leverage large language models to power the creation and maintenance of Playbooks and Approval Policies in natural language.

By Stephanie Wilkins

3 minute read

May 16, 2023 | Legaltech News

LinkSquares Launches ELM Platform in First Offering Beyond CLM

LinkSquares Prioritize, a tool designed specifically for legal task management and intake, will join the company's existing CLM offerings in LinkSquares Cloud, an ELM platform that combines legal task management and contract lifecycle management in one place.

By Stephanie Wilkins

4 minute read

May 16, 2023 | Legaltech News

Lifetime Achievement, Vendor: Sirisha Gummaregula, QuisLex

Not many people leave a promising practice at Shearman & Sterling and a GC-track position at a Fortune 500 company to start a company designed to disrupt the way both do business. But Sirisha Gummaregula did, forming an ALSP in 2006, and inspiring and supporting many women—and men—across the legal ecosystem throughout her career.

By Stephanie Wilkins

5 minute read

May 14, 2023 | Legaltech News

Most Innovative Legal Operations Team, Law Department: OpenText

"Legal innovation means doing something every day that scares you," say Jessica Vander Ploeg, Vice President Legal Operations, and Steven Rippberger, Senior Manager Legal Operations, at OpenText.

By Stephanie Wilkins

7 minute read

May 12, 2023 | Legaltech News

Everlaw Lays Off 10% of Global Workforce to Prepare for Economic Uncertainty

This is the latest company to join the ranks of other e-discovery and legal tech companies who have announced layoffs in recent months.

By Stephanie Wilkins

2 minute read