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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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March 08, 2024 | Law.com

How Tech Is Helping Fuel the Rise of the Mid-Market

The fact that the mid-market is increasingly turning heads can be attributed to a wide range of factors. A number of them, though, can be traced back—directly or indirectly—to technology.

By Stephanie Wilkins

7 minute read

March 07, 2024 | Legaltech News

Litigation Technology Winner, Provider: UnitedLex

"Band-aid solutions may get companies through a short-term crisis, but they rarely stand the test of time and certainly don't reshape the industry in meaningful ways," said Aaron Crews, Chief Product & Innovation Officer at UnitedLex.

By Stephanie Wilkins

6 minute read

March 07, 2024 | Legaltech News

Dissecting the Tech Gap: What Legal Can Learn From Medicine's Leap Into the Future

As technology advances and becomes cheaper and easier to implement, the legal profession will find ways to integrate tools that make sense, and legal operations will be the catalyst to make it so.

By Stephanie Corey, CEO/Founder, UpLevel Ops

6 minute read

March 06, 2024 | Legaltech News

Law Firms and ALSPs Share the Same Destiny

Chances are that in 10 years, law firms and alternative legal service providers are going to converge under a technological strategy that ALSPs are already leveraging.

By Kenzo Tsushima, Rico Burnett & David Malkinson, Morae

13 minute read

March 05, 2024 | Legaltech News

Inside DechertMind, a Proprietary Suite of Gen AI Tools for Law Firm Work

Thor Alden, associate director of innovation at Dechert, recently gave Legaltech News an inside look at the suite of homegrown generative artificial intelligence tools the firm has been internally rolling out since April 2023.

By Stephanie Wilkins

10 minute read

March 05, 2024 | Legaltech News

Innovators of the Year (Individual), Provider: Jake Heller & Pablo Arredondo, Casetext

"We knew we had one shot. And that if we didn't do it, no one would, not this quickly," said Pablo Arredondo, Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder of Casetext, now part of Thomson Reuters.

By Stephanie Wilkins

8 minute read

March 05, 2024 | Legaltech News

Nervous System: The Osborne Effect

Related to a pioneering line of portable computers in the early 1980s, the phrase "Osborne Effect" took root to describe the phenomenon of current technology being prematurely abandoned in anticipation of a future upgrade.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

March 04, 2024 | Legaltech News

Enabling Start-Up Success Winner, Law Firm: NEXT powered by Shulman Rogers

"Take risks—law firms notoriously are not risk takers, but to innovate you must risk resources and failure if you are going to ultimately succeed," said Lisa Friedlander, Chief Revenue Officer at NEXT powered by Shulman Rogers.

By Stephanie Wilkins

4 minute read

March 04, 2024 | Legaltech News

Navigating the Intricacies of Intellectual Property in Legal Tech: Lessons from Recent Cases

For the legal tech sector to continue its trajectory of growth and innovation, a deep and ongoing commitment to IP awareness and compliance is indispensable.

By Brian Mack, Kevin Keller & Olga V. Mack

11 minute read

March 01, 2024 | Legaltech News

Sharing Screens, Not Secrets: Preventing Inadvertent Privilege Disclosures When Videoconferencing

Creating procedures and implementing a multi-level process to mitigate inadvertent disclosures via videoconferencing is critical.

By Jack Kallus, Esq. & Henry E. Norwood, Esq., Kaufman Dolowich, LLP

6 minute read