Law Firm Data Maturity Model: Is Your Firm Being Left Behind?

Lisa Mayo is a lifelong, adaptive learner with 20 years of law firm management experience in a variety of roles, but most often involving the intersection of financial data, third-party data sources, and technology. She currently serves as the firm’s lead data professional where she is focused on the full spectrum of data management including data analytics and business intelligence using design thinking methodologies, and data governance. Her specialties include enterprise data warehousing, enabling data literacy across the firm, and using artificial intelligence and machine learning for predictive and prescriptive analytics that quickly provide insights which can be leveraged in making strategic decisions.

When UniCourt’s CEO and Co-Founder, Josh Blandi tried to get real-time access to legal data for business development in 2012, he ran into a serious challenge. It was either unavailable, expensive, or incomplete. What’s more, every court organized their records differently and there was no uniform structure, making it messy and difficult to leverage. Envisioning a world where public records are more transparent and justice is better served, Josh founded UniCourt in 2014 with the mission to make court records more organized, accessible, and useful for everyone. Today, UniCourt is legal tech’s only API-first platform delivering comprehensive state and federal court coverage, best-in-class entity normalization, and is the gold standard for external data.

Brad is a legal industry futurist – he has developed a national reputation for his insight into the changing ways that legal services are being consumed and delivered in the modern marketplace.

As the co-head of Baretz Brunelle’s NewLaw practice group, he helps clients see the future – educating them on the industry’s evolution of legal services and their consumption, and helps position them for success by developing novel products, systems and solutions, which make the delivery of legal services more modern and efficient. Brad is also the founder and principal of Blickstein Group, the leading industry intelligence firm focused on helping legal service providers better understand and serve their clients and providing information about law departments and legal operations.

A highly respected legal industry strategist and futurist, Brad has been responsible for multiple initiatives that have created a deeper understanding of — and driven change in—the market for legal services. Before most corporations even had legal operations departments, he launched his Annual Law Department Operations Survey, which remains the most comprehensive survey on the topic. He also conceived the long-running Annual Legal Spend Survey, and in 2019 published the Legal AI Efficacy Report. Like much of Brad’s work, these surveys bring clarifying, evidence-based knowledge to subjects that more frequently inspire conjecture and fear.

Brad is a frequent speaker and writer who has contributed regularly to Above the Law and Legaltech News. Before consulting clients in the legal industry, he was among a small team that launched Corporate Legal Times (now Inside Counsel), the first publication directed to in-house counsel. He subsequently led a management buyout of the media company behind the publication and served as its chief executive.

Brad is a fellow in the College of Law Practice Management, an invitation-only organization of judges, lawyers, academics and others dedicated to excellence in law practice management. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago.