Transforming Legal Data into Business Intelligence: Leveraging BI to Make Better Data-Driven Legal and Business Decisions

Cunningham is considered among the principal innovators and disruptors in the legal industry today. Previously a longtime consultant advising on some of the largest law firm integrations in history, he has recently served as the Chief Information Officer at Winston & Strawn. He is also CEO of Legal Metrics, a tech-driven consortium automating next-gen performance and diversity analytics between law firms and legal departments, which he will continue to lead. He played an early role in growing the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, or CLOC.

Over the past several years, Reed Smith has emerged as a recognized brand for driving client-facing knowledge and innovation in the legal industry, launching Gravity Stack, Reed Smith’s data-driven legal technology and solutions subsidiary, and Reed Smith Global Solutions, the firm’s shared-services provider that today comprises more than 450 lawyers, analysts and business services staff. The Financial Times recognized Reed Smith as among the top five “most digital” law firms in its North America Innovative Lawyer Awards and Report in 2020. In May, the firm announced a partnership with BRYTER, the leading no-code service automation platform, that enhances the existing capabilities of the firm’s in-house Practice Innovation team to deliver digital solutions to the firm’s clients.

Chief among Cunningham’s responsibilities will be building on these and other far-reaching innovation offerings and incorporating them into an umbrella of technology solutions and shared services that rivals the firm’s best-in-class legal services. In addition, Cunningham will help bring new innovation products and services to market; guide the firm’s enterprise data and analytics strategy; and identify efficiency and process improvement initiatives to enhance client service. He will also provide input on the strategic direction of Gravity Stack.

For the past nine years as Winston & Strawn’s CIO, Cunningham was responsible for all innovation initiatives at the firm, including Information Technology, Risk Management, Data Analytics, Knowledge Services, Practice and Client Services, Project Management, Tech Learning and Change Management, and eDiscovery.

Cunningham started his career as an analyst for the National Science Foundation before joining Baker Robbins & Company (later Hildebrandt Baker Robbins and now HBR Consulting) where for over 20 years he helped grow the business from 12 people to more than 120 consultants with multiple offices globally. In that capacity, he advised senior management at more than 200 law firms around the world across strategy, M&A, IT, process improvement and risk management. He led full law firm merger integrations, including a two-year integration of the world’s third largest firm. Thomson Reuters acquired Baker Robbins & Company in 2007, where Cunningham was one of the key executives for four years before executing a management buyout spinning off HBR Consulting as a standalone firm. In 2012, he joined Winston & Strawn with the mandate to drive technology, processes and innovation throughout the firm.

Before joining Gavelytics, Justin spent most of the last decade as a litigator in “big law” and at a Los Angeles litigation boutique.

Justin graduated in the top 10 of his class at the UCLA School of Law, where he was also a Managing Editor of Law Review. He earned his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, magna cum laude.

A local Los Angeleno, Justin was unfortunately not in a position to manage the Dodgers when advanced metrics began to take the MLB by storm. But he did not miss the chance to join Gavelytics and help revolutionize the legal industry. When he’s not spreading the word about Gavelytics’ new products, he can be found reading instructions to European style board games and trying to complete Jonathan Gold’s list of L.A.’s top 101 restaurants.

Peter has over 16 years' experience in the legal industry, working with corporate legal departments, law firms, and insurance companies to radically reduce costs and improve operations through spend analysis, process improvement, and workflow automation. Peter has worked both as a consultant, service provider, and in-house professional to manage legal operations and spend management programs. He has written and spoken extensively on data analysis, and has overseen the development of multiple spend analytics platforms. Peter holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Brian Corbin is Vice President, Assistant General Counsel within the Litigation department at JPMorgan Chase. He serves on the leadership team of Legal Discovery Management, an in-house group that advises and coordinates with internal and external counsel in connection with the discovery process for JPMC’s litigation matters, regulatory inquiries, and investigations. In his role as internal discovery counsel, Brian leads a multinational team of discovery specialists and project managers, overseeing several programs related to legal preservation, information governance, retention policy, and data protection issues arising from cross-border discovery.

Prior to joining JPMC, Brian worked with managed services provider Clutch Group in Bangalore, India, and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C.