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119 ABA Journal Legal Rebels Podcast articles.

Lawyerist founder Sam Glover reports anecdata from the legal community (podcast)

The website Lawyerist focuses on getting attorneys information they want. Determining what that is isn't hard, says founder Sam Glover, because readers frequently tell him through the site's discussion forum or on social media.

Feb 8, 2017 8:30 AM CST

Judge Dixon stays on to keep bringing tech to courts (podcast)

Herbert Dixon had already been eligible to retire for six years before he finally did in 2015, after 30 years on the District of Columbia Superior Court—the district’s version of a state trial court. But the judge stayed on longer because he was having too much fun changing the way…

Jan 11, 2017 8:30 AM CST

Legal tech’s future is in lawyers’ mindset, Randi Mayes says (podcast)

When you ask Randi Mayes about the future of technology in law firms, she says its growth will stem from attorneys' behavior rather than specific product offerings.

Dec 14, 2016 8:30 AM CST

Tech skills are no harder to learn than driving, says e-discovery expert Craig Ball (podcast)

Craig Ball likes to say he got into law to stay out of prison.

Nov 9, 2016 8:30 AM CST

For Fastcase founders, the message is: Change, and do it faster! (podcast)

Legal technology has changed since 1999, when Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal founded the legal research service Fastcase–but not as much as they'd like.

Oct 12, 2016 8:30 AM CDT

Dewey B Strategic’s Jean O’Grady leads lawyers through the tech maze (podcast)

Most people see librarians as the quiet personification of technical obsolescence. Jean O’Grady is out to change that. Far from sitting in a dusty room full of outdated books and CD-ROMs and telling visitors to keep quiet, the senior director of research and knowledge at DLA Piper in Washington, D.C.,…

Sep 14, 2016 8:30 AM CDT

Jerry Goldman’s Oyez project gives a voice to SCOTUS arguments (podcast)

The license plates on Jerry Goldman’s Subaru Legacy read “OYEZ” in honor of his U.S. Supreme Court-focused multimedia archive, Oyez. And the ringtone on the retired political science professor’s iPhone is the voice of a marshal saying the word three times, which starts the traditional call announcing the justices’ arrival.…

Aug 10, 2016 8:30 AM CDT

Deborah Rhode is at war with complacency (podcast)

Stanford Law School professor Deborah Rhode is the enemy of complacency. This Legal Rebels Trailblazer is one of the most cited scholars in legal ethics, though she wears many more hats. She has carved out specialties in discrimination (ranging from race and gender to the unfair advantages that flow to physical beauty, often probing their intersection with legal ethics) and in criticism of legal education itself.

Jul 20, 2016 8:45 AM CDT

Tech fails too, says Sensei’s Sharon Nelson (podcast)

Lawyers often think technology should always work. That’s aspirational, says Sharon Nelson, president of the cybersecurity, information technology and digital forensics firm Sensei Enterprises Inc. “People can screw up, but technology fails too,” says Nelson, who has been selected as a Legal Rebels Trailblazer by the ABA Journal. “You really…

Jun 15, 2016 8:00 AM CDT

Rocket Lawyer’s Charley Moore sees lawyer collaboration as the future (podcast)

“Nicholas Negroponte’s book Being Digital had a profound effect on me,” Charley Moore recalls. “The book said that anything that can be digitized will be. It’s just a matter of who endeavors to participate in that transition.” Moore, who has been selected as a Legal Rebels Trailblazer by the ABA…

Jun 1, 2016 8:00 AM CDT

Suh sees LegalZoom’s job as fixing a ‘failed’ legal system 〈podcast〉

"We didn't start out to be disruptive," John Suh, LegalZoom's chief executive officer, tells the ABA Journal's Victor Li. "We were set up to fix a problem. The legal system was broken, and too many people were frozen out of it."

May 18, 2016 8:00 AM CDT

Technology? ‘It’s here, it’s good—do it,’ Ernie Svenson urges (podcast)

Ernie Svenson--aka well-known blogger Ernie the Attorney--was an early evangelist for what he calls The Paperless Chase. The basic premise: "Anything you can do with paper, you can do more with PDF. Way more."

May 4, 2016 8:00 AM CDT

Technology is ‘breathtakingly positive,’ says writer Monica Bay (podcast)

A focus on developing communities is a significant part of Monica Bay's writing, and she says that's why she was drawn to legal technology.

Apr 20, 2016 8:00 AM CDT

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