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Igniting a Practical Contracting Revolution – Laura Frederick – S5E18

In this episode of the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Laura Frederick. Laura is the Founder of ‘How to Contract’, helping lawyers and professionals draft and negotiate contracts. For 25 years, Laura has been helping clients with their business contracts and technology agreements. She has previously worked for Tesla, as part of their Legal Counsel and in 2019, Laura opened her own law firm, ‘Laura Frederick Law’. In this episode, we discuss the following: How the learning

February 28, 2022

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How Tech Can Make the Practice of Law More Sustainable – S5E16

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Tony Thai and Jace Lynch. Tony and Jace have co-founded HyperDraft – a full-service document generation service. The full-service generation customises documents based on client forms, with quick and reliable results. Tony is the Chief Engineer of HyperDraft – previously working as an Attorney at Goodwin, Nixon Peabody and Bryan Cave. Jace is the COO of HyperDraft, who also previously worked at Goodwin as an Associate. In this

February 14, 2022

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How Will Legal Tech Change the Role of Lawyers? – Colin Levy – S5E13

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Colin Levy. Colin is a legal tech consultant and director of Legal and Evangelist at Malbek, where he carries out his mission of bridging the tech world with the legal world. Alonside his work at Malbek, Colin is an Advisory Board Member for Proxy, a cloud-based legal workflow tool. He also has a blog, titled ‘Notes from the Front Lines of Legal Innovation’ which was named by Feedspot

January 24, 2022

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Document Automation in 2021 – Avvoka – S3E29

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna was joined by Giles Thompson, Head of Growth at Avvoka. Prior to this, he enjoyed successful stints working at BP, Herbert Smith Freehills and Kirkland & Ellis. In this highly topical episode, Giles shares his story and insights on the fast-moving world of legal automation, including how Avvoka is turbo-charging the industry’s adoption of intuitive and user-friendly document automation software. Overall, he discusses: His experience in private practice before

February 15, 2021

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Starting a Start-Up Miniseries: Episode 4 – Getting Funded

If a great idea is a rocket, venture capital is the fuel. And if you have both, the sky’s the limit! In the last episode of our 4 part “Starting a Start-Up” Miniseries, our host Rob Hanna hears from Guy Stern, Founder of Legal Connection about how to put together a compelling pitch deck, how to get in front of investors pre and post COVID-19 and why Guy opted for crowdfunding for his upcoming seed-stage investment round. Transcript [0:00:00.0] Rob Hanna:

October 28, 2020

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Starting a Start-Up Miniseries: Episode 3 – Breaking into the London Legal Tech Ecosystem

It takes plenty of hustle to cut through the noise and be noticed. And for a non-lawyer from the other side of the planet, Guy Stern, had his work cut out for him when he moved to London in 2019. In the third episode of our 4 part “Starting a Start-Up” Miniseries, our host Rob Hanna hears from Guy Stern, Founder of Legal Connection about his best tips & tricks for building a brand and how you can break into the

October 21, 2020

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Starting a Start-Up Miniseries: Episode 2 – First Steps

Every great start-up company is built around a big idea, some product or service that didn’t exist in the world and a passionate founder who wanted to bring that idea to reality. In the second episode of our 4 part “Starting a Start-Up” Miniseries, our host Rob Hanna hears from Guy Stern, Founder of Legal Connection how he validated the idea for Legal Connection, how he convinced people to help him in his early days and how he stays motivated!

October 14, 2020

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Starting a Start-Up Miniseries: Episode 1 – The Big Idea

Every great start-up company is built around a big idea, some product or service that didn’t exist in the world and a passionate founder who wanted to bring that idea to reality. In the first episode of our 4 part “Starting a Start-Up” Miniseries our host Rob Hanna hears from Guy Stern, Founder of Legal Connection on the origin of his big idea and why he eats, sleeps and breathes Legal Tech. Transcript [0:00:00.0] Rob Hanna: Welcome to the Legally

October 7, 2020