102: Technology Isn’t Making Legal Decisions with Lucy Bassli

Law Firms Are Poised to Offer Broad Solutions Lucy Bassli’s new adventure allows her to have a broad impact on the legal industry. Through her work at LawGeex and the organization she founded, InnoLegal Services, she provides both the ‘what’ of legal advice and the ‘how’ of a consultancy; advising on the effective delivery and…

101: Becoming Sought-After with Kirkland’s Dale Cendali

Expertise and Reputation A lawyer labeled as ‘commercial’ is a good thing. Commercial lawyers are interested in quickly and cheaply resolving the client’s business problems as emphasized in a recent interview with Kirkland Partner, Dale Cendali.  Dale leads her firm’s Copyright, Trademark, Internet and Advertising practice group. It’s the age of competition and expertise. Even with the…

100: Operationalizing Legal Advice with Katie DeBord of Bryan Cave

  Think Dynamically About Your Clients In the 100th episode of LeftFoot our guest Katie DeBord, Chief Innovation Officer at Bryan Cave highlights the substantive changes taking place in today’s legal environment and how it’s changing the lawyer-client relationship at every level.   That the firms, practices, lawyers and legal service providers who are doing things…

99: You Can’t Win if You Don’t Play with John de Forte

Legal Tender Strategy Our guest on podcast episode 99, John de Forte has been advising law firms and other professional services organizations around proposals for over 30 years. He authored ‘Winning Proposals the Essential Guide for Law Firms and Legal Service Providers’ in 2017. Legal Purchasing We begin our conversation talking about the growth and influence…

98: 4 Realities of In-House Legal

With David Pashman of Meetup For LeftFoot episode 98 we interviewed David Pashman, a former big law transaction lawyer turned startup general counsel and educator.  David is currently the Head of Integration following the WeWork / Meetup transaction. Reality #1: Going In-House is a Transition A big part of David’s transition was learning to work effectively…