Joanna Goodman

Today we’re joined by Joanna Goodman, a freelance journalist, writer, and author covering technology, business, and media for national publications and major corporate clients. Joanna focuses much of her work on how emerging technologies, especially AI, are reshaping the legal profession. She writes the IT column for The Law Society Gazette and contributes regularly to the Legal Geek newsletter. She is also a frequent keynote speaker, panel moderator, and podcast host. In fact, back in 2016, she published one of the earliest books examining AI in legal services, entitled Robots in Law: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Legal Services. In our discussion, Joanna reflects on what it was like writing about legal AI long before generative AI entered the mainstream. We talk about separating hype from reality in legal tech, the challenges organizations face when trying to adopt new technologies, and why change management and training are often the hardest parts of transformation. Read the full transcript of today's episode here: https://www.seyfarth.com/dir_docs/podcast_transcripts/Pioneers_Joanna-Goodman.pdf