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Blacklines & Billables

by Christian Lang

Amid a rapidly changing market for legal services, Blacklines & Billables takes a critical look at the cutting edge of legal technology and innovation, as well as law-firm associate success and development. An avid legal technologist and former Biglaw associate in New York and London, host Christian Lang explores the promise—and pitfalls—of an evolving legal and technological landscape with leading practitioners, legal tech founders, and other thought leaders, building upon the conversations begun on the Blacklines & Billables blog. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episodes

  1. Voices of ClioCon 2018

    Summary Episode 13 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our “Voices” podcast from the Clio Cloud Conference in New Orleans. We asked a range of lawyers and technologists attending the conference for on-the-spot short answers to a range of questions about ClioCon, the technological needs of…

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  2. Voices of ILTACON 2018

    Episode 12 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: the next installment of our “Voices” series--this time from National Harbor, Maryland at ILTACON 2018. We asked a range of lawyers and technologists attending the conference for on-the-spot short answers to a range of questions about ILTACON and…

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  3. London Calling (Legal Tech Startups): Our Conversation with MDR Lab’s Nick West

    Episode 11 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with Nick West, Chief Technology Officer of Mishcon de Reya and Director of MDR Lab, a legal tech incubator run out of Mishcon’s offices in London. Building on the discussion begun in our blog post entitled “Law Firm.VC? Law Firms...

  4. Voices of CLOC 2018

    Summary: The next installment of our “Voices” series—this time from the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium’s 2018 Institute in Las Vegas. Armed with a portable microphone and eight questions about CLOC and legal technology and innovation, we asked a range of lawyers and technologists to share...

  5. Voices of Legalweek18

    Armed with a portable microphone and eight questions on the past, present, and future of the legal tech industry, we struck out to capture a taste of the #Legalweek18 experience for our listeners. A compilation of short answers to important question from 18 of legal tech’s key thinkers and...

  6. Selling Empathy: AI, "The Law of Robots," and the Future of Legal Work, with Ed Walters

    Episode 8 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our discussion with Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase, on the accelerating march of artificial intelligence and its implications for the law and its consequences for lawyers (and the public at large). In this episode, we take a fascinating tour through...

  7. "In-House Looking Out: 4 Tips for Outside Counsel" [View from the Client Side]

    Episode 7 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with guest-poster Patrick Delaney to follow up on his blog piece entitled "In-House Looking Out: 4 Tips for Outside Counsel." Part of B&B's "View from the Client Side" series and one of the blog's most popular posts to date, "In-House...

  8. "Value-Added VC"

    Episode 6 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with Dan Jansen, CEO of Dentons-backed Nextlaw Labs, which describes itself as a “global collaborative innovation platform focused on developing, deploying, and investing in new technologies and processes to transform the practice of...

  9. The Legal Services Innovation Index

    Episode 5 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with Dan Linna, professor and Director of Legal RnD – The Center for Legal Services Innovation at Michigan State University’s College of Law, discussing Phase 1, Version 1.0, of the new Legal Services Innovation Index, consisting of…

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  10. Panel: Callback Interview Q&A [Tips for Law Students]

    Episode 4 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: a panel discussion on callback interview tips for law students. Answering questions about Biglaw callback interviews submitted by members of the B&B community following our blog post entitled “Law Firm Interview Tips: EIW/OCI Edition” and the...

  11. "Milbank@Harvard" and Lessons for Associate Development

    Episode 3 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with David Wolfson, Executive Director of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP, discussing the "Milbank@Harvard" associate training program and exploring the associate-development lessons learned from the firm’s implementation of this...

  12. "Fix the Court" [Legal Innovation]

    Episode 2 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with founder and executive director of “Fix the Court,” Gabe Roth. Fix the Court is a national, non-partisan organization dedicated to Supreme Court reform—intending “to take the Court to task for its lack of accountability and...

  13. Introduction

    Guest host Patrick Delaney and host Christian Lang discuss the background of the broader Blacklines & Billables project (its provenance, mission, and content to date) and the vision for the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Amid a rapidly changing market for legal services, Blacklines & Billables takes a critical look at the cutting edge of legal technology and innovation, as well as law-firm associate success and development. An avid legal technologist and former Biglaw associate in New York and London, host Christian Lang explores the promise—and pitfalls—of an evolving legal and technological landscape with leading practitioners, legal tech founders, and other thought leaders, building upon the conversations begun on the Blacklines & Billables blog.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Christian Lang

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