Discover how the expert guidance from legal professionals not only helps tech companies navigate the complexities of a sophisticated legal market but also ensures they are aptly addressing genuine business problems. In return, tech companies provide a unique avenue for law firms to influence where a new product goes next resulting in solutions that create advantage for their own firms and improve the quality of products available to us all. Through engaging case studies and success narratives, we’ll uncover the strategies that foster this collaborative approach. Ideal for legal visionaries, tech entrepreneurs, and business strategists looking for ways to drive legal forward.

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Catherine McPherson, Legal Technology Strategist – Bartlit Beck
Catherine has many years of experience in litigation support, as a paralegal, a consultant, and currently as Legal Technology Strategist. She has handled trials and arbitrations in courts all over the United States and internationally, utilizing a wide variety of proprietary and web-based databases to manage discovery and trial evidence. She has collaborated with many legal technology software vendors on design and function development.

Michael B. Stevens, Managing Partner – Derrevere Stevens Black & Cozad
Michael is the Managing Partner of Derrevere Stevens Black & Cozad and chair of the firm’s subrogation and real estate divisions. In 2005, Michael graduated from The Florida State University College of Business with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and in 2008 obtained his Degree of Juris Doctorate from the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center. Michael joined the firm as an Associate in 2008 and was made Partner in 2013 just before his 30th birthday.

TJ Fraser, Co-Founder and Chairman – ZenCase
T.J. Fraser is a business lawyer who works with clients on complex business transactions (mergers, acquisitions, finance, securities compliance and regulatory matters), complex litigation, government contracts compliance and dispute resolution, as well as all aspects of providing outside general counsel services. He believes that using technology to provide efficiency in the practice of law is critical to providing great outcomes for his clients. In fact, T.J. is the co-founder of the ZenCase productivity technology platform (www.zencase.com), which combines project management, knowledge management and automation technology in a simple to use tool. The ZenCase technology platform helps T.J. in all aspects of his practice, which has allowed him to represent some of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. while at a boutique firm. T.J. is also one of the founding partners of LionsBridge Capital, LLC, a boutique investment banking firm, where he remains actively involved with projects ranging from equity or debt capital raises to selling or buying a company. T.J. maintains his investment banking securities licenses (series 24, 63, 79 and 82).

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NetDocuments, LegalTech Hub, ZenCase, LiveNote, ParrotHQ