🎙️ “𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲.

At LEGAL INNOVATION & TECH FEST, Roni Millard, Founder and Health & Wellness Consultant at The Wellbeing Edge sat down with Adam Norman Jenkins, co-founder of ISaidUSaid.com, fresh off winning the 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, to discuss how AI and sentiment analytics are being used to tackle one of the most emotionally confronting areas of law.And this wasn’t another “AI will write your brief” conversation.

This was about:

→ 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

→ 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮

→ 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱

→ 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Family lawyers are facing enormous emotional and psychological strain

↳ Reviewing years of messages, emails, videos, and recordings manually is mathematically impossible

↳ AI sentiment analytics can identify patterns of financial abuse, coercion, escalation, and conflict across huge data sets

↳ Faster identification of high-risk matters could improve intervention outcomes and client safety

↳ Data-driven evidence may help reduce emotional escalation and improve clarity in family law matters

One insight that stood out:

“Data has no character.”

Adam spoke candidly about the emotional weight of building technology in this space, the impact on family lawyers, and the bigger vision behind ISaidUSaid:Not just improving efficiency.But helping fix a system under enormous pressure.

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #FamilyLaw #DomesticViolence #LegalInnovation #LegalAI #FutureOfLaw #SentimentAnalytics

🎙️ “The legal industry isn’t sleepy anymore.”

At RelFest 26 Sydney by Relativity, Jonathan Seifman sat down with Chris Brown, Chief Product Officer at Relativity, to explore how legal tech is evolving through AI, collaboration, and continuous innovation.

Coming from outside the legal industry originally as a computer engineer, Chris shared why legal tech became one of the most exciting industries he’d ever worked in.

Legal is no longer just adopting technology.

It’s actively shaping it.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Legal data intelligence is becoming central to investigations, litigation, and regulatory workflows
↳ AI adoption in eDiscovery and legal workflows started much earlier than many people realise
↳ The best product innovation happens through deep customer feedback loops
↳ Australian legal professionals are viewed globally as highly practical and innovation-driven
↳ Modern legal AI requires collaboration between lawyers, engineers, and product teams

One insight that stood out:

“You want to engineer feedback loops into your development process.”

As Chris put it:

“It’s not too pretentious here. People just get to work.”

#PeopleInLegal #RelFest26 #Relativity #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalInnovation #eDiscovery #FutureOfLaw #LegalIndustry

Tim Kenney had the great conversation with Ted Theodoropoulos, CEO of Infodash, legal tech thought leader, and host of the 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁, for a deep conversation on AI, enterprise search, knowledge management, and the future of legal innovation.

And one message came through clearly: The firms that win in the AI era won’t just buy better tools. They’ll build better infrastructure, better integrations, and better legal engineering capability.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Legal engineers are becoming critical to law firm transformation
↳ AI makes knowledge management and data hygiene more important than ever
↳ “Garbage in, garbage out” still applies in legal AI
↳ Off-the-shelf AI tools alone won’t create long-term differentiation
↳ Law firms need technology foundations that can scale securely and intelligently

One insight that stood out:

“Technology is now entering the chat.”

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalEngineering #KnowledgeManagement #EnterpriseSearch #FutureOfLaw #InfoDash #LegalInnovation

🎙️ 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲.

At LEGAL INNOVATION & TECH FEST, our host Roni Millard, Founder and Health & Wellness Consultant at The Wellbeing Edge sat down with David Lisitsa, Director of NewLaw.com — the advisory many firms turn to when they need someone on their side of the table.

In an age of noise:

every vendor pitching,

every AI tool a saviour,

every consultant with a deck… Newlaw cuts through it.

Firms come to Newlaw with a problem — or hand them the keys and ask Newlaw to find the problems and solve them.

Either way, the brief is the same:

Help the firm stay competitive with the modern client.

Newlaw is effectively a fully outsourced legal operations, project management and design function.

The scope runs end-to-end:

▪️ Stack selection — choosing the platforms that will actually support the firm, not the loudest vendor in the room

▪️ Implementation & training — getting tools into the hands of fee-earners and making them stick

▪️ Marketing — positioning, digital presence, growth

▪️ Intake & client onboarding — frictionless, compliant, fast

▪️ AML & risk — built into the workflow, not bolted on

▪️ Precedent automation — turning expert lawyers’ work into leverage

▪️ Reporting & data — so firm leaders actually know what’s happening

▪️ Workflow design — the operational layer that makes everything else work

▪️ AI implementation — deep expertise, real deployments

Platform-agnostic by design — firms come to Newlaw regardless of which stack they’re on or moving to:

🔹 Practice management: Clio, Actionstep, Smokeball - Legal Software, LEAP Legal Software, Yao, LOGICFIRM SL, Thomson Reuters

🔹 Document management: NetDocuments, iManage, Bundledocs

🔹 CRM & business platforms: HubSpot, Zoho, Hivelight

🔹 AI & emerging tools: Parachute, Harvey, Legora and others — including local, on-premise deployments for firms where client confidentiality is non-negotiable

David's view:

“𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦.”

Firms shouldn’t be sold a stack.

They should buy an outcome — then bring in the experts to land it.

💥 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄?

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalOperations #WorkflowAutomation #LawFirms #FutureOfLaw #LegalInnovation #ChangeManagement

🎙️ 𝗔𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁. 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁.

At LEGAL INNOVATION & TECH FEST, Roni Millard, Founder and Health & Wellness Consultant at The Wellbeing Edge sat down with Kaleb Holden, Director of APAC at NetDocuments, to unpack what’s really keeping legal professionals up at night in the age of AI.

And surprisingly?

It’s not just the technology itself.

It’s:

→ information overload

→ governance

→ security

→ and figuring out which AI direction actually matters

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Law firms are overwhelmed by the sheer number of AI options entering the market
↳ Good AI requires structure, governance, and context — not just access to data
↳ Automating document workflows remains a huge opportunity for firms
↳ Security and data ownership are becoming even more critical in legal AI adoption
↳ The firms embracing AI strategically will gain long-term operational advantages

One insight that stood out:

“Bring AI to your content — not content to your AI.”

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #NetDocuments #LegalInnovation #FutureOfLaw #DocumentManagement #LawFirms #LegalAI

🎙️ AI isn’t slowing down. Neither is legal tech.

At 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝘆𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘆 by Relativity, Jonathan Seifman sat down with Georgia Foster, Managing Director and VP Sales, to discuss how AI is reshaping legal workflows, client expectations, and the future of the industry.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Legal teams are under increasing pressure to move faster and do more with less

↳ AI adoption is no longer a future discussion — it’s happening now

↳ Trust, accuracy, and security remain critical in legal AI workflows

↳ The firms embracing innovation strategically will create long-term advantage

↳ Technology alone isn’t enough — change management and people matter just as much

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ Legal teams are under increasing pressure to move faster and do more with less
↳ AI adoption is no longer a future discussion — it’s happening now
↳ Trust, accuracy, and security remain critical in legal AI workflows
↳ The firms embracing innovation strategically will create long-term advantage
↳ Technology alone isn’t enough — change management and people matter just as much

#PeopleInLegal #RelFest26 #Relativity #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalInnovation #FutureOfLaw #eDiscovery #LegalIndustry

🎙️ “𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝘁.”At Family Law Education Network Conference, David Woolstencroft sat down with Max Paterson - Co Founder and CEO of Smartnote to explore how AI is transforming legal workflows — from file notes and drafting to pricing models and client communication.After co-founding Settify and later returning to family law practice, Max saw a problem every lawyer knows too well:👉 File noting is painful👉 Admin steals valuable time👉 And too much legal work still happens manuallyThat led to the creation of SmartNote.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘀:

↳ AI can dramatically reduce the admin burden without removing legal judgment
↳ Lawyers may soon stop drafting from blank pages entirely
↳ Better workflows can improve both client experience and firm profitability
↳ AI allows lawyers to spend more time advising — and less time documenting
↳ The real power comes from combining AI with professional wisdom and context

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #AIinLaw #SmartNote #LegalInnovation #FutureOfLaw #Lawyers #LegalAI #LawFirmEfficiency

🎙️ “Humans still buy from humans.”

In this episode of People in Legal, Tim Kenney sat down with Marriott Murdoch, COO of Legacy Capital Fund, to unpack the evolving relationship between legal tech, private equity, and growth.

From remodelling bathrooms at NetDocuments… to leading Latin America expansion… to private equity investment strategy — Marriott’s journey through legal technology has been anything but conventional.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀:

↳ Great products still fail without the right go-to-market strategy
↳ Private equity doesn’t have to destroy culture — the right partner can help preserve and scale it
↳ Many founders hit a ceiling not because of product, but because of limited capital and resources
↳ Relationship-driven business still matters, especially in global markets
↳ Legal tech continues to attract strong investor interest as AI reshapes the landscape

One insight that stood out:

“A lot of business still happens face-to-face.”

This wasn’t just a conversation about funding.

It was about trust, growth, people, and what it really takes to scale a company without losing what made it successful in the first place.

#PeopleInLegal #LegalTech #PrivateEquity #SaaS #GoToMarket #LegalInnovation #AIinLaw #BusinessGrowth #Leadership