More from @Rawiashraf: No one went to law school to do daily cutting and pasting or chasing people down to sign documents. #ELTF19 #innovation #legaltech

Omg. All this from @thomsonreuters @Rawiashraf: being a lawyer necessarily involves both super-complicated work and so much drudgery & misery. #ELTF19 #innovation

Ok next panel on platform intraoperability features @davidcurle moderating discussion with some interesting folks: @reynen_court CEO/founder Andy Klein, @StikemanElliott @AndreaAlliston, @goclio @alexshipillo & @thomsonreuters’s @Rawiashraf & @ZAppleCI. #ELTF19 #innovation

One more quote from the break, from @WhiteCase Janet Sullivan: why shouldn’t attys get to use the best technology for #probono matters also? #ELTF19 #innovation

Rob Garmaise @FaskenLaw CINO: #probono is impt way to engage #millennial attys and employees. #ELTF19 #innovation

Janet Sullivan @WhiteCase: if we can use tech to allow attys & technologists to work together on matters that are meaningful to them & make a difference, we want to do that. #probono #accesstojustice #ELTF19

Oh back in my sweet spot: Janet of @WhiteCase discussing the firm looking at innovative approaches to #accesstojustice & #probono: if we’re licensing data, can we negotiate additional storage for data I. pro bono matters? #ELTF19

Aileen Schultz @thomsonreuters says experimentation through innovation is greatly undervalued: “the value of prototyping, analyzing & truly understanding whether technology is the right solution” is a huge asset for a company. #ELTF19 #innovation

Ooh! @FaskenLaw looking at an app that would help attys with #businessdevelopment—looking at LinkedIn contacts & suggesting reaching out to clients based on news on social media (Ie new mergers, initiatives etc) #ELTF19 #innovation

What the panelist says is useful about this it not only could get attys used to this technology but the firm can use those learnings to spread to other client facing tools. #ELTF19 #innovation

Ooh!! Now we’re talking my interest area: one firm is looking at developing a chatbot to allow attys to ask about and receive info on mental health anonymously. #ELTF19 #attorneywellness

Ross Paolino @WesternUnion: key to our contract playbooks is logging every deviation from standard contact terms & analyzing those each quarter to see if we should change those. #ELTF19 #innovation #disruption

Ross Paolino of @WesternUnion: our #innovation strategy has focused on both ensuring everyone in organization is speaking same language RE prods & svcs and creating contract playbooks to ensure process is moving faster & more efficiently #ELTF19

Janet Sullivan @WhiteCase: we are focused on offering #ai #MachineLearning for large data sets for clients. #ELTF19 #innovation

Rob Garmaise @FaskenLaw CINO: our client portal has allowed us to help clients automate key transactions & visualize their data-which gives them control in making decisions re their legal spend. #ELTF19 #innovation

Aileen Schultz of @TRLabs: you need technologists on innovation committees-some atty fear of tech is GRC of lack of understanding of how tech can make jobs easier & complement not replace people. #ELTF19 #innovation

(Note: I think every atty should also be able to articulate their firm’s diversity and #probono strategies also!) #ELTF19 #DiversityandInclusion

I always say this-every law firm partner should understand their company’s innovation strategy enough to state it generally to a client/potential client in 3 bullet points-& set up a mtg with colleague who can speak to it more! #ELTF19 #innovation

ALLL THIS: @FaskenLaw CINO: “You must keep your #innovation roadmap front & center and ensure that is articulated and understood” #ELTF19

Huge strategy for @arentfox to get attys involved in innovation & digital transform efforts was providing billable credit for #innovation activities. @arentfox CTO #ELTF19 #disruption

“We’ve using cloud technology & managed services to transform daily tech so our engineers are freed up to transform to business analysts.” @arentfox CTO Ed Macnamara #ELTF19 #innovation

Ed Macnamara @arentfox CTO: our attys are not interested in discussing innovative new solutions if their day to day tech is not consistently available & performing. #ELTF19 #innovation

Karen Wiltgen of @RSMUSLLP: “Technology is the easiest part of digital transformation; changing people, the culture & the mindset is the harder job”. #ELTF19 #disruption

1st panel starting on digital transformation—where culture meets strategy. #ELTF19

Pablo Rodriguez notes the uptick in investment in #LegalTech: $2.1 billion already in disclosed investments through August 2019 vs $2b for all of 2018. #disruption #ELTF19

Alright! @thomsonreuters Pablo Rodriguez kicks off #ELTF19. #legaltech

Earrrrly morning Go train view of Lake Ontario on the way to #ELTF19! @LegalExecutives