Ep 035: Felicity Conrad, Cofounder and CEO of Paladin

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Felicity Conrad is on a mission to help expand pro bono legal services. The legal technology company she cofounded,</span> <a href= "https://www.joinpaladin.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Paladin</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, helps corporations, law firms, law schools and legal service organizations streamline their pro bono programs, with the greater goal of helping them serve more clients in need and help close the gap in access to justice.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paladin has attracted some notable investors, including billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and host of the show</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Shark Tank</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,and also notable development partnerships, including with the law firms Dentons and Wilson Sonsini and the Chicago Bar Foundation.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of LawNext, Conrad joins host Bob Ambrogi for an in-depth discussion of the company she and cofounder Kristen Sonday launched in 2015. She explains how the platform works, describes Paladin’s partnerships with legal departments, law firms and associations to expand it capabilities, and discusses her views on how technology can play a role in expanding access to justice.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before founding Paladin, Conrad was a litigator in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. An alumnus of NYU Law, McGill University and Sciences Po Paris, she previously worked at the United Nations on International Criminal Court issues, and has worked in international law around the world. In 2017, she was named both an ABA Journal Legal Rebel and a Fastcase 50 legal innovation honoree. In 2019, the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center named her to its roster of Women of Legal Tech.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NEW:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are now Patreon! Subscribe to</span> <a h