Ep 062: Corporate Counsel Roundtable on Data-Driven Innovation

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As corporate legal departments seek to control costs and drive innovation, how can better use of data, metrics and analytics help? How are corporate counsel using analytics to measure and improve performance internally and among outside counsel?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These questions were the topic of a special episode of LawNext, recorded live during</span> <a href="https://www.event.law.com/legalweek"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Legalweek 2020</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">in New York City with a panel of four corporate counsel and executives who are leaders in law department innovation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My guests for this special episode were:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbarnwell/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Jason Barnwell</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, assistant general counsel-modern legal at Microsoft, where he leads a team tasked with driving legal department innovation.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-b-ehrlich/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Laurie Ehrlich</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, associate general counsel and head of legal operations at Cognizant, where she manages the finances, technology and knowledge management for its 200-plus person legal department.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreihl/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Jeff Reihl</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, executive vice president and chief technology officer at LexisNexis, where he is responsible for driving technology transformation, with a focus on data analytics and artificial intelligence.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksmolik/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Mark A. Smolik</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, chief legal and compliance officer at DHL Su