Ep 090: Lex Machina Chairman Josh Becker’s ‘Exit Interview’ from Legal Tech

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sept. 30, 2020, was Josh Becker’s last day in legal tech, at least for the time being, as he pursues his</span> <a href= "https://joshbecker2020.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">campaign for election</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">to the California state Senate in the district that encompasses Silicon Valley cities such as Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most recently, Becker was chairman of the trailblazing legal analytics company Lex Machina and head of legal analytics at LexisNexis, which</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2015/11/now-its-official-lexisnexis-acquires-lex-machina.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">acquired Lex Machina</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in 2015. Previously, he was Lex Machina’s CEO, a role he stepped into shortly after Stanford Law School spun it off into a private company.    </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Becker also heads the</span> <a href= "https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/accelerator.page"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">program, which recently announced its fifth cohort of startup participants, and which he will continue to stay involved with on a reduced basis. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Becker’s last day in legal tech, he sat down for an interview with LawNext host Bob Ambrogi, to recount his career, share his observations about the industry, and offer advice for startups in the field.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you would like to share a comment on this show, you can record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to</span> <a href= "mailto:info@lawnext.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">info@lawnext.com</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. We will play it in a future episode. </span></p> <p><strong>Announcement</str