Master the Legal Tech Revolution: How AI Can Supercharge Your Legal Department
How AI is Transforming Legal Services & Redefining Roles
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Meet the Panelists
Darth Vaughn
Managing Director, Legal Ops+ | Litigation Counsel, Ford Motor Company
Darth Vaughn has 23+ years' experience as an attorney and is the Managing Director Legal Ops+ and Litigation Counsel at Ford Motor Company.
Darth Vaughn has 23+ years' experience as an attorney and is the Managing Director Legal Ops+ and Litigation Counsel at Ford Motor Company. He harnesses the collective strengths and expertise of lawyers and legal ops professionals to deliver efficient and exceptional legal services. Darth has extensive expertise in the application of AI to the practice of law. He is at the forefront of utilizing generative AI to improve legal outcomes, making Ford’s in-house legal department one of the first to onboard and successfully utilize the same. Darth also works on emerging legal issues related to both electric and autonomous vehicles.
Jerry Ting, JD
Founder and CEO, Evisort
Jerry Ting is Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Evisort, an AI-powered contract analytics and management platform. He founded Evisort in 2016 and raised over $155 million
Jerry Ting is Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Evisort, an AI-powered contract analytics and management platform. He founded Evisort in 2016 and raised over $155 million in venture capital funding. Ting helps lawyers find creative and efficient paths to providing legal services, including using legal technology, alternative legal service providers, and developing legal operations capabilities. He has professional experiences in banking, consulting, law, and tech sales.
Tariq Akbar
CEO, LegalEase Solutions
Tariq Akbar is the CEO & Co-Founder of LegalEase Solutions. He has a successful career of over 20 years in venture capital, legal tech, real estate, engineering, and management consulting
Tariq Akbar is the CEO & Co-Founder of LegalEase Solutions. He has a successful career of over 20 years in venture capital, legal tech, real estate, engineering, and management consulting behind him in the US, Europe and Asia. Akbar’s decades of expertise were gained by working at top consultancy firms including Deloitte. He is passionate about emerging tech, environmental issues, social impact, surfing, productization of services, SaaS, and e-commerce models. When Tariq is not working on strategy for LegalEase Solutions, you can catch him surfing on the beaches in San Diego.
Patrice Asimakis
Director of Legal Services, LegalEase Solutions
Patrice has extensive expertise in handling litigation and transactional matters for large firms and solo practitioners. She is at the forefront of “NewLaw,”
Patrice has extensive expertise in handling litigation and transactional matters for large firms and solo practitioners. She is at the forefront of “NewLaw,” the global transformation redefining how legal services are delivered. Patrice helps lawyers craft innovative solutions across several verticals, including legal research, legal operations, contract management, compliance, litigation services and legal analytics. Patrice was awarded Innovator of the Year by the 2022 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards. Recently, Patrice was also named as a Women Worth Watching in Leadership by Profiles in Diversity Journal.
Success Story
The client is an AI services provider that assists enterprises in achieving their digital transformation goals.
Challenge
- The client's company went through multiple acquisitions and as a result, their legacy contract data was scattered across various repositories
- The client’s current contract lifecycle platform’s data was not updated to reflect the acquisitions and relevant data
- It was difficult for the client’s legal department to look up specific contract data and terms from various phases and periods
- The client found it hard to work with missing data for individual contracts
- The above processes included manual effort leading to loss of precious time for the client’s legal department
Solutions
LegalEase streamlined the client's legacy contract data and contracts from past mergers and acquisitions. A dedicated team was assigned to ensure successful completion.
The LegalEase team:
- updated individual contract data
- filled in missing contract data
- updated start dates and expiry/renewal dates for all contracts
- corrected contract values for the client
- held weekly meetings with the client to review updates and escalations
- cleaned up the client’s contract data
- contract data can include terms such as quantity, license, effective date, expiry date
Results
- The client’s legal department got their time back to focus on more pressing and high-value matters
- The client was able to visualize contract data value in a simplified format
- All contract data was streamlined for easy access
- LegalEase discovered and identified master agreements from contract orders on their platform
- The client’s contract data was updated
- LegalEase updated individual contract data for over 5,000 contracts
About LegalEase Solutions
18+
Years of delivering successful legal solutions
21+
Partnerships with legal tech companies
50%
of clients are publicly listed companies
80+
years of combined CLM implementation expertise
85%
of projects delivered exceeded client expectations
92%
client retention rate and growing
500,000+
contracts reviewed