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New York University School of Law

Oberlin College

Amherst Regional High School

Senior Director Analyst at Gartner

Advise General Counsel, Heads of Legal Operations, and other senior legal department leadership on improving legal department operations and performance, including deploying Generative AI and selecting and effectively using outside counsel and Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs).

Gartner

Senior Director Analyst

Advise ALSP on strategy. Develop new business. Design custom solutions that incorporate AI and efficient offshore human teams to meet business and legal process outsourcing requirements.

Cenza

Senior Advisor (Consulting)

The InnovAction Award, by the The College of Law Practice Management. is a worldwide search for lawyers, law firms, and other deliverers of legal services who are currently engaged in extraordinary innovative efforts.

College of Law Practice Management

Judge, InnovAction Award

MANAGE DELIVERY:  Manage six direct reports (90 total) responsible for daily briefings, spend management analytics, competitive intelligence, recruiting, and managing onsite law libraries.

ENHANCE SERVICES:  Enhance core research offering to add value with offshore delivery, visual presentation, and partnerships for expanded coverage. Explore opportunities to deploy AI in core business.

SELL:  Sell and support sales team. Speak and write to boost brand and develop leads.

LAC Group

Chief Knowledge + Information Officer

SOFTWARE:  Advise on selecting, designing, and deploying document management systems and portals. Write functional specs for legal project management (LPM) software. Evaluate law department tech.

KM AND AI:  Recommend knowledge management and digital offerings strategy.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP:  Facilitate vendor CIO advisory board; deliver keynote addresses; author articles for company.

Fireman & Company

Partner

GROWTH STRATEGY: Advise ALSP on strategy (while I was a Fireman & Company partner). Develop new business. Design custom solutions to meet business process outsourcing requirements.

CONTRACT MANAGEMENT:  Develop a contracts AI business over three years. Work with leading contract AI software companies.

Cenza Technologies

CONTRACTS AND E-DISCOVERY:  Create contract playbooks and reengineer contract processes; solution design for complex contract, e-discovery, and document review projects. 

BUSINESS SERVICES:  Design client solutions. Work with law firm C-suite to evaluate + streamline key support functions.

Integreon

Senior Vice President, Consulting

STRATEGY: Responsible for worldwide product marketing and strategy, including marketing mix. Ran PR.

LEAD GENERATION + THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Establish company as thought leader and generate leads via blog, articles, and speaking. Solution design and  sales support.

Senior Vice President, Marketing

I blogged at Strategic Legal Technology, located at www.prismlegal.com. In addition to legal technology, I wrote about Big Law business, knowledge management, legal outsourcing, and how lawyers can improve the way they practice and run their businesses.

Strategic Legal Technology

Blogger

LAW FIRMS + DEPARTMENTS:  Advise on technology evaluation, planning and selection; e-discovery; knowledge management, contract management, and records management. 

LEGAL VENDORS:  Develop product strategy + marketing, write e-discovery white papers; and organize and facilitate a legal CIO advisory board.

Prism Legal Consulting, Inc.

Founder

MANAGE IT:  Supervise IT staff of 50+ with a $15 million budget. Centralize help desk. 

STRATEGIC PROJECTS:  Build online legal services. Roll out a new portal. Create a KM strategy.

Mintz

Chief Information Officer

Plan alliances and strategy for online enforceable contract / digital signature software company / dot.com.

iLumin

Vice President, Corporate + Strategic Development

DEVELOP LEGAL MARKET:  Work with law firms + departments to create interactive advisory systems. Conceive the business model, write white papers, and generate earned PR. 

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING: Assist lawyers in crystallizing their know-how. Design substantive systems. 

Note: At time of my employment, the company was called Jnana Technologies

Neota Logic Inc

Director, Legal Applications 

PIONEER: First non-practicing lawyer hired by a large law firm to manage the use and development of technology to improve law practice, including knowledge management, document management, and a substantive Intranet. 

SOLUTION DESIGN:  Assess needs, formulate plan to meet needs, and win approval to develop solutions.

OPERATIONS:  Hire staff. Prepare a $2 million budget. Negotiate major vendor contracts.

[Firm was Wilmer Cutler & Pickering during my tenure.]

WilmerHale

Head, Practice Support

CORPORATE STRATEGY: Create corporate strategies for Fortune 500 clients.

Bain & Company

Consultant

Provided consulting support to and customized financial/economic analysis for large companies.
One of two people to open a new office in Stamford.
Built and managed a consulting team.
Developed an investment screening system, M&A model, and product line forecasts.

Ron Friedmann