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The Future is Bright Podcast
10.27.2025
Join Baretz+Brunelle partner and podcast co-host, Howard Rosenberg, for thought-provoking conversations with today's most inspirational leaders transforming the business of law.
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The Financial and Political Risks of Lateral Hiring
07.19.2025
With studies pointing to failure rates hovering between 50 to 60%, lateral equity partner hiring remains one of the riskiest moves a law firm can make—despite its potential for big rewards.
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Original Jurisdiction: The State of Legal Tech is Strong With Joe Borstein
03.05.2025
In his Original Jurisdiction podcast, David Lat sits down with Joe Borstein, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, to unpack the rapid rise of AI and its game-changing impact on the industry. From accelerating automation to reshaping career paths, David and Joe explore whether legal...
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GenAI in Legal: Progress, Promise, Pain, and Peril
12.25.2024
With Generative AI accelerating post-mid-2024, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder Casey Flaherty delivers a compact yet robust survey of where things stand—and where they’re heading in legal practice. Based on closed-door roundtables and real-world deployments, Casey assesses what’s...
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The Road Not Taken: An Alternative Path for Preferred-Provider Programs
12.01.2024
The Road Not Taken is a bold call for law departments to rethink their external legal spend strategy. With law departments under increasing pressure to deliver more with less, LexFusion’s latest memo by Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder Casey Flaherty lays out a compelling roadmap...
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The Newest Law Firm Partner: Private Equity
10.21.2024
In a recent New York Law Journal article, Howard Rosenberg, partner and head of Baretz+Brunelle’s Talent Intelligence & Acquisitions practice, details a potential trend coming to legal: the involvement of private equity funding in lateral hiring. As Howard shares, with law firms relying more than...
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What NFL Draft Picks Have in Common with Lateral Hires
09.12.2024
A recent analysis found that half the quarterbacks selected as first-round NFL draft picks turn out to be busts. Lateral partner hiring has a similar failure rate: nearly 50% of lateral partners leave their new law firm within five years. In both industries, evaluators tend to prioritize...
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AI Data Privacy Concern: Microsoft employees might review your Azure AI prompts and responses.
03.01.2024
Authored by Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder.
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Year in Review 2023
12.31.2023
The LexFusion Year in Review 2023 captures a year defined by unprecedented outreach, industry engagement, and thought leadership in the legal innovation space. Over the course of the year, LexFusion, now part of Baretz+Brunelle, conducted more than 2,600 meetings across 523 law departments and 230...
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Future Law Bootcamp with Joe Borstein and Guest Oz Benamran, Thought Leader in Technology and Innovation
09.13.2023
In this insightful episode of Future Law Boot Camp, host Joe Borstein, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, interviews Oz Benamran, former Chief Knowledge Officer and Innovation Officer at Simpson Thacher and founder, SKILLS.law, about the evolving landscape of legal innovation. Oz...
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And Now, Our Feature Presentation: GPT-4 is Here
03.27.2023
Authored by Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder
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LegalTech Matters with Joe Borstein and Joe Green, Chief Innovation Officer at Gunderson Dettmer
03.10.2023
In this episode of LegalTech Matters, Joe Borstein, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, talks with Joe Green, of counsel and chief innovation officer at Gunderson Dettmer, about his journey from lawyer to legal tech startup expert to Chief Innovation Office at Gunderson Dettmer. He...
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Legal Tech Market Gaps—Missing Features and Solutions
03.03.2023
Despite a crowded legal tech market, buyers remain frustrated by missing features and vague promises. In this Legaltech News piece, Rachel Dooley, former chief innovation officer at Goodwin, Janet Sullivan, eDiscovery counsel and global director of practice technology at White & Case, Joe Green,...
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PSA: ChatGPT is the trailer, not the movie
03.02.2023
Authored by Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder
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The Focus on ChatGPT Is Missing the Forest for the Tree: The Usual Suspect is Merely the Tip of the AI Iceberg
02.21.2023
In Law.com’s Part 2 of his series, Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, challenges the legal industry’s fixation on ChatGPT, arguing it's merely a preview of what’s to come. He highlights how domain-specific applications of large language models (LLMs)—like Google’s...
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LegalTech Matters: Progress, and the Lack Thereof, in the Evolution of Legal Services Toward Scale with Casey Flaherty
02.10.2023
In this podcast, Casey Flaherty and host David Curle, Litera’s legal content and research lead, compare some of the insights from LexFusion’s recent Legal Market Year in Review with Litera’s Changing Lawyer over the years. Casey finds an industry that still faces challenges in building legal...
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The Focus on ChatGPT Is Missing the Forest for the Tree: New AI Models Are Really, Ridiculously Powerful
01.31.2023
In his reflection in Law.com, Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, likens knee-jerk critiques of AI tools like ChatGPT to Derek Zoolander’s infamous outburst at a miniature model, highlighting both the laughable errors and deeper misunderstandings around large language...
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Trust Fall: The Limits of Discounts, Panels, Billing Guidelines, Etc.
12.05.2022
In 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, delivers a wide-ranging, unsparing critique of traditional legal cost-control tactics—discounts, panels, RFPs, billing guidelines, and AFAs—arguing they are often elaborate rituals that yield diminishing...
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Future Law Bootcamp with Joe Borstein and Guest Nick West, Partner and Chief Strategy Officer, Mishcon de Reya
11.13.2022
In this episode of Future Law Boot Camp, host Joe Borstein, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, leads the conversation with Nick West, partner and chief strategy officer at Mishcon de Reya, a prominent UK litigation firm deeply engaged in legal innovation and technology. The...
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Scary Stories about our Wicked Problems (Legal Nerd Halloween)
10.31.2022
In 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, warns that in-house legal teams face a wicked problem: mounting complexity, rising demand, and relentless cost pressure—with no easy answers. Short-term fixes like discounts, insourcing, and...
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Legal Buy: We’re Asking the Wrong Questions
10.10.2022
In 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, reflects on how his long-standing advice to in-house legal departments, to ask law firms about their technology use, has backfired. While well-intentioned, this guidance often results in superficial...
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Joe Borstein in Conversation with David Wang, Chief Innovation Officer at Wilson Sonsini, on Legal Innovation in Silicon Valley
02.28.2022
In this episode of LegalTech Matters, Joe Borstein, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, interviews David Wang, Chief Innovation Officer at Wilson Sonsini. David describes how working with Silicon Valley tech companies made keeping up with technology an imperative for the firm. He...
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Avoiding Tech First Failures When Improving Legal Workflows and Processes with Casey Flaherty
01.20.2022
Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, makes his second appearance on Technically Legal. This time around, he explores a provocative thesis: organizations often lean on technology as a way to sidestep deeper, more difficult issues related to process and culture.
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Tech-First Failures—Value Storytelling
12.31.2021
In 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, discusses the legal industry’s overreliance on technology as a silver bullet for transformation. He argues that tech-driven initiatives often fail because they prioritize tools over outcomes, lacking the...
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Start With Why—Value Storytelling
11.14.2021
In 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, emphasizes the importance of framing legal department initiatives through the lens of value storytelling—specifically by starting with the “why.” He argues that most legal departments default to explaining...
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Explaining the joke: lawyers lagging behind
08.22.2021
Authored by Casey Flaherty, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder.
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Joe Borstein Interviews Mike Bryant, Partner at Knox Capital
08.13.2021
In the debut episode of Future Law Bootcamp, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder Joe Borstein talks with Knox Capital partner Mike Bryant about why legal is finally attracting serious investors. Mike, a veteran operator turned investor, explains how globalization, automation, and...
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Joe Borstein Interviews Jared Applegate, Chief Legal Operations Officer at Barnes & Thornburg
08.13.2021
In this episode of the Future Law Bootcamp podcast, Joe Borstein, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, speaks with Jared Applegate, chief legal operations officer at Barnes & Thornburg, about building a modern legal operations function inside a law firm. Jared shares his perspective on...
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Future Law Bootcamp with Joe Borstein and Guest John Scrudato, Legal Technologist
06.23.2021
In this Future Law Bootcamp episode, Joe Borstein, Baretz+Brunelle partner and LexFusion co-founder, hosts John Scradato, a legal technologist with a unique background in engineering, law, and business. The discussion centers on the transformative impact of technology, globalization, regulation,...
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Baretz+Brunelle Research Uncovers Hidden Trend: 35% of Am Law 100 Firms Are Also Providing ‘Alternative’ Legal Services
10.06.2020
NEW YORK – October 6, 2020 – The world’s largest law firms have been quietly mobilizing to recapture billions in revenue that has flowed in recent years to technology-driven upstarts known as alternative legal service providers, according to a report released today by Baretz+Brunelle, a leading...
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