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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Jami McKeon, Chair of Morgan Lewis

09.15.2025

In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz welcome Jami McKeon, chair of Morgan Lewis, an Am Law 10 firm recognized for its global presence and collaborative culture. With more than...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Stephen Zubiago, Managing Partner and CEO, Nixon Peabody

08.28.2025

In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz welcome Stephen Zubiago, managing partner and CEO of Nixon Peabody, a leading Am Law 100 firm known for its deep bench in financial services,...
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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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Howard Rosenberg Interviews David Lat, Founder of Original Jurisdiction and Legal Commentator

07.09.2025

In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz with down with David Lat, founder of the legal newsletter Original Jurisdiction, former federal prosecutor and creator of Above the Law. David...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Rebecca Goodman-Stephens, CEO of Moses Singer LLP

06.19.2025

In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz welcome Rebecca Goodman-Stephens, CEO of Moses Singer LLP, a highly respected mid-sized law firm in New York City. With a background in...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Yakub Hazzard, Los Angeles Sports Royalty and Chair of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

06.05.2025

In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz welcome Yakub Hazzard, chair of the Los Angeles media- and entertainment-focused boutique Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP. Yakub has decades...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Jamie Drozd, Managing Partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

04.11.2025

In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz welcome Jamie Drozd, managing partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Jamie leads one of the nation’s most forward-thinking AmLaw100 firms, and...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Crispin Passmore, Co-Founder of Stratify

04.03.2025

In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz welcome Crispin Passmore, co-founder of Stratify and a former U.K. regulator turned consultant. Crispin brings his cross-Atlantic perspective...
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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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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Kristina Lawson, Managing Partner of Hanson Bridgett LLP

01.22.2025

In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and his co-host Chris Batz speak with Kristina Lawson, managing partner of Hanson Bridgett LLP and former mayor of Walnut Creek, California. Kristina shares focus on her...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Mishcon de Reya’s Neville Eisenberg on The Future Is Bright Podcast

01.14.2025

In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, hosts Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and Chris Batz, managing member of Columbus Street, sit down with Neville Eisenberg, senior strategy executive at Mishcon de Reya. A seasoned executive in the UK...
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Howard Rosenberg Interviews PwC’s Greg Jackson on The Future Is Bright Podcast

01.14.2025

In this episode of The Future Is Bright podcast, hosts Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and Chris Batz, managing member of Columbus Street, sit down with Greg Jackson, legal strategist at PwC. Greg shares his insights into the dynamic UK legal market,...
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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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Howard Rosenberg Interviews Katten CEO Noah Heller on The Future Is Bright Podcast

12.23.2024

In this episode of The Future Is Bright Podcast, hosts Howard Rosenberg, head of Talent Intelligence + Acquisitions at Baretz+Brunelle, and Chris Batz, managing member of Columbus Street, sit down with Noah Heller, CEO of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. Noah’s journey is remarkable—he took the reins of...
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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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