Friday, July 23, 2021

Future Ready Lawyer webinar explores technological innovation in corporate legal departments after a year of pandemic

By Brad Rosen, J.D.

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. recently hosted a webinar with Corporate Counsel Business Journal (CCBJ) focusing on the findings of the 2021 Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer Survey: Moving Beyond the Pandemic. Ken Crutchfield, a Vice President in the company’s Legal Markets group led a lively discussion about tops trends impacting corporate legal departments, approaches to innovation, client-law firm relationships, as well as lessons learned in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Crutchfield was joined by an all-star panel of some of the nation’s top thought leaders in the legal technology and innovation space, including Mark Brennan, Partner & Tech and Telecoms Sector Group Leader at Hogan Lovells; Chris Johnson, Senior Legal Counsel, Americas at Avery Dennison; Tommie-Ann Ferreira, Director, Contracts Management & Legal Operations at Rakuten; Marlene Gebauer, Director of Knowledge Management at Locke Lord and Co-host of The Geek in Review Podcast; and Terra Potter, General Counsel - EMEA/AP and Industrial at Hexcel Corporation.

You can read more about the Future Ready Lawyer webinar here.