Law Firm & Corporate Legal Advisory Solutions
Legal technology is now advancing at an unprecedented rate (see: the explosion of GenAI). If you aren’t equipping your team with the right knowledge and tools to leverage these advancements, you risk decreased revenue, becoming inefficient and losing your people.
The experts at LTH carry decades of experience successful innovation, product development and analysis within the legal industry. We know where the industry is heading and which solutions are at the vanguard of the next wave of legal tech advancements. We know what your internal and external clients expect and how you can meet those expectations, and can share our expertise in flexible, agile ways that suit your needs.
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Who You Are
A law firm or in-house legal department who:
Needs expertise and education around industry trends like AI.
Wants to find or build solutions to meet evolving customer expectations and, integration and security requirements, pricing models and adoption.
Wants to drive innovation and/or KM and seeks guidance on how to build the function.
What We Deliver
Artificial Intelligence
Including: AI presentations (market analysis, evolution, forecasting, benefits, regulatory & ethical risks, use case workshops), strategic planning (buy/partner/build)
Knowledge Management
Including: strategy (building or rebuilding KM function), tactics (KM & innovation audits, project prioritization, building teams). change management & adoption.
Legal Tech & Innovation
Including: projects (requirements analysis, solution evaluation, demos & feedback, business case preparation), market product updates, technology gap analysis, innovation benchmarking consulting, solution matchmaking and introductions.
Solution Selection
LTH’s extensive expertise enables us to assist law firms and corporate legal departments in the selection and purchasing process.
Benchmarking
How does your law firm stack up against peers from an innovation or legal tech stack perspective?
Partner Briefings/ Retreats
We regularly speak at partner meetings and retreats about state of the market, impact of GenAI on the business of law and legal tech and innovation in general.
How We Deliver
Advisory
Regular calls with the appropriate LTH expert to address relevant current questions and issues (e.g. ten calls over a six month period to receive actionable advice on any of the above deliverables).
Project
An agreed-upon project to be completed within a certain timeframe (e.g. a KM function structure blueprint to be delivered within three months).
Presentation
Prepared seminars, keynote speeches, market updates, workshops to team members (e.g. a one hour keynote on the current and future state of Gen AI to a practice group or partner retreat)
Your LTH Experts
Nikki Shaver
CEO and Co-Founder
Over the past 20 years, Nikki has practised law at large firms and media companies in Australia, led knowledge and innovation teams at firms including Stikeman Elliott in Canada and Paul Hastings in the United States, and advised legaltech companies and corporate legal on legaltech procurement.
Expertise: Innovation & KM Consulting, Industry Analysis, Trend Forecasting, AI Current State & Forecasting, Adoption Advisory, Legal Tech Solution Assessment
Jeroen Plink
COO and Co-Founder
Jeroen has been in legal tech since the early 2000's. Having started his career as a lawyer for Clifford Chance, he founded two legal tech companies, established Practical Law in the USA from zero to capturing 80% of the AmLaw 200 and thousands of other law firms and in-house departments, worked as an innovator at Clifford Chance, advised and invested in many legal tech companies including Kira Systems, Leopard Solutions and Casetext.
Expertise: Business Development and Go-to-Market Consulting, Corporate Governance & Strategic Advisory, Industry Analysis, Trend Forecasting, M&A Advisory, Exit Strategy, Funding
Chris Ford
CMO and Co-Founder
Chris has found himself working repeatedly in legal marketing, with LexisNexis, Axiom, ZERO and Baretz+Brunelle. During yet another discussion with Nikki about the state of the industry in 2019, the absence of a unified resource for finding legaltech tools and information that was useful, comprehensive and reliable appeared as an obvious gap in the market. Chris was part of the initial team that built Legaltech Hub. He serves as LTH's CMO, leading all marketing efforts and providing external consulting and advisory services to legal tech vendors.
Expertise: Marketing, Go-To-Market, Product Positioning
Cheryl Wilson Griffin
VP of Vendor Advisory
Cheryl is an experienced legal tech strategist with over 20 years of developing products and services that enable the business and practice of law. She has built and led innovation teams at top 25 international law firms, launched two successful legal tech startups, and serves as a strategic consultant to venture capital and private equity firms.
Expertise: Product Strategy, Go-To-Market, Commercial Strategy, Product Launches, Security, Compliance, Early-Stage Startups