Fast-Tracked: Emergent Issues in the Legal Profession
Episodes
Upheaval Underway: How AI Is Reshaping the Legal Industry
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of Fast-Tracked Season Two, Jae Um (Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer & Head of Knowledge at Lumio) discusses the last five v...
Justice by Design: How AI Can Lead to More Human-Centric Solutions to Access to Justice Challenges
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jackie Schafer, founder and CEO of ClearBrief.ai, explores the integration of technology and law, focusing on topics such as access to justice and the...
Breaking the Mold: A Tech-Savvy Lawyer's Blueprint for Legal Department Evolution
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whitney Stefko, Director and Senior Counsel of Policy and Legal Operations at Ford Motor Company, discusses insights on AI implementation in legal ope...
Redefining Success: How Lawyers Are Charting Their Own Authentic Leadership Journeys
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nina Blackshear, a certified executive coach and practicing corporate attorney, shares her unconventional career journey from law school to various ro...
A Chief Legal Officer on Timeless Principles in a Changing World
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy Lopez, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Spencer Stuart, shares her experiences managing a global legal team amidst economic uncerta...
How AI Might Reshape Alternative Dispute Resolution
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arbitrator and mediator Stacy Guillon, co-founder of Decisioncraft, discusses how AI is transforming alternative dispute resolution (ADR) through stre...
An Appellate Litigator’s Thoughts on GenAI
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Unikowsky, a partner in the appellate litigation practice at Jenner & Block, draws from his background in physics, engineering, and law to ex...
An Athlete’s Mindset for Lawyers
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jess Sargus, former litigator and founder of The Legal Athlete, discusses the intersection of elite athletic performance and trial law. She shares how...
Changing Law Firm Business Models
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Richard Jolly of Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management explores evolving challenges in the legal profession, particularly wit...
AI and the Courts
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Judge Scott Schlegel, a technology-forward judge from Louisiana’s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, discusses the role of AI and digital tools in moder...
Law Firm Leadership During Challenging Times
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Legal industry leaders Brad S. Karp, Chair of Paul, Weiss, and Jami McKeon, Chair of Morgan Lewis, share insights from their impressive careers as lon...
The Future of Regulatory Reform and Lawyer Licensure
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Structural barriers to change may represent the biggest enemy to innovation, access to justice, and a coherent system of lawyer formation. From regula...
Shaping the Law Firm Associate of the Future
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The history of lawyer formation has given rise to an educational structure that intentionally separates learning from practice, making it challenging ...
Generative AI and Lawyer Formation
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The capabilities of generative artificial intelligence — reading, summarizing, analyzing, organizing, and producing draft documents —-- align with...
The Status of Attorney Well-Being
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The last few years have marked a sea change in the way the profession thinks about mental health and attorney well-being. Paula Davis of the Stress &a...
Leading the Most Intergenerational Legal Workforce in History
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How in the world can today's legal leaders tackle the complexity of creating a vision to guide four different generations simultaneously? Join our gue...
The Evolving State of ESG Initiatives
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, guest experts David Curran of Paul, Weiss and Lisa Fairfax of The Institute for Law & Economics at Penn Carey Law discuss ESG ini...
Generative AI: Innovation in the General Counsel's Office
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dive into this fast-paced conversation with Ilona Logvinova, formerly of McKinsey & Co., and Darth Vaughn of Ford Motor Co., about how generat...
State of the Corporate Legal Services Industry
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on the combined expertise of two knowledgeable industry analysts, ALM’s Patrick Fuller and Heather Nevitt, this session explores the evolvin...
Generative AI and Access to Justice
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Hon. Bridget Mary McCormack, President and CEO of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and Andrew Per...
Welcome to Fast Tracked: Emergent Issues in the Legal Profession
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Buckle up as we hit the gas with Fast Tracked: Emergent Issues in the Legal Profession, a PLI podcast hosted by legal innovator and thought leader Jen...