🎙️ You can’t choose the right tech if you don’t know where you’re going.

At the conference, David sat down with an advisor working closely with mid-market law firms navigating growth, margin pressure, and the shift toward new ways of working.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀:

↳ Many firms don’t actually know their current tech stack or capabilities
↳ Shadow AI use is already happening — often without governance or visibility
↳ Change isn’t the challenge — change management is
↳ Value-based billing requires clear visibility on profitability
↳ The real starting point? Define the problem before the solution

One insight that stood out: Start with the problem — not the technology.

Technology doesn’t fix direction. It amplifies it.

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In this episode of People in Legal, Tim Kenney sits down with Chad Ergun, CIO of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, to unpack what law firms are getting right… and wrong… when it comes to AI.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀:

↳ Don’t start with tools — start with policy, security, and client obligations
↳ Your data needs to be ready — otherwise AI won’t deliver value
↳ Prompting isn’t enough anymore — it’s about context and control
↳ Free AI tools come with risks — especially around client confidentiality
↳ The real shift? Lawyers moving from doing the work… to orchestrating it

One insight that stood out:

You’re not just using AI anymore — you’re managing how it thinks, what it sees, and how it responds.

From data readiness to agentic AI, this conversation goes beyond the hype and into what actually matters for firms today.

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🎙️ A single missed bill took 9 months to fix.

At FLENA Conference, David sat down with applied behavioural scientist and founder Colin Jowell to unpack a problem most families only face when it’s already too late.

💡 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀:

↳ A will doesn’t capture the full picture of someone’s life
↳ The real gap? Everything between legal, financial, and personal information
↳ Families can spend 200–300 hours trying to piece things together
↳ It’s not about age — it’s about the complexity of your life
↳ The goal isn’t planning for death — it’s reducing burden for the people you love

From digital assets to day-to-day admin, the reality is simple:

👉 The hardest part isn’t writing a will
👉 It’s making sure everything around it is actually usable

This isn’t just a legal problem.
It’s a human one.

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