Jul 25 2024 29 mins 2
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- Why now is the time to invest in legal tech and solve adoption challenges. (1:55)
- Understand why lawyers avoid technology. (4:56)
- Determine how to make tech hard to avoid for intended users. (9:50)
- Understand how to turn continued tech holdouts into tech adopters. (17:05)
- Immediate actions to improve your legal tech adoption strategies. (23:43)
While most lawyers do understand the potential usefulness and value of using technology to improve their work, general counsel will have to work to overcome reluctance and set clear and real expectations for tech usage. In this installment of the Strategic GC Podcast, Gartner advisor Drew Tanenbaum and host Alissa Lugo discuss how general counsel can increase legal technology adoption rates.
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Drew Tanenbaum, a Gartner senior director of advisory, helps general counsel (GC) become more effective organizational and functional leaders. As a trusted advisor to GC, Drew supports them on a range of initiatives, including personal and team strategy setting, improving board effectiveness, developing and managing environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategies, transforming legal departments, and improving organizational risk management. Previously, Drew worked as in-house counsel at PayPal and Citigroup, and before that he served as an attorney at two large, national law firms.
