Ari Kaplan Advisors

Ari Kaplan, a leading legal industry analyst, is an inaugural Fastcase 50 honoree, a finalist for ILTA’s Thought Leader of the Year award, and a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. His most recent book, Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace, was released in Japanese, and West Academic published the second edition of The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development in 2016.

I spoke with Eric Thurston, the president and CEO of SurePoint Technologies, a provider of client management, practice management, and financial management software to law firms nationwide. We discussed the integration of SurePoint’s various brands, including ContactEase and Coyote Analytics, strategies that law firms can learn from software companies about scaling and growing,

I spoke with Francisco Webber, the co-founder of Austrian AI company Cortical.io, which develops intelligent document processing solutions for unstructured text supported by natural language processing. We discussed high-efficiency artificial intelligence and why is it relevant for contract review, applications for contract intelligence, and the most common misconceptions about the use of AI.

I spoke with Bim Dave, the Executive Vice President of Helm360, a provider of legal technology products and services. We discussed how ChatGPT could impact the way lawyers practice, the risks associated with leveraging AI, best practices that law firms should use when selecting legal technology, and the non-technological barriers to technology adoption at