Digital Legal Exchange

In our latest Digital Legal Exchange podcast, Michele DeStefano sits down with Duc Trang, Managing Director Transform Advisory Services at Major, Lindsey & Africa and Digital Legal Exchange Faculty Advisor, to explore how legal leaders can accelerate the training of key skills that lawyers need to operate in digital legal functions. Duc discusses his practical methodology for developing higher cognitive skills, problem solving, commercial acumen, systemic thinking and judgment through the Talent Development Framework

In our latest Digital Legal Exchange podcast, Michele DeStefano sits down with Chris Fowler, General Counsel Technology at BT and Exchange Faculty Advisor, to explore why he joined the Exchange and to share his experiences of creating the "best-connected legal function".Chris discusses failure, the importance of having a North Star, why developing a front-footed communication plan can be critical in digital transformation efforts and describes his experiences in adopting a client-centric and data-driven approach to transformation to add value to the business.In this key highlight, he also explains the importance of focusing on engaging employees and celebrating their efforts:"One of the greatest things I think about in terms of our overall transformation is that fundamentally we are a more engaged, higher performing team now than we were previously and a more engaged team as a more fun team to be around."Subscribe to our podcast to hear more insights like these from other legal and business leaders.

In our latest Digital Legal Exchange podcast, Michele DeStefano sits down with Shahar Markovitch, Exchange Faculty Advisor and Chief Digital and Transformation Officer at Natural Intelligence, to explore why he joined the Exchange and his views on Digital Transformation in the legal function.  Shahar shares his thinking on why digital and technology creates an opportunity that forces a change in the legal function, and he and Michele share stories about why the customer experience, and delighting customers is a critical factor in digital transformation.  “Digital and technology creates an opportunity that forces a change in the legal function, because a modern organization has to be agile, they have to be nimble, they have to be faster and take risk, sometimes even work on the edge of risk. And that creates a forcing mechanism for legal to change.”

Michele DeStefano, Chief Faculty Advisor at Digital Legal Exchange (DLEX) and Bjarne Tellmann, General Counsel, GSK Consumer Healthcare, discuss Bjarne's experience with digital transformation. Bjarne shares his insights on the iterative process of digital transformation with focus on value generation and customer experience.  Bjarne also discusses DLEX workshop participation and his views on the future of legal.

Michele DeStefano, Chief Faculty Advisor at Digital Legal Exchange (DLEX) and Gladys Chun, General Counsel, Lazada Group, discuss Gladys’ experience with going digital globally. Gladys shares her experience as an early-adopter of legal ops and how those efforts of going digital over six years ago led to an award-winning team today. Gladys also discusses her experience with DLEX workshops and her views on the future of legal.

Michele DeStefano, Chief Faculty Advisor at Digital Legal Exchange (DLEX) and Joe Otterstetter, Asst General Counsel, 3M, discuss Joe's experience participating in a virtual workshop with DLEX. Joe shares his views on in-house lawyers being seen as "idea-pollinators" as well as how to overcome in resource-constrained environments. Joe also talks about the benefits of identifying a path for becoming digital and its impact for the legal function.