Ep 185: Factor CEO Varun Mehta On ‘Integrated Law’ As A New Category of Legal Services Provider

<p><a href="https://www.factor.law/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Factor</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, the managed services company that</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2019/02/alternative-legal-service-company-axiom-prepares-ipo-spins-off-two-companies.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">spun off in 2019</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">from alternative legal services provider Axiom, describes itself as providing “complex legal work at scale” for the corporate legal market it serves. But more recently, it has begun to position itself as falling within a new category of alternative legal services. It calls this new category “integrated law,” and describes it as bringing together the expertise of traditional law, the efficiency of new law, and the business alignment of in-house law.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of LawNext,</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunmehta/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Varun Mehta</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, CEO of Factor since 2020, joins host Bob Ambrogi to take a deeper dive into this concept of integrated law. They also discuss how the managed services market is evolving in the post-pandemic market, how the current labor market is impacting corporate legal departments and managed services providers, and how Factor is evolving in the face of these issues. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mehta, a veteran of the legal tech industry, was</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2020/01/new-ceo-named-for-axiom-managed-services-spin-off-factor.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">named Factor’s CEO</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in 2020, just before the global pandemic. Several months later, the company</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2020/08/investment-firm-to-take-majority-share-in-factor-the-axiom-managed-services-spin-off.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">received an investment</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">it