Ep 189: LexFusion’s Joe Borstein and Casey Flaherty on the 2022 Legal Market in Review

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the course of 2022, the principals of</span> <a href= "https://www.lexfusion.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">LexFusion</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">conferred with 435 law departments and 250 law firms. Why? Simply put, because that is what the company does. It is a go-to-market company that defines its purpose as “to grease the gears of commerce and rapidly increase the adoption of legal innovation.” On behalf of a group of curated legal innovation companies, it works with legal departments and law firms to help them understand how innovative products can benefit them. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a result of those conversations, they came out of 2022 with a unique perspective on the legal market. In a recent post</span> <a href= "https://www.legalevolution.org/2023/01/lexfusions-second-annual-legal-market-year-in-review-348/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">at the Legal Evolution blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, they discussed their take-aways from those conversations and shared some of what they have been telling law departments and lawyers. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We executed NDAs with multiple law departments and law firms so we could dig beneath surface-level discussions of practical innovation into the painful realities of budgets and politics,” they wrote. “We uncovered far more chronic pain than even we anticipated.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What was the source of that chronic pain and what advice did LexFusion offer? In this episode of LawNext, two of the cofounders of LexFusion,</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-b-a00b35/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Joseph Borstein</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, CEO, and</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcaseyflaherty/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Casey Flaherty</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, chief strategy officer, join host Bob Ambrogi to discuss the year that