Ep 006: Dera Nevin’s Around-the-World Tour of Legal Innovation

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was around the world in 40 days – the legal tech world that is. Earlier this year,</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/deranevin/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dera Nevin</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">traveled to 19 destinations in 15 countries on six continents over 40 days, meeting with legal hackers and legal entrepreneurs all over the world. The trip, in conjunction with the</span> <a href="https://globallegalhackathon.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Global Legal Hackathon</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, taught her lessons about legal technology and innovation on a global scale, and even taught her something about herself.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of LawNext, Nevin – who is now writing a book (maybe two) about her trip – describes how she came to embark on this trip, her objectives starting out, where she went, what she saw, and what she learned. Perhaps her biggest takeaway was that there are universal themes to the problems legal technologists are tackling and the obstacles they face.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nevin was most recently e-discovery counsel and director of e-discovery services at Proskauer Rose in New York. Before that, she was managing counsel, e-discovery, at the TD Bank Group, and earlier was an e-discovery attorney at several law firms. Now, in addition to writing her book, she is teaching the course, Taxonomy of Innovation, in the Global Professional LLM program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>Comment on this show:</em></strong> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to</span></em> <a href= "mailto:info@lawnext.com"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">info@lawnext.com</span></em></a><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em></p>