Ep 029: Baker McKenzie’s Jae Um and Casey Flaherty on BigLaw Innovation

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In January, the world’s largest law firm,</span> <a href= "https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Baker McKenzie</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, announced that it had hired two leading thinkers on legal innovation,</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaesunum/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Jae Um</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcaseyflaherty"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">D. Casey Flaherty</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, to help the firm “enhance and reimagine the delivery of legal services to global clients.” They join a team led by</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-cambria/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">David Cambria</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, who last year left Fortune 50 company Archer Daniels Midland to become the firm’s global director of legal operations.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of LawNext, Um and Flaherty join host Bob Ambrogi to discuss their new roles and share their thoughts on innovation at Baker McKenzie and in the delivery of legal services.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Um, who joined Baker McKenzie as director of pricing strategy, has more than 12 years of cross-functional experience in legal business. Most recently, she was founder and executive director of</span> <a href= "https://www.sixparsecs.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Six Parsecs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a company that applied research rigor, business analytics and storytelling to help legal businesses achieve success. Before that, she was at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw, where she was director of strategic planning and analysis and, earlier, director of special projects. She is a regular contributor to the publication</span> <a href= "https://www.legalevolution.org/tag/jae-um/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Legal Evolution</span></a><span style= "font-