Legalweek 2025 Mixtape: Day Three

I was fortunate to speak with these leaders on the third day of Legalweek 2025 for this #ReinventingProfessionals #Mixtape:

Valerie Chan, CEO, Plat4orm Dan Ruderman, Director, Strategic Alliances, LexisNexis Legal - CounselLink   Alex Sappington, Co-CEO, Page Vault  

*Background music credit: Upbeat Indie by Lowtone Music

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
This is Ari Kaplan atLegal Week Day three.

(00:04):
Alex Southington.
I'm the CO CEO of Paige Vault.
Dan Erman.
I'm the Director of Strategic Alliancesat LexisNexis with the counseling group.
I'm Valerie Chan, founder of Platform pr.
Did legal Week meet yourexpectations this year?
What trends?
Did you see that will drive us forward?
What are the key takeaways thatyour clients have seen at legal Week

(00:26):
? Every year it gets better.
This was.
A really exciting year for us.
For page ball, it was our firstyear hosting a private event.
We did an event at the MoMA on Mondaynight, which is a really nice way to kick
it off in style and get clients togetherand other folks who were excited to meet.
Momentum continued from there.
Could booth traffic, a lot of meetingsgoing on and we are very happy with it.

(00:47):
We wanna continue to build on it.
It'll be an interesting transitionover to the Javit Center.
I'm sure that will shake thingsup we would love to do another fun
event that we get people talkingabout because there are always some
of the more memorable parts of LegalWeek to do those unique experiences.
Then of course, continuing tomeet our clients, meet all the
great people in this community.
AI is everywhere.
People are starting to get the hang ofthe idea that it's agentic AI that makes

(01:09):
the difference now, but as long as it tookfor everybody to understand that the first
round of excitement on AI was LLMs, it'lltake some time for people to understand
agentic ai, . On the human front,it's the multi-generational workforce.
And those two obviouslydovetailed together.
What are we gonna do with multiplegenerations that have very
different levels of tech experience?

(01:30):
For me, the excitement was seeingthat some of the products coming
up from LexisNexis around ai.
And the way that LexiNexisis pushing their technology
across their entire ecosystem.
It was really greatfor clients networking.
In fact, one of our clients had themost meetings that they've ever had.
From a technology perspective,everything and everyone.

(01:54):
Saw AI everywhere, and to somedegree, the AI aspect makes a
lot of the products unbelievable.
In terms of use, in terms of workflow.
One key takeaway is thatthe energy is super high.
This is the best legal weekyet for a lot of clients.
What was refreshing is that a lot oflaw firms and corporations wanna buy

(02:16):
this year and they're looking fortechnologies that actually help enable
them with functions that they've needed.
Optimizing for quite some timefrom the practice management side,
as well as the operational side.
It's great to see that people arepurchasing this year, and I'm really
excited that Legal Week was ableto facilitate the conversations.

(02:39):
Alex, thank you.
Thank you, Ari.
Dan, thank you.
You are welcome,
Valerie.
Thank you.
Yeah, absolutely.