The 2025 ACC Annual Meeting and How Corporate Legal Departments are Evolving

I spoke with Capri Miller and Matt Mahon, the Customer Partner and Vice President of Customer Experience, respectively, at Level Legal, a provider of managed services, about the Association of Corporate Counsel's 2025 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia and how corporate legal departments are evolving.

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Reinventing Professionals,a podcast hosted by industry analyst
Ari Kaplan, which shares ideas,guidance, and perspectives from market
leaders shaping the next generationof legal and professional services.
This is Ari Kaplan and I'm speakingtoday with Capri Miller and Matt Mahon,

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the Customer Partner and Vice Presidentof Customer Experience, respectively,
at Level Legal, a provider of managedservices, who will be attending the
Association of Corporate Counsel's2025 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia,
and sponsoring the Rise and Run / Walkevent on Tuesday, October 21st.

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Matt, Capri, great to see you.
Great to see you.
Nice to see you too.
Matt, tell us about your backgroundand your objectives for this
year's ACC Annual Meeting.
I've been in the space for 18years supporting corporate legal
departments with governance, riskcompliance, and discovery challenges.
We're looking to forward tothe ACC every year to learn.

(01:06):
That's number one, and network,and for making legal human.
We learn more from each other during someof these networking events, This year, it
seems like, more than ever, we're not in astatic environment in the legal industry.
Things seem to be more acceleratedthan usual, so everything from
artificial intelligence complianceand risks associated with that,
as well as trades and tariffs.
So lots to learn this year.

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Capri, tell us about yourbackground and how Level Legal
supports corporate law departments.
I started back in the LeClairRyanDiscovery practice and our practice
group left the law firm and went intolegal services, working primarily with
corporations for most of my career.
Lots of end-to-end full programs, andthat's one of the things I love is

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developing a program with a client so thatwe can really be advocating for how they
want to approach discovery while they'realso navigating how counsel wants to
approach discovery in the specific case.
There's a lot of opportunity to buildout better and more consistent programs,
where you can get a lot of cost savingsby knowing the corporation better

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and developing tools and resourcesfor them in the discovery space.
Matt, what does Level Legalhave planned for the conference?
All kinds of fun.
We have a great privatedinner on Monday evening.
Obviously, sponsoring the RockyRun and Walk on Tuesday morning.
Really looking forward to that with you,Ari, and the team, and seeing everybody

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up early, getting a little wellness in.
Have some great giveaways at our booth,including some chocolate for your pillow,
so come experience some hospitality atthe Level Legal booth, number 4 2 4.
Capri, what are you looking forwardto for your first ACC Annual Meeting?
Good conversations.
The best relationships come out ofthe opportunity to have great topics

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from these sessions, from items thatarise at various booths, where you
can really dive in and have thosegreat connections with people.
I'm a big fan of humans.
This is Ari Kaplan speaking with CapriMiller and Matt Mahon, the Customer
Partner and Vice President of CustomerExperience, respectively, at Level

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Legal, a provider of managed services,who will be attending the Association of
Corporate Counsel's 2025 Annual Meetingin Philadelphia, and sponsoring the Rocky
Rise and Run / Walk event on Tuesday,October 21st, which I will be lucky to
participate in, and will be making adonation in honor of all the runners and
walkers to the Lung Cancer Foundation ofAmerica, and in memory of my friend Alex.

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Thank you both so much.
I look forward to seeing you.
Thank you, Ari.
Thank you for having us.
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