Contract Insights Podcast

Contract Insights Podcast Series
A “MUST LISTEN” video and audio series for contract professionals that dives into the most relevant challenges, opportunities, and success stories happening across the legal, procurement, and sales contracting spaces. Join Agiloft’s Chief Strategy Officer and Research Chair, Prashant Dubey, as he talks with industry thought leaders, customers, and renowned experts. Put on your best flannel shirt and grab your favorite microbrew (Prashant will)… cause we’re talking Contract Insights.
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GenO: From IP Law to Legal Ops at Intel – The Evolution of a True Strategic Business Enabler
Meet GenO, a new generation of legal operations professionals going past the boundaries of the legal department to become strategic business enablers. In this episode of our GenO series on Contract Insights, Agiloft’s Prashant Dubey talks to Gerald Wright, Sr. Manager, Contract Solutions at Intel, about how his early days working as a paralegal in intellectual property law in the 90s influenced his almost 23-year current tenure at Intel, how he managed to reduce NDA approvals from 10-15 days to a matter of minutes, and how he has evolved to become a strategic business enabler by leading the global implementation of CLM at Intel. Read more
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GenO: From IP Law to Legal Ops at Intel – The Evolution of a True Strategic Business Enabler
Meet GenO, a new generation of legal operations professionals going past the boundaries of the legal department to become strategic business enablers. In this episode of our GenO series on Contract Insights, Agiloft’s Prashant Dubey talks to Gerald Wright, Sr. Manager, Contract Solutions at Intel, about how his early days working as a paralegal in intellectual property law in the 90s influenced his almost 23-year current tenure at Intel, how he managed to reduce NDA approvals from 10-15 days to a matter of minutes, and how he has evolved to become a strategic business enabler by leading the global implementation of CLM at Intel.
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GenO : The Origins of Legal Operations – From A Trailblazer Many Credit With Creating An Entire Profession
Meet GenO, a new generation of legal operations professionals going past the boundaries of the legal department to become strategic business enablers. In this episode of our GenO series on Contract Insights, Agiloft’s Prashant Dubey talks with Connie Brenton, VP of Law, Technology, and Operations at NetApp and co-founder and former CEO of CLOC, about the trailblazing journey she’s taken from litigator to in-house counsel and how she created a legal operations function at NetApp that is widely heralded as the model to emulate that has trained many of today’s GenO legal operations leaders.
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GenO: How Microsoft’s Legal Operations and Contract Management Were Strategic Before It Was “All The Rage”
Meet GenO, a new generation of legal operations professionals going past the boundaries of the legal department to become strategic business enablers. In this episode of our GenO series on Contract Insights, Agiloft’s Prashant Dubey talks to Lucy Bassli, Founder and Principal of the InnoLaw Group, about her career path from private practice to Microsoft in the early 2000s, how she implemented emerging contact management technologies, and how she ultimately helped shape the role of current-day legal operations. Lucy was doing strategic contract management before it was vogue!
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Making the Grade: The Criticality of Contract Lifecycle Management in Colleges and Universities
All organizations can benefit from CLM, academia included. On this episode of Contract Insights, Agiloft’s Prashant Dubey talks to Carrick Craig, Senior Counsel at Miller Canfield and former General Counsel at Western Michigan University, about the importance of contract lifecycle management technology within colleges and universities and how CLM can help mitigate the tumult and financial pressures of an ever-changing higher education landscape.
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How to Increase User Adoption Across the Enterprise for CLM Implementation Success
The hardest part of implementation? It’s not configuration – it’s user adoption. On this episode of Contract Insights, Agiloft’s Prashant Dubey talks to Kyle McNeil, Contracts Lifecycle Management Practice Leader at EY Law, about the importance of CLM user adoption, how to effectively communicate the value of a new CLM to a team, and how to ensure a successful implementation and adoption of a new solution across the enterprise with the aid of metrics and reporting.
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GenO: Understanding the “Why” of Legal Operations for Successful CLM User Adoption
Meet GenO, a new generation of legal operations professionals dedicated to driving strategic business value across the enterprise. In this episode of our GenO series on Contract Insights, Agiloft’s Prashant Dubey talks to Lizzie Shilliam, Chief of Staff of the Office of General Counsel at Vanderbilt University, about how she pioneered legal ops functions at world-class organizations such as Nike and Hertz and how she approaches adopting new technology with a “begin with the why” mindset.
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