Jon Karolczak

One of the most common questions we get about hiring flexible talent through a legal marketplace is how to conduct an effective interview. We’ve put together practical tips and sample questions to help in-house teams interview legal talent. Here’s what we cover: ✔️ Choosing your approach — structured vs. unstructured interviews ✔️ Different question types to assess skills, behavior and opinions ✔️ Example questions and an interview "cheat sheet" Read more: https://hubs.li/Q0380Kfl0

In this episode of Lawline’s Lawyers Who Learn Podcast, David interviews Basha Rubin, co-founder and CEO of Priori Legal, a tech-enabled legal marketplace connecting corporate clients with vetted attorneys. Having started Priori in 2013, Basha shares candid insights from her 12-year entrepreneurial journey, from initial conception to growing it into a successful platform with 8,000+ legal professionals. The conversation covers the evolution of Priori from serving small businesses to enterprise clients, the challenges and lessons of raising $25 million in venture capital, and the delicate balance between building a billion-dollar company versus maintaining ownership control. The discussion also explores the impact of remote work on company culture, the implementation of AI in legal tech, and broader industry trends. Learn more about Basha’s story and listen to the episode (or read the highlights) today: https://lnkd.in/gQMSDnpN #LawyersWhoLearn #LegalPodcast #LegalTech #Entrepreneurship #CorporateLaw #VentureCapital #LegalInnovation #AIInLaw #RemoteWork #StartupJourney #Lawline #WomenInTech #LegalProfession #ProfessionalDevelopment

Read this week's edition of the Priori Digest for legal and tech news highlights from the past week, including a story that gives new meaning to the phrase "ordering lunch," the TikTok alternatives that have rocketed to the top of app store charts days before the ban and what compensation looks like for one of the top legal executives in the U.S. Find these stories, legal trivia and more below!

What initiatives will have the biggest impact for you and your legal team in 2025?💭 Talking to the legal leaders we work with heading into 2025, one of the recurring themes was finding the right balance for resourcing work. Spending more time on important work and less time on rote or administrative tasks is the foundation for success. 💪 With all of the considerations that go into resourcing decisions, legal teams often use RFPs to analyze their options and make the right decisions. ✔️ Check out our free guide (link below) and find out how RFPs can you help achieve your resourcing goals in 2025 🎯 https://hubs.li/Q032y84y0

🎉 We're ringing in the New Year with the first edition of the Priori Digest for 2025 and looking back at some of our favorite legal and tech news stories from the past year. From an AI impersonation bringing podcasters to the courtroom to a drone spying soccer scandal to whether tacos are sandwiches (legally speaking), 2024 was full of interesting news. Read on below for these stories, legal trivia and more!

For a presentation to our Client Advisory Board meeting, I interviewed 25 legal department leaders about flexible talent and RFPs. Before the holiday, I posted my findings on flexible talent. Here are my key takeaways on RFPs: (1) The usage of RFPs appears to be a tale of two companies. Where companies have a cost-saving mandate, not only are they common, they are increasingly mandatory, particularly at certain cost thresholds (I most commonly heard $250k; second most common was $100k), practice groups (usually litigation -- and even without a mandate, every company I spoke to said that litigation was their number 1 user of RFPs) and other risk areas to the company. Where cost-savings is less of a focus, companies reported that they are close to zero on formal RFP activity. (2) For some companies, creating a panel program with clear tiering (risk/complexity/expected price), geographies and practice areas goes in tandem with rolling out RFP. With strong guardrails in place, they believe RFP is most impactful. For others, particularly those with a smaller, more consolidated panel, they have "no interest" in RFPs because of what they have prenegotiated in the panel. (3) Legal department leaders are struggling to measure the impact of RFPs, because in many cases, the matters take years. In reporting savings up to their GCs and CFOs, some use an average of bids compared to the ultimate accepted bid whereas others are comparing the highest bid to the accepted bid. Most acknowledge this is fictitious savings but don't have a better feedback loop. I personally think this is a 2D way of looking at value because law firms are in on the game and raise their bids in order to lower them. The more interesting analysis is understanding how the bids are clustered and how the underlying strategic approach differs. But that's a much more nuance case to make. (4) RFP software can't exist in a vacuum. Some companies rolled out RFP software without the process and institutional backing behind it. This has almost universally been an negative experience. Without the endorsement of senior leadership, robust training and clear process, RFP software fails. Here are a few other interesting themes that emerged: tension between legal ops and procurement in ownership of RFPs, how RFPs (particularly live auctions) could negatively impact the relationship between the company and the law firms (a lot of companies reported department-wide PTSD from half-baked RFP and/or panel convergence roll-outs), how many firms to invite to RFPs (hint - too many is bad, makes firms mad, hard to analyze), and how many questions to include in RFPs (hint - same as above, include only those that might be dispositive). Those who are regularly using RFPs and have devised thoughtful programs structuring them with feedback loops believe they are transformative. Happy to chat more about any of these trends, send me a DM!

🏆 We're proud to be recognized as a 2024 #Fast500 winner by Deloitte! Ranking No. 191, we're honored to be among this amazing list of the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech and energy companies in North America. This news caps off an exciting couple of weeks for our team, including announcing the official launch of our RFP solution, hosting a group of in-house legal leaders at our annual Customer Advisory Board meeting and our Community Appreciation Event. 🎉 Thank you to the Priori team for making this possible and congrats to all the companies that made the list! See the full list: https://hubs.li/Q02Z2ckH0

Today, Priori launched a new RFP solution for legal departments, building on its outside counsel selection and management offerings. More on Legaltech News from Benjamin Joyner: https://lnkd.in/gEeznNWg

It's product launch day at Priori! We're thrilled to announce that Priori RFP has officially joined our product suite after a successful trial that included the participation of more than 500 firms. Mirra and my vision for Priori has always been to make sure that companies can hire the right lawyers at the right price every time. RFP is the final puzzle piece to make us a single-source for all outside counsel hiring decisions. It is enhanced by our Talent Marketplace of 8000+ attorneys/firms/ops pros globally (if you don't already know the right firms) and our Panel Management software (to understand the capability and performance of your trusted firms). If you can read my handwriting (with sincere apologies to all my teachers over the years), I sketched a diagram (my kids thought this was the most interesting thing they've ever seen me do for work) of how all of our products work together so companies know they have hired the best fit firms at the most competitive price. Links in comments.