LegalTechTalk Uncovered 2025 - Alice Flacco - E15

0:00Welcome to the Legally Speaking Podcast Legal Tech Talk Uncovered Mini Series 2025 sponsored by Clio. We're back with our red mic for a behind the scenes series all about legal innovation at Europe's largest legal tech event. So we're granted access to meet some of the greatest speakers, sponsors, brands in the whole legal tech world. We've got 300 speakers with over 70 sessions with over 4 ,000 attendees from all across the globe hitting us here over the next two days at Legal Tech Talk live in London. From AI to access to justice to smart compliance, you name it, we're covering it all. This isn't just another conversation or another conference.

0:41It's a blueprint for community and transformation. So buckle up. We're speaking with some incredible people about policy change, change makers, legal innovation and so much more over and out. Welcome to the Legally Speaking podcast, recording live here at Legal Tech Talk on day two. And I am joined by name, title and organization.

1:06Alice Flacco:Alice Flacco, GC at My Popore Scientific. And it's an absolute pleasure to have you here doing this live on the show. Oh, it caught me by surprise. Yeah, and I'm loving your energy. And it's been great energy over the two days here at Legal Tech Talk, has to be said. In one sentence, what's one problem you're trying to solve in legal or would like to solve? Overwhelm and the pace of keeping it up with the transformation. And still be efficient and forward-looking. Yeah. And what are you seeing? We're at a huge European Legal Tech conference. what's one assumption you're seeing from your lawyer friends or community friends about legal technology that people are probably still getting wrong would you say um that it's an enemy that it's something that we should look with caution instead of embracing it i think one of this event is amazing in the other in the other sense because this is really a forum where you can really see how the tech is just helping you amazingly yeah and you're a great networker one thing i like about this particular conference is you can go and create sessions through the app right and you can network so have you been to any interesting sessions have you met any interesting people here if so just give us a flavor oh yeah amazing like yesterday i came in it was overwhelming the location is so big and all everything is well structured so you can easily get around the uh the amount of providers is huge so it's like two days is really not enough to get all the beauty of all the opportunities that you have around what really the legal tech can offer but this is definitely the place to be to really get a taste of what's coming in the legal in the legal sector but yes also amazing people like yourself yeah well thank you and this year there's been six themes linked to legal tech talk around law and technology evolution and revolution access to justice, purpose-driven law, collaboration, and smart compliance.

3:12Which of those areas speaks loudest to you? And if so, why?

3:17Alice Flacco:Everything that helps me free up the time to think. Okay. Okay. So you would say maybe technology that can help in getting more efficient? Yeah. Legal ops, everything that can really help me to get rid of the heavy lifting and get back to what the lawyers should be doing in the room, which is think and be at the decision making table in an impactful way. So, you know, you've come over from Paris to be here. What would you say to other busy lawyers, general counsels, managing partners, law firm owners that just say, I don't have time to come for a conference. I don't think it's worth my time. As you've been to this, what would you say to that to maybe encourage them to switch that mindset?

3:57Alice Flacco:Yeah, I mean, I am the perfect example i'm sol gc i manage like operations worldwide and i do make the time because on one side it's it's important for you personally to stay connected with your peers yeah and increase your network with like like-minded amazing people really but also if you don't get out there and if you don't see what's around what's coming in the legal sector and also how you can embrace all the opportunities that this firm can give you then you will never grow so i personally i mean I mean, do that and go back to my work with the free time. It's just an investment that is necessary.

4:36And that's right, isn't it? Your time is an investment. And I think the more you come here, you might meet one person or give you a turn of phrase. They might recommend a system, a strategy.

4:44Alice Flacco:It's counterintuitive, right? I had a conversation at work the other day. I said, oh my gosh, you are so overwhelmed. How do you find the time to go to conferences? I'm like, I'm sorry, but I need this. As a professional, it's part of the job to stay connected if for networking if there is any problem you got the right network to leverage for um again leveraging tech yeah you got here a concentration of amazing providers yeah that can really help like it's it's it's necessary and i think if you look at it just like from a time point of view people say don't have the time to invest a day or two well you think you get 4 000 attendees that maybe between them collectively have been in law between 10 20 years that's hundreds of thousands of hours of wisdom under one roof that you could meet people and you can connect with them and you could shortcut your um your access to quality information and content and very short space and time through um getting yourself out there and it's fun you meet people you humanize okay let's go to 2030 you're a gc five years from now what's one thing you would like to be seen that's done better and finally fixed within legal services oh that's a great question i would have like to prepare that you like to take yeah to get you on the prize surprise let's see in five years from now all of us that will still have a job yeah we'll be the ones that are here today and hopefully like really leverage what's coming and and get step ahead so what i would like to fix um i think still the mentality the fear mentality it's like really just go with the flow yeah I think a lot will change in the composition of teams.

6:28Alice Flacco:There will be a GC role. I think the GC role will be really overlooked. It's like a director of an orchestra. You've got AI that can play instruments separately, but you still need the judgment. You still need a person that gets it all together. You still need to direct everything because at the end of the day, lawyers will not disappear. people don't want to take the liability so we're still also there for that to have to bear that role to hold a fort, to hold a castle so the job will not change but will not will change, will not disappear but will change inherently in terms of leveraging, in terms of supervision and strategic.

7:13Love it Okay, before I let you go what's been your biggest aha moment here at Legal Tech Talk?

7:19Alice Flacco:Some providers and seeing some solutions. For example, easier notarization, everything. The amount of tech that is coming now, it's building. Sometimes offline, don't really see it. And then you come here and it's just right in front of you. and then you can talk with these folks and you can do memos about how the tools start the red line and how it can save your time. I think that's the biggest ha-ha moment is really seeing in front of your eyes how really legal is transforming really quickly and not in a bad way. I think it's very good. Yeah, tech for good. We talk a lot about that. Well, that just leaves me to say thanks so much for joining me.

8:05If people want to know more about you, we'll get in touch. Where can they go to find out more?

8:08Alice Flacco:LinkedIn, Alice, Flacco. Happy to connect. There we go. Well, thank you so much from all of us on the Legally Speaking Podcast. Over and out. Thank you for listening to this week's episode. If you like the content here, why not check out our world-leading content and collaboration hub, The Legally Speaking Club, over on Discord. Go to our website, www.legallyspeakingpodcast.com, for the link to join our community there. Over and out.