458: Legal Tech - How AI is Enabling Law Firms to Adapt to Value-Based Pricing - a podcast by Neil C. Hughes

Bodhala is an AI-powered legal tech platform that takes mass quantity of data, analyzes it, and provides actionable, easy-to-use insights. Founded by Raj Goyle and Ketan Jhaveri, Bodhala’s insights empower in-house legal departments to accurately forecast legal spends and evaluate potential outside representation for significant matters.

Simultaneously, Bodhala allows law firms of all sizes to compete for available business on the merits of performance, not relationships, and effectively plan for the new world of value-based pricing.

The legal industry has always been extremely slow to change, especially when it comes to adopting technology – they are just now realizing the abundance of unstructured data available.

Legal is a $500 billion global industry with a hundred billion in overspend – it is now running much more like a business, with less volatile budgeting, value-based pricing and increased accountability. Every year, there is $16-$18 billion in contestable business among the top 25 most profitable firms in the legal industry, as clients are willing to unbundle work away from historical relationships to leaner firms (whether big or boutique).

Raj Goyle’s background is not primarily in legal tech/legal innovation; his background includes:

• Graduating from Harvard Law
• Acting as the Former Deputy Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Serving two terms in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2007-2011
• Running for Congress in Kansas’ 4th District against (now CIA Director) Mike Pompeo in 2010

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