About Our Guest:
Emma Kadri Bergström is General Counsel at Legora, and she joined me from Stockholm to talk about leading a legal team inside one of the fastest growing legal tech companies in the world. We covered what in-house legal looks like in hyper growth, how AI is changing the way her team works and what all of this means for the next generation of lawyers.
Emma shares how ChatGPT launching during her parental leave set her on a deliberate path from Mannheimer Swartling to her first in-house role and then to Legora, including the invented case law that taught her early lessons about the technology’s limits. She explains why she no longer hires the same kind of lawyers she would have five years ago and how her team uses skills and playbooks to let the business handle low-risk work. She also talks about why she is building a legal operations function to hold the team’s knowledge together.
You will come away with a clearer view of where AI belongs in legal work and why accountability matters more than ever, along with Emma’s case for why five year career plans are overrated even though goals are not.
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