Olga Mack interviews Ex Judicata co-founders on their revolutionary website

Empowering Lawyers Beyond Legal Roles: A Conversation with Neil Handwerker and Kimberly Fine

If you’re thinking about leaving the practice of law, where should you start?

By Olga V. Mack on April 28, 2025 6:15 pm

In a legal world often defined by rigid swim lanes and limited career trajectories, how do you carve a new path? On Season 10, Episode 9 of “Notes to My (Legal) Self,” I had the pleasure of talking with Neil Handwerker and Kimberly Fine, co-founders of ex judicata, about reimagining what you can do with a JD. Their platform is transforming how lawyers pivot to fulfilling careers beyond traditional legal roles

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Cimplifi™ Earns Prestigious Relativity Security Best Practices Competency, Cementing Its Role as a Premier Relativity Partner

NEW YORK – August 21, 2025— Cimplifi, an integrated eDiscovery services and contract analytics provider, today announced it has earned the Relativity Security Best Practices competency, joining an elite group of partners recognized for their commitment to security excellence and client data protection across the Relativity ecosystem. This achievement is part of Relativity’s customer excellence competency track, which honors partners who consistently deliver superior client outcomes through best-in-class practices across the RelativityOne platform.

This recognition underscores the unmatched expertise in RelativityOne, where Cimplifi has long been a trusted migration partner and a pioneer in deploying Relativity aiR and Relativity Contracts. The company’s deep technical acumen and strategic guidance have helped clients navigate complex data challenges with precision and confidence. In addition to the Security Best Practices competency, Cimplifi has also earned the Contracts and RelativityOne Data Migration competencies, further validating its leadership across critical areas of legal technology.

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Savitha Masson Named to 2025 vLex Fastcase 50 List

UnitedLex, a tech-enabled legal and professional services company, is excited to announce that Savitha Masson, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Strategy & GTM, has been named to the 2025 vLex Fastcase 50 list. This annual award recognizes people who are transforming legal service delivery through innovation, vision, and leadership.

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How to Make Your Legal Department Work Smarter: A Step-by-Step Guide

In-house legal teams know the mandate: operate more efficiently, demonstrate value to the business, and do more with the same—or less. But while the expectation is clear, the path forward often isn’t. With growing complexity, rising demands, and evolving workstreams, the real question is: where do you start?

Efficiency today isn’t just about cutting costs or reducing outside counsel spend. It’s about looking holistically at your legal department—how work is done, who’s doing it, and where your resources are going. It’s about aligning spend, talent, and technology to get the right work done in the right way.

Legal teams are exploring new strategies to meet these expectations. That might mean shifting more work in-house, partnering with alternative legal service providers (ALSPs), or deploying smarter workflows and tools. The goal? Free up time, reduce friction, and better support the business—without sacrificing quality or responsiveness.

As Paragon CEO Trista Engel puts it,

“You have to make the time to find your team time. This kind of assessment is an investment—but it’s one that pays dividends in efficiency, impact, and peace of mind. In today’s environment, you can’t afford not to.”

This guide is designed to help. You’ll learn how to assess your current state, uncover inefficiencies, and identify practical ways to align your team’s resources with the work that matters most. By taking a more strategic view of your operations, you can build a more agile, high-impact legal team—one that’s ready to meet today’s challenges and tomorrow’s demands. Download the guide.

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RapidSOS Chooses MaxVal’s Symphony to Streamline, Automate, and Simplify Intellectual Property Management

Los Altos, California, June 17, 2025: MaxVal Group, Inc. (“MaxVal”), a leading provider of intellectual property (IP) management solutions, announced today that RapidSOS, a leading emergency response technology company, has selected MaxVal’s Symphony IP Management System to optimize and streamline its intellectual property operations.

RapidSOS, renowned for its transformative technology that connects life-saving data from connected devices to first responders, chose MaxVal’s solutions to centralize and automate the management of its growing IP portfolio. Symphony, MaxVal’s flagship IP management platform, provides a unified, intuitive system for managing IP assets, delivering comprehensive visibility, workflow automation, and powerful analytics.

“We chose Symphony because of its ease of use, deep functionality, and ability to scale with our rapidly expanding IP needs,” said RapidSOS’ legal team. “MaxVal’s integrated solutions not only streamline our processes but also provide the transparency we want to effectively manage our intellectual property portfolio.”

Venu Venugopal, Chief Operating Officer of MaxVal, added, “We’re thrilled that RapidSOS, a leader in emergency response technology, has chosen MaxVal to support their IP management needs. Symphony is designed to simplify complex processes, enabling companies like RapidSOS to focus on innovation and strategic growth.”

RapidSOS joins an expanding roster of forward-thinking enterprises and law firms that trust MaxVal’s IP management solutions to protect their innovations and enhance operational efficiency.

For more information about MaxVal’s Symphony and Max-IDS solutions, visit www.maxval.com.

About MaxVal

Based in Silicon Valley, MaxVal is a leading global provider of intellectual property (IP) management solutions, offering end-to-end technology and services that simplify and enhance the entire IP lifecycle. Since 2004, MaxVal has been delivering innovative, secure, and scalable solutions for corporations and law firms worldwide. With a deep commitment to client success, MaxVal offers a full range of services, including its flagship IP management platform, Symphony, the industry-leading IDS solution, Max-IDS, along with IP administrative support, search services, docketing, renewals, patent illustrations, and more. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and top IP law firms, MaxVal helps businesses maximize the value of their IP portfolios while ensuring operational efficiency, quality, and data security.

About RapidSOS

RapidSOS is an intelligent safety company that harnesses artificial and human intelligence to fuse life-saving data from 540M+ connected devices, apps, and sensors from 200+ global technology companies to over 21,000 public safety agencies in six countries. Whether there’s an unsafe moment or an emergency, RapidSOS Ready devices, vehicles, homes, or buildings deliver essential data to the right place when it matters most. Learn more at www.RapidSOS.com.

 

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The Great Escape: Nonlegal Careers For Lawyers

ex judicata was designed to be the first total solution for lawyers and law students interested in leaving law for new careers. Here are the Top 10 things we have learned to date:

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A GC’s Guide to Rightsourcing: 3 Ways to Make the Business Case For FTE vs. Flex Talent vs. Outside Counsel

Legal departments are feeling the pressure. When urgency and uncertainty converge, rightsourcing the resources at your disposal are how General Counsel are advancing business goals, managing risks, and advancing priorities.

In this playbook, we share 3 examples of how GCs are optimizing the value of their resources – how to optimize your in-house team, what is best handled by outside counsel, and how to lean on your flexible talent partner to get the most out of both.

The upside includes avoiding team burnout and notable savings on recruitment and retention expenses.

Also included is a tactical decision tree titled “Full-Time Hire, Outside Counsel, Or Flexible Talent?” to immediately bring rightsourced thinking to your legal team.

Rightsourcing is “not about always going for the lowest cost option. Instead, it’s about making the decision that will maximize the value your department can deliver,” says Paragon Legal President & COO Jessica Markowitz.

The rise of flexible in-house counsel is game changing for how much your legal team can accomplish.  Read on to learn how.

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Three UnitedLex Leaders Recognized as Global IP Pioneers on IAM Strategy 300 Guide

UnitedLex, a tech-enabled legal and professional services company, is pleased to announce that three of its IP leaders have been recognized in the prestigious IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2025: Bineet Bhasin, Conor Sheehan, and Shahzeb Akhtar.

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MaxVal Integrates Relecura’s Advanced AI Capabilities into Symphony, Enhancing Patent Research, Analysis, and Classification

Los Altos, California, May 7, 2025: MaxVal Group, Inc. (“MaxVal”), a leading provider of intellectual property (IP) management solutions, is pleased to announce the integration of Relecura’s advanced AI tools with the Symphony IP management platform. This powerful enhancement empowers users to conduct AI-driven, expert novelty searches and patent classifications from within Symphony, seamlessly and more efficiently.

Symphony, MaxVal’s comprehensive IP management platform, is designed to streamline and simplify the entire IP lifecycle. It offers robust capabilities for patent and trademark portfolio management, docketing, renewals, invention disclosure management, analytics, and collaborative workflows, helping organizations effectively manage and protect their intellectual property.

Relecura, a recognized leader in AI-driven patent analytics and innovation intelligence, delivers sophisticated and secure technology solutions that transform patent data into actionable insights. Known for its powerful machine learning models and intuitive interfaces, Relecura enables organizations to expedite decision-making in innovation management by quickly identifying technological trends, evaluating similar intellectual property assets, assessing competitive landscapes, and analyzing pros and cons.

“At Relecura, we recognize that the power of AI can drive agility and efficiency in innovation management,” said Vanoj Krishna, Head of Engineering at Relecura.

“Our partnership with MaxVal and integration with a leading IPMS like Symphony ensures that our common customers can easily tap into IP intelligence and related evaluations from Symphony. In our experience, this reduces the time taken from ideation to deciding on prosecution effort related to that idea by 30 – 50%. That is a significant value for our customers.”

The NoveltyAI solution from Relecura that is now integrated with Symphony enables users to efficiently perform comprehensive novelty searches directly from Symphony, providing inventors and patent review committee members cost-effective and instant feedback on patentability. Users will benefit from AI-generated summaries, relevance ranking, and advanced filtering capabilities to quickly assess prior art and streamline their innovation evaluation processes.

ClassifierAI further simplifies patent classification by automating the categorization of patents, significantly saving time and improving accuracy, particularly with large data sets. It can be used to automate existing classifications or enhance those classifications via AI recommendations.

“By integrating NoveltyAI and ClassifierAI into Symphony, we’re enabling inventors and IP professionals to evaluate patentability, competitive edge, and potential commercial success around those innovations through a single click, seamlessly integrated within their existing Symphony workflow,” says Ashwin Yadav, Chief Product Officer at MaxVal.

“These advanced AI-driven capabilities reinforce MaxVal’s commitment to continuously elevating the value we provide our customers using cutting-edge technologies, and mark the start of another exciting phase in the evolution of our Symphony platform.”

About Relecura

Relecura is a pioneer in intellectual property analytics and insights, providing cutting-edge tools and services that enable businesses and IP professionals to derive actionable insights from patent and other IP data. With a focus on innovation and technology, Relecura equips its clients with powerful AI-enabled analytics to make informed strategic decisions in their intellectual property endeavors. Visit www.relecura.com for more information.

About MaxVal

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, MaxVal is a leading global provider of intellectual property (IP) management solutions, offering end-to-end technology and services that simplify and enhance the entire IP lifecycle. Since 2004, MaxVal has been delivering innovative, secure, and scalable solutions for corporations and law firms worldwide. With a deep commitment to client success, MaxVal offers a full range of services, including its flagship IP management platform, Symphony, the industry-leading IDS solution, Max-IDS, along with IP administrative support, search services, docketing, renewals, patent illustrations, and more. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and top IP law firms, MaxVal helps businesses maximize the value of their IP portfolios while ensuring operational efficiency, quality, and data security.

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The Great Escape: Lawyers Are ‘The Hidden Talent Pool’ In Plain Sight For Nonlegal Roles

It’s somewhat surprising that Corporate America is not actively seeking lawyers for nonlegal jobs.

What kind of career alternatives are available to lawyers and law students? Everything. Save those occupations requiring specific schooling and credentialing. For example: brain surgeon, CPA, licensed plumber.

Last year, ex judicata had the pleasure of interviewing Patty Roberts, the Dean of St. Mary’s Law School. For those unfamiliar, Dean Roberts is one of the most innovative legal educators in America. Her law school is at the forefront of making a legal education available to underrepresented communities. Though having a live curriculum, St. Mary’s was also the first law school in the nation to make available a fully remote JD program accredited by the ABA. Dean Roberts told ex judicata:

“The question is not what can you do with a law degree, it is what can’t you do with a law degree.”

And readers of this column will know that last month we quoted Kellye Testy, CEO of the American Association of Law Schools, who is broadcasting this message loud and clear.

“A JD is a degree in complex problem-solving. And if there is one thing every business needs more of, it is complex problem-solvers.”

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