LawNext: Lawyer and Serial Legal Entrepreneur Monica Zent on Building the Future of Legal Services

Monica Zent is a real pioneer in authorized innovation and entrepreneurship. She is the founding father of ZentLaw, an award-winning various authorized providers supplier that broke the standard legislation agency mould when she based it in 2002. ZentLaw has since grown right into a nationwide authorized providers supplier, serving world manufacturers and main companies with a singular subscription-based mannequin and versatile expertise method.

However Zent’s entrepreneurial journey extends effectively past ZentLaw. She’s a serial entrepreneur who has based a number of firms, together with early web startups within the Nineties. She’s a patented inventor, authorized tech founder, angel investor, and advisor to quite a few startups. The truth is, Zent describes herself as having a “profession portfolio” – she’s an entrepreneur who has carved her personal path via the authorized business and past.

Her newest enterprise is the Regulation Innovation Company, a collective that brings collectively a suppose tank part, consulting providers, and funding connections to assist organizations navigate the quickly altering panorama of authorized expertise and AI.

All through her profession, Zent has been a robust advocate for innovation, effectivity, and variety within the authorized career. Her articles on authorized innovation, ladies in expertise, entrepreneurship, and management have appeared in publications like Inc. Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, and the Huffington Put up, and she or he has gained quite a few awards, together with Company Counsel’s Ladies, Affect & Energy within the Regulation Award within the Progressive Management class

On the most recent LawNext, Zent joins me to debate her entrepreneurial journey and her imaginative and prescient for the way forward for authorized providers and authorized innovation.

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