ClariLegal just announced that Dennis Kennedy, President of Dennis Kennedy Advisory Services LLC, has been elected to the ClariLegal advisory board.
“Dennis is a legal technology legend and he brings a wealth of experience to the ClariLegal advisory board,” said Cash Butler, ClariLegal Founder and CEO. “Dennis finds value in value- he is an expert at shaping legal minds from classrooms to boardrooms, and his passion for innovation and value creation in the delivery of legal services align very well with the ClariLegal mission.”
As an information technology and innovation lawyer, Kennedy is well-known for promoting the use of technology in the practice of law. He focuses on innovation, legal technology, speaking, writing, and coaching and is also an adjunct professor in the LegalRnD program at Michigan State University College of Law.
Kennedy recently retired as Senior Counsel for the Digital Payments & Labs group at Mastercard, where he focused on information technology law, fintech law and innovation. His new company concentrates on innovation, legal technology and productization, including “Legal Innovation as a Service” packages and the Kennedy Idea Propulsion Laboratory.
He is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and recently finished a term of three years as chair of the board of the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center. Kennedy wrote the legal technology column for the ABA Journal for many years, has co-authored several books including “The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies (2nd edition, 2018) with Tom Mighell. He has two new books scheduled to be published in the summer of 2019, one with Allison Shields on LinkedIn for legal professionals and the other to be called “A Legal Innovation Playbook.” He co-hosts The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast on the Legal Talk Network, and has written his blog, DennisKennedy.Blog, since 2003.