Ep 090: Lex Machina Chairman Josh Becker’s ‘Exit Interview’ from Legal Tech

Sept. 30, 2020, was Josh Becker’s last day in legal tech, at least for the time being, as he pursues his campaign for election to the California state Senate in the district that encompasses Silicon Valley cities such as Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.    Most recently, Becker was chairman of the trailblazing legal analytics company Lex Machina and head of legal analytics at LexisNexis, which acquired Lex Machina in 2015. Previously, he was Lex Machina’s CEO, a role he stepped into shortly after Stanford Law School spun it off into a private company.       Becker also heads the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator program, which recently announced its fifth cohort of startup participants, and which he will continue to stay involved with on a reduced basis.     On Becker’s last day in legal tech, he sat down for an interview with LawNext host Bob Ambrogi, to recount his career, share his observations about the industry, and offer advice for startups in the field.   If you would like to share a comment on this show, you can record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to [email protected]. We will play it in a future episode.  Announcement Starting with this episode, we are honored to announce that we are welcoming a new sponsor to LawNext. It is ASG LegalTech, the company that is home to four leading products in law practice management, the practice-management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time, and MerusCase, and the e-payments platform Headnote. We are thankful to them for supporting us in continuing to bring great content to our listeners, and we hope you will check out their full portfolio of products. A reminder that we are now on Patreon. Subscribe to our page to be able to access show transcripts, or to submit a question for our guests. Thank you to our leading Patreon member Allen Rodriguez and ONE400 for your support!