Legal Talks: Contract Life Cycle Management & Analytics

Lizzie leads Legal Operations at Blackstone, prior to this Lizzie was a Director in the Consulting group at Elevate and led engagements with responsibility for serving customers across the full spectrum of their needs and helping them achieve success through their effective use of people, process, data, and technology solutions.

Lizzie graduated from Cornell Tech’s Master of Laws, Technology, and Entrepreneurship program in 2019 as a Fulbright Scholar, having previously worked as a Corporate Finance Solicitor at New Zealand law firm Chapman Tripp. While there, she helped launch and lead Zeren, the firm’s technology and innovation business. Lizzie received her Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Politics) and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

With nearly two decades of CLM and legal tech experience, Matt Patel has a passion for modernizing contract lifecycle management through process optimization and innovative technology. Matt aims to solve complex business use cases with the highest level of customer satisfaction. As COO and co-founder at Malbek, Matt is focused on delivering AI-powered CLM tools and essential integrations to bring contracts into the digital age.

Throughout his career, Colin has seen technology as a key driver in improving how legal services are performed. Because his career has spanned industries, he witnessed myriad issues, from a systemic lack of interest in technology to the high cost of legal services barring entry to consumers. Now, his mission is to bridge the gap between the tech world and the legal world, advocating for the ways technology can be a useful tool for the lawyer’s toolbelt rather than a fear-inducing obstacle to effective legal work.

Colin’s practice experience spans e-discovery, compliance, and corporate transactions work. His in- house experience has highlighted the various problems in-house lawyers face and the processes they put in place to address these problems and to collaborate with other functions.

Throughout his career, Colin has also been driven by communication and developing methods to effectively empower, inform, and inspire others not only regarding the law and legal services, but also tech, interdisciplinary collaboration, and process improvement.