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Studio A · July 8 · 11 min

Your Firm's AI Problem Isn't Efficiency. It's Automation.

Will Ayers sits down with Aderant SVP of Product Management and AI, Lisa Erickson for a deep dive in what agentic AI actually means for law firm operations. Lisa breaks down the limits of Work-To-Cash and how Aderant is fixing it, what the Aderant Agent Center means for firms ready to move beyond manual or basic AI processes, and why the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't the technology itself but the people and behavioral change that has to come with it. Highlights: Addressing Work-To-Cash: Where the cycle is still disconnected and what Aderant is doing to make it truly end-to-end The Agent Center: What Aderant's new Agent Center is, how it works, and what the first three agents mean for firm operations Automation Over Efficiency: Why law firms aren't just asking for faster workflows, they want the burden removed entirely Jump into the conversation: (00:00) Introducing Lisa Erickson, SVP of Product Management and AI at Aderant (01:28) Where Work-To-Cash is broken and what Aderant is doing for it (03:02) What law firms are really asking for beyond efficiency (03:46) Real AI use cases already live inside Aderant's products today (05:54) Introducing the Aderant Agent Center and its first three agents (07:16) Why behavior change and internal champions matter more than the technology (08:07) Automation that removes work vs AI that augments decision making

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Will Ayers
sits down with Aderant SVP of Product Management and AI, Lisa Erickson for a deep dive in what agentic AI actually means for law firm operations.

Lisa breaks down the limits of Work-To-Cash and how Aderant is fixing it, what the Aderant Agent Center means for firms ready to move beyond manual or basic AI processes, and why the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't the technology itself but the people and behavioral change that has to come with it.

Highlights:

  • Addressing Work-To-Cash: Where the cycle is still disconnected and what Aderant is doing to make it truly end-to-end
  • The Agent Center: What Aderant's new Agent Center is, how it works, and what the first three agents mean for firm operations
  • Automation Over Efficiency: Why law firms aren't just asking for faster workflows, they want the burden removed entirely

Jump into the conversation:
(00:00) Introducing Lisa Erickson, SVP of Product Management and AI at Aderant
(01:28) Where Work-To-Cash is broken and what Aderant is doing for it
(03:02) What law firms are really asking for beyond efficiency
(03:46) Real AI use cases already live inside Aderant's products today
(05:54) Introducing the Aderant Agent Center and its first three agents
(07:16) Why behavior change and internal champions matter more than the technology
(08:07) Automation that removes work vs AI that augments decision making 


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