Today Reynen Court – an innovative software company supported by a consortium of 20 global law firms announced that they had hired law librarian,
legal technologist and innovation provocateur Sarah Glassmeyer for the role of Legal Tech Curator. The press release describes this as ” a lynchpin role in generating contact and strategy for the Solution Store which is at the heart of the Reynen Court Platform.”
Reyen Court allows participating law firms to test innovative, new, cloud based technologies. The platform is designed to speed up the historically, lengthy testing and evaluation time normally associated with the implementation of new technology. One of the hottest new trends in legal tech is basically the cataloging of technology products. Law firms need tools to help them identify and focus on the right technology. Glassmeyer’s role as curator will enhance the search, taxonomy and filtering tools enabling law firms to match their workflow challenges with the right tool.
Glassmeyer was most recently a project specialist manager and counsel at the American Bar Association, where she focused on legal innovation. She previously leveraged her expertise as a law librarian as a project manager at at CALI, as a Research Fellow at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and as an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
“Sarah is a true legal innovator with a wealth of hands-on experience driving change across the legal landscape and a passion for reimagining how we describe, learn about, and organize legal technologies”, says Christian Lang, Chief Strategy Officer at Reynen Court. “Combine that experience and passion with her well established brand of critical and independent thinking, and I can’t imagine a better teammate to help us build the Reynen Court Solution Store and its curated content into an unrivalled technology sourcing and evaluation portal that realizes our mission of taking from months to minutes the time it takes to find, vet, and deliver the right tools into the right hands and the right time. We’re very excited to
welcome Sarah to the Reynen Court family.”
Glassmayer provides a typically “dead on” assessment of the legal tech market place in the press release/ “Legal technology is undergoing explosive growth. But there is extraordinary opacity in the legal tech marketplace. Buyers of legal tech spend stunning amounts of time, energy, and money trying to discern what products actually do, to confirm their integrations, to test their security, to review their vendor’s compliance posture, to map out implementation, to negotiate contractual arrangements, and so on and so on. The resulting friction associated with sourcing and evaluating new tools makes it virtually impossible today for firms and legal departments to act tactically and deliver the right technologies at the moment of need. Reynen Court is striving to change that, and I’m so excited to be a part of an organization which will provide immediate relief to our partners so that legal services are delivered more efficiently as well as create systematic change in the ways that legal technology is deployed by law firms and in house legal departments.
Law Librarians as Technology Strategists. It is a good day for the law librarian profession. I am excited to see a prestigious innovator like Reynen Court recognize the strategic value that a librarian technologist like Sarah Glassmeyer can bring to the assessment of law practice technologies.
Congratulations to Reynen Court and Sarah Glassmeyer.
Here is the full press release:
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May 6, 2021 (New York City – Amsterdam): Reynen Court Inc., the fast-growing software company supported by a consortium of twenty of the largest global law firms, today announced that Sarah Glassmeyer has joined the team to play a lynchpin role in generating the content and strategy for the Solution Store, a central pillar of the Reynen Court platform. Ms. Glassmeyer will serve as Reynen Court’s Legal Tech Curator. “Sarah is a true legal innovator with a wealth of hands-on experience driving change across the legal landscape and a passion for reimagining how we describe, learn about, and organize legal technologies”, says Christian Lang, Chief Strategy Officer at Reynen Court. “Combine that experience and passion with her well established brand of critical and independent thinking, and I can’t imagine a better teammate to help us build the Reynen Court Solution Store and its curated content into an unrivalled technology sourcing and evaluation portal that realizes our mission of taking from months to minutes the time it takes to find, vet, and deliver the right tools into the right hands and the right time. We’re very excited to welcome Sarah to the Reynen Court family.” |
Prior to joining Reynen Court, Ms. Glassmeyer was project specialist manager and counsel at the American Bar Association, where she focused on legal innovation. She is a law librarian by training that has also worked in Content Development at CALI and as a Research Fellow at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
“Legal technology is undergoing explosive growth”, says Sarah Glassmeyer. “But there is extraordinary opacity in the legal tech marketplace. Buyers of legal tech spend stunning amounts of time, energy, and money trying to discern what products actually do, to confirm their integrations, to test their security, to review their vendor’s compliance posture, to map out implementation, to negotiate contractual arrangements, and so on and so on. The resulting friction associated with sourcing and evaluating new tools makes it virtually impossible today for firms and legal departments to act tactically and deliver the right technologies at the moment of need. Reynen Court is striving to change that, and I’m so excited to be a part of an organization which will provide immediate relief to our partners so that legal services are delivered more efficiently as well as create systematic change in the ways that legal technology is deployed by law firms and in house legal departments.”
For law firms and in-house legal departments, Reynen Court provides solutions that empower IT teams to shift focus to higher value strategy for the organization’s technology roadmap, while providing the security assurance needed to move faster — in speed of procurement, deployment and time to value. For technology vendors, Reynen Court offers a more standardized deployment pathway, which decreases uncertainty and overall cost in go-to-market. Features like Test Drive and One-Click Proof-Of-Concept are aiming at solving today’s pain points to make it easier for customers to try and buy the technology they need, at the moment of need.
More than 200 third-party application vendors are actively engaged with Reynen Court, with 130 already under contract and currently present or working towards participation in the company’s Solution Store. In addition to the Solution Store featuring curated content about application vendors and their products, the Reynen Court platform also provides a sophisticated software system that enables firms to run cloud-based applications either on-premise or within virtual private clouds under their own control — thus giving firms access to modern software solutions without having to sacrifice security or stability.
