We welcome all of you back and hope you had a wonderful holiday season. To start the new year, we’re joined by Ruby Powers, co-vice chair of the 2026 ABA TECHSHOW. Ruby is an immigration law attorney with nearly 20 years of experience, a speaker, and author of Power Up Your Practice. Through Powers Strategy Group LLC, Ruby provides strategic consulting services and hosts the podcast Power Up Your Practice.
In our conversation, Ruby gives us a detailed preview of the ABA TECHSHOW and the range of topics the conference will cover in March. We also dive into the mindset shifts lawyers need in order to embrace legal technology and innovation. Additionally, Ruby shares her career journey and the insights she has gained along the way.
Read the full transcript of today's episode here: https://www.seyfarth.com/dir_docs/podcast_transcripts/Pioneers_RubyPowers.pdf
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We welcome all of you back and hope you had a wonderful holiday season. To start the new year, we’re joined by Ruby Powers, co-vice chair of the 2026 ABA TECHSHOW. Ruby is an immigration law attorney with nearly 20 years of experience, a speaker, and author of Power Up Your Practice. Through Powers Strategy Group LLC, Ruby provides strategic consulting services and hosts the podcast Power Up Your Practice.
In our conversation, Ruby gives us a detailed preview of the ABA TECHSHOW and the range of topics the conference will cover in March. We also dive into the mindset shifts lawyers need in order to embrace legal technology and innovation. Additionally, Ruby shares her career journey and the insights she has gained along the way.
Read the full transcript of today's episode here: https://www.seyfarth.com/dir_docs/podcast_transcripts/Pioneers_RubyPowers.pdf
Today, we’re joined by Ian Nelson, co-founder of Hotshot, a video-based learning platform that helps lawyers pick up essential legal, business, and technology skills in a more modern, practical way. Ian started out as a corporate lawyer who quickly found himself drawn to more innovative approaches to legal work. After being inspired by a firm in the UK, he jumped into something totally new—Practical Law—back when the idea of legal know-how resources was still pretty foreign in the US.
In our conversation, Ian shares what sparked that leap from practicing law to shaping how lawyers learn. We talk about what it was like introducing Practical Law to a skeptical market, how the pandemic reshaped training at Hotshot, and how younger generations are driving change in legal education.
Read the full transcript of the episode here: https://www.seyfarth.com/dir_docs/podcast_transcripts/Pioneers_IanNelson.pdf
Pioneers and Pathfinders
We welcome all of you back and hope you had a wonderful holiday season. To start the new year, we’re joined by Ruby Powers, co-vice chair of the 2026 ABA TECHSHOW. Ruby is an immigration law attorney with nearly 20 years of experience, a speaker, and author of Power Up Your Practice. Through Powers Strategy Group LLC, Ruby provides strategic consulting services and hosts the podcast Power Up Your Practice.
In our conversation, Ruby gives us a detailed preview of the ABA TECHSHOW and the range of topics the conference will cover in March. We also dive into the mindset shifts lawyers need in order to embrace legal technology and innovation. Additionally, Ruby shares her career journey and the insights she has gained along the way.
Read the full transcript of today's episode here: https://www.seyfarth.com/dir_docs/podcast_transcripts/Pioneers_RubyPowers.pdf
