Legal Data Intelligence in Action: What Every GC Needs to Know About M&A in the Age of AI

Nov 5, 2025

In this episode of Careers and the Business of Law - Legal Data Intelligence seriese, David Cowen sits down with Odette Claridge (ProSearch), Tara Lawler (Morgan Lewis), and Virginia Ring (Kilpatrick Townsend) to unpack how Legal Data Intelligence (LDI) is transforming mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. They share how data governance, AI, and collaboration are reshaping due diligence and deal execution and why frameworks like LDI’s toolkit are now must-haves for modern legal teams.

Key Topics Covered:

• How LDI’s corporate working group built the first data-driven toolkit for M&A and divestitures.
• Why today’s M&A landscape is defined by the 3 Vs of data, volume, variety, and velocity.
• Practical steps for maintaining data integrity and audit trails across multiple corporate entities.
• The new reality: collaboration between legal, IT, privacy, and compliance is non-negotiable.
• How crowdsourcing best practices across firms accelerates learning and innovation.
• What the Architect Program offers for professionals eager to shape the next wave of legal data frameworks.
• A look ahead: AI governance and ethical frameworks as the next frontier for legal data professionals.

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