Laura Leopard is the co-founder and General Manager of Leopard Solutions, the largest law firm data platform serving the legal industry with actionable intelligence and insights on more than 5,500 law firms worldwide and 6,800 U.S. corporate legal departments. She has spearheaded Leopard Solutions’ growth and development over the company's 18-year history, and she continues to push the envelope, designing new systems, business intelligence programs, and data points for its expanding client base.

Beyond her entrepreneurial success, Laura is a passionate advocate for diversity and women in law. She is frequently quoted in the media, and her commentary has appeared in sources such as Law 360, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg Law.

Are you using hard data to make decisions for your law firm or are you doing what feels right? There is a tremendous amount of information available to law firm leaders these days, so it makes sense for you to learn about what’s available and how to use data to make decisions that will help your firm grow and thrive in a very competitive marketplace.

In this episode of The Lawyer’s Edge podcast, Elise Holtzman interviews Laura Leopard, the Co-Founder and General Manager of Leopard Solutions, about her long career in the world of data intelligence for the legal industry. Laura discusses the types of data that are available to law firms and other legal organizations as well as the importance of using data to make informed choices about everything from financial decisions to how to embrace and address issues of diversity and inclusion.

1:36 - How Laura got into the world of data intelligence and started applying them exclusively to legal

7:47 - The kind of clients that Leopard Solutions works with and some of the ways in which they use data

12:12 - What prompted the move to put diversity information in the database and the approach to obtaining and safeguarding the data

16:21 - Why Laura decided to align with SurePoint after nearly 20 years of working independently

20:06 - The platforms available to help law firms make data-driven decisions and solve business problems

29:51 - How you can use data to help achieve success in retaining and promoting women and ethnically diverse people in the legal industry

36:16 - The importance of believing in the numbers when making decisions and openness to new ways of driving growth and success

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