A lifelong technophile, Jeffrey Sharer has long understood technology’s potential to disrupt and even transform the delivery of legal services. Also a strong believer in collaboration, Jeffrey welcomed the opportunity to engineer a new framework, in partnership with Thomson Reuters and Neota Logic, for delivering actionable legal advice involving complex, multijurisdictional legal surveys. The result was the recently launched Akerman Data Law Center, a subscription-based product that combines web-enabled augmented intelligence, monitored and curated research, and traditional counseling to provide on-demand, automated legal advice with unlimited access to Akerman lawyers. By fusing the respective strengths of bespoke lawyering, legal managed services, and technology, the Data Law Center is able to deliver critical legal advice for any number of jurisdictions in minutes and at significantly lower cost than conventional billable-hour models. As Co-Chair of Akerman’s Data Law Practice, Jeffrey’s work spans all aspects of data law, including among others information governance, privacy and data protection, cybersecurity, and electronic discovery.
