Edwin Saghian
Founding Partner at Omega Law Group
Finding your AI champions is critical to successful adoption. Champions spread enthusiasm and encourage skeptics to give AI a chance. Here's how to identify them:
Their success builds momentum and encourages hesitant attorneys to follow suit. Edwin Saghian, Founding Partner at Omega Law Group, and Matthew Kinsella, Director of Operations, share their approach:
“We try to focus on a bottom-up approach. If we can get the paralegals or case managers to adopt it first, that usually trickles up to the rest of the firm.”
Take learnings from your early adopters and use them to show the rest of your team how AI helps their daily work:
Use this worksheet to identify role-specific AI benefits and redefine processes across your team.
Download WorksheetUse small pilot groups to refine your approach before scaling firm wide:
This peer-to-peer approach ensures smoother adoption across the firm. Neila Pourhashem, Director of National Operations at Sweet James, shares how they use champions to build an active culture of change.
“Having those partners in the firm who become power users is critical—who can then lend a hand to those folks who might not be able to or a little intimidated to raise their hand in a group. They can handle some of those one-on-ones as a colleague.”
