Career

What do you do and what do you enjoy about it? Hi, I’m Vicki, a Legal Applications Analyst at Osborne Clarke. At the moment, I mostly focus on the collaboration side of M365 Teams. In particular, we have replaced our traditional processes with M365’s task management tool. I work closely with our fee-earners developing bespoke […]

I am an avid subscriber to the Alan Watts guide to life and so please excuse my use of some of his pearls of wisdom throughout. “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” I recently took the plunge and left my job as an associate in BigLaw. I enjoyed many […]

What do you do now and what do you enjoy about it? I am Aleksandra Danielewicz, I’m a privacy lawyer who often found herself busy on Friday evenings trying to analyse, assess risk and decide whether to report a personal data breach to the appropriate authorities. Working in a large corporate reality means that everybody tries […]

“Wait, legal technologist is a real profession?” The confusion was real one Wednesday evening when my partner realised that my work at DLA Piper, in fact, was not an imaginary thing I had made up for myself. I had to laugh and think, surely this is not a common misconception? Turns out, a number of […]

I am a Senior Consultant in the Legal Technology practice at HBR Consulting. My group helps Fortune 500 companies and Am Law 200 law firms assess technology solutions and optimize processes to improve legal operations. I focus on identifying key business issues, determining client needs, and taking the appropriate actions to meet expectations. However, my […]

Growing up within the PlayStation™ generation, technology very quickly became a staple in my life. Getting my hands on the latest tech and figuring out what it can do is something that I love doing, and have done since a young age. I enjoy solving puzzles and this motivated me to embark upon a legal […]

How I became a Legal Tech Engineer Ask yourselves: how many legal tech engineers do you know? Not a large number, most likely. Though it is not a very common profession to choose, it is an upcoming and important one. Let me tell you why – and how to get there. My journey within the […]

I am not one of those people who has wanted to be in law from the day I was born. Unlike my barrister brother, I never received birthday cards with the letters “QC” appended after my name. I did, however, have an interest in technology from a very early age. I developed my first website […]

“Embarking on a road less travelled is hurdled with apprehensions, but those willing to risk it, often emerge victorious.” Legal technology: an area which is still in its early stages but has started to spread its wings in the light of new and innovative uses of technology and the growing application of artificial intelligence. Lawyers […]

Last year I was 30 minutes into a settlement call with a particularly difficult litigant in person on the other side. The client had given a ballpark figure for settlement and the claimant, one of the client’s customers, was a couple of zeros away from what I could offer. It was going nowhere. “I’m really […]

In July’s issue Polina Medvedieva interviewed the founder of Avokaado, Mariana Hagström. The interview covered Mariana’s journey from Managing Partner to Legaltech Founder, differences between the two roles, challenges starting a legaltech startup and whether there should be more women in legaltech. You’re currently the Founder and CEO of Avokaado, a document automation/workflow company based […]

If I was to describe my dream job, it would probably be what I’m doing right now. I’m a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, where I study the impact of novel technology on the legal sector. I spend a lot of my time interviewing cool people doing cool lawtech stuff, and […]

Hi, I’m Electra and I’m the Founder of The Law Boutique. I started the business in summer of 2017 after spending over ten years in various large organisations in commercial legal roles. I realised there was a gap in the market for a legal company that took a more holistic approach to legal support, beyond […]

I’d like to tell you a story about the process I went through to transition from my former job as a litigator into legal technology, and how I found meaning and purpose within this growing space. Firstly, I’d like to explain some of the mistakes I made during that journey so that anyone who is […]

I am the Research and Development Manager at DWF Ventures, the R&D arm of DWF. I work with the wider DWF business and clients to test and develop new products and services, combining specialist legal knowledge and expertise with emerging technologies. DWF Ventures is a test centre for ideas and a safe place to fail. […]

It has only been a couple of months since I left private practice for the technology space. Having been an associate in the corporate team at Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), I am now Director of Customer Engagement and Solutions at Neota Logic, where I am responsible for onboarding new customers. Neota Logic is an automation […]

Being Asian, when I was young I was told “When you grow up, you should become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer”. That basically summed up my career options at university. Naturally, one morning, I found myself reading Law at the University of Durham, walking down the old cobbled alleyways of old Durham city […]

I am currently working as a Junior Legal Engineer at SYKE. SYKE is a fast growing legal engineering business helping in-house legal teams and law firms to buy and implement legal technology. As a junior at SYKE, I have a very varied workload. I automate legal documents using a variety of different platforms, such as […]

When I think about it, my journey into legal tech probably started in 2006 when I completed my LPC. This was the year when Tony Blair was still PM, Sven was still the England manager and, more significantly, Enron went the way of the pear. Trying to secure a job (let alone a training contract) […]

Wilson Fletcher is a business and service innovation consultancy designing digital-first strategies, services and experiences that help our clients to accelerate service innovation and modernise their businesses. We work across a wide range of industries, sectors and organisations including legal. My role is focussed on driving habitual innovation within firms, establishing opportunities, developing digital-first strategies […]