Career

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 […]

I am a co-founder and the CEO of the legal tech company Legito. Legito is a smart document workspace platform which has over 100,000 users in 37 countries. It is used by a wide range of companies, from small law firms to Fortune 500 companies such as PwC. Legito has grown from a startup with […]

My name is Josh Harris and I am the CEO and co-founder of Doc2, a legal technology platform that drastically improves the contract creation and eSigning process for SME businesses. As a founder of a technology business, my day-to-day role varies quite dramatically depending on what the priority is. A typical day will include a […]

Some day soon, it may be common to encounter legal technologists, or legal engineers, or other legal innovators who have worked in such a role since day one of their professional careers. Today however, all of us are converts in one way or another. I’m no different in that respect, albeit my career path did […]