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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 […]

Marcello Gaboardi is Associate Professor of Law at Bocconi University of Milan. He teaches civil procedure law, insolvency law, and arbitration. He was also admitted to the Italian Bar in 2009. Judicial Algorithms During the French Revolution, the reaction to Absolutism led Baron de Montesquieu to hope for judges who would simply become “the mouthpieces […]

Exactly one year ago, I left my previous law firm because the answer to this question was “no.” I worked at a top tier law firm in the traditional sense of the word. It had a strong focus on know-how, combined with the presence of renowned experts in the field. However, as an individual professional, […]

Insa Janßen, LL.M. (UCLA) is Legal Lead at Legal OS. She studied law in Münster and subsequently completed her LL.M. in media law with a focus on negotiation strategy in Los Angeles. Insa Janßen is admitted to the bar in Germany and NYS. She joined Legal OS in December 2020 after working for three years […]

William Dougherty is a Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Associate at Dentons in London and Co-Founder of Capacity. In January 2020, an article on Chambers Student wrote: “…firms were offering 1,357 training contracts per year – and receiving a total of more than 70,000 applications. That translates to a 2% success rate [in respect of the […]

Roman Kaczynski assists law firms and in-house legal departments in their digital transformation. He combines knowledge of the law with practical expertise in legal tech and innovation management to deliver organisational solutions which are adapted to the new realities of the business world. Legal data and analytics are often touted as the future of our […]

“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 […]

Large cuts to legal aid funding resulted in many people being unable to access legal advice when they need it most, leaving the law primarily to those that can afford it. This has meant that many people don’t understand, never mind enforce, the rights that are available to them as tenants. Legal technology is capable […]

Sophiya Volkova is a Legal Technologist at Ashurst and holds an LLB with Honours in Spanish from the University of Edinburgh. She also completed a masters in International Business and Emerging Markets at Edinburgh University Business School and was involved in exploring use cases for Hyperloop implementation in the UK. Sophiya is passionate about technology […]

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 […]

Maarten Truyens is part of that rare breed of lawyers who first picked up programming as a child and never let go. He went on to have a long career as a solicitor at an international law firm and as an in-house counsel in several financial institutions, all the while leveraging his programming background to […]

By Marcel Hajd (http://linkedin.com/in/marcelhajd) Introduction Not a day passes without a trending news story related to LegalTech. Ambitious lawyers and entrepreneurs are trying to enter the more and more competitive legal market, while convincing users how brilliant the LegalTech solution is they have brought to life. As a consequence, we may witness a number of […]

Looking at the legal landscape around the world, one could get the impression that the market for legal tech solutions is mainly limited to the USA, UK and Australia. While the legal tech market in these countries has reached a later stage of maturity, the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region is a huge area for […]

David is a technology adviser to the British Government. He focuses on emerging technologies and most recently worked on the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app. He describes his job as an intermediary between software engineers, ministers, and lawyers. He attributes many pitfalls of government technology programmes to low levels of technological literacy. Some of those […]

Over the next 12 months Jeremy Small, CEO of Jameson Legal, will be carrying out interviews with professionals from around the world discussing law and technology. In his first interview, Jeremy talks with Marc May, Managing Editor and Founder of the Legal Technologist magazine, about his journey into legal tech, current trends and what lawyers […]

The Legal Tech Toolkit recently created a Document Automation Readiness Review here. What is it? The Review allows SMEs to assess their readiness for legal document automation. The output of the Review is a report in PDF format which provides general advice on preparation for document automation, an assessment of readiness and a recommendation based […]

Daniel is an experienced Banking Lawyer with an MSc in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship from The University of Manchester. He participated as a researcher of The Manchester Law and Technology Initiative and worked in Bancolombia as In-house Counsel and Innovation Champion. Currently, he lives in Colombia where he co-founded “Derecho + Innovación”. A digital startup […]

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 […]