The Lawyer’s recent analysis of the Solicitors Regulations Authority’s report on diversity in law firms shows a significant ethnic diversity gap, particularly at partnership level. The industry average gender pay gap stands at 21.7%. What ...
Ask the Expert: What will be the impact of AI on law firms and their clients in the next ten years? Welcome to The Legal Technologist’s first ‘Ask the Expert’ feature. Our readers ask us ...
Digital-first has become one of those expressions. Thrown around like confetti, it’s easy to tune it out as just the latest de-rigeur phrase for firms wanting to look in-touch. In fact, it’s nothing of the ...
Lawyers in a World of Smarter Machines A recent paper (Toward a Phenomenology of Machine-Assisted Legal Work) lays out observations and questions about the emerging socio-technical landscape in which law practice finds itself. Intelligent machines ...
Legaltech adoption has been on the lips of every city law firm. But is this really being put into practice? By 2022 – that is three years from now – Wolters Kluwer reports that at ...
By Motunrayo Akinyemi The advancement in the use of technology in the corporate world suggests the need for all professionals especially lawyers, law firms and the entire legal industry to protect itself against increasing cyber ...
By Steven O’Donnell A story like the one I’m about to mention would have once been a jarring exception in the annals of corporate client-outside counsel relationships. But nowadays? It’s nearly old news: Teva Pharmaceutical’s ...