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
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
Approximately 41,000 civil lawsuits are filed each day in the United States. Ninety-seven percent of these cases circulate at the circuit and the county level. This represents a veritable goldmine of information about the litigation process. There is just one small problem. Very few states
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,
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
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 –
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
To make a revolution, it is generally beneficial to go back to basics. Therefore, to understand what visual laws are and why we need them, we must first go back and ask ourselves, what is a law? If we look in a dictionary for the definition
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
