As the new uni year sets in, are you unsure which opportunities to try in the legal industry? Perhaps you are set on being a city lawyer, but are open to other roles... or maybe, you think the legal profession does not hold any possibility of an innovative or agile job... This episode features a chat between Logan Oliver and Annabel about his path to becoming Head of Business Development at legal process tool, Office and Dragons. Despite initially set on a career as a solicitor, Logan expl...
Oct 04, 2021•46 min
It might sound like the distant future, but the use of AI in transport is already a reality. A British barrister at Temple Garden Chambers, Alex Glassbrook works at the intersection of law and technology of the infrastructure that moves us from A to B: transport. His practice includes the law of advanced, automated and electric vehicles, serious personal injury cases, motor insurance law (including counter-fraud work) and high-value vehicle damages claims. In this episode, he explains how ...
May 04, 2021•35 min
Still not convinced using legal technology is crucial for the modern day lawyer? Noah Waisberg is the co-founder and CEO of the legal artificial intelligence (AI) company Kira Systems . Previously, Noah was a corporate lawyer at Weil, Gotshal in New York. He is an expert on contract analysis, legal technology, and artificial intelligence, has spoken at multiple conferences, and has been named the FT's Intelligent Business Market Shaper in 2018 and ILTA's Innovative Thought Leader of the Ye...
Apr 19, 2021•27 min
Lauren Moore is the Co-Founder of GlobalTechLoop , a platform designed to educate about technology. While she is now studying the GDL to pursue a career in Law, Lauren studied Chemistry at university. We talk about Lauren’s route into law, the inspiration behind the platform, the importance of understanding technology in the legal profession, and how Lauren balances being a GDL student and a founder. GlobalTechLoop is also hosting an event this Wednesday (14/04/2021) on legal tech usage in law f...
Apr 12, 2021•25 min
Luigi Cantisani, is a Junior Lawyer at Futura Law Firm where he is assisting a number of technology startups. His role also encompasses working alongside teams, assisting with legal engineering as part of Jur. Luigi is also taking his Ph.D. in Law at the University of Warwick, researching "Blockchain-based Platforms and the Rise of Peer-To-Peer Transactions: Impacts on International Contracts and Trade". A commonly misunderstood topic, Luigi is closer to the scene of smart contracts and ho...
Apr 03, 2021•28 min
After meeting during their studies, John and Guglielmo created Rita, a tool to practically address the data portability issue. Under GDPR and other data protection laws, individuals have a right to request the download of their data in an accessible format. Both John and Guglielmo explain more, but typically this process is very drawn out, with companies, such as Facebook, requiring multiple steps to actually download your data. Rita changes that, allowing you to view and request your data from ...
Mar 23, 2021•25 min
How can the legal industry apply innovation? Eimear McCann is a creative and strategic leader and thinker, bringing together knowledge of the law with a passion for identifying new and innovative ways of working. She is currently the Head of Strategy at Summize . Before this she has worked for a magazine, a law center in Belfast, F-Lex Legal where she was Head of the Northern Unit. In this episode, we explored how Eimear got into a role in strategy and legal technology, how the legal industry ha...
Mar 16, 2021•25 min
Personable and genuine, Jay Smith is a Legal Engineer working at Stephenson Law. While Jay has always sought to improve how lawyers work with technology, he previously was working as a solicitor, and his change of role has been a gradual process. He now strives to remove as much copy and pasting to the lives of lawyers, and delight clients. In this episode, we discuss why he transitioned into legal engineering, his work on a day-to-day basis, and how he codes from scratch but also utilizes...
Mar 09, 2021•33 min
This week we spoke to polyglot and multi-talented Karol Valencia , Legal Services Designer, and Business Innovation Strategist at Lawcus-LPM and Legal Project Leader at eID . Karol's design work looks at law school education systems: she is the coordinator for Peru of the ILSA Alliance, while also a digital transformation lecturer at Wenex Formación by Adams. Karol also works alongside a number of legal tech startups and is a recent EWOLT winner. In this episode, we focused on legal design, what...
Feb 10, 2021•34 min
Tom Dunlop is the CEO and Founder of the tool Summize , contract management, and review product. After qualifying as a solicitor in the UK, Tom has led several legal teams including UserZoom, Zuto, and AppSense. In this episode, we discuss the use cases of Summize and their philosophy of ensuring lawyers have a tool for multi-uses. Tom also discusses the company culture of incremental improvement and how lawyers are inherently creative. Finally, we discuss how legal technology can work alongside...
Feb 02, 2021•27 min
Vishal Sunak is the CEO and Co-founder of Linksquares, an AI-powered platform to enable legal and finance teams to not need to read each contract one by one and gain data insights. Alongside building the company, Vishal has been recently named an Ernest and Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in recognition of his dedication to innovation and growth. We discussed how LinkSquares is using machine learning to provide data insights into legal teams' work, including the benefits it brings. We al...
Jan 19, 2021•24 min
Lorraine Chimbga is an LLB graduate from UCL and an incoming trainee on Clifford Chance’s IGNITE Training Contract. Before starting her TC, Lorraine worked as a Compliance Analyst at financial compliance startup, FundApps. Lorraine holds a number of positions including being a Contract Intelligence Executive at ThoughtRiver and on the Advisory Board at the Society for Computers and Law. She also excellently shares her experience in studying and applying to Law firms on Instagram and Youtube. We ...
Jan 12, 2021•27 min
Dan Grant Smith is Head of Engagement at Legatics , a transaction management program. Prior to joining the Legatics team, Dan was working as an associate at Hogan Lovells for 5 years in the Private Equity/M&A team. Today he works with law firms and their clients to improve transaction management, overcome adoption barriers, and engage with the wider industry to raise awareness and affect change. Dan has also contributed to publications such as the Legal Technologist where he shared his resea...
Jan 04, 2021•30 min
Alongside watching The Grinch, Elf or your favourite holiday movie, you might be also celebrating Application Season. Whether it is training contracts, vacation schemes or internships, this episode brings together fourteen of The Wired Wig's 2020 guests to give guidance. The advice is split into: 1. Finding a Law and technology role (2:55) 2. Answering Law and technology questions e.g how will the legal industry be affected by technology? (7:00) 3. How to shine in written applications (19:...
Dec 21, 2020•28 min
Anton Vashkevich is the Founder and CEO of Contract.One , a contract and process management platform which is humanising contracts through simplicity in design and ease in collaboration. Anton brings his experience in Corporate M&A and legal technology consultancy, to increase efficiency in legal teams and deliver enjoyment in working with enterprise tools. In this episode we discuss what are the capabilities of ContractOne, the mission behind the tool, practical use cases and how it is stre...
Dec 14, 2020•26 min
Bianca Caravtov is a Warwick Law graduate, with a story inspiring for those currently unsure if the Law is for them. Despite being the President of the Commercial Law Society at university and a Campus Brand Ambassador for a city firm, Bianca is now enjoying her non-legal role in managing clients at Microsoft. In this second part of two, we discuss her role at Microsoft, what is mixed reality and the hololens, how her law degree helps in her role and her experience working for a technology compa...
Dec 07, 2020•31 min
Bianca Caravtov is a Warwick Law graduate, with a story inspiring for those currently unsure if the Law is for them. Despite being the President of the Commercial Law Society at uni and a Campus Brand Ambassador for a city firm, Bianca is now enjoying her non-legal role in managing clients. In this first part of two, we discuss her journey to deciding maybe Law was not for her, her year abroad and the experience she did before making her decision. Timestamps: 1:25: Journey to L...
Dec 04, 2020•19 min
Eliot Benzecrit & Giles Thompson are both ex-city firm lawyers who now reside at legal technology tool Avvoka . Avvoka automatises and assists teams in legal processes and contract automation, with a flavour of legal technology education and awareness. You might have even enrolled at one of their automation classes at Avvoka Academy! In this episode we discussed what problems the tool is looking to solve, explored the changes in the market and how remote work has increased the need for...
Nov 24, 2020•33 min
In an ideal world using a new technology would be as simple as training and trusting your team will adapt. But it usually isn’t that straightforward. In this episode I spoke with Heidi Smith, Creator of Jurilogical.com and User Adoption Expert. In one of her roles, Heidi is driving change through the technology and innovation team in a magic circle law firm, applying the science of behavioural change. She has also created the platform Jurilogical, which addresses the learning and skills gap in t...
Nov 16, 2020•31 min
Think coding is just for those who studied Maths or a Science at undergrad level? Think again. Amy Conroy is a legal technologist with a passion for helping make the Law more accessible through technology. Intrigued by buzzwords such as machine learning and artificial intelligence during her LLB, Amy completed an MSc in Computer Science to understand these topics and how to code. She now works on a number of projects including being part of the team at Avvoka, developing case judgement search th...
Nov 06, 2020•28 min
Law is typically a human driven profession, but can court decisions be predicted? While studying Law at the University of Cambridge, Jozef helped found CourtQuant , an AI platform which predicted legal case outcomes and found the optimal lawyer to argue the case. Since graduating, Jozef is now the current Head Of Business Development at Sudolabs.io , delivering technology solutions and products for startups. In this episode we discuss how Jozef got into the Law and technology space,...
Oct 26, 2020•20 min
Intrigued by blockchain and cryptocurrencies but confused how they work or are regulated? Erika Federis is part of legal counsel at digital payments platform Wirex . While training as a lawyer she was introduced to the area of blockchain and cryptocurrencies during her training contract. Since discovering her passion for the space, Erika has written articles on the topic on Cointelegraph , Medium, Fintech Direct and Blockchain news and continues to follow the development of cryptocurr...
Oct 16, 2020•24 min
After graduating from Warwick Law School, where she also studied abroad at Monash University, Elizabete Ludborza now works in Legal at eBay Luxembourg. In this episode, we discuss Elizabete’s responsibilities at eBay, life at the company’s office in Luxembourg and how her past experience of running a blog has helped her in applications and in developing technical skills. Elizabete also shares some useful resources and online courses for legal tech enthusiasts. For clarity, this episo...
Oct 05, 2020•21 min
Erika Ly operates at the nexus of law, technology and society. H er work focuses on the design and regulation of artificial intelligence and she is passionate about interdisciplinary innovation. Her current positions include being Secretary of the Australian Society for Computers and the Law and a Director at The Legal Forecast . Prior to this, Erika started her career as a 'Technolegal' at Gilbert + Tobin, a leading Australian commercial law firm and worked at one of Australia's first legal tec...
Sep 25, 2020•32 min
If you are reading this then you must have had internet access in the past few minutes. But what if this connection was a fleeting glance? This episode is with Natalia Krapiva , Human Rights lawyer and Technology Legal Counsel from Access Now . Access Now has the mission of improving society's digital rights through awareness, advocacy and campaigning. While internet shutdowns are an increasingly common phenomenon, the reduction of the internet to 20% of normal capacity in early August in...
Sep 17, 2020•29 min
Hannele Korhonen is a Finnish legal designer who runs her own legal consultancy, Villa Verto. With over 20 years of Contract Law experience, Hannele has the aim of changing the world for the better, improving how lawyers work with contracts and how society interacts with the Law. This is through using Legal Design, a skill she teaches lawyers at her design school to utilise in their practice. Hannele also shares insights into using Legal Design to reimagine the practice as a lawyer on her blog S...
Sep 01, 2020•22 min
Mahdi Assan is the Founder of the blog The Cyber Solicitor , which explores the intersection between Law, technology and society. We discuss surveillance in the UK, including the methods of surveillance, how it is regulated, how transfers between the EU and UK will be regulated post Brexit and finally whether TikTok is also carrying out surveillance. THE CYBER SOLICITOR: You can read the latest topics including Schrems II, data adequacy decisions and Privacy Engineering on the Cyber Solici...
Aug 21, 2020•32 min
Discovering document automation at Pinsent Masons, Catherine Bamford is a Legal Engineer who has founded BamLegal. Her consultancy focuses on providing value to Law firms through streamlining legal processes with technology, such as through automation. We discuss why Catherine started BamLegal, how Law firms can be inspired by Product teams and the future of technology in Law firms. Catherine also provides many resources to learn more about legal technology an...
Jul 27, 2020•35 min
Practicing at firm Bird & Bird, Tobias Bräutigam is Senior Counsel and Head of the Privacy and Data Protection group in Helsinki. In the past Tobias has also worked as Senior Legal Counsel at Microsoft and Nokia. In this episode Tobias and I analyse the decision Schrems II and discuss the business and societal impacts. Tobias also explains what drew him to Law and Technology and where Data Protection Law may move in the future. SCHREMS II: On ...
Jul 21, 2020•34 min
After working as in house counsel in the space industry and at various companies including Disney, Electra Japonas took a step to help companies truly utilise their legal teams appropriately. Electra is now the founder of The Law Boutique, a legal consultancy which helps companies with ensuring their documents are suitable for their brand and customers as well as data protection, contract management and legal operations. We discuss what caused Electra to found the company, what is legal design a...
Jul 13, 2020•26 min
