It seems that law firms have been grappling with the question, “how can we be more innovative” for nearly a decade now. But a quick search on Google search trends for “legal innovation” shows that interest in innovation in the legal sector is, at least from a Google search trend…

If there was a slowdown in interest in AI towards the end of the 2010s, this has been reversed in the most dramatic fashion in the 2020s. 2021 saw the unveiling of DALL-E, a deep learning model developed by OpenAI to generate digital images from text prompts. Late 2022 saw…

Hype and oversimplification We are seeing more and more excitement in the legal industry about the promise of language learning models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s various GPT models. Already, people are pinning their colours to the AI mast by claiming that lawyers will be replaced by AI and making statements such as “Chat…

When I first stepped into the world of legal technology, I was confused. I thought I knew a thing or two about technology, but there was a whole category of words, phrases and acronyms that I had not heard before. There was another category of things that I thought I…

What does Chat GPT do? Chat GPT landed back at the end of 2022 from a company called Open AI. If you have not yet had a play around with it, you can do so here. It’s a very impressive tool indeed. You can ask it a question and receive seemingly magic results. Ask it…

In this article, I identify three things that I hear regularly in conversations around legal tech. While many of these things might seem obviously true at first glance, I try to explain why there is more to them than meets the eye. 1. “Features matter the most” The problem When embarking on a legal tech project, it’s…

Is paperless working possible in legal? Before I started my law degree, I worked as an IT administrator at a high street firm near where I grew up. Alongside advising solicitors to reboot Windows XP if they encountered issues with their computers, I was also in charge of organising the stationery cupboard. This was an important…

The benefit of the new Why lawyers should entertain new ways of doing things probably deserves its own article, but I will try and summarise here. Most firms (hopefully) want to improve how they deliver their services to clients, and also how they operate internally. The combination of these two things can lead to: Lower…

Many private practice lawyers pride themselves on offering a highly bespoke service to their clients. When you ask a lawyer what their typical day consists of, you hear things like, “every project is different”, “it depends”, “different stuff comes up every day”. The truth of the matter is that as…