Nov 1Lawyers: how much should you rely on AI to make first drafts?Note — this article is not really about contracts. This article is about the (in my view, rather limited) circumstances in which lawyers draft other types of documents and are faced with a blank page or unclear start point. …Legaltech10 min readLegaltech10 min read
Sep 23What are the specific use cases for generative AI in contract drafting?I return again to a subject I touched on in this article back in February 2023 — contract drafting and the potential impact of ChatGPT. Since then, firms and legal teams have been busy experimenting with and understanding large language models. Back at the start of the year, most of…Legaltech32 min readLegaltech32 min read
Aug 22Practical ways to incentivise lawyers to be more innovativeLawyers are very busy people. When you are a practising lawyer, you often don’t have time to breathe between all the client work you are doing. …Legaltech7 min readLegaltech7 min read
Jul 13Presenting unfinished legal work to clients: the minimum viable productWhen making a piece of software, it’s easy to get excited. You think about all the weird and whacky things you could put into it. You start creating long lists of amazing features, conversations beginning with “what if…” go wild and you start believing you can change the world. Then…Tech9 min readTech9 min read
Jul 3Knowledge management and AI: a match made in heavenDuring the pandemic, knowledge sharing became more difficult for law, firms and legal teams. Traditional ways of sharing knowledge, such as listening in on meetings and calls and in-person training events, no longer worked. …Legaltech7 min readLegaltech7 min read
Jun 1Is it time for law to properly embrace project management?In my years as a practising lawyer, I never once worked with a project manager. To those outside the legal industry, it might seem bizarre that my firm was implementing multi-million dollar transactions without this kind of resource. …8 min read8 min read
May 2The AI Mirage in Law — Starting conversationsPeople working in software development are always on the lookout for ways they can optimise how they work. For example, linters are plugins that live inside a code editor that can tidy your code up as you write it. …Legaltech8 min readLegaltech8 min read
Apr 28How do law firms become more innovative?It seems that law firms have been grappling with the question, “how can we be more innovative” for nearly a decade now. …Law8 min readLaw8 min read
Apr 3The key steps to determine success or failure with the latest AI toolsIf 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. …8 min read8 min read
Mar 22AI and legal knowledge management: how can it help?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. …AI8 min readAI8 min read