It’s 4am on a Saturday morning.  You’ve worked 20 hours straight.  You’ve done so every day since… you forget when.  Time to quit do that start-up you’ve dreamed about. But do you do it? Should you? Could you?  Well, as part of a new series we are interviewing legaltech and other start-up founders working in legal.   We will unearth the highs and lows of beginning and scaling a start-up.  As Steve Jobs famously said: “You…

Marginal gains are massively overlooked in legal service delivery. And it’s a shame. Marginal gains are about making small incremental improvements to a process (or product, ability or habit etc) which, when added together, make a significant improvement. But legal innovation often ignores it. Why? We’ll find out. We’ll also provide an easy intro to a few mental models that can identify and deliver these gains within your legal organisation, whether law firm or in-house!…

Document automation has been around for decades. It is often a “no brainer” for many legal use cases and organisations. Yet it is often unfairly overlooked. We caught up with Avvoka to discuss the challenges and opportunities of document automation, who are the sponsors and the laggards, how to build beachheads for automation and ultimately deliver significant legal process efficiencies. For those living under a rock (or a stack of contracts), Avvoka, is a leading…

Explainable AI solves the black box problem. This is the idea that some, in particular machine learning-based, AI systems are black boxes. We can see what goes into the blackbox, e.g. a photograph of a cat, and what comes out of the AI system, e.g. a labelled version of the photograph, but we don’t easily understand how and why the system made that determination. Lawtomated employee, Baloo, being classified by an AI image classifer. What…

Our objective If you studied math at school until at least 16 years old, chances are you studied the fundamentals of machine learning, what we commonly describe as artificial intelligence (AI) today. We’ll teach you this via linear regression. But first a question: do you remember calculating line of best fit during algebra class? © Maths Is Fun If you answered “yes” (even if you don’t remember how you did it) then this tutorial is…

There are only two types of trick Tricks for magicians, and magic for everyone else. And there are only two types of innovative technologies. Those for technologists and those for everyone else. That’s it. The best magicians master methods, know their audience and are guided by effect. The same is true for the best technologists, start-ups and innovators. Know your audience Tricks for magicians focus on method. Tricks for audiences obsess over effect; how an…

The problem  Getting a divorce is never easy. The process for divorcing and separating in England and Wales is a broken model. The emotional and financial cost is extremely high for individuals, families and society. It’s estimated that half a million people divorce or separate in England and Wales each year and the cost of family breakdown to the UK taxpayer is estimated to be as much as £51 billion annually.  Historically, traditional routes to…