A new joint report entitled A New National Purpose, which explores how the UK can harness innovative technologies to meet future challenges, has recently been published by Tony Blair and William Hague. The “cross-party” report argues that we are
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Make more of the voice of your clients
The voice of your clients – and others you deal with – has potential to play much more of a leading role in the ongoing development and evolution of law firms.
How to harness the voice of the client
An
ChatGPT: implications for the legal world
Chatbots have been around since the 1960s and coders have been trying to pass the Turing test ever since, creating increasingly sophisticated iterations of natural language processing (NLP) software. A recent episode, where a Google engineer was sacked for
Taking the next steps on your client onboarding journey
By Allan Carton and Frank Manning of Carton & Co.
Lawyers need digital onboarding now because clients’ expectations of easier digital transactions and communications ramped up during the lockdowns – and because we see now that working digitally can
The Metaverse: laws of the second coming
Back in 2003, when Facebook was just an experiment for Mark Zuckerberg to improve his luck with dating at Harvard, an online game called Second Life was launched by Linden Lab. It created a virtual world (also known as a
Charles Christian, legal tech legend
Caroline Hill, Editor of the Legal IT Insider, has let us know of the untimely death of Charles Christian, its founder and Godfather of Legal Technology.
From the October 2008 issue 213 of LTI:
“In October 1978 … Insider
Find Case Law – six months on
Find Case Law is a new public service providing access to court judgments and tribunal decisions. It was launched in April 2022 and has been funded and developed by The National Archives, working with the Ministry of Justice, HMCTS and
The copyright status of AI-generated works
As AI platforms like Midjourney, or Dall-E2 are widely adopted the question, that is increasingly being asked is about the copyright position.
It’s possible to create striking artistic images, music, poems and the like using Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms
Reforming data protection
Following a consultation on reforming the UK’s data protection laws – partly designed to “provide an opportunity for the UK to reshape its approach to regulation” post-Brexit – the government has published the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (previously
AI legal technology: fact vs fiction
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term which is routinely bandied about in discussions about legal technology. Companies selling software to the legal sector almost ubiquitously proclaim that their products are “powered with AI” in their marketing literature. But is this