General Counsel with a passion for innovation. Believes in adding value and avoiding idea stagnation. RT ≠ endorsement. #LegalDesign #LegalTech #LegalOps
York, Yorkshire, UK
Joined July 2011
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Delayed with my family on a flight back from @FiumicinoRome. @jet2tweets has been incredible in communicating updates and looking after us. Unfortunately we’re not in the best bit of the airport but Jet2 has done the best it can with what’s on offer. Excellent customer service.
Has anyone else tried to cancel a @PracticalLawUK subscription and found themselves questioning the life choices that have led them to this point in their career?
I could fill my days with #LegalTech demos, but when I ask for a free trial to test it out, it is 9 times out of 10 a no-go. Instead, I am offered another demo with someone more senior, so I can watch them go through a slightly different but still carefully choreographed use case
+ Just because it's #LegalTech doesn't mean I want to be chauffeured around during a demo. I need a free trial to test it out myself. Imagine buying a car and being refused a test drive - that's suspicious, right?
I am currently on a support call with @Apple. I have historically found Apple support to be the best but I am still left thinking I can wait for the day when I can just interact directly with a ChatGPT-powered support advisor.
AI legal assistant will help defendant fight a speeding case in court newscientist.com/article/235…
We all know we need to be more productive, but how do you measure productivity in knowledge work, esp. legal work (though we’re not special)?
I have spent the last few years looking at legal tech/operations to remove the admin/low level legal work from my team so they can concentrate on the difficult work. If I’m 100% successful though my team will spend 100% of every day doing difficult work.
Is this a good thing?
12%Worst boss ever
75%Best boss ever
12%Who cares? I’m bossing it
8 votes • Final resultsI heard a great idea the other day - in-house lawyers can be idea pollinators taking ideas from one area of the business, depositing them somewhere else in the business and then repeating.
+ If ever there was an argument needed to get lawyers out of the hive and amongst their colleagues this is a strong one
+ In-house lawyers have an massive advantage over external counsel. External counsel can only really offer technical know-how. I think the in-house lawyer need to be T-Shaped. Have that deep legal specialism but also the breadth to work across the business
Does anyone else say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to Alexa in the hope that politeness buys some currency when AI overthrows humanity and inherits the Earth?
Oh dear, do we need tech as well as lawyer writing legal documents like lawyers?
It's a shame they didn't teach a computer to write a document like the human reading it.
Hey ho! Good to leave something on the table for the next generation to tackle.
Me (filling in the contact form): Hi, Solicitors Regulation Authority. I need a quick yes/no answer on X
SRA: Dear <Title> <Forename><Surname>
The answer is it depends... [long but unclear rationale why]
Quote some law
Quote some more law
Kind regards
SRA
+ You have to say, as representative bodies go, the SRA represents (not necessarily the good bits) of the legal profession