When people think of lawyers, they generally think of lawyers using words on a page or words spoken in court. Unless they have worked with lawyers through the planning and strategizing stages of a case, most people do not think of lawyers as visual creatures. The lucky few who have worked with lawyers extensively may know that, contrary to popular opinion, lawyers rely heavily on visualizations, like flowcharts and structure diagrams…

When it comes to sharing of knowledge and tools, there is a common perception that legal professionals are not very good at sharing of its valuable knowledge and resources. Whereas the common perception (one which I used to hold) is that the tech industry is much better at sharing than the legal profession…

A few days ago, I had a video chat with Tomoyuki Hachigo, co-founder of Sprintlaw (https://sprintlaw.com.au/), about how they built Sprintlaw by focusing on the needs of their target client groups – and created a firm that provides faster, simpler and more affordable legal services…

We had the pleasure to speak with Tom Nevin of Loquitur (https://loquitur.com.au/) a few weeks ago about the dark arts of what trial lawyers have to do, and how by providing training to witnesses, Loquitur helps trial lawyers achieve better results for their clients…

Much of legal technology seems to be focused on solutions that seem to “robotize the lawyer”, but Mark and I want to use this blog post to explore what could happen if we apply technology and data science to the layers above the expert services, and “robotized” those layers?

No-code and low-code platforms have been a focal point of attention in quite some years in the legal profession. To find out more about no-code and low-code platforms, we had the pleasure to have a conversation with Jackson Liu from Neota Logic, one of the most well known companies in the legal technology sector…

For our first blog post, we had the pleasure to speak with our friend and the Head of Growth for Avvoka, Giles Thompson. We wanted this conversation centered on the topics of “making software easy for lawyers to use” and “making a tool that works across the whole transaction lifecycle“…

We wanted to call this first post on our blog “In the beginning“, which is probably somewhat too grandiose. We wanted to use this first post to talk about why we are writing this blog and what we propose to put on this blog; use it to set the tone as a light-hearted exploration of our core themes…