Tech Talks: Recent Episodes
The Law Society
Tech Talks is a series of podcasts about lawtech for lawyers who want to know more about the risks and opportunities associated with new applications of technology for the legal sector.
Join us at the lawtech table with the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) and the Legal Services Board (LSB) as we discuss the impact of COVID-19 on legal services, the latest research, and the future of legal services.
Resolve Disputes Online is a dispute resolution technology provider which will be developing online negotiation and mediation tools for UK consumers and businesses to allow rapid, convenient and cost-effective online dispute resolution.
RCJ Advice enables women and children to get legal help to protect themselves from violence, gain court-orders, access legal aid and navigate court processes.
MyDigitalRights is an accessible one-stop-shop to help people tackle problems they face online and hold tech companies to account.
Mencap is a legal chatbot for people with learning disabilities that will deliver early legal help and advice around community care and welfare benefits, directly to people that need it most.
Litigation Friend is a platform to assist employees and SMEs who are involved in employment tribunal claims to make more informed, data-backed decisions.
Glow enables individuals and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to efficiently take legal action against organisations in the form of group litigation orders.
Formily was created by two family lawyers who grew frustrated with the time consuming and complicated way in which litigants must currently put together their financial disclosure during divorce proceedings.
Hear from Nesta Challenges and the Solicitors Regulation Authority about why the Legal Access Challenge was so needed and what it aims to achieve.
Emily Weidner speaks with William McSweeney about our new report: Technology, Access to Justice and the Rule of Law. They discuss whether technology is the key to improving access to justice and what barriers could impact this, such as digital exclusion.
We recently held a series of Law Tech Live! events in London to bring members, lawtech experts and adopters together to discuss lawtech products and applications, and the drivers and barriers to adoption. Listen to our expert panel discuss the key issues and take part in a question and answer session,
We recently held a series of Law Tech Live! events in London to bring members, lawtech experts and adopters together to discuss lawtech products and applications, and the drivers and barriers to adoption. Listen to our expert panel outline the basics of lawtech.
Tech Talks is a series of podcasts about lawtech for lawyers who want to know more about the risks and opportunities associated with new applications of technology for the legal sector.
In the third podcast of the series, Andrew McWhir, GDPR and law tech policy adviser at the Law Society, is joined by Joan Purvis, in-house solicitor at the BBC and member of the Law Society’s Technology and Law Committee, for a discussion about law tech and in-house legal departments.
In the second podcast in the Tech Talk series, Andrew McWhir, Law Society GDPR and lawtech policy adviser is joined by Sam Spivack, AI consultant at Kira Systems, for a discussion about applications of law tech to due diligence tasks.
In the first of the series, Andrew McWhir, Law Society GDPR and lawtech policy adviser, is joined by his colleagues, technology and law policy advisers, Tim Hill and William McSweeney, in presenting an introduction to lawtech. They discuss what it is, and the drivers and barriers to adoption by law firms.
Their guests are:
• Dr Pavel Klimov, chair, Law Society Technology and Law Committee
• Joan Purvis, Technology and Law Committee member and in-house solicitor
• James Kitching, Law Society Junior Lawyer Division executive committee member