Events
Upcoming Events
The Future of Legal Practice: Lawyers as Entrepreneurs
Lawyers are increasingly becoming entrepreneurs in all sorts of ways, creating technology-enabled services, launching innovative ventures and developing new ways to solve legal problems.
The legal sector often distinguishes between 'Big Law' and 'People Law'. Whilst major firms continue to make significant investment in AI and legal technology, some of the most exciting innovation is emerging in areas serving individuals, families and small businesses. This panel will showcase how entrepreneurial lawyers globally are using technology, new business models and creative thinking to improve access to legal services and deliver practical solutions to real-world problems.
Bringing together lawyers who have founded innovative legal ventures, our panellists will discuss and showcase how they identified opportunities for change, attracted collaborators and stakeholders, navigated regulatory and ethical challenges, and transformed ideas into successful initiatives.
The discussion will offer practical insights for innovation, entrepreneurship and the future of legal services, demonstrating how lawyers can not only adapt to change, but help shape it.
Refreshments will be provided during networking and discussion.
The Future of Legal Practice: How is AI driving new markets and reshaping opportunities in the legal sector?
Come and hear from our esteemed panel including Daniel Long Co-Founder of Garfield AI, the UK's first SRA-regulated AI law firm, Shruti Ajitsaria the Head of Fuse, A&O Shearman’s Band-1 globally-ranked tech innovation space, Bertie Heppel, Associate Director and strategic analyst at Meridan West, and Richard Nicholas, Partner and AI Lawyer at Browne Jacobson.
The Professional Law Institute, in collaboration with King’s College London’s Legal Tech Society will host this panel discussion, focusing on current and future trends in how legal services users, from individuals in small financial value claims to in-house teams with large legal budgets and the firms serving them, are reacting to and utilising new technologies. What are the discernible effects on legal market spend? Who’s winning market share and why?
You are warmly invited to the discussion, which will involve short presentations and a Q&A session. Refreshments will be served and there will be time for networking in our beautiful Bush House venue.
Shruti Ajitsaria - 'How Law Firms Innovate: Fuse at A&O Shearman'
We’re excited to welcome Shruti Ajitsaria from A&O Sherman for Talk 2, focusing on incubators and partnerships! Shruti will discuss how FUSE works in practice and what problems it solves for the firm.
A&O Shearman is offering a Law & Technology Graduate Scheme with applications closing on the 2nd of February!
Hugo Cassidy - 'LegalTech as a business - How Pinsent Masons is reinventing legal services'
The King’s College Legal Tech Society was excited to host Hugo Cassidy from Pinsent Masons for a fireside chat on Innovation Management and Tech-Backed Legal Services.
Legal tech isn’t mainly about shiny tools. It’s about how legal work gets delivered, priced, and governed when clients want more predictability and efficiency. This is our first “innovation in practice” session, focusing on internal innovation and how firms build proprietary capability through tech-backed delivery.
Stephen Dowling SC - 'AI-enabled Litigation: Commercial Gains, Ethical Dilemmas, and the New Global AI Order'
KCL Legal Tech Society are thrilled to host Stephen Dowling SC - CEO & Founder of TrialView and a leading Senior Counsel with over 20 years’ experience in commercial and civil litigation.
Stephen built TrialView, the award-winning, AI-powered disputes platform used by law firms around the world to transform how lawyers manage, prepare, and present cases from a single, centralised location. From AI-assisted evidence organisation to streamlined hearings, TrialView is reshaping the future of litigation.
What to expect:
A live case-study demo of TrialView in action and exploration of accuracy, confidentiality & hallucination issues.
How litigation AI is impacting access to justice and the legal market.
AI in courts: who’s leading globally, and what we can learn?
The cross-border & geopolitical compliance challenge: regulatory frameworks, export controls & data localisation rules.
Sarah Quantrill - 'Risk, Rules, and Ransomware: Where Cybersecurity Meets Law & Finance'
Read about Sarah Quantrill’s talk with us on the intersections between finance and law. Currently Deputy Head of Internal Controls and Operations of the London branch of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Sarah previously worked as Head of Legal at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB, and was also previously leader of the Exchange-Traded Derivatives legal Team at Goldman Sachs.
Elliott Portnoy - ‘Legal Tech in Context: The Future of the Legal Business’
Our talk with Elliott Portnoy, the Founding Global CEO (Emeritus) of Dentons for insight on: the future of legal business structure and its competitors, private equity’s role in legal tech and law firms, and law firms’ perspectives on the legal tech industry.
Dom Conte - 'Law + AI = Opportunity: How to Position Yourself for the Future'
Our talk with the Avail and Purple founder on his journey of transitioning from the legal field into the world of legal start-ups and what he’s learned along the way.
Christina Demetriades 'Inside Innovation: An In-House Perspective with Accenture'
Our discussion with a legal leader at Accenture, Time Magazine’s Silver Medalist for World’s Best Company 2024, on how to navigate the changing role technology plays in the legal field today.
Ben Allgrove 'Inside Innovation: A Conversation with Baker McKenzie
Our fireside chat with the Innovation Director at Baker McKenzie on how they’re driving change from within - and what it means for the next wave of legal minds.