Law://WhatsNext
Law://WhatsNext
Podcast Description
How are leading practitioners leveraging emerging technologies and ways of working to pursue their passion and objectives, and as a by product what are the implications for the future of legal practice? Let’s explore this together. What to expect:
- Focused conversations with leading practitioners; technologists and educators
- Deep dives into the intersection of law, technology, and organisational behaviour
- Practical analysis and visualisation of how AI is augmenting our potential- Insights from adjacent industries that might inform our own
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes such as responsible AI governance, geopolitical risk, access to justice, and innovative legal technology. Episodes include in-depth discussions on AI ethics with experts like Hadassah Drukarch and AI applications in the justice system with guests such as Steph Needleman, showcasing practical analysis on how AI can augment legal practices.
How are leading practitioners leveraging emerging technologies and ways of working to pursue their passion and objectives, and as a by product what are the implications for the future of legal practice? Let’s explore this together. What to expect:
– Focused conversations with leading practitioners; technologists and educators
– Deep dives into the intersection of law, technology, and organisational behaviour
– Practical analysis and visualisation of how AI is augmenting our potential
– Insights from adjacent industries that might inform our own
🎙️ Peter Duffy is back for our quarterly deep dive into the biggest stories from his ever-popular Legal Tech Trends newsletter. It’s been quite the quarter: a $500 million headline from Kirkland, frontier model companies falling over each other to claim legal, and the US government switching off a frontier model for the entire world. As Peter puts it: “What a bizarre world that we live in.“
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What we dive into:
Kirkland’s $500m statement of intent — The announcement that rocked the market, and the nuance beneath it: Palantir (not an internal team) is helping building a platform, third-party procurement continues, and what counts as “investment” when partner hours bill at thousands of dollars? Either way, the proprietary layer marks that fascinating shift from service provider to potential product provider.
The frontier land grab for legal — Ex-Ironclad CEO Jason Boehmig joins OpenAI to lead its legal vertical, Freshfields signs a multi-year deal with Anthropic, and Perplexity launches Computer for Counsel. Peter shares his three-lens test for reading these partnerships — and why the real battle might be for the interface lawyers work through every day.
The fortnight the US switched off Fable — AI’s first true geopolitical moment. A jailbreak, an export-control order, and the awkward detail that other models could reportedly do the same thing. We nerd out on the eerily prescient Europe 2031 scenario published the day before, and what it all means for sovereignty and model dependency.
Revolut Partners and the AI-audited panel — Out goes the static law firm panel; in comes a performance-based roster with quarterly reviews and internal AI tools to run RFPs and scrutinise advice and invoices.
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Listen if: You want a hype-free tour of the quarter that was.
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For more conversations at the intersection of law and technology, head to https://lawwhatsnext.substack.com/.
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Show notes / links:
- Peter’s Legal Tech Trends newsletter: https://legaltechtrends.substack.com/
- Europe 2031: https://europe2031.ai/
- Legal Hops Amsterdam — Peter’s quarterly meet-up (boat party included): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12922521/
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