‘GenAI ain’t magic’ is the presentation I did at Legal Geek Growth on 11 June 2026. I did a practice run to the International Practice Group (IPG) at their Spring Conference in Luxembourg on 9 May 2026. The synopsis for the talk was: A look at the reality, rather than the hype, surrounding GenAI. Covering…
I was at Legal Geek Growth in London on 5 June 2025. Legal Geek Growth is the summer alternative, for SME law firms, to the much larger main Legal Geek event (more now aimed at Big Law) in London in the Autumn. I’ve done some reviews of the main Autumn event in the past: Legal…
I almost thought that the Reshaping Legal Services conference, held in London on 6 March 2025, was going to be the first legal conference for some time with no mention of AI. But then it was mentioned. Only once though, and not in the context of legal services. Sophie Wales, Director of Regulatory Policy, Institute…
The Great Big Legal Offsite (GBLO) was held at Ribby Hall Village, Kirkham (near Preston) on 3 July 2024. I know that is now some seven months ago but the day job got in the way before I could, only recently, find the time to finish converting my notes from the conference into this blog…
Peak AI hype was surely reached this past week at the UK AI Safety Summit, organised by the UK Government. The culmination of the summit was Prime Minister Rishi Sunak interviewing Elon Musk. This was when peak AI hype truly kicked in. Especially when Musk said: We will have for the first time something that…
Legal Geek 2023 was the one with Withnail and GenAI. Legal Geek 2023: Withnail No big surprise that GenAI was being overcooked at Legal Geek 2023, but what was Withnail doing there? Withnail’s alter ego, Richard E. Grant, was giving a keynote discussion on ‘grief and its impact’. Perhaps to prepare the GenAI evangelists for…
On 10 May 2023 I attended the British Legal Technology Forum 2023. I hadn’t been at a NetLaw Media event for a good few years. The format was the one I recalled from the past: Various stages and lots of talks, large Expo hall with Legal Tech vendors and swag, a big name keynote and…
The LawtechUK Launch Event took place in Edinburgh yesterday. It was to launch the new chapter in the life of LawtechUK with CodeBase & Legal Geek being, since 1 April 2023, the implementing partners. LawtechUK, is a government-backed initiative within Tech Nation, established to support the transformation of the UK legal sector through technology, for…
In the time of lockdown, Nicole Black has pondered at ‘Above the Law‘ that:- Surely there’s a way to hold a virtual conference that’s more interactive and allows attendees to be more engaged with both vendors and other attendees. Nicole thinks we need something more than Zoom. Her suggestion is that we should have avatars…
On 16 October I attended the 2019 Legal Geek Conference in Shoreditch, London. This was the fourth Legal Geek London Conference and my second. I attended last year’s event: The One where Reality overtook Hype. The day started with long queues:- The Conference had already started by the time me and many others reached the…
Last year I went to the Source Conference by Symphony Legal to play a board game. This year I flew in from Cyprus to play with lego. That’s how the first day of the conference ended so we will come to that later. The MC was comedian Celia Delaney who told us the day was…
Next month Clio are holding two Innovate Legal evenings in Scotland of discussion, technology and networking. First in Glasgow (8th October 2019 at The Studio, 67 Hope Street) and then in Edinburgh (10th October 2019 at Atria One, 144 Morrison Street). I have been invited to talk at both. The aim of these Innovate Legal…
