Legal futurist and fellow Scot, Richard Susskind, has entered the metaverse [N.B. paywall if not subscribed to The Times]. He did so at a virtual reality exhibit at the British Legal Technology Forum where he was apparently encouraged to virtually walk the plank. He was too scared to do so. 400 million Metaverse Users? Susskind…
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2022: The Year Lawyers get Legless in the Metaverse?
Will 2022 be the year that lawyers get legless in the metaverse? I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I just didn’t know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid for all of my life. Right up until the day I knew my life was…
Lawyers don’t need a ‘Second Life’ conference
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…
A reality check on a day in the life of the future lawyer
An article in Raconteur from last month was brought to my attention yesterday on Twitter. It is about ‘a day in the life of the future lawyer‘ (how the life of a leading lawyer will be transformed by legal technology in just a decade). Well, I had thought that the hype around Artificial Intelligence and Legal…