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 - The quarter in review - taking the headlines, and exploring (amongst friends) the potential implications A note about us.. We work in leading in-house teams for multinational companies with a shared passion to embrace and drive innovation at work. Our passion is often provoked or stimulated by exchanges and explorations with friends, colleagues and people we are kindly introduced to - and a common characteristic often found in this inspirational group - is a relentless pursuit and energy for making things better! It is these (currently privileged) exchanges and insights we want to capture or simply facilitate for the benefit of our audience.
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Kirkland’s $500m bet; the frontier land grab for legal; the US briefly switches off fable; and Revolut’s AI audited panel are some of the key topics Alex and I get into with our good friend Peter Duffy as part of our quarterly reflection on the latest legal technology trends (and adjacent but relevant news) that might matter! We get beneath the headlines to explore the possible implications. 🎧 Full episode out now 👇
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What if your codebase had its own case law, a constitution, and a Supreme Court? We sat down with Will Lilley, who built exactly that - the Vibe Justice System: a working governance layer that stops AI agents "drifting" by making them reason like a common law court, recording judgments, citing precedent, and steelmanning both sides before deciding. Ridiculous? A bit. But it's also a serious crack at one of the hardest problems in AI-assisted work: "AI Drift". Will's hypothesis is to give an agent a "definition of correct" that is explicit, durable and self-enforcing. But how do you do that? For any GC or legal ops leader thinking about governing fleets of agents, this one's worth your time. Shout out to our friend Drew Winlaw for the connect to Will on this! 🎧 Watch now 👇
What if your codebase had its own case law, a constitution, and a Supreme Court? We sat down with Will Lilley, who built exactly that - the Vibe Justice System: a working governance layer that stops AI agents "drifting" by making them reason like a common law court, recording judgments, citing precedent, and steelmanning both sides before deciding. Ridiculous? A bit. But it's also a serious crack at one of the hardest problems in AI-assisted work: "AI Drift". Will's hypothesis is to give an agent a "definition of correct" that is explicit, durable and self-enforcing. But how do you do that? For any GC or legal ops leader thinking about governing fleets of agents, this one's worth your time. Shout out to our friend Drew Winlaw for the connect to Will on this! 🎧 Watch now 👇
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"If you use the newest models, the costs will be astronomically high." In this clip from our conversation this week with Antti Innanen, he showcases a feature of his open source project/artifact/"don’t call it a product” Lavern that illustrates the realtime costs of agentic legal work. He believes people at the frontier are quickly transitioning their attention and curiosity to building capabilities and understanding for how to leverage local > then open source > then frontier models, depending on the task or objective. 💡 An indicator perhaps of where new human value is being created in this fascinating moment of transformation.. (Alex and I had a lot of fun catching up with Antti, we think that comes across 😉)
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"In a strange, weird way, f**king around and playing around. It's the most responsible way to approach AI at the moment." 😅 That's Antti Innanen, the lawyer and builder behind Lavern, an open-source legal AI project with 67 agents 🤖 you can actually watch debate and check each other's work. We get into why he built it as an artifact rather than a product, what running agents at the frontier really costs 💸, and why he thinks deep legal AI literacy comes from playing (and building games), not from professional tools. 🎙️ New episode of Law://WhatsNext is live. Link in comments 👇
📈 The recent proliferation of open source Legal AI software is a trend that our latest guest Shawn Curran only sees continuing, and eventually becoming huge in and of its own right... 💡 In this chat with Tom and Alex he discusses what can be learned from it, where he's willing to support teams embrace it.. It's a fascinating insight into an adept CEO understanding the evolving dynamic of a moment, and looking to draw lessons from it.. (Though strategy may be temporarily paused for patriotism over the next week as Shawn travels to the US to support his beloved 🏴 ⚽ )
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New episode of Law://WhatsNext is live. We sat down with Shawn Curran, CEO of Jylo, to talk about something a lot of legal teams are thinking about: now that almost anyone can build software, should they? Shawn spent nearly two decades as a technologist inside firms like Latham, Freshfields, and Travers Smith before spinning Jylo out. The conversation that stuck with me was about ROT, not ROI. Return on token. If a firm spends thirty grand vibe-coding something nobody ever opens, the fact that it would have cost two hundred grand the old way doesn’t make it a win. It’s still money set on fire. Shawn thinks the honeymoon phase of trying everything is going to give way to harder questions. Token prices aren’t going to keep falling. At some point, “can we build it?” has to become “what’s actually worth the spend?” Listen on Apple, Spotify and Substack.
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Tokens have been dominating my thoughts for the last week or two, and it seems like the rest of the tech world too. Richard at Artificial Lawyer wrote a good piece yesterday with some sharp input from Jake and Shawn among others. So, via Law://WhatsNext, here are some of my thoughts on the instability of tokens, what that means for legal AI pricing, and why it should factor into the big decisions being made right now. Link in comments. 👇
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Top 3 reasons why I'm stoked that Tom Rice will be a special guest of The Exchange - Legal Tech Podclub at LegalTechTalk 1️⃣ As Senior Director at Perk he's at the cutting edge of law and technology for in-house teams. 2️⃣ His Law://WhatsNext Podcast is a must listen to. 3️⃣ He used to be Legal Counsel for UEFA. How cool is that? Tom will be speaking to The Exchange on Wednesday 17th at 4pm. You'll need a LTT ticket to join this one and then to sign up on the App. Enter podclub20_2020 for a 20% discount.
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🎙️ What does it actually mean to hire an "AI-native" lawyer, and how do you test for the taste and judgment required to accelerate adoption and push back when the machine gets it wrong? That's where Alex and I's conversation with Stephanie Dominy, GC & Head of Ops at Tessl, begins. It ends somewhere bigger... if AI can already draft, research and build, what's the irreducibly human part of legal work? 🎧 👇 Stephanie and I are taking the seeds of this conversation to the stage tomorrow at #CraftyFest (in London). Do come and say hello and don't be afraid to contribute your own ideas 😊
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