US-based Ron Friedmann has spent over two decades improving law practice and legal business operations with technology, knowledge management, and alternative resourcing. Today he is one of the world’s leading experts and bloggers on legal tech. Meeting Carsten in Nürnberg, Ron shares his views on the legal marketplace, current trends and opportunities for the next generation of lawyers.
Carsten and Jochen talk about the interviews they conducted in 2016 and share their most interesting moments and findings. They then go on to take a look at what is ahead in 2017.
Sebastiaan Bos is one of the key artificial intelligence experts in Legal Tech. His expertise extends beyond his role as Director of Solutions EMEA at HighQ. Lawyers on Fire had a chance to speak with Sebastiaan on his view of the legal tech market and what he thinks law firms and young lawyers should do now.
Mitchell Kowalski is a Visiting Professor in Legal Innovation at the University of Calgary, the legal innovation columnist for the National Post, a Global Legal Innovator and the author of Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century. He was formerly a partner at one of the world’s largest law firms and has also served as in-house legal counsel. Lawyers on Fire spoke with him about his new book The Great Legal Reformation which he published in late 2017, 500 years after Martin Luther started the first great reformation. Mitch will sign copies of his book which we will give away to the first five listeners who contact us and suggest someone Lawyers on Fire will interview in 2018. Â
Lawyers on Fire spoke with Terri Motterhead, the Executive Director for the Centre of Legal Innovation (Australia, New Zealand and Asia) at The College of Law in Brisbane, Australia. Terri has been a thought leader in people centred legal practice innovation for more than 25 years. She works internationally with leaders and managers of law firms, legaltech entrepreneurs, law schools, business schools, business professionals and lawyers. These are the key topics we discussed:1. You made a career change turning from a practicing lawyer to a legal educator. Why?2. In 2016 you founded the newly created Centre for Legal Innovation at the College of Law. What does the Centre do?3. You hosted a big legal innovation conference in August this year. Can you tell us a bit about its format and how it went?4. What major developments do you see in the legal market today and what will this mean for future lawyers?5. What skills do you find most important for the next generation of lawyers?6. What does this mean for legal education? What is essential for the design of good legal education today?7. You are our first guest from Australia where we've seen a lot of innovative start-ups. Can you give us two or three examples of promising start-ups in areas you see as highly exiting?8. People and technology - lawyers and machines. How will these go together in the coming years?9. If you were to start your career over, what would you change?
In the second part of our interview with Kaspar he shares some behind-the-scenes insights and learnings from his journey of e-Residency, which may well be one of the most important government experiments in the 21st century. The program started nearly 20 years ago after Estonia decided to become a fully digital society and to issue a digital identity to every resident. From there, it went on to welcome foreign citizens to Estonia’s digital global village.Kaspar Korjus was the Managing Director of e-Residency in the Government of Estonia. Kaspar started to run the program at the age of 26 years and today moved on to his next venture Pactum which we discussed with him in the recent LOF podcast. Kaspar is also listed as #1 on the Forbes Estonia’s 30 Under 30 in Technology and Finance list. Kaspar is fascinated by the idea of disrupting the governments to become service providers like any other company. He rarely gives interviews so we are absolutely grateful he took time to meet us.
