Make no mistake, we are MASSIVE fans of London’s LegalTech scene but even we are ready to admit that the story of Appjection would have been unlikely to take place on these shores. It is just all too, well, smooth. There’s lots of hard work to admire but this story features no major set-backs for […]

Picture this: you’re less than a year into life as the Founder and Managing Director of a boutique law firm. Business is progressing well and recently you’ve been finding yourself with a couple of hours spare at the end of each day. So what do you do? Take up taekwondo, become a pub quiz regular, […]

Legal Geeks, we find, come in varied forms, from many different backgrounds. But this week’s Legal Geek of the Week, Helen Gazzi, represents the biggest outlier we’ve featured so far. Yes, she’s one of our own as the Legal Geek Law for Good Manager – but she’s so much more than that. With three fixed […]

Blockchain’s current status in Legal Tech is akin to the holy grail. It’s on the lips of everyone in the industry – and yet its arrival seems perennially just beyond the horizon, unobtainable, tomorrow’s technology. At Legal Geek, we know our limits, so before diving into this thorny thicket of a topic we thought we’d […]

Matrix Chambers Practice Director Jason Housden is a confessed ‘tech champion’ – the sort who promotes and advocates the use of technology, not the sort with world-beating programming skills; “I’m no Steve Jobs” Jason is keen to point out – but he’s also a natural tech historian and by the time Legal Geek’s interview with […]

At Legal Geek we get pretty excited by LegalTech. It’s what gets us out of bed in the morning after all and we are super stoked these guys are coming to the Legal Geek Confernce. Yet only through the beautiful medium of Gifs can we accurately convey our excitement when we spied an early-stage start-up […]

One of the key factors that motivated DealScoper Head of Content, James Dawson, to leave his partnership with Macfarlanes and enter the legal tech space, was a nagging question, “If not now, then when?” Dawson answered that question one year ago this month and judging by the excitement with which he is demonstrating DealScoper’s web-based […]

Until this week, the Legal Geek team have been busy preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation by knitting ourselves thick woolly pullovers ahead of the nuclear winter which will accompany GDPR’s introduction on 25th May next year. It was therefore a bitter sweet experience – particularly as our pullover had reached well beyond the […]