GenAI tipping point
GenAI tipping point Last week, ChatGPT celebrated its third anniversary of its public launch on 30 November 2022. In just three years, GenAI has hit the mainstream and 2025 was the tipping point in legal, with agentic AI unicorns Harvey and Legora driving the market, raising significant investment along the way (both announced $150m funding […]
A gift to the legal profession
A gift to the legal profession If you could gift the legal profession one change for 2026, what would it be? As the legal profession closes out another year of change, we asked a selection of our 2026 Legal Geek North America speakers one simple question: If you could gift the legal profession one change […]
Now and then
Now and then For 10 years Legal Geek has been a major driver in lawtech’s transformation from a niche branch of enterprise tech to a well-funded global phenomenon. This is a personal reflection, as I’ve been involved in one way or another (participating and reporting) from early on. I attended the first London meet-ups and […]
Law Business Research Acquires Legal Geek
Law Business Research Ltd (LBR), a portfolio company of ICG, announced today that it has acquired Legal Geek, a market leading provider of legal-tech focused events and conferences. The Legal Geek event series is hugely respected in the industry, acting as a driving force of change and innovation in the legal tech space. The Legal […]
The Future of In-House Counsel
The future of in-house counsel What is one insight that best captures the future of in-house counsel? As the role of in-house counsel continues to evolve, we asked two of our 2025 Legal Geek Conference speakers — both leading voices in the in-house community — one simple question: What is one insight that best captures […]
Champions and challengers
Champions and challengers What are the words on the street for legal geeks right now? I am hearing about champions – the AI champions driving adoption, as well as witnessing what feels like a legal GenAI vendors championship with Harvey and Legora vying for pole position. And there are new challengers too in an AI-first […]
Adapting to AI: A Barrister’s Journey
Adapting to AI: A Barrister’s Journey After a couple of decades practicing law, mainly clinical negligence – I’m no stranger to battling through hefty bundles of medical records and case files. I have always had a keen interest in IT and the ways in which it can be utilised by the legal profession. Unfortunately, sometimes […]
Making four days work in law
IMD Solicitors: How a four-day week is changing legal work More than 200,000 UK workers have moved to a four-day week since 2019, according to the ONS. Nearly 11% of the workforce now report shorter schedules (Guardian). While the headlines show a national trend, Manchester-based boutique firm IMD Solicitors has gone a step further, making […]
Remote control
Remote control August saw the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5, to mixed reviews. While it has improved reasoning powers, it also removes an element of control from users, because it selects the ‘best model’ to respond to your prompt. As Josh Kubicki writes in his Brainyacts newsletter, GPT-5 “marks a profound change in the human/machine relationship”. […]
Everything changes
Everything changes William Gibson’s comment “The future is already here – it’s just unevenly distributed” is still apposite. July saw significant developments in GenAI, with OpenAI launching ChatGPT Agent, which is a task management application, on 17 July, and GPT-5, expected to launch this month, will have o3 reasoning capabilities built in. Legal is in […]
