Legal Geek Community News – June 2025
LEGAL GEEK COMMUNITY NEWS – JUNE 2025 This is your hub for all things community – where we celebrate the brilliant minds shaping legal innovation, highlight exciting opportunities to get involved, and share stories from our incredible network. Whether you’re a curious newcomer or a long-time Legal Geek fan, this is the place to stay […]
Leading by design
Leading by design On 21 May, OpenAI announced its acquisition of former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive’s company io in a deal worth $6.5bn. Ive, who helped create the iPod, Macbook, iPhone and Apple Watch, will “take over design for all of OpenAI, including its software”. Post-acquisition, Ive will continue working with OpenAI CEO […]
Community Spotlight: Maya Markovich
Community spotlight Maya Markovich, Vice President of the AAA-ICDR Institute and Executive Director of Justice Technology Association Meet Maya Markovich, this month’s Community Spotlight and a powerhouse at the forefront of legal innovation. She is driving real change where technology, equity, and the legal system meet. Her mission? To transform bold ideas into action, leveraging […]
Legal Geek Summer Drinks
LEGAL GEEK SUMMER DRINKS (July 2025) Invitation for LawTech Founders and Senior Leaders Tuesday 8 July 2025 · 5pm–10pm · Rooftop Bar, Central London Join us for an evening designed just for legaltech founders and senior leaders. No pitches, no clients – just real conversations, new connections, and a chance to swap war stories over […]
Legal Geek Community News – May 2025
LEGAL GEEK COMMUNITY NEWS – MAY 2025 This is your hub for all things community – where we celebrate the brilliant minds shaping legal innovation, highlight exciting opportunities to get involved, and share stories from our incredible network. Whether you’re a curious newcomer, or a long-time Legal Geek fan, this is the place to stay […]
Insights from MAPD Group: AI and innovation in customer experience
Insights from MAPD Group: AI and innovation in customer experience We spoke to Joanna Kingston-Davies and Paul Madden from MAPD Group about their innovative AI model and Knowledge Transfer Partnership, looking at how AI, data science and behavioural psychology profiling can improve client experience. They share their insights on how to drive innovation and the importance of […]
Secret agents
Secret agents Late last year, billboards appeared across San Francisco with the slogan ‘Stop Hiring Humans – The Era of AI Employees is Here’ promoting AI agent start-up Artisan. The billboards, which included tags like ‘Artisans won’t complain about work-life balance’ were created deliberately to provoke, and they certainly caught the attention of Silicon Valley. […]
Meet the speaker: Elizabeth (Liz) Brown
Speaker spotlight Elizabeth (Liz) Brown, General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer, CSC Generation Enterprise, Inc. At Legal Geek North America 2025, we’re excited to welcome Elizabeth (Liz) Brown, General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer at CSC Generation Enterprise, Inc. – a company transforming traditional retail brands like Backcountry, One Kings Lane, and Sur La Table […]
Legal Geek Community News – April 2025
LEGAL GEEK COMMUNITY NEWS – APRIL 2025 This is your hub for all things community – where we celebrate the brilliant minds shaping legal innovation, highlight exciting opportunities to get involved, and share stories from our incredible network. Whether you’re a curious newcomer, or a long-time Legal Geek fan, this is the place to stay […]
Spring forward
Spring forward As the clocks go forward and agentic AI takes over from prompt engineering as this year’s legal tech buzzword, there is a new elephant in the room: the extent to which digital colleagues can replace humans in legal services. In both corporate and consumer work AI automation is a trade-off between the speed/efficiency […]
