Youri Cousineau works as legal counsel in a large Canadian financial group and is also the founder of Ako Technologies.

The Hon. Mr Justice Birss is the first judge to be featured in our Lawyers Who Code series.

Gordon Cassie is the CTO at Toronto-based Closing Folders, a platform that facilitates collaboration on corporate and commercial legal transactions. He has been coding for approximately a decade.

Richard Burnham is a solicitor at Ronald Fletcher Baker and has recently launched LegalTech project Eallium CMS. Eallium is a case management system designed to be a “firm in a box” that helps smaller firms to increase efficiency.

Stuart Whittle is Business Services and Innovation Director and equity partner at Weightmans LLP. He is a member of Weightmans’ Board and is responsible for the HR, IT, Risk and Compliance, Facilities and Business Change departments totalling around 170 people.

Taron Khajotia is the founder of Jus Eq (juseq.com), an early-stage mobile-optimised practise management suite for lawyers. He started learning to code 6 months ago when he couldn’t find the necessary business tools for Jus Eq from cloud-based, plug & play applications.

Andrew Darnton is a former commercial real estate lawyer, who now works at legal engineering business SYKE as a Consultant Automation and CLM Specialist. He helps law firms and businesses to procure and implement legal technology.

Simon Gittins is a former coder who turned to the law and became barrister at 27. He later moved into LegalTech and founded the legal services platform Absolute Barrister, where is the CEO.