In the earlier parts to this 6 part career guide series we’ve covered routes into legaltech, legal ops and innovation roles, the activities commonly undertaken in such roles and now we cover in more detail the types of roles, what they are paid, who they work with
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Legaltech Careers: Steve Wheeler, CTO of Legatics
Steve Wheeler is a lifetime technologist, catching the bug aged 7 when he got his first computer, a Sinclair ZX-81.
Today Steve is CTO of Legatics, and before his current role led various technology teams and on large scale technology projects and products at a variety
Legaltech Careers: Sam Smolkin, CEO & Founder of Office & Dragons
Should lawyers learn to code? Well, Sam Smolkin did, built an enterprise app – Office & Dragons – and a growing customer base of law firm clients.
From humble beginnings, paying his way through college, Sam ended up as a private equity M&A lawyer at Kirkland &
Legaltech Careers Guide: The 21 skills of Legaltech, Ops & Innovation roles
What could a career in legaltech look like? What skills and activities are required and undertaken in legaltech, legal ops and legal innovation roles?
In this part 4 to our 6 part careers guide we will summarize a representative, but in-exhaustive, list of typical legaltech, legal ops and
Transaction Development: the surprising reasons why lawyers should design deals like software
In this piece we chat to Sam Smolkin of Office & Dragons about Transaction Development, or how to design deals like software and thereby save a ton of time whilst creating a wealth of value for clients and lawyers alike.
What is Transaction Development?
Transaction Development is a
Legaltech Careers: Tunji Williams, Co-CEO & Co-founder of ShareThing
We are the stories we tell ourselves. But what happens if one day that story changes unexpectedly? It causes trauma, but also change. Realising we have the power to shape our own narrative and not be defined by external notions of success is empowering.
This is the story
Legaltech Careers: Tom Dunlop, CEO & Founder of Summize
What do you get when you combine elite sports and a history of working in-house for various tech start-ups and scale-ups?
Tom Dunlop.
Tom is a former Team GB badminton player, in-house counsel, and now CEO and founder of Summize; a platform that creates instant contract summaries
Legaltech jobs: How to get one? Routes in, skills to learn and where to find them
In this guide we provide a comprehensive overview of legaltech jobs, salaries, how to network within the legaltech community, how to build skills and experiences, and where and how to find legaltech jobs.
This guide forms part 2 of our 6 part series on careers in legaltech, legal
What is legaltech? Something old, something borrowed, and something new
Legaltech remains a buzzy subject. For some, it may seem like a new invention. For others it’s old news, and to be frank, quite boring. The reality is that legaltech is something old, something borrowed and something new.
Intrigued?
Learn more below, including how legaltech became “cool”.
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Legaltech Careers: Alex Smith, Global Product Lead, iManage
Kicking off our new series on interesting careers in legaltech, legal ops and innovation we sat down to interview Alex Smith, Global RAVN Product Lead at iManage.
Alex is a vocal proponent of service design and the necessity of good information architecture, i.e. the way data
Legaltech Careers Guide: roles, organisations and routes into legaltech jobs
How do I get a job in legaltech? What guidance can you provide regarding legaltech careers? These are questions we get asked a lot. The people asking are both legal and other professionals looking to enter this increasingly diverse sector.
To scale our advice we’ve created this guide
Why you should look beyond legaltech: 4 surprising reasons to leverage non-legaltech.
Legaltech, lawtech, legal technology and Legat IT. But have you thought about techtech? What’s techtech I hear you say? Well, it’s all the other tech lawyers and their clients use. The tech that isn’t badged “legaltech”. Why mention this? If you focus exclusively on legaltech to solve your
Legaltech vs Lawtech. What is the difference between legaltech and lawtech? Is there one and does it matter?
Legaltech vs Lawtech. What is the difference between legaltech and lawtech? Is there a difference and does it matter? Short answer: it depends on who you ask!
Broadly speaking the views on this question fall into 3 camps:
01 Legaltech is for lawyers, and lawtech is for clients
Founder Focus | Avvoka. From BigLaw to Document Automation Start-up
It’s 4am on a Saturday morning. You’ve worked 20 hours straight. You’ve done so every day since… you forget when. Time to quit do that start-up you’ve dreamed about. But do you do it? Should you? Could you?
Well, as part of a new series we are interviewing
Never ignore marginal gains. The secret of how a 1% gain each day adds up to massive results for legal organisations.
Marginal gains are massively overlooked in legal service delivery. And it’s a shame. Marginal gains are about making small incremental improvements to a process (or product, ability or habit etc) which, when added together, make a significant improvement. But legal innovation often ignores it. Why? We’ll find out.
Automating adoption. Avvoka’s proven strategies for successful document automation.
Document automation has been around for decades. It is often a “no brainer” for many legal use cases and organisations. Yet it is often unfairly overlooked. We caught up with Avvoka to discuss the challenges and opportunities of document automation, who are the sponsors and the laggards, how