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How Tech Can Make the Practice of Law More Sustainable – S5E16

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Tony Thai and Jace Lynch.  Tony and Jace have co-founded HyperDraft – a full-service document generation service. The full-service generation customises documents based on client forms, with quick and reliable results. Tony is the Chief Engineer of HyperDraft – previously working as an Attorney at Goodwin, Nixon Peabody and Bryan Cave. Jace is the COO of HyperDraft, who also previously worked at Goodwin as an Associate. In this

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Rapper and Lawyer: How You Can Practice Law, Follow Your Passions and Make Partner – S5E15

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Nick Eziefula. Nick is a partner at one of the UK’s leading media and entertainment law firms, Simkins LLP. Nick specialises in commercial law and intellectual property. Nick is passionate about music and is an artist himself. Nick has released several albums, touring internationally. Alongside this, Nick also works in technology, providing advice on legal and commercial on software licensing, e-commerce as well as data protection. In this

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How Will Legal Tech Change the Role of Lawyers? – Colin Levy – S5E13

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Colin Levy. Colin is a legal tech consultant and director of Legal and Evangelist at Malbek, where he carries out his mission of bridging the tech world with the legal world. Alonside his work at Malbek, Colin is an Advisory Board Member for Proxy, a cloud-based legal workflow tool. He also has a blog, titled ‘Notes from the Front Lines of Legal Innovation’ which was named by Feedspot

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Introduction to Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin – Charles Kerrigan – S5E7

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomed Charles Kerrigan. Charles is a partner at CMS and a specialist in digital assets, fintech, and importantly for today’s discussion, Cryptocurrency. He is the author of multiple books including “The Financing of Intangible Assets: TMT Finance and Emerging Technologies” and “Growing with Blockchain”; and as a leading expert in blockchain and digital technology in the UK, has sat on advisory committees for parliament, the Bank of England and

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Document Automation in 2021 – Avvoka – S3E29

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna was joined by Giles Thompson, Head of Growth at Avvoka. Prior to this, he enjoyed successful stints working at BP, Herbert Smith Freehills and Kirkland & Ellis. In this highly topical episode, Giles shares his story and insights on the fast-moving world of legal automation, including how Avvoka is turbo-charging the industry’s adoption of intuitive and user-friendly document automation software. Overall, he discusses: His experience in private practice before

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Redefining Law through Legal Innovation – Aaron Baer – S3E26

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna welcomed process and legal tech enthusiast Aaron Baer on the show. Aaron is currently a partner at Aird & Berlis LLP, and is based in Toronto. He’s redefining how law is conducted by making processes more efficient through smart use of legal technology and transparent client communication. He’s played a leading role at the firm in introducing legal tech, overseeing its adoption of AI, project management tools and data

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Starting a Start-Up Miniseries: Episode 4 – Getting Funded

If a great idea is a rocket, venture capital is the fuel. And if you have both, the sky’s the limit! In the last episode of our 4 part  “Starting a Start-Up” Miniseries, our host Rob Hanna hears from Guy Stern, Founder of Legal Connection about how to put together a compelling pitch deck, how to get in front of investors pre and post COVID-19 and why Guy opted for crowdfunding for his upcoming seed-stage investment round. Transcript [0:00:00.0] Rob Hanna:

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Crypto Curry Club – Erica Stanford – S2E13

This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna is joined by Erica Stanford. Erica is an Entrepreneur and Founder of the Crypto Curry Club – now rated as the best and most popular for networking events in blockchain and emerging tech, they are networking and educational events as well as custom made and private workshops on blockchain, crypto, and emerging tech across the UK. Erica is also working on a book on use cases of blockchain featuring

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Law and Broader – Chrissie Wolfe – S2E5

This week our host Rob Hanna was honoured to be joined by the amazing Chrissie Wolfe! Founder of the hit YouTube Channel, ‘Law and Broader‘ | Solicitor of The Year 2019 | Woman of The Year 2019 | Legal Vlogger & Mentor | Lawtech Geek | Winner of Birmingham Young Professional of the Year, 2018 in Legal | Chair of Birmingham Junior Lawyers Division & day by day if that’s not enough a Solicitor at a Top 20 Law Firm in

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Legal Tech – Nathan Killick – S1E6

This week our host Rob Hanna speaks with Nathan Killick. Nathan is a highly knowledgable and impressive Legal IT Consultant at Sprout IT and Committee Member of the London Legal Networking Group.  They enjoyed talking through all things Tech & Cyber Security specifically for law firms and wider legal focused businesses. Nathan highlights a number of key points law firms & chambers need to consider to ensure they can achieve increased efficiencies through IT whilst staying safe and compliant.  Show notes Here are

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