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Manchester Law & Technology Initiative Podcast

The impact of legal tech on clients, customers, and society

  • E4
  • 38:04
  • August 25th 2020

This episode focuses on the impact of legal tech on clients, customers, and society as a whole. It considers design-thinking as a means of making tech-enabled legal services more user friendly and the importance of leadership and culture in achieving strategic change around technology. Guests for this episode include: 

  • Bruce Tether (University of Manchester) 
  • Joanna Kingston Davies (Jackson Lees Group)
  • Alessandro Torrisi (Fletchers Solicitors) 
  • Fran Eccles-Bech (Manchester Law Society) 

Discussion is hosted by Christina Blacklaws, former president of The Law Society of England & Wales and Chair of the government-backed Lawtech Delivery Panel. 

To learn more about the Manchester Law & Technology Initiative, please visit The University of Manchester website.

Manchester Law & Technology Initiative Podcast

Welcome to the Manchester Law & Technology Initiative Podcast! This roundtable discussion series explores the ways technology is changing the way law is practiced today. Each episode shines a light on some of the fascinating conversations and ideas that have emerged from the Law & Technology Initiative at The University of Manchester. The Initiative was founded in 2018 and brings together practice and research to identify dangers and facilitate opportunities in future policy directions at the interface of law and technology

To provide a comprehensive view of the current landscape, this series features a diverse lineup of guests including both academics and leading industry professionals from a number of partner firms involved in the Law & Technology Initiative. Topics covered range from defining what legal tech is right through to specific applications of technology within firms.

To learn more, search “Manchester Law & Technology Initiative” on Google and head to The University of Manchester website for all the latest news and upcoming events.