Lawyers On Fire Podcast

Nikolai Vokuhl, General Counsel von HUGOBOSS, berichtet über die Herausforderungen bei der Einführung von Legal Tech im Konzern. Lawyers on Fire besprechen woran die (schnelle) praktische Umsetzung scheitert, wovon Nikolai Vokuhl sich bei Legal Tech mehr erwartet hätte und was er sich vom Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz im juristischen Bereich verspricht.

Joanna Goodman is a journalist, keynote speaker, writer and author. She is the IT columnist for the Law Society Gazette and writes regular features for The Guardian about cutting-edge technology, brands, and media. Joanna wrote Robots in Law back in 2016 and is working on a second book on artificial intelligence and law. In this year’s Christmas episode, Lawyers on Fire speak with Joanna about BI, AI, robots, impact on the legal profession, COVID, lockdowns – looking back on 2020 and ahead into 2021.

Inwiefern sind Deutschland und Europa Freilichtmuseum der USA und China? Warum steht es 4:1 zur Halbzeit? Wieso verkennt die SPD beim Thema Künstliche Intelligenz die Interessen derjenigen, die sie eigentlich vertreten will? Fabian J. G. Westerheide spricht mit Lawyers on Fire über künstliche Intelligenz, Asgard.VC und den Riseof.AI Summit am 17. und 18. November. Fabian ist nicht nur CEO von AI for Humans, sondern als internationaler Experte für Strategien der Künstlichen Intelligenz  Unternehmer und Risikokapitalgeber. Er berät Regierungsinstitutionen wie die Europäische Kommission, die Europäische Weltraumorganisation, das deutsche Parlament, das chinesische Technologieministerium und Abteilungen wie den Verteidigungsminister und das Außenministerium sowie Fortune-500-Unternehmen, Think-Tanks und Start-ups. Darüber hinaus ist Fabian Managing Partner bei Asgard - Human VC for AI.

Diesmal sprechen Lawyers on Fire miteinander: Carsten unterhält sich mit Jochen über die Innovationsförderung, die sein Unternehmen Privacy Solutions für die Datenschutzsoftware Privacy Suite erhalten hat. In den nächsten zwei Jahren wird das Projekt dazu beitragen, Datenschutzrisiken mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz besser zu erkennen und zu bewerten. Hören Sie zu für eine neue Perspektive auf den Datenschutz - und warum richtig verstandener Datenschutz für den langfristigen Erfolg von Unternehmen wichtig ist.

In dieser Folge der vierten Staffel zu Automatisierung & KI sprechen Lawyers on Fire mit Martin Ebers, Professor für IT-Recht an der Universität Tartu (Estland) und als Privatdozent Mitglied der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Er ist Mitgründer und Vorstandsvorsitzender der RAILS – Robotics & AI Law Society. Professor Ebers beleuchtet zentrale Themen der Regulierung von KI und Robotik und gibt einen Ausblick auf seine in Kürze erscheinenden Bücher Algorithms & Law und Rechtshandbuch Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik. Für unsere jüngeren Hörerinnen und Hörer: es gibt hier eine spannende Projektstelle in diesem Bereich.

Lawyers on Fire are happy to start its fourth season which will focus on Automation & AI! Big innovation is happening in Australia. Our second guest from there is Tom Dreyfus who is the CEO and co-founder of Josef, a legal automation platform that makes bot-building, workflow and document automation accessible to every legal professional. We asked Tom why his legal tech company is called Josef and what journey they are on. Before Josef, Tom was a corporate litigator, a lecturer and a clerk at the High Court of Australia. He speaks and writes regularly on legal technology and innovation, and holds an LLM from Columbia Law School focusing on legal data analytics.

Lawyers-on-Fire complete their Estonian legal tech talks with Mariana Hagström who is the Founder & CEO at Avokaado, a contract workflow automation platform. As an attorney-at-law and a managing partner of a law firm, she launched Avokaado as a spin-off in 2016. Today she is fully dedicated to helping legal teams with operational efficiency and establishing new business models. Mariana has helped hundreds of legal teams in the Baltics and Nordics to cut down their contract-related costs and launch client-facing legal services by using contract workflow automation.

Today’s episode is the last of three interviews we did during our tour to Estonia at the end of last year. This now seems like another world with free air travel and moving around easily. We are very grateful to Risto Hübner, founder of Nordx Legal, who met with us and shared his inside knowledge about the Estonian legal tech scene and also allowed us to share his start-up map with our listeners. Risto is a business-minded technology, data privacy & IP attorney with more than 15 years of professional experience in law and extensive sector-specific knowledge of the ICT industry. Risto has worked as the general counsel at Nortal, one of the largest tech companies in the Baltics, carrying out operations globally. He is especially passionate about startups, data protection, privacy law, cybersecurity and new technologies. Risto is also a visiting lecturer in IT Law at the University of Tartu, mentor to startups at Startup Wise Guys accelerator and the founder and organizer of the Estonian chapter of Legal Hac

In the second part of our interview with Kaspar he shares some behind-the-scenes insights and learnings from his journey of e-Residency, which may well be one of the most important government experiments in the 21st century. The program started nearly 20 years ago after Estonia decided to become a fully digital society and to issue a digital identity to every resident. From there, it went on to welcome foreign citizens to Estonia’s digital global village. Kaspar Korjus was the Managing Director of e-Residency in the Government of Estonia. Kaspar started to run the program at the age of 26 years and today moved on to his next venture Pactum which we discussed with him in the recent LOF podcast. Kaspar is also listed as #1 on the Forbes Estonia’s 30 Under 30 in Technology and Finance list. Kaspar is fascinated by the idea of disrupting the governments to become service providers like any other company. He rarely gives interviews so we are absolutely grateful he took time to meet us.

Lawyers on Fire spoke with Kaspar Korjus in Tallinn/Estonia, a truly inspiring and thriving startup hub. Inspiring indeed was the discussion with Kaspar as well which is why we split it into two parts. Kaspar has been the most citied Estonian by global press in 2017 and 2018. He is listed by Forbes Estonia `30 under 30´ people as #1 in Technology and Finance and was elected by US CTO Megan Smith as one of the 20 global digital leaders. In 2019 Kaspar was nominated as JCI 10 Most Outstanding Young Persons of the World. Furthermore, Kaspar was awarded the Order of Orange-Nassau by the King of the Netherlands, His Majesty Willem-Alexander, in recognition of his notable contributions for the betterment of societies worldwide, making him one of the youngest knights you could ever encounter. If that’s not enough, he has recently co-founded Pactum. Pactum helps companies to improve every contract they have ever signed by automatically negotiating contracts on a massive scale. The system learns to understand the valu

Lawyers on Fire chat with Terri Mottershead today. Terri ist the Executive Director at Centre for Legal Innovation in Brisbane, Australia. She has worked with the world’s largest law firm associations and law firms for more than 20 years to support and develop their best talent.  Her aim is to guide lawyers and law firms in transitioning their practices to the “new normal” legal services market. Because people innovate and firms do not, advising on change management, talent management and legal innovation for lawyers and law firms form the cornerstones of Terri’s Consulting work. Terri's thought leadership in legal innovation was recognised with her appointment in 2016 as the founding Director of the newly created Centre for Legal Innovation at the College of Law (Australia, New Zealand and Asia). Her work at the Centre includes collaborating with all interested stakeholders to create an information hub and incubator for new ideas on identifying and applying practical solutions to the most challenging issues

Michele DeStefano is a professor of law at the University of Miami, Guest Faculty in Harvard Law School, Executive Education, and the founder of LawWithoutWalls, an international think-tank aimed at honing new skillsets and mindsets and creating innovations at the intersection of law, business, and technology.   As a professor of law, DeStefano researches and writes about the growing intersections between law, business, and legal innovation. Her book Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation in Law leverages over 100 interviews of general counsels of large international corporations and heads of innovation at law firms. Lawyers-on-Fire has spoken with Michele about her new book, her advice to students and young professionals and her view on today’s and tomorrow’s legal world. Listen and get inspired: Why? What was your motivation to write this book? What’s happening? You describe technology, shifts in socio-economics and globalization as the main forces impacting the law market tod

Caitlin "Cat" Moon is Director of Innovation Design for the Program in Law and Innovation (PoLI) at the Vanderbilt University Law School and an entrepreneur, creating Ledger.Law, a consultancy from blockchain related advice to regulation, policy, and legal structure.  Professor Moon also is a co-organizer of the Music City Legal Hackathon, sponsored by PoLI and part of the global Legal Hackers community, which brings together legal professionals, technologists, designers and other professionals to create technology solutions serving access to justice and legal services. Lawyers on Fire spoke with Cat at design.legal, Europe’s coziest conference on legal design, tech and innovation.

Ralf Winter is Chief Legal Officer - Europe of Toshiba and one of the challengers at the design.legal conference. He brings a real-life topic to the event to challenge the participants to come with a solution within the two days available in sunny Munich. Lawyers of Fire spoke with Ralf right before the conference started to find out what he expects from it.

Kai Ebert is the president of Munich Legal Tech or MLTech in short. The association was founded just last year and its participants are attending design.legal. Lawyers on Fire talked to him to find out how law student can create together with other disciplines

Manfred Schick is General Counsel of ING-Diba in Germany. He is one of the GCs challenging the teams at design.legal. We've asked him what he expects from the conference and what he hopes to take back.

“Together we shape the experience. Together we determine the outcome. Together we create!” That's what Sascha Theissen, co-host of design.legal says about the conference - and the future of the legal profession. Sascha is a repeat guest at Lawyers on Fire with multiple interests: He has a doctorate degree in computer engineering from KIT, an MBA in International Management from ESB Business School, is a fully qualified lawyer and a specialist IP lawyer. Not surprisingly, Sascha aims high when co-hosting design.legal.

The first conference of its kind, design.legal is being held on 21-22 June at allynet Work Loft in Munich. Design.legal radically breaks with the traditional conference line-up of talking heads that are supposed to inspire otherwise passive attendees. Instead, design.legal will gather a mix of lawyers, coders and designers to offer them a uniquely creative and collaborative experience. Lawyers on Fire chat with co-organizer Carsten Reimann minutes before the event starts.

Professor Dr. Ralph Alexander Lorz, LL.M. (Harvard) is Minister in Hesse, now holding the portfolio of public schools and church-state relations for the State Government formed by the Christian Democratic Union and the Green Party. He is also professor of  German and Foreign Public Law, European Law and Public International Law at Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf. Professor Lorz delivered the keynote “Who Owns the Legal Future?” at the legal ® evolution conference in Frankfurt. Lawyers.on-Fire spoke with him about legal tech and the future of the legal market.

Dr. Jochen Brandhoff ist Rechtsanwalt und Veranstalter der LEGAL ®EVOLUTION Expo & Congress, die zum ersten Mal im Oktober 2017 in Frankfurt stattfand. Lawyers-on-Fire waren dort und sprachen mit ihm über sein Fazit nach dem ersten Veranstaltungstag.