With most sectors scrambling for profitable solutions to technological turmoil in business practice, is the legal profession resting on tradition-bound laurels? Could lawyers become unnecessary business overheads?
New technologies are impinging on the role of lawyers and law across all areas of practice. Challenged to resolve many complex legal matters now arising from technology innovation, could legal practice next flounder in a storm of digital communication shifts that threaten the future of practitioners and potentially place clients at risk?
What shape must future lawyers take and how must models of legal practice evolve? Join UTS researchers and law innovators for an interactive event that exposes the emerging threats and considers new opportunities for research, learning and industry engagement.
MC & Moderator Professor Lesley Hitchens GAICD, UTS Dean of Law
Presenter - Dr Philippa (Pip) Ryan, UTS Faculty of Law
A barrister and UTS law lecturer, Pip has worked with legal technology since the early 1990s, managing mega-litigation discovery and eCourt trials. Her research explores the degree to which new technologies may impede or enable access to justice, why digital currencies fail and how the Blockchain should be regulated. Collaborating with the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre, she is developing writing analysis software to improve student self-assessments. Pip is also a founding member of the UTS Blockchain Creative Cluster. In 2017, she will coordinate a social justice apps program at UTS and expand learning opportunities for UTS Law students with a new elective subject - Disruptive Technologies and the Law.
Panelist - Beth Paterson, Chief Legal & Technology Services Officer, Allens
Beth is a globally recognised leader in the development of legal technologies, including the application of artificial intelligence to deliver competitive client solutions. Beth leads Allens' team of multi-disciplinary professionals, working with lawyers and clients to deliver integrated low cost document review solutions combined with market leading technologies. Her innovative work saw her recently receive the International Legal Technology Association Litigation Support Professional of the Year Distinguished Peer Award.
Panelist - Dominic Woolrych, LawPath
Dominic is Legal Product Manager at LawPath, Australia's largest and fastest-growing online legal platform. Prior to joining LawPath, he worked in both the commercial and criminal legal sectors and is a sought-after commentator and thought leader in technology disruption of the law in Australia. He was recently recognised as a winner of the Australian Legal Innovation index.
Panelist - Claire Wivell Plater, The Fold Legal
Claire is Managing Director of The Fold Legal and a member of the Federal Treasurer's Digital Advisory Group. A boutique law firm specialising in financial services regulatory and commercial matters, The Fold Legal was placed on the Australian Legal Innovation Index in 2015 and is currently partnering in the development of Artemis, an artificial intelligence application which detects potential regulatory breaches in financial advisers’ websites and social media, real time.
This event is worth 1.5 points CPD/CLE points in Practice Management and Business Skills Register Attendance