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Design thinking - listen to your user... but not too much! I recently had the opportunity to attend a session on design thinking led by Treehouse Innovation. Design thinking is an innovation methodology which can be used to generate innovative solutions to challenges. In a legal context, it can be applied to chal... Should lawyers learn to code? Over the last few months there has been a lot of speculation about whether or not lawyers should learn to code, with some advocates predicting that all lawyers will be coders in the not too distant future. Whilst I have no doubt that the lawyers of the fu... Veil of ignorance - London Law Expo 2018 To design the law firm of the future, we should adopt a "veil of ignorance" - or so argues Dr Heather Anson.  Anson, speaking at the London Law Expo (an annual event with exhibitors and speakers from across the legal tech world), suggests that too often l... Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach an AI to recognise a fish... ... and you enable a man to feed thousands more. The story that a Norwegian company has developed a scanner capable of recognising salmon by their faces (more specifically, "the distinct pattern of spots around their eyes, mouth and gills") and of identif... Slaughter and May advised Sands China in relation to its issue of US$1.5 billion senior notes Slaughter and May is advising Drax on its acquisition of Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc. Slaughter and May, working as an integrated team with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, is advising Drax Group plc on its all-cash acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc. at a price of C$11.30 per shar... Slaughter and May is advising Allen & Overy on its London headquarters move Slaughter and May is advising Allen & Overy on its London headquarters move Slaughter and May is advising British Airways Plc on its £1,000,000,000 five-year Export Development Guarantee committed Credit Facility Slaughter and May is advising British Airways Plc on its £1,000,000,000 five-year Export Development Guarantee committed Credit Facility (the “Facility”). The Facility is partially supported by a guarantee from UK Export Finance. Slaughter and May advised John Wood Group plc on its $1,200,000,000 sustainability-linked revolving credit facility Slaughter and May advised John Wood Group plc on its $1,200,000,000 sustainability-linked revolving credit facility. Slaughter and May advised Legal & General on the further de-risking of The Pearson Pension Plan Slaughter and May advised Legal and General Assurance Society Limited (Legal & General) on the further de-risking of The Pearson Pension Plan, a UK pension plan sponsored by Pearson plc, by the way of a circa £500 million buy-in transaction.