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Legal tech: less talk and more action? Interesting to see if this signals the start of the plateau in the legal tech hype cycle. Less talk and more action/implementation has got to be a good thing - it's a tricky balance for law firms to strike between staying on top of new legal tech developm... LegalTech and law school It's great to see law schools around the world including new legal innovation and design modules in their syllabuses and it's indicative of the fact that the legal ecosystem is recognising that lawyers of the future will need a broader skillset, drawing o... Co-operation between machines and humans - the secret to success for machine learning? One of the largest barriers that must be overcome by a business looking to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) into their current workflows is ensuring the co-operation between machines and humans or else the technology is destined to fail.  Whether it... 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