Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in Legal Tech

Speaker 1
Pulling
Speaker 3
out your crystal ball, Wendy, what do you think are going to be the, actually, I'll do this, I'll give you an option on the question. So what do you think is going to be the biggest challenges or opportunities for legal tech and women-led startups in the next few years? Or what do you think are going to be the challenges and opportunities for using behavioral science in law firms. Oh, that's interesting. Or you could answer both. Or you could just pick your own thing that you want to answer. You don't even have to answer our question. Oh,
Speaker 1
that's really
Speaker 3
nice. We're very chill about that here.
Speaker 1
We haven't got long enough for the second one, so I'll go with the first one. I think the challenges for legal, well, the opportunities for legal tech are quite extraordinary. I think the challenges are on the buyer's side because they've got so many people coming at them, haven't they? And trying to figure out who's the one to pick. But I was at a conference last week with the master of the roles over here, who's kind of number two in the legal justice system, was saying AI isn't a choice for lawyers anymore. It's about how to use it and get effective benefit from it. This move from scepticism to optimism has been amazing in the last year. And that's what you need if you're going to transform an industry, isn't it? And that's not to say that lawyers aren't going to remain the most sceptical, challenging testers of your product, which actually is a great place to be, especially if we want to carry on into all knowledge work. Let's start with the Tuckers gang of the lot, because we'll, you know, iron out quite a lot of the challenges if we can answer their problems. So it's a really interesting time, I think. And in terms of women-led startups, I think in legal, the other thing that I've noticed coming back into law, it feels slightly like coming home, which is rather nice. But there's also an awful lot of women, I mean, compared to financial services. There's a lot of very smart women. And there's a lot of women in these functions that didn't exist when I was lawyering around the periphery. And I don't say that in a light way, they're very important in a firm, but around knowledge and innovation and technology. there's a lot of women in those roles who I can see taking significant, playing significant parts in the whole legal tech industry. So perhaps that's going to be the area where we take off more. It'll be interesting to see. Yeah,
Speaker 2
I hope so. And me too. Well, Wendy Jepsen, co-founder of Let's Think, or founder of Let's Think, thank you very much for joining us on the Geek& Review. Thanks
Speaker 1
very much. It's been a pleasure. It's great to be here. The dog, my dog's going to start barking. He spoke random.
Speaker 3
I have got great co-founders as well. And Wendy, again, thank you so much. And thanks to you, all our listeners, for taking the time to listen to the Geek and Review podcast. If you enjoy the show, share it with a colleague. We'd love to hear from you. So reach out to us on LinkedIn. And Blue Sky, is that right?
Speaker 2
Yeah, Blue Sky. Are we Blue Sky now?
Speaker 3
Okay.
Speaker 2
The Geek Law blog. So, Wendy, we'll make sure that we put links in the show notes. But if people want to learn more about Let's Think or reach out to you, connect with you, what's the best place for them to go? I
Speaker 1
would say LinkedIn is a
Speaker 3
great place. Do drop me a line there. That'd be great. Great. And as always, the music you hear is from Jerry David DeSicca. Thank you, Jerry. Thanks,
Speaker 2
Jerry. All right. I'll talk you later. Okay, bye-bye. to you later. Okay. Bye-bye. the devil's back for my ball.

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