In episode no. 75 I speak with Catherine Bamford, CEO & Founder of BamLegal. We cover:
- BamLegal’s clients and services;
- The UK legal industry’s adoption of document automation;
- How Catherine addresses some common objections to legal technology;
- The relevance of time billing and fixed fee in this context;
- How legal technology intersects with ‘real lawyering’;
- Who should and shouldn’t ‘own’ a legal tech product or project;
- How legal technology vendors get sales pitches ‘wrong’;
- Catherine’s ‘why’ for leaving BigLaw and the steps that led her to create her own business;
- How Catherine got started with legal technology, what she’s working on now and why;
- Real examples of how document automation assists people with low-middle income;
- How point-in-time online guidance has significantly improved accuracy of UK divorce forms;
- Other advantages of technology for clients, lawyers and courts;
- Catherine’s motivation to produce ‘BamBytes’, ‘Breakfast with Bam’ and to compile innovation and technology resources for the ecosystem;
- Her thoughts on how the next generation of lawyers approach legal tech;
- Just how ‘uberised’ the legal process is right now;
- Her personal characteristics that suggest she would work in legal technology;
- The job role that was invented when she was working at Pinsent Masons;
- What jumping in cold rivers and rearranging beer cellars has to do with Catherine’s career;
- Similarities between legal analysis and computer coding;
- What Catherine wishes she knew when she started her business;
- The impact of being able to say “I’m a lawyer” when becoming a legal engineer;
- How Catherine structures her business to enable flexibility in her team; and
- Catherine’s definition of legal innovation. Proudly sponsored by Neota Logic
Proudly sponsored by Neota Logic
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