The Legal Dispatch

In this episode, Tyson speaks to Maya Markovich, a start-up advisor, legal tech and justice tech investment advisor, and a legal innovation consultant. Maya works with teams from legal operations, to ALSPs, to law firms, helping them deliver tech enabled services. They discuss Maya's career journey through the emerging world of legal tech, her morning routines and how start-ups are helping to bridge the access to justice gap.Detours include Dr. Philip Zimbardo, cocktails, and Maya & Tyson's extensive travel resumes...

Tyson continues his new podcast series with Ajay Agrawal, CEO & Co-Founder of SirionLabs. They discuss why Ajay has chosen to relocate back to India, his thinking process and how he came to found two highly successful legal start-ups in the last 15 years.Detours include capital funding near-misses, how SirionLabs got its name from an obscure Tolkien reference and the joys of cycling for exercise and mindfulness (where Ajay definitely does not ride an eBike)...Ajay Agrawal started his career as a black letter lawyer on Wall Street having trained at Cambridge and Columbia. in 2006 he founded UnitedLex, alongside Daniel Reed, which was one of the earliest legal process outsourcing companies, Having been drawn to legal tech and the problem of "contract education", Agrawal sold his stake in United Lex and founded SirionLabs in 2012, where he is using artificial intelligence technology to disrupt the field of enterprise contract lifecycle management.

Tyson Ballard kicks off his new podcast series with Alistair Maiden, CEO & Founder of SYKE. They discuss how Alistair ended up leaving ASDA to found SYKE, his decision-making process and morning rituals. Detours include evangelising about golf, discussion of Andy Murray's work ethic and how Alistair juggles being a CEO with being a dad of 3...