100 episodes

This podcast cuts through the noise surrounding the future of law. All over the world and across all sectors, expanding and accelerating technologies are changing our lives and even changing us. How can the law and the legal profession keep up with all the changes?  Law professors Michael Madison (US) and Dan Hunter (Australia) take a global view of the law and technology ecosystem, talking to lawyers, entrepreneurs, educators, students, and thought leaders across for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors. 

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    • 4.8 • 5 Ratings

This podcast cuts through the noise surrounding the future of law. All over the world and across all sectors, expanding and accelerating technologies are changing our lives and even changing us. How can the law and the legal profession keep up with all the changes?  Law professors Michael Madison (US) and Dan Hunter (Australia) take a global view of the law and technology ecosystem, talking to lawyers, entrepreneurs, educators, students, and thought leaders across for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors. 

    What We’ve Learned About ALSPs: Wrapping Up the Season

    What We’ve Learned About ALSPs: Wrapping Up the Season

    In this final episode of this season of The Future Law Podcast, Mike and Dan chat about what they’ve both learnt about ALSPs, what’s to come of them and how they impact both the legaltech world and the world of law generally. 

    We’ll be back next season for more on law and technology. 

    Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

    Thanks for listening! 

     

    CREDITS: 

    Hosts: Mike Madison and Dan Hunter 

    Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh
    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    • 28 min
    What AI and Data Science Can Do For Law Firms

    What AI and Data Science Can Do For Law Firms

    In this week’s episode, Mike Madison chats with Michael Morneualt, a senior lawyer and litigation consultant now with Lighthouse, who has watched ALSPs grow and evolve from multiple perspectives: as a practicing lawyer, in business development, and as a long-time leader of a tech-driven litigation support and investigations practice. 

    Michael talks extensively about changing patterns among ALSPs and dispute resolution, and how data science is influencing other areas of law practice.  

    Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

    Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

    Thanks for listening! 

     

    CREDITS: 

    Hosts: Mike Madison and Dan Hunter 

    Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh
    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    • 29 min
    How Change Can Improve Law Firms

    How Change Can Improve Law Firms

    In this episode Dan Hunter chats with Isabel Parker, former Chief Legal Innovation Officer at Freshfields in London, and author of the recent book ‘Successful Digital Transformation in Law Firms’, about change management and structural transformation issues that law firms face nowadays, and how to address them.  

    Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

    Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

    Thanks for listening! 

     

    CREDITS: 

    Book: ‘Successful Digital Transformation in Law Firms’ by Isabel Parker

    Hosts: Mike Madison and Dan Hunter 

    Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh 
    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    • 25 min
    How To Fix America's Voting System

    How To Fix America's Voting System

    We’re back to continue the season for 2023! 

    Every now and then we a broader view of the future of law, beyond ALSPs, and in this episode we do just that. 

    Mike Madison chats with Eric Holder, former Attorney General of the US under President Barack Obama, about the critical importance of defending and advancing voting rights in the American system and in democracy generally.  

    The conversation draws on his recent book, "Our Unfinished March."

    What are your thoughts? 

    Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

    Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

    Thanks for listening! 

     

    CREDITS: 

    Book: ‘Our Unfinished March’ by Eric Holder and Sam Koppelman

    Hosts: Mike Madison and Dan Hunter 

    Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh
    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    • 25 min
    A Brighter, Balanced Future for AI and Law

    A Brighter, Balanced Future for AI and Law

    This is a “big ideas” episode, part of our goal to bring out “big ambitious ideas about the future" as well as day to day concerns about ALSPs and legal services. 

    Law professor Orly Lobel talks with host Mike Madison about her new book, The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, recently named one of the best books of 2022 by The Economist magazine. 

    In the conversation and in the book, she talks about how scepticism about AI and robots can get overblown. Are they always uncontrollable, incomprehensible, privacy-eating systems? She argues no: in proper measure they have the power to do enormous good in the world.  Much of the book draws its argument from beyond law, so in this episode she focused on the specifics of the legal world, especially when it comes to access to justice and dispute resolution systems.

    Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSP’s and law. 

    Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

    Thanks for listening! 

    CREDITS: 

    Hosts: Mike Madison & Dan Hunter 

    Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh
    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    • 28 min
    Speculation vs Data About Law's Futures

    Speculation vs Data About Law's Futures

    What if we stopped speculating about ALSPs and instead started collecting data to gather useful information? That’s exactly what this episode is about. 

    Host Mike Madison talks with Lucy Ricca and David Freeman Engstrom from Stanford Law School's Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession about their research into the results so far of Utan's "regulatory sandbox" innovation, which created space for non-traditional providers of legal services.

    Their report, titled "Legal Innovation After Reform: Evidence from Regulatory Change," is available here.

    The Future Law Podcast produced this earlier episode about the creation of the "regulatory sandbox" in Utah.

    Make sure you tune in every Tuesday for everything legaltech, ALSPs and law. 

    Head to www.thefuturelawpodcast.com for more information. 

    Thanks for listening! 

     

    CREDITS: 

    Hosts: Mike Madison & Dan Hunter 

    Executive Producer/Editor: Pariya Taherzadeh 
    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    • 28 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
5 Ratings

5 Ratings

jmsolo2001 ,

Cutting-Edge Thinking on Legal Education and Future of Law

Terrific podcast for anyone interested in the future of legal education and the legal industry. Hosts are a nice mix of folks in Australia and the U.S., giving the show a broader perspective than if just one country. Guests offer thoughtful commentary — take a listen!

Theodore C W ,

Very Relevant for Attorneys Trying to Find the Way Forward as Tech Changes the Face of Law Practice

I’m an in-house attorney at a global financial services firm. My responsibilities include working with other attorneys and the firm’s tech folks to make recommendations for the adoption of new technologies into the workflow of the legal department. In just the first three episodes, Future Law has given me some practical insights to bring back to my colleagues.

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