How you can engage with us
Whether you're a nimble small law firm or a robust, large-scale organisation, our mission is clear: to make transformative technologies accessible, understandable, and actionable for all.
Through our collaborative efforts, we invite you to embark on a journey of evolution and growth, harnessing the potential of cutting-edge solutions. The future of law and professional services is here, and we're here to guide you through it.
Discover the endless possibilities, stay ahead of the curve, and engage with us to drive innovation, research, and education in these dynamic fields. Together, we'll shape the future of legal practice, regulatory excellence, and professional service delivery.
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We’re always interested in hearing from those who have utilised and investigated LegalTech in their workplace and would love to hear how LegalTech has played a part in your role. If you’ve got experiences to share we would love to hear them!
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With LegalTech advancement being the new kid on the block, we know that there can often be significant challenges in introducing change. Legal Innovation Lab Wales is here to help you navigate LegalTech and identify those challenges in order to debunk the mysteries surrounding it. Why not get in touch with our team to discuss the difficulties of LegalTech being more widely adopted and help us to widen the LegalTech community by illuminating these problems.
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Many of our collaboration projects were sparked by an idea that have since led to the creation of innovative solutions now working to benefit users and wider organisations, helping people to work smarter and improve accessibility. If you have a LegalTech idea you’d like to discuss or even a problem that you think would benefit from a LegalTech solution but you’re not quite sure what that would be, then why not reach out to the Lab to find out how we can work together to create great solutions.
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Whether you’ve overcome those obstacles or are at a standstill, the Lab would love to hear about your LegalTech journey and help find a way for you to navigate the world of LegalTech and make it work for you.
Events & Engagement
Dr Sara Correia-Hopkins held a session as a guest speaker on - Hacking: When Is It Legal and Ethical? at the invitation of BVL (formerly Big Voice London), as part of their the BVL Model Law Commission 2022 project.
Swansea Law Clinic is assisting the Law Society by translating their pro bono manual into Welsh.
Swansea Law Clinic has taken part in the last two Law Clinics’ Global Day of Action for Climate Justice, which is held on the 17th November each year.
Since November 2019, Swansea Law Clinic has been running a Drop-in advice service on Wednesday afternoons.
The Cyber First First outreach programme encourages pupils in primary school to explore an interest in digital technologies and to help them realise that technology has implications across many disciplines and aspects of society, including law and ethics.
Dr Gemma Morgan and two interns from Swansea University are supporting the Youth Justice Board (YJB) Cymru to scope out current interventions available to young people in the Welsh language.
A meeting was held with the University’s procurement team to discuss the integration of social clauses when developing contracts with suppliers.
A task and finish group was established with the aim of identifying workable solutions and liaising with relevant stakeholders to disseminate information more effectively and implement necessary changes to combat ableism in academia.
Professor Richard Owen, Director of the Swansea Law Clinic is currently volunteering for the Ukraine Advice Project UK.
Dr Gemma Morgan is involved with the Mock Interview programme which has been running within all secondary schools in South Central for around 20 years, and is now well embedded within the schools’ World of Work Curriculum.
On International Women’s Day 8th March 2022, The Legal Innovation Lab Wales held an event spotlighting women who work in LegalTech within the Lab.
LILW applied to a funding call from the Morgan Advanced Studies Institute with a proposal in collaboration with Discovery, the University’s affiliated volunteering charity to increase accessibility to legal services for people with disabilities.
This year, we were delighted that we had 16 colleagues who contributed gifts to the scheme. We are so happy that we can spread even more joy this festive season to under-privileged children.
As part of our Legal Innovation Lab Wales Summer Week of Events, on 23rd June 2021 we hosted the panel: Technology and Access to Justice
On Friday 22nd January 2021 the Legal Innovation Lab Wales held our inaugural Future of Law, Together event. We had a fantastic discussion on the future of LegalTech in Wales, with keynote speaker, Counsel General Jeremy Miles, Member of the Senedd.
As part of our Legal Innovation Lab Wales Summer Week of Events, on 22nd June 2021 we hosted the panel: How can apps be used to support desistance from crime & improve wellbeing?
As part of our Legal Innovation Lab Wales Summer Week of Events, on 21st June 2021 we hosted the panel: How can apps be used to support desistance from crime & improve wellbeing?
Our Lead Software Developer took part in a panel discussing their work on the Include Journey UK app at Tech Fest 4 Good 2021 run by the Wales Cooperative Centre.
SWELL is a Sustainability and Wellbeing scheme that rewards staff at Swansea University for taking positive steps.
These positive steps will earn people Green Points by taking part in a number of sustainability and wellbeing activities.
Dr Gemma Morgan has a long-standing research collaboration with Include UK a third sector organisation who provide support for a range of offending populations. The aim is to implement digital technologies that can support desistance.
Here we highlight how we are Mainstreaming the Welsh Language on our project.
We have volunteered our project to use the draft Green Grants Tool developed by Swansea University’s Sustainability Team.
The Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law has been awarded the Athena Swan Bronze Award, in recognition for its work towards promoting gender equality and diversity more broadly and identifying and addressing the challenges particular to the department and the disciplines.