Our workshop series, ‘’Innovative Lawyers’’, took place over 7 weeks, in the summer of 2022. Its curriculum, designed in collaboration with the Cardiff LawTech group of the Law Society, featured sessions on a wide range of technologies relevant to the legal sector, exploring their foundations and applications.

In this event, which is all about change and innovation, legal professionals from all around the world came together to listen to how representatives from big law firms as well as in-house counsels have adapted to this rapidly changing LegalTech landscape.

In continuation of the Lab’s work earlier this year at our Legal Hackathon Wales and in line with the Welsh Government’s ongoing programme to improve accessibility of legislation, we created a prototype chatbot for the Science Festival, to be used to answer questions about the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016.

Under the pressure of immense fines, social media platforms are obliged to keep their websites free of any potentially harmful content. To this end, they employ artificial intelligence algorithms that both recognise and remove content deemed as such, and often completely prevent it from being uploaded. This blog summarises the fascinating panel discussion by our CYTREC colleagues on this topic.

The event was centred on accessibility of legislation, calling participants to brainstorm and prototype solutions to facilitate understanding and interaction with Welsh law.

In this blog we illustrate the hackathon challenge from one of the teams, who chose to workshop ways to make legislation more accessible and understandable for the general public.

We are so thrilled to have won the award for Outstanding Research and Innovation Collaboration in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Swansea University Research & Innovation Awards 2022!

Global Legal Hackathon (GLH) is the largest event of its kind internationally.

The Lab team chose to design an access to justice solution, leveraging the experience we’ve gathered working with organisations and charities around Wales and the UK.

Speaking on our experiences as women in the realm of LegalTech, with some hope that it could be of use to other women looking to get into the LegalTech space, Dr Sara Correia, Annie Benzie, and Rey Sheer Hardwick spent an hour in conversation with Dr Lella Nouri and Freya Michaud.

The Legal Accelerators 2.0 Conference is a perfect example of how many interesting conversations, solutions and, unfortunately, issues arise relating to the implementation of LegalTech solutions and the transformation of the legal profession/industry. Our blog gives an overview of the event.

This blog explores the complicated landscape of Intellectual Property in Artificial Intelligence advancements.

Here we provide an overview of the discussions around the future of legalTech and its place in the legal profession at this event.

Global Legal Tech Hub Day is a time for experts from lands near and far to get together around a (virtual) table and discuss the challenges and trends of LegalTech.

From digital identity and blockchain, to AI and algorithm ethics, the event provides a rare opportunity to hear about what our neighbours have accomplished and what they are looking to achieve in the LegalTech space in coming years.

How do we address issues with accessing technology? How do we heal fractures in global digital innovation? How do we use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for social innovation and improvement? These are just three of the big questions addressed during the Digital Futures discussion by the group of experts best equipped to answer them.

One of our Researchers gives their overview of some fascinating panels around technology at COP26.

Our review of the Legal Innovators Conference, hosted by Artificial Lawyer, with talks on the legal sector, technology, and innovation.

Across the webinars, several interesting research findings were presented, and many fascinating discussions took place among the panellists on a variety of topics. We will provide a general overview of some main points and thought-provoking findings in this blog.

Read about how research carried out by Swansea Law Clinic and the Legal Innovation Lab Wales (LILW) can be used to further enable access to justice.