Leaving BigLaw for legal engineering: why and how?

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