UKLTA

Innovation sounding board
2022-10-11 12:30, 2022-07-13 10:00 - 10:30, 2022-05-10 11:00 - 11:30, 2022-03-17 10:00 - 10:30 UTC | Online Event
Are you tasked with leading or championing innovation in a law firm? Facing some hurdles or got some great ideas to share?
Join us for a coffee and a chat to swap tips and tricks with others in a similar role.
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Open Exec Board Nominations
2022-09-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Event
Open Executive Board Nominations (May 2023 – April 2026)

The Magic in the Middle - Contract Negotiation - November Date TBC
2022-08-19 08:15 | Online Event
In this webinar, Catherine Bamford, CEO of BamLegal and the Contract.one team discuss the magic in the middle of contracts – contract negotiation. The session will consider ways in which tech can help your firm understand where the hold ups in negotiations are – such as:
– Which clauses are regularly delaying contract negotiations
– The differences between how your clauses start out and how they end up
– Dealing with typical bottlenecks (endless back and forth, fragmented communication, unreliable track-changes, troublesome versioning)

UKLTA Demo - Tech demo event: eSignatures
2022-07-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Online Event
Join the UKLTA’s DEMO committee for their latest Tech Demo event. Hosted by David Baskerville (Baskerville Drummond), Lisa McClory (Fractal Knowledge) & Caroline Galek (vLex)
Featuring LIVE product demonstrations from UKLTA members:
Tigereye
Alpha Legal
RBRO Solutions
Virtual Signature
This session will be themed around eSignature solutions and best practice.
Registration is FREE, and open to both members and non members* of UKLTA.
All UKLTA hosted webinar events qualify for CPD points.

*non members are welcome to attend up to two events per year, members have unlimited access to all events & recordings.

How can SME law firms leverage the right data and technology strategy to provide better services to employees and customers.
2022-06-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
As part of our UKLTA101 series, Andy Clarke, Chief Technology Officer at Rradar discusses how law firms can investigate, choose and start adopting legal technology for use within their practice.

Adoption of legal tech: Why it doesn’t happen on its own
2022-05-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
Lots of discussion about legal technology is driven by buzzwords. Things you could do, the promise of artificial intelligence and complex data science.
Legal tech start-ups are widespread now, producing apps that look like they were designed by Apple.
Against this background, it is easy to forget that less sexy topic of “getting stuff used”. Legal tech can help make things better for law firms, legal teams and everybody who interacts with them. But it has absolutely no hope of doing this if we are talking about technology in the absence of why anybody should ever care about using it.
In this session, Jack Shepherd, Legal Practice Lead at iManage will discuss why legal tech adoption doesn’t happen on its own, and how to deliver it.

Members Board Meeting
2022-05-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Event
Quarterly Meeting for UKLTA Board Members.

UKLTA- Mental Health Awareness Week
2022-05-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
According to an article published by the Law Society Gazette, before the pandemic, lawyers had one of the most stressful jobs.
With many changes over the past few years, including many people working from home, and becoming heavily reliant on technology to complete their work and communicate with clients, combining home and work life, or even returning to the office after an extended break, how do we feel the state of mental health for workers within the legal sector has changed, and are lawyers and legal professionals experiencing more or less stress?
Hosted by Mary Ibrahim, Content Specialist, and Diversity and Inclusion Committee Member, vLex (Chair). Since graduating in Law from the University of Greenwich, Mary has become a Product Technology & Content Specialist at vLex, an award-winning provider of legal technology, member of the vLex Diversity and Inclusion Committee and creator of the legal research competition DICTUM.
Mary will be joined by Louise Hewitt, Director, Innocence Project. Louise has been an academic lawyer for over ten years and Director of the Innocence Project London since 2017 having co-founded it in 2010. Louise is also the Director of Undergraduate Research for the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Greenwich.
Also joining the discussion is Elizabeth Rimmer, Chief Executive, LawCare. Elizabeth started her working life as a solicitor specialising in clinical negligence. She has been managing and developing charities in the mental health sector for over 15 years, and joined LawCare as Chief Executive in 2014.

UKLTA Tech Demo Event
2022-05-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Online Event
Join the UK Legal Technology Association (UKLTA) Demo Subcommittee, as they host another of their regular tech events with live product demonstrations from UKLTA members. The theme for this event is Cyber security.
Presenting at the event:
Lawyer Checker
Privasee
Baskerville Drummond LLP
Mitigo LLP
Wednesday 4th May 2022| 1.00-3.00 pm

eSignatures: in conversation with Professor Sarah Green and Lord Justice Birss
2022-04-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
Join the UKLTA’s media partner David Opie, Managing Director of Todays Media as he hosts a discussion with Professor Sarah Green & Lord Justice Birss on matters relating to the eSignatures Interim Report that was published in Feb 2022.
The new report sets out best practice for using e-signatures, which: sets out their analysis of the current situation in England and Wales; identifies simple best practice guidance based on existing technology, including for vulnerable individuals; and makes recommendations for future analysis and reform.

Remember a Charity - Lucinda Darby
2022-03-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
Lucinda Darby from ‘Remember a Charity‘ Highlights the importance of the work they do representing 200 UK charities and working closely with partners in the legal sector, government and private sector to raise awareness of gifts in Wills.
Launched in 2000, they are a registered charity and part of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising.

Full Members Update
2022-03-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Full Members Meeting – 22nd March 4-5pm
If you have not received the Zoom link please contact admin@uklta.org.uk

Tech Sounding Board
2022-03-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Event

UKLTA Tech Demo Event
2022-02-23 13:00 - 15:00 | Online Event
L❤️ve legaltech and innovation? Find your perfect new idea for legal operations and process at UKLTA’s February Demo Event!
13.00 – 15.00 Wednesday 23 February 2022
Join the UK Legal Technology Association and friends this February for a curated selection of tech demos from top legal technology companies.
This quarter’s demo meet-up will be hosted by expert legal technologists from specialist tech consultancy, Baskerville Drummond and data consultancy, Fractal Knowledge, featuring 🔥 live product demonstrations 🔥 for your whole business lifecycle:

Knowledge management
✨ vLex: Search across the world’s largest collections of legal information, updated daily and covering over 100 countries, all on a single service;

Visual diagramming
💌 Structure Flow: intelligent visual modelling for corporate structures and transactions, allowing you to layer data and documents ​​into diagrams to ensure information is always at your fingertips;

Client and counterparty onboarding

💕 Legl: One platform for payments, onboarding & compliance. Modular, flexible workflows give firms- and clients- a delightful experience

🌟 Verify 365: Automated identity verification and AML compliance platform. Built for security. Loved by lawyers;

Collaboration
💝 AlphaLegal: a secure and easy way to request and verify clients’ ID, share documents and request e-signatures.

Closing Contracts Quickly - Radiant Law
2022-02-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
Alex Hamilton, author of ‘Sign Here: The enterprise guide to closing contracts quickly’ and CEO and founder of Radiant Law, discusses his radical vision for fast and pain-free contracting for your firm.
*** Note: This event was rescheduled from Wednesday 9th February ***

Tiger Bytez - Bringing Conveyancing into the 21st Century
2022-01-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
Tiger Bytez co-founders Scott Elliot and Simon Riess will take attendees through a journey of conveyancing to date and the market frustrations that lead to the creation of the conveyancing chatbot. The problem that conveyancers have in the present day, is that their work is often an administrative burden.
Tiger Law experienced these issues and needed a solution to their endless paper trails and demand for more work in the same amount of time for the same cost. By building and utilising the conveyancing chatbot, a shift in focus towards greater client satisfaction has been achieved as a result of relieving smaller tasks that can be automated. The time saved using the chatbot has therefore lead to greater revenue by having the capacity for more work.
The solution and future is Tiger Bytez- bringing conveyancing into the 21st century.

UKLTA Tech Demo Event
2021-12-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Join the UKLTA’s brand new Demo Subcommittee for this exciting event, which will bring together a range of innovative Legaltech companies with law firms and industry professionals.
The event will feature live product demonstrations of technology to assist with case management, client engagement, risk management and document production:

E3 Compliance: an award winning solutions provider for mitigating compliance risk through captivating and unique employee training with analysis to help organisations meet their regulatory compliance obligations.

Arken: expert digital solutions for the private client and estate planning industry: improving estate planning through advanced technology;

Estatesearch: a legal technology provider for private client practitioners offering an award winning Asset & Liability search to help identify estate accounts and a portal giving access to other exciting and innovative products and services all in one place;

Claim Technology: a marketplace of insurtech products, APIs and design tools to accelerate digital transformation for brokers, MGAs, TPAs and law firms;

inCase: a customer services mobile app providing an innovative way for law firms to communicate with clients efficiently and securely;

Open Banking: Open opportunities for Legal?
2021-11-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
Topsy Taiwo – Business Development Manager at Thirdfort will discuss:
The what, how and why of Open Banking, and how it’s set to revolutionise the way firms handle AML.
Open Banking in action: real-life examples of Open Banking preventing fraud.
Open Banking Case Study – how one firm cut admin time in half and transformed their clients’ experience.

Building Legal Brands In The Tech Age
2021-11-03 16:30 - 17:30 | Online Event
UK Legaltech has experienced significant steps in its maturity as an industry over the past several years, with significant advances in funding, innovation and adoption being made.
As the needs of the sector continue to evolve, we ask how brand can be aligned to best serve startups, scale-ups, firms and investors involved in the space.
Moderated by brand consultancy Rowdy Studio, this panel discussion will provide insights into brand challenges, opportunities and ambitions in legal tech from the perspective of founders, lawyers and creatives.

Legal tech, innovation and students - what do they need to know and what does innovation in a law firm look like
2021-09-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
Speakers:
Jeremy Marshall – Lecturer in Law and Digital Education Lead (Law & Social Justice), University of Liverpool
Lydia Hazlehurst – Legal Technologist, Weightmans LLP
This session will explore the role of law tech/innovation in shaping the careers of future lawyers looking at how this is embedded in universities and how Jeremy sees this developing. We will be joined by Lydia who has taken up an innovation role after university to explore how it works in practice and the skills that are essential.

How to scale your technology suite using innovation
2021-07-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Law firms are embracing mobile apps in a big way in 2021. And whilst creating 1 app is seen as the norm, now more than ever it is becoming an increasing expectation to build out a suite of apps that are both internal and client facing. Having the right knowledge to scale your technology is key.
During this webinar the Innovation team from Mills & Reeve will share their knowledge and insights on how they developed a suite of solutions that:
– Educate staff on the firm’s client facing technology
– Capture internal information in one place so it’s accessible on the go
– Stand out from competitors by taking advantage of technology and facilitating client communications
– Allow them to easily manage deadlines and key milestones, and remind clients of important events
In this webinar you’ll hear from Mills & Reeve’s Innovation team members Emma Jackson, Grace Macwilliam and Angie Morley who will share how they managed to overcome their innovation challenges through developing different solutions. They will be joined by Fliplet’s Account Manager Chris Longmuir, who works closely with Fliplet clients to deliver mobile apps with strong ROI and efficiency gains.

Social Media for Lawyers
2021-06-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Event
Social media platforms enable lawyers to build audiences, engage with groups and individuals, network and increase instructions. But it can be difficult to work out which networks to use, the type of content to create, and how to engage people without being ‘salesy’.
Join our webinar to hear founder and managing director of LexRex Communications, Victoria Moffatt talk about the power of social media and how lawyers can learn to utilise it. During this hour-long session Victoria will share her expertise, provide real-life examples of strong engagement and answer questions from delegates.

Accelerating client engagement and automating processes with apps
2021-04-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Creating a client facing solution can save hundreds of billable hours and turn a complicated process into an automated workflow. Fliplet’s prefab app building platform gives firms a repeatable solution to take a complicated and time-consuming data collection process to market.
This webinar will cover a client facing solution created by Burness Paull with the following features:
Collect a large amount of complicated information to inform a legal document for the app user
Using logic to guide an app user through a time-consuming content gathering process
Allow the app user to submit updated information as and when required
Provide a contact directory of relevant firm experts
In this webinar you’ll hear from Burness Paull’s Innovation Manager, Sam Moore and Fliplet’s Account Manager, Chris Longmuir, who works closely with Fliplet clients to deliver mobile apps with strong ROI and efficiency gains.
You’ll be able to ask questions during the webinar. Chris and Sam will answer them during Q&A, at the end of the webinar.
If you are unable to attend, please register and we will send you a recording of the webinar afterwards.
DATE: Tuesday 20 April 2021
TIME: 11am – 11:45am ET / 4pm – 4:45pm UK
Burness Paull is a leading Scottish commercial firm of solicitors, with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, acting for private and public sector clients. They are also a member of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading network of independent law firms.
In association with UKLTA
Speakers:
Sam Moore
Innovation Manager, Burness Paull
Sam Moore is the Innovation Manager at leading Scottish commercial law firm Burness Paull, having previously practiced there as a construction solicitor and a legal technologist. Sam brings a unique mix of professional training, technical knowledge, and commercial experience to this role. Outside of his core duties at Burness Paull, Sam is a board member of Lawscot Tech and teaches a Legal Innovation and Technology elective at the University of Glasgow’ School of Law. Sam was also Scotland’s first Accredited Legal Technologist.
Chris Longmuir
Account Manager, Fliplet
Chris joined Fliplet in September 2019 after many years in senior roles for multinational organizations, the majority of which was spent leading sales teams and managing senior client relationships.At Fliplet, Chris works closely with over 50 global law firm clients to support them in their use of apps, share best practices and help manage their mobile strategy. Chris’ role is to also ensure that all of Fliplets clients get the maximum value from the relationship and hosts a number of innovative sessions with them including Hack Days, Use Case Study sessions, App strategy reviews and much more.

Safe Harbour, Trust Frameworks & Technology: Future-Proofing for Conveyancers in 2021
2021-03-05 12:00 - 13:00
The UKgov ‘Digital Identity Trust Scheme” pilot is on the horizon in 2021 and set to positively impact conveyancing.
What it is, how it will affect your firm and what else do you need to be aware of in light of recent updates to LSAG guidance in relation to technology.
We’ll share a practical run down of the facts so far, share some views and engage with a Q&A.
Panel: Sinéad Gallagher, Legal Sector Account Manager, Amiqus Andrew McGinlay, Commercial Property, Burness Paull Matt Jewel, R&D Engineer, Amiqus

A new approach to working practices in Microsoft 365
2021-02-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Event
Law firms are currently using or considering the use of Microsoft 365. How can the functionality and tools in Microsoft 365 be used to deliver new working practices?
In this webinar we will go through how Microsoft 365 can be used to automate business process, secure your data, enable collaboration and dispersed keep teams in touch.
Chair & Panel
Nigel Stott, Baskerville Drummond, nigel@baskervilledrummond.com

Marketing Your Law Firm in 2021
2021-01-26 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Event
Key Topics

• What content marketing is
• why it is important and what opportunities it presents for law firms, and
• how we can implement in our law firm marketing strategy.
Chair & Panel

Chair: David Opie, Solve Legal Marketing (Novastone)

Will Compliance ever be the same?
2020-12-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
How will compliance in law firms develop in 2020? Which working practices developed due to necessity during lockdown will survive? How will technology help / hinder us in 2021? Join us for a lunchtime panel with compliance leaders from leading UK firms.
Chair: Steve Brett, Founder – E3 Compliance Training Ltd
Panel:
Kate Burt, Head of Risk & Compliance – Vincents Solicitors
Bethan Davies, Risk and Compliance Director – Freeths LLP
Lauren Watson, Head of Legal Partnerships – Legl
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