#DigitalFrontiers brings together influential voices to share their expert insights and practical wisdom on the intersection of law, AI and emerging technology.
Hosted by Partner and technology law expert Richard Nicholas, each episode features down-to-earth conversations with leaders from the legal sector and beyond, exploring the human side of AI innovation and digital transformation.
Slowly, then all at once: AI disruption and the legal sector
Clients won't send a farewell email. They'll just stop calling — because they'll have an app that does what they used to call you for. Felix Riley, author of AI Law and Why the Phone Stopped Ringing and founder of Brilliant Thinking, joins AI lawyer Richard Nicholas on Digital Frontiers to explain why that moment is closer than most law firms think — and what leaders can do about it now. We explore his "triple threat" framework: what your competitors are doing with AI, what legal AI startups ...
13 Jul 2026
AI for sole in house counsel (with no budget)
Legal AI is moving fast enough to make even the most switched-on lawyers feel behind - especially if you have been away from practice, or you are the only in-house counsel expected to "figure it out." We sit down with Claire Thorndyke, sole in-house counsel at Quiet Council, to talk through what it really looks like to get up to speed in a practical, defensible way - without pretending every legal team is already running autonomous agents. Claire shares her three-pillar roadmap for adopting g...
9 Jun 2026
Arbitration Meets AI
What does it mean to prove something when a signature is binary code, a map can be falsified by an algorithm, and your opponent's evidence was drafted by AI? In this episode, Richard Nicholas sits down with Bernhard Maier - arbitration lawyer, arbitrator, and King's College cyberlaw lecturer, to explore how digital evidence is redefining authenticity in disputes. They cover the forensic shift from wet ink originals to e-signatures, the rise of AI-generated submissions that are dri...
7 May 2026
The CBI on AI: Skills, Jobs and the £47bn Opportunity
What’s the one difference that means some UK businesses get significantly more from their AI investments? In this conversation, Richard Nicholas is joined by Shivani Gupta, Senior Policy Adviser for AI and the Digital Economy at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). With daily access to Whitehall and the businesses the CBI represents, she brings the findings of the CBI's AI skills report - and a reality check the headlines rarely give you. The biggest blockers aren't technical b...
9 Mar 2026
The Role of Ethics in AI projects
19 Jan 2026
AI ROI For In‑House Lawyers
What if your legal team could deliver core work ten times faster without sacrificing quality? In this conversation, Richard Nicholas and Steve Cunningham of Simple Academy reveal how "you plus AI" transforms everyday legal tasks into structured, high-quality outputs through practical workflows rather than magic buttons. Discover the AI performance matrix that maps your work into clear competencies and repeatable workflows. Learn how to assign AI the heavy cognitive lifting whilst ...
26 Nov 2025
Boardrooms, AI, and Better Decisions
What if your board meetings had a relentless, unbiased memory that asked the questions everyone else missed? In this conversation with Richard Nicholas (AI lawyer at Browne Jacobson), Non-Executive Director and Educator Shirley Chowdry reveals a practical, five-pillar framework for governing AI that transforms the boardroom from minute-taking to strategic thinking. Shirley shows how AI can become a live thinking partner that raises decision quality whilst maintaining control over risk, ...
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