Law://WhatsNext

About Law://WhatsNext

How are leading practitioners leveraging emerging technologies and ways of working to pursue their passion and objectives, and as a by product what are the implications for the future of legal practice? Let’s explore this together. What to expect: - Focused conversations with leading practitioners; technologists and educators - Deep dives into the intersection of law, technology, and organisational behaviour - Practical analysis and visualisation of how AI is augmenting our potential - Insights from adjacent industries that might inform our own

Publisher

Tom Rice and Alex Herrity

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Feb 2025

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Thinking Fast: Jev and the Rise of "System One" AI

   Welcome to the first episode of Season 3 of Law://WhatsNext! This month, ⁠TypeSafe released Jev⁠ (https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev) - the first of what it calls "System One" models. 🎤 To help us make sense of Jev (What it is? How to access and utilise it? And to better understand its potential implications for Legal) we invited a friend (and returning guest) of the pod ⁠Chris Bridges⁠ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-bridges-56677145/), Partner and COO at ⁠Tacit Legal⁠ (https://tacit.legal/), an AI-native law firm, and the driving force behind its supervised AI contract review service, ⁠Tilder⁠ (https://tilder-tldr.com/). We hope you enjoy it! --- A quick reminder: Law://WhatsNext is our vehicle to explore through dialogue (or occasional reflection) how leading lawyers, educators and technologists are using emerging tech to evolve how we practice and administer legal services. We're excited to be back, and to bring you a run of interesting conversations this autumn (or fall, depending on which side of the Atlantic you're on). --- Listen if: You want a hype-free informative conversation about Jev and its potential relevance to legal products and services. Rate, subscribe, comment, and share if you enjoyed this chat with Chris! --- For more conversations and critical reflection at the intersection of law and technology, head to ⁠https://lawwhatsnext.substack.com/⁠ (https://lawwhatsnext.substack.com/).

2. 

   8 Jul 2026

   Legal Tech Trends with Peter Duffy (Q2 2026)

   🎙️ Peter Duffy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdffy/) is back for our quarterly deep dive into the biggest stories from his ever-popular Legal Tech Trends newsletter (https://legaltechtrends.substack.com/). It's been quite the quarter: a $500 million headline from Kirkland, frontier model companies falling over each other to claim legal, and the US government switching off a frontier model for the entire world. As Peter puts it: "What a bizarre world that we live in." --- What we dive into: Kirkland's $500m statement of intent — The announcement that rocked the market, and the nuance beneath it: Palantir (not an internal team) is helping building a platform, third-party procurement continues, and what counts as "investment" when partner hours bill at thousands of dollars? Either way, the proprietary layer marks that fascinating shift from service provider to potential product provider. The frontier land grab for legal — Ex-Ironclad CEO Jason Boehmig joins OpenAI to lead its legal vertical, Freshfields signs a multi-year deal with Anthropic, and Perplexity launches Computer for Counsel. Peter shares his three-lens test for reading these partnerships — and why the real battle might be for the interface lawyers work through every day. The fortnight the US switched off Fable — AI's first true geopolitical moment. A jailbreak, an export-control order, and the awkward detail that other models could reportedly do the same thing. We nerd out on the eerily prescient Europe 2031 scenario published the day before, and what it all means for sovereignty and model dependency. Revolut Partners and the AI-audited panel — Out goes the static law firm panel; in comes a performance-based roster with quarterly reviews and internal AI tools to run RFPs and scrutinise advice and invoices. --- Listen if: You want a hype-free tour of the quarter that was. Rate, subscribe, comment, and share if you enjoyed this chat with Peter! --- For more conversations at the intersection of law and technology, head to https://lawwhatsnext.substack.com/ (https://lawwhatsnext.substack.com/). --- Show notes / links: Peter's Legal Tech Trends newsletter: https://legaltechtrends.substack.com/ (https://legaltechtrends.substack.com/) Europe 2031: https://europe2031.ai/ (https://europe2031.ai/) Legal Hops Amsterdam — Peter's quarterly meet-up (boat party included): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12922521/ (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12922521/)

3. 

   1 Jul 2026

   Governing AI Agents Like a Legal System with Will Lilley

   🎙️ This week we sit down with Will Lilley (https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-lilley/) who has built something genuinely strange and uniquely clever: the Vibe Justice System (https://github.com/wlilley93/vibe-justice-system), a working governance layer for AI-assisted work, complete with courts, a constitution, a Gazette, and 150+ recorded judgments that cite one another like real case law. It began with a familiar frustration. AI agents make endless micro-decisions as they work, then forget them the moment a session ends.  Will calls this "drift," and his answer was to give the agent a "definition of correct" that is explicit, durable and self-enforcing.  The crucial distinction, as he explains, is that this isn't a bigger or better CLAUDE.md. A rules file tells an agent what to do, but the agent forgets to read it, and you could never write down every rule your workflow needs in the first place. --- Will's system is principle-based, like common law: instead of front-loading every instruction, it lets the agent reason against principles and generatively build its own rule system — recording decisions as judgments, citing precedent, and aligning over time around what "correct" means for the project. For our audience, Will frames the potential utility of the system as being capable of applying across three buckets of work: project work (any repo or directory: code, contracts, a litigation timeline, a due-diligence checklist), linear workflows that move through deterministic steps, and non-linear work, with litigation as the apex case where you only know the next move from the current one. --- Connect with Will Lilley — Product Operations at Clara | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-lilley/) Vibe Justice System — the full repo, including the Gazette, Acts and judgments: github.com/wlilley93/vibe-justice-system (https://github.com/wlilley93/vibe-justice-system) --- If you enjoyed this conversation, please share it with someone who'd get something out of it — and if you have a moment, tell us what resonated, what didn't, and rate the show (it genuinely helps us reach more listeners and land great guests). --- For more conversations at the intersection of law and technology, head to⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://lawwhatsnext.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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• Anna Guo
• Kevin Cohn
• Dana Rao
• Jessica Block
• Sigge Labor

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