Legal AI Lab

About Legal AI Lab

Legal AI Lab with Hidde Bruinsma explores with top experts how artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal world. From lawyers and judges to law students, everyone will face fundamental shifts driven by AI. Each episode dives into the opportunities, risks, and new skills required, preparing you for the legal market of the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Recht in je Oor | Hidde Bruinsma

Category

business · education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Sept 2025

Latest episode

23 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

14 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Jul 2026

   Dervish Tayyip - Microsoft Is Not Competing With Legal AI, It Is Hosting It

   Microsoft is not trying to win the legal AI market. It wants to be the layer underneath it. Dervish Tayyip is Assistant General Counsel for EMEA at Microsoft. The strategy he describes has little to do with building the best model. Embed intelligence into the workflows lawyers already use, then wrap enterprise governance around it. The legal agent inside Word is the visible part. The orchestration layer, where a lawyer pulls down whichever model suits the task, is where Tayyip says legal AI value actually sits. For general counsel the pressure is coming from somewhere else entirely. CFOs have heard that legal is about to be disrupted. Management consultants are telling the CEO they can deliver the same legal department at a third of the cost. Tayyip explains what he hears in Microsoft's roundtables with general counsel, and how a GC takes control of that narrative before someone else writes it for them. He also covers where horizontal platforms end and jurisdiction specific legal AI begins, what Microsoft commits to if a government ever demands a shutdown, and what junior lawyers should be learning now the groundwork is automated. You'll learn why Microsoft says the frontier model is not where legal AI value sits how the legal agent inside Word removes the friction of changing behaviour what enterprise governance adds on top of a model: confidentiality, auditability, privilege how a general counsel builds the investment case when the CFO wants headcount down why horizontal platforms and vertical legal AI are no longer an either or choice what Microsoft commits to contractually if a government demands a shutdown Powered by Zeno This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional. Secure, transparent and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (https://zeno.law/) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:18 Why the legal profession adapts slower than technology 10:39 Automate, innovate or eliminate your workflows 14:14 The legal agent in Word and an operating system for legal work 17:11 Why the model is not where legal AI value sits 22:39 Competing and partnering in the legal AI market 25:56 Inside Microsoft's roundtables with general counsel 29:59 What if someone pulls the plug on Europe 33:48 200 data centres and Microsoft's promise to Europe 43:10 The general counsel's case to the CFO 46:30 Where horizontal and vertical legal AI meet 52:43 How junior lawyers learn when the groundwork is gone 58:23 Efficiency versus effectiveness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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   9 Jul 2026

   Nicky Leijtens - AI Is Not Neutral: The Gender Gap Nobody Talks About

   AI is not neutral. The gender gap in AI runs through the data it is trained on, the people who build it and the people who use it. And in legal, almost nobody talks about it. Nicky Leijtens, co-founder of She Breaks the Law and part of Bird & Bird, joins Hidde Bruinsma with examples that stick. Ask ChatGPT for career advice as a girl and the answer is less encouraging than the one a boy gets. Women make up 22% of AI development teams, a number that has not moved in ten years of Stanford research. At the M&A Awards, 42 nominations included exactly one woman. Why does the gender gap in AI stay off the agenda while every conference talks adoption and implementation? And what can you do tomorrow, whether you build, buy or simply use legal AI? Powered by Zeno This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional. Secure, transparent and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (https://zeno.law/) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. You'll learn why AI reflects the people who build it, and who is missing from that room what happens when biased models start influencing legal decisions and access to justice how visibility creates permission for other women to experiment why women adopt AI less and are judged more harshly when they do use it what closes the gender gap in AI according to Nicky: small actions that add up Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:05 She Breaks the Law: 4,000 women in 50 countries 07:43 Rechtwijzer and better justice journeys 13:51 The gender gap in AI nobody talks about 14:39 AI is not neutral: data, users, builders 16:39 Airbags, heart attacks and the male default 18:08 Only 22% of AI builders are women 20:25 Closing the gender gap in AI: where to start 25:30 The Rik de Groot moment at Legal Geek 29:14 Zeno question: auditing legal AI tools for bias 34:27 42 nominations, one woman at the M&A Awards 42:54 Antibodies: who is blocking the change 50:39 What you can do tomorrow about the gender gap in AI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   16 Jun 2026

   George Hannah - Personal Branding in the Age of AI

   Personal branding is career insurance for lawyers. That is how George Hannah treats it, and it is paying off. George is a solicitor apprentice at Lewis Silkin and the founder of Best Practice, the legal AI newsletter he started in January 2025 with one viral LinkedIn post. Today it is a media company with a podcast and a personal brand of more than 12,000 LinkedIn followers, run entirely next to his day job. We get into his personal branding playbook: why perfectionism keeps lawyers invisible, why an email list beats a rented audience, and why he posts at 80 percent and walks away. Then the legal AI market: Jude Law fronting Legora, Gabriel Macht fronting Harvey, Claude for Legal, the Freshfields deal and the Gartner hype cycle. And the question every firm is wrestling with: what is left for junior lawyers when AI does the grunt work? George's answer: build the agents. Powered by Zeno This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional. Secure, transparent and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (https://zeno.law/) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. You'll learn why a personal brand works as career insurance how one viral post grew into a legal media company why perfectionism keeps lawyers invisible on LinkedIn what the celebrity brand war says about the legal AI market whether legal AI has reached the peak of the hype cycle how junior lawyers stay valuable by building AI agents Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:21 One viral post starts Best Practice 04:49 Email lists and the discipline of weekly content 08:09 From Sunday newsletter to legal media company 11:19 Personal branding is not luck 12:22 Why lawyers fail at personal branding 16:03 Personal branding in the age of AI slop 18:07 Your personal brand as career insurance 22:01 The TBD Marketing LinkedIn leaderboard 23:39 Post at 80 percent and put your phone away 26:06 Jude Law, Gabriel Macht and the legal AI brand war 28:58 Have we reached the peak of the hype cycle 30:30 Claude for Legal, Microsoft and the Freshfields deal 35:47 Access to justice and Lawhive's AI lawyer Lawrence 40:32 What junior lawyers do when AI takes the grunt work 47:08 Portfolio careers and weekly check-ins 50:50 Advice for lawyers finding their voice Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

4. 

   1 Jun 2026

   Bjarne Tellmann - Law Firm Disruption: It Always Starts With the Client

   Law firm disruption won't start with technology. It starts with the client. Bjarne Tellmann spent 25 years as general counsel at Coca-Cola, Pearson, and GSK. His book "Law in the Era of AI" maps how the changes inside corporations will force the legal industry to adapt or vanish. Firms are posting record profits. But 100% of GCs in a recent Axiom survey regret their law firm engagements. 89% no longer consider them adequate. Bjarne draws on Nokia, Kodak, and Clayton Christensen's disruption theory to show why the most profitable incumbents are the most exposed to law firm disruption. He also offers paths forward. ClearyX funded its own disruption. The gazelle elephant model shows GCs how to rebuild their teams. And a warning: agentic AI is already making autonomous decisions inside corporations. If general counsels don't step into governance now, they'll be cleaning up the mess later. You'll learn why law firm disruption always starts with the client, not technology what the milkshake analogy teaches about law firm blind spots why no law firm has ever gone under while still profitable how ClearyX funded its own disruption on purpose what the gazelle elephant model means for legal team design Powered by Zeno This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional. Secure, transparent and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (https://zeno.law/) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:15 Why innovation needs ideas from unexpected places 08:50 Record profits but law firm disruption is coming 12:20 The AI factory driving law firm disruption 17:10 The profession with zero curiosity about its clients 23:00 Jobs to be done: what clients actually hire lawyers for 32:00 Why law firm disruption is structurally impossible 38:20 What if tech companies answer legal questions 42:15 Kodak invented digital photography and still failed 46:30 ClearyX: a firm that funded its own disruption 53:10 The gazelle elephant model for legal teams 57:30 Agentic AI and why governance cannot wait Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

5. 

   2 Apr 2026

   Tanya Sadoughi - Why Lawyers Should Become Builders. A story on vibe coding

   A banking lawyer at one of the world's largest law firms teaches herself Python on weekends. She builds an AI-powered billing tool in a Jupyter notebook. Months later, that tool is rolled out across the entire firm. Tanya Sadoughi is Linklaters' AI and Innovation Lead Lawyer for Global Banking. When ChatGPT launched one month into her innovation secondment, she saw the opportunity before most others did. She talked to every lawyer in the banking practice, mapped every pain point, and built a working prototype herself. That prototype became the WIP Summariser, now deployed firmwide. Today she leads a team of five AI lawyers inside a global network of twenty. Vibe coding is changing how lawyers work. Not by replacing them, but by turning them into builders. Tanya explains what that looks like inside a major international law firm. From hackathons that spark curiosity to agentic systems that solve problems at scale. You'll learn Why the AI lawyer role should always be filled internally How a weekend prototype became an enterprise tool at Linklaters What vibecoding means for the legal profession Why hackathons are the best way to spark AI curiosity at law firms How Linklaters scaled from one to twenty AI lawyers What lawyers and engineers can learn from each other Powered by Zeno This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional. Secure, transparent and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (https://zeno.law/) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 2:04 Will lawyers become builders 4:53 Growing up in a pizza shop in South Yorkshire 9:17 A viral YouTube channel at 15 11:16 Why she chose law 13:29 Becoming a banking lawyer at Linklaters 15:42 The itch for something different 17:35 ChatGPT launches one month into her innovation role 19:28 First experiments with large language models 23:18 The billing problem nobody could solve 27:26 Learning Python on weekends 31:31 The moment the prototype worked 35:31 Hackathons and sparking curiosity at law firms 40:23 From one AI lawyer to twenty 43:47 Vibecoding five apps in one week 46:31 What engineers and lawyers can learn from each other 51:23 Why every law firm needs an AI lawyer 53:01 More builders not more tools Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

6. 

   19 Feb 2026

   Soledad Atienza - Why Lawyers Are Architects of Society in the Age of AI

   Lawyers are architects of society. But what happens when AI changes how law is accessed, practiced and understood? In this episode of Legal AI Lab, Soledad Atienza, Dean of IE Law School, explains why legal education must move beyond national systems and embrace a global legal mindset. AI makes legal knowledge more accessible than ever. That means law schools must shift their focus. From memorising content to developing critical thinking. From national silos to comparative principles. From narrow specialisation to multidisciplinary awareness. We discuss: • Why law schools should not ban AI but guide its use • How assessments must change in an AI world • Why students must learn to question AI outputs • Why demand for legal services is growing, not shrinking • The importance of human skills such as empathy, negotiation and teamwork Powered by Zeno This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional. Secure, transparent and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (https://zeno.law/) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. hoofdstukken 00:00 Lawyers as architects of society 02:47 National regulation vs global practice 06:18 From systems to principles 09:42 Knowledge vs judgment in the AI era 14:11 Growing demand for legal services 17:36 Embedding AI across the curriculum 22:04 Teaching students to question AI 26:53 Rethinking assessment in an AI world 32:27 Generalists and multidisciplinary thinking 37:12 Human skills in a tech driven profession 41:05 Experiential learning and VR 44:38 Habits future lawyers must build Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

7. 

   8 Jan 2026

   Elgar Weijtmans - Experimenteren met AI is geen keuze meer voor advocatenkantoren

   AI verandert de advocatuur fundamenteel. Niet alleen technisch, maar ook cultureel. In deze aflevering van Legal AI Lab spreekt Hidde Bruinsma met Elgar Weijtmans (about:blank) over wat het betekent om jurist te zijn in een tijdperk van generatieve AI. Elgar vertelt waarom hij zichzelf een generalist noemt. Waarom juist die brede blik steeds waardevoller wordt. En waarom advocatenkantoren die wachten op perfect beleid of volledige zekerheid zichzelf in de weg zitten. Het gesprek gaat over experimenteren. Over kleine teams. Over sandboxes in plaats van olietankers. En over waarom training, cultuur en menselijk gedrag uiteindelijk belangrijker zijn dan de technologie zelf. Ook bespreken we hoe advocatenkantoren omgaan met weerstand. Waarom vroege adoptie soms vooral geluk is. En waarom AI niet vraagt om minder mensen, maar om andere vaardigheden. Een aflevering voor studenten. Voor jonge juristen. Voor partners. En voor iedereen die voelt dat het klassieke carrièrepad schuurt. Powered by Zeno This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional. Secure, transparent and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (https://zeno.law/) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. hoofdstukken 0:00 Introductie en het pad van Elgar 1:10 Generalist zijn in de advocatuur 2:59 Waarom AI een kans is voor generalisten 4:14 Het klassieke carrièrepad onder druk 6:08 Waarom experimenteren essentieel is 9:20 De eerste kennismaking met ChatGPT 11:28 Verandering organiseren binnen een groot kantoor 13:52 Waarom timing soms geluk is 15:15 Training is belangrijker dan technologie 18:56 Worden advocatenkantoren techbedrijven 21:53 Een nieuw profiel voor jonge juristen 24:40 Zichtbaarheid. Kennis delen. Cultuur 27:23 Waarom hyperpersoonlijk werkt 30:48 De zoektocht naar juridische AI tools 33:24 De trechter. Niet het resultaat maar het proces 36:24 Waarom testen altijd contextafhankelijk is 40:23 Van generieke AI naar juridisch onderzoek 45:22 Richtlijnen en onzekerheid in de markt 48:52 Open benchmarks en samenwerking 51:44 Voorspellingen voor 2026 54:31 Advies aan jonge juristen 55:55 Afsluiting Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

8. 

   18 Dec 2025

   Thibault Schrepel - Why banning AI in law schools will fail

   Banning AI at law schools will not save legal education. It will make it unfair. In this episode of Legal AI Lab, Hidde Bruinsma speaks with Thibault Schrepel, Associate Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and founder of Stanford’s Computational Antitrust Project. Schrepel explains why banning AI creates distorted competition, why AI detection does not work, and why law schools must rethink how they teach and assess students instead of trying to preserve outdated systems. Based on a two year classroom experiment, he shows what happens when students use AI without guidance, with guidance, or not at all. The results challenge common fears about shortcuts and show why AI can strengthen learning when used deliberately. The conversation also dives into the limits of future proof regulation, the challenges of the EU AI Act, and how AI is already changing law firm business models, billing structures, and the role of junior lawyers. AI is not ending the legal profession. It is removing the most tedious work and increasing the value of human judgment, creativity, and strategy. It forces legal education to confront how lawyers actually create value. You’ll learn • Why banning AI in law schools creates inequality rather than fairness • What actually happens when students use AI in legal education • Why detecting AI generated work does not work at scale • How legal education must change exams and teaching methods • Why future proof regulation is impossible and adaptive law is necessary • How the EU AI Act struggles with fast technological change • Why hourly billing is under pressure Follow and subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with colleagues and friends. Powered by Zeno This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional. Secure, transparent and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (https://zeno.law/) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. Chapters 0:00 Introduction. 3:05 Fear, prohibition and the illusion of control 7:40 There is no hiding from AI in legal practice 12:20 What really goes wrong when lawyers misuse AI 17:30 AI does not replace reasoning. It exposes weak reasoning 22:45 Judges, responsibility and meaningful human control 28:30 Why AI literacy matters more than technical skill 33:50 New legal markets beyond traditional law firms 38:40 Why old billing models are under pressure 43:10 The EU AI Act. Guardrails, risk categories and legal responsibility 47:40 What the AI Act means for lawyers, judges and legal education 50:10 Final reflection. Regulation as a condition for trust Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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   10 Dec 2025

   Jos Smits - RechtspraakGPT, deepfakes en hoe AI de rechtspraak fundamenteel gaat veranderen

   AI verandert de rechtspraak sneller dan wie dan ook had verwacht. In deze aflevering spreekt Hidde Bruinsma met Jos Smits, Programmamanager AI bij de Rechtspraak, over deepfakes, bewijsproblemen, hallucinerende modellen en de ontwikkeling van RechtspraakGPT. Jos legt uit waarom klassieke ideeën over bewijs en waarheidsvinding niet langer houdbaar zijn in een tijdperk waarin beelden, stemmen en documenten volledig te vervalsen zijn. En waarom AI niet de rechter vervangt, maar wel de manier waarop rechters werken ingrijpend zal veranderen. Je hoort onder meer: • Hoe deepfakes het bewijsrecht fundamenteel uitdagen • Waarom AI soms de bewijslast juist omdraait • Wat RechtspraakGPT wel en niet zal kunnen • Hoe de rechtspraak verantwoord met LLMs wil werken • Waarom menselijke oordeelsvorming belangrijker wordt in een AI-wereld Deze aflevering is onmisbaar voor iedereen die nadenkt over de toekomst van recht, waarheidsvinding en technologie. Follow and subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with colleagues and friends. Powered by Zeno This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional. Secure, transparent and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (https://zeno.law/) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    20 Nov 2025

    Pietro Ortolani - How Platforms Already Run the Biggest Courts on Earth

    Billions of decisions. Zero judges. And a justice system that lives inside your phone. Pietro Ortolani, Professor of Digital Law and Dispute Resolution at Radboud University, reveals why major platforms like Meta, Amazon and eBay already operate the largest dispute resolution systems on the planet. Much larger than any court we know. And far faster. In this wide ranging conversation, Pietro explains how platforms became de facto courts, why automation and AI already settle the vast majority of online disputes, and what the legal world can learn from this silent revolution. He shows how young lawyers can create new forms of online courts, why the hourly billing model is collapsing and why this moment is the best time in history to enter the legal profession. You will hear why justice at scale is possible, how the Digital Services Act is reshaping content moderation and why the next generation of lawyers should build the future instead of fearing it. What you will learn • How online platforms created the world’s largest dispute resolution systems • Why AI already handles the majority of disputes you never hear about • What judges and lawyers must understand about automated decision making • How the DSA creates a new market for out of court dispute resolution • Why law students should embrace creativity instead of fearing automation • How AI can act as a mirror for judicial bias • Why this is the best moment in history to become a lawyer Quote “It has never been a better or more interesting time to be a lawyer.” Powered by Zeno This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional. Secure, transparent and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (https://zeno.law/) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. Chapters 0:00 Opening 1:03 What platforms can teach us about dispute resolution 3:14 How eBay accidentally built the first online court 6:18 Why platforms settle billions of disputes without judges 8:49 The limits of automated moderation 11:09 Should we fear the Amazonification of justice 13:27 The Oversight Board as a model for modern justice 16:42 The rise of a new market for digital dispute resolution 18:58 Can we copy these systems into public courts 21:12 How AI empowers rather than replaces judges 24:11 AI as a mirror for judicial bias 26:32 The real danger of private control over public justice 27:49 Do we already have a robot judge 30:00 Why banning AI in courts makes no sense 31:52 What young lawyers can build in this new legal world 34:48 How the DSA transforms transparency and fairness 38:22 Can we create global standards for algorithmic justice 42:01 Why innovation meets resistance inside the legal sector 45:11 What esports teach us about fast and fair dispute resolution 48:46 Should law schools ban AI or embrace it 51:31 Why this is the best moment to become a lawyer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    6 Nov 2025

    Brando Benifei - Why Regulating AI Is the Only Way to Save It

    The world’s first AI law didn’t happen by accident. It was a political fight. Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament and lead negotiator of the EU AI Act, joins Legal AI Lab to reveal what really happened behind the scenes during the 36-hour negotiation that defined how artificial intelligence will be governed in Europe. He explains how Big Tech lobbying tried to weaken the rules, why trust and transparency are key to innovation, and how the so-called “Brussels effect” could make the EU’s AI law a global benchmark. Together with host Hidde Bruinsma, Benifei discusses how Europe’s human-first approach contrasts with the U.S. and China, and what this means for the future of AI, law, and democracy. You’ll learn How the EU AI Act became the world’s first comprehensive AI law Why trust and accountability are essential for innovation What role Big Tech lobbying played in shaping the final text How the Brussels effect exports EU rules to the rest of the world What comes next for AI regulation and enforcement in Europe Follow and subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with colleagues and friends. This episode is powered by Zeno. Zeno is an AI-native legal workspace built for Dutch and EU law. Its AI navigates law like a human legal professional—secure, transparent, and grounded in authoritative sources. Visit zeno.law (www.zeno.law) and make deep thinking your competitive edge. ____ Chapters 0:00 Introduction – Who is Brando Benifei and why the AI Act matters 1:45 How the idea of an AI law in Europe began 3:20 The 36-hour negotiation that shaped the AI Act 6:15 Inside the political pressure and Big Tech lobbying 9:10 Balancing innovation with regulation 11:40 Why trust and transparency drive progress 14:05 The Brussels Effect – how EU laws shape the world 16:25 What makes the AI Act different from U.S. and China approaches 18:40 How AI regulation impacts startups and small companies 21:00 Human rights, bias, and the ethical limits of AI 23:30 Enforcement: how the AI Act will actually work in practice 25:15 What comes after the AI Act 27:00 Closing thoughts – AI, democracy, and the future of trust Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    30 Oct 2025

    Manuella van der Put - Moeten we de robotrechter straks vertrouwen? (Gerechtshof ’s-Hertogenbosch)

    Wat gebeurt er met de menselijke maat in de rechtspraak als AI steeds vaker dossiers analyseert, uitspraken schrijft en zelfs mee de raadkamer in gaat? Manuella van der Put, raadsheer bij het Gerechtshof ’s-Hertogenbosch en onderzoeker naar kunstmatige intelligentie in de rechtspraak, ziet grote kansen en fundamentele vragen. Ze praat over de grenzen van AI, de rol van emotie in rechtvaardigheid en het risico dat technologie beslissingen neemt die we zelf niet meer begrijpen. In dit gesprek van Legal AI Lab gaat het over de spanning tussen mens en machine in de rechtszaal. Kan een AI-systeem rechtvaardig zijn? Wat betekent empathie in een digitale rechtsgang? En hoe zorgen we ervoor dat AI ons helpt beter te oordelen, in plaats van het oordeel over te nemen? *Het systeem dat Manuella in dit interview noemde heet RechtspraakGPT en is ontwikkeld door de Raad voor de rechtspraak. Belangrijk: het systeem ondersteunt alleen bij tekstverwerking (samenvatten, vertalen, aanpassen van stijl), maar spreekt nadrukkelijk geen recht en geeft geen juridische oordelen. Het is zo ontworpen dat het dit type vragen weigert. In deze aflevering Wat AI nu al doet binnen de rechtspraak – van samenvatten tot anoniem maken van uitspraken Waarom de menselijke maat onmisbaar blijft in een geautomatiseerd rechtsstelsel Hoe AI rechters kan helpen eigen vooroordelen te herkennen Waarom AI geen empathie kan voelen en waar de grens van technologie ligt Hoe AI de toegang tot het recht voor burgers kan vergroten Follow and subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with colleagues and friends. This episode is brought to you by LegalMike, the smartest AI assistant built for the Dutch legal practice. Visit www.legalmike.ai (https://www.legalmike.ai/) to discover how LegalMike can boost your practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    9 Oct 2025

    Minesh Tanna - Being scared of AI is like refusing to use computers in the 80s

    Law firms that don’t embrace AI will soon look like relics of the past. Minesh Tanna, Partner at Simmons & Simmons and Chair of the City of London Law Society AI Committee, warns that the legal profession is changing faster than lawyers are adapting. In this episode of Legal AI Lab, Tanna discusses how AI is reshaping law firms, replacing manual tasks, and redefining what it means to be a lawyer. He shares what keeps him up at night: if junior lawyers no longer do the groundwork that builds judgment and instinct, what will the senior lawyers of the future look like? Tanna also explains why firms that still fear AI are making the same mistake as those who once refused to use computers and why embracing AI responsibly is now the only way forward. You’ll learn: Why the traditional training model for young lawyers is breaking How AI is changing the skills and instincts lawyers need to succeed Why law firms must build AI literacy across every level How “the human edge” will define the lawyers who thrive in the AI era Follow and subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with colleagues and friends. This episode is brought to you by LegalMike, the smartest AI assistant built for the Dutch legal practice. Visit www.legalmike.ai (https://www.legalmike.ai/) to discover how LegalMike can boost your practice. Chapters 0:00 Introduction and how AI is changing the legal world 1:18 Why law firms are still slow to adapt 3:04 The future of young lawyers and what keeps Minesh up at night 5:27 If juniors don’t learn, who becomes tomorrow’s senior lawyer 8:42 How AI will redefine the human edge in law 10:15 Being scared of AI is like refusing to use computers in the 80s 12:36 Building Percy, the AI system transforming Simmons & Simmons 14:58 Law firms of the future with fewer lawyers and more technologists 16:45 The business model of law is already shifting 18:33 How lawyers can adapt and stay relevant in the age of AI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    25 Sept 2025

    Richard Susskind - This Will Change Every Lawyer’s Career

    AI is not just changing the tools lawyers use, it is redefining the foundations of the legal profession. In this episode of Legal AI Lab, hosts Hidde Bruinsma and Martijn Doornbos speak with Professor Richard Susskind, the world’s leading voice on the future of law and technology. Together they explore how artificial intelligence is transforming legal education, reshaping law firms, and expanding access to justice. From short-term automation in law practice to long-term innovation that empowers non-lawyers, this conversation highlights the profound digital transformation underway in the legal system. You will learn: Why banning AI in law schools risks leaving future lawyers unprepared for digital legal practice How young lawyers can adapt when AI automates routine legal work in law firms The difference between task automation and innovation in legal technology How AI can empower citizens to solve disputes and prevent legal problems without traditional lawyers Why we must prepare now for artificial general intelligence (AGI) and its impact on justice systems Follow and subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with colleagues and friends. This episode is brought to you by LegalMike, the smartest AI assistant built for the Dutch legal practice. Visit www.legalmike.ai (https://www.legalmike.ai) to discover how LegalMike can boost your practice. Chapters 00:02 AI in legal education 12:45 Rethinking the lawyer’s role 19:30 The challenge for young lawyers 33:00 Empowering non-lawyers 54:00 Preparing for AGI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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