The Impact of Coaching from the Wolf Theiss Perspective
In this session, Ronald Given (Moderator), Nikolaus Paul (Partner, Finance, Wolf Theiss), and Erik Steger (Partner, Real Estate, Wolf Theiss) explored coaching from the perspective of the coachee and the firm. The discussion formed part of Platforum9’s broader coaching series, shifting focus from theory to lived experience inside a leading Central European law firm. Both […]
How the EU AI Act Regulates High Risk AI
Moderated by Andrej Savin, Professor of Information Technology and Internet Law, Copenhagen Business School, and Sid Ali Boutellis, AI governance consultant and legal tech veteran. The EU AI Act is fundamentally a risk-based product safety regulation. Savin opened by emphasising that the Act does not create a rights-based framework akin to the GDPR; instead, it […]
Ai Heavyweight Anthrophic Takes Aim at Legal?
Uwais Iqbal, an AI engineer and founder of Simplexico, unpacked Anthropic’s latest move into legal workflows and why it prompted such an outsized reaction across legal tech and adjacent markets. He explored what “agentic” tooling looks like in practice, why the market response matters less than the underlying capability shift, and how legal teams should […]
The Importance of Higher Education for your Legal Career
In this Platforum9 live session, Miljana Bigovic, DLA Piper Managing Associate and current LLM candidate at Harvard Law School, moderated a discussion on what “higher education” really buys you in 2026. Joined by her colleagues, Angelica Maria Perdomo Luna, Anamarija Javor, Assamaual Saidi Rabah, and Vanessa Marshall de Mothé, they talked about their individual career […]
Guerrilla Warfare in Arbitration: Myth, Reality and Remedies
Moderator Miljana Bigovic opened the International Arbitration Forum live session by framing why “guerrilla tactics” remain a live challenge for arbitral efficiency and procedural fairness. She was joined by Joel Soon, Matej Pustay, Knud Jacob Knudsen, and Susan Mutangadura, who each brought a distinct lens to the issue. Soon introduced his research underpinning the session […]
How to Nail your Legal Interview
In yesterday’s Platforum9 session, Ross Macgregor, an interview coach, former Linklaters trainee, and Akin Gump lawyer, argued that candidates “nail” legal interviews by putting themselves in the interviewer’s shoes, then communicating with clarity, structure, and purpose. He traced his own path from law studies and training at Linklaters (including London and Tokyo) to a move […]
From Big Law to Legal Tech
Julia Klingberg, a Swedish-qualified lawyer and attending Cornell as an LLM candidate in New York, draws on her experience as co-founder of the Legal Network of Sweden and Kindred to explore what it truly takes to move from an elite, traditional practice into legal tech and venture-building framing the transition not as a departure from […]
Demystifying the EU AI Act
Andrej Savin (Professor, CBS Law), Sid Ali Boutellis (Legal Tech Expert), and Yuliia Habriiel (Founder, the eyreACT) explored what the EU AI Act is actually designed to do, who it applies to, and what “getting compliant” looks like in practice, particularly for smaller firms and teams integrating third-party AI components into products and services. The […]
How to Ensure Junior Lawyers are Properly Trained in an Age of AI
Thomas Martin, CEO and Founder of LawDroid and an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School, offered a clear reframe of the profession’s anxiety: law is confusing tasks with purpose. Drafting and first-pass review may be automated, but the lawyer’s value endures, solving client problems and spotting new ones early, a point he likened to […]
Visualising to Understand Legal Documentation
Christian Mellado Hjortshøj (Co-founder, Juristic) traced the idea for his company back to his early legal training: diagrams, timelines, and structured task management are foundational tools for making sense of complex matters, yet most lawyers still build them in platforms never designed for that kind of work, Word and PowerPoint chief among them. He positioned […]