The Power of Coaching for Lawyers
In this inaugural Platforum9 Coaching Forum session, Kara Irwin, lawyer and qualified coach, and Stephen Hopkins, former law firm leader and now professional coach to the legal profession, explored why coaching is becoming indispensable for lawyers and legal teams. They were joined by fellow moderator Ron Given, a lawyer and executive coach. The conversation traced […]
Building Legal AI at Speed
In last Friday’s session, Vadym Kuzmenko, Legal Engineer at Legora, one of the top legal tech companies in the world, unpacked what it really takes to build and implement legal AI at speed – from the foundational models to the day-to-day reality inside law firms. From Law graduate to Legal AI Engineer Kuzmenko trained as […]
Arbitration Events – Networking for Success?
This live session brought together practitioners from across the arbitration community for a candid discussion on how to navigate the seemingly endless calendar of arbitration events and turn them into meaningful professional opportunities. We heard from Velimir Zivkovic, Matej Pustay, Miljana Bigovic, and Michail Risvas, with great contributions from the audience. Why are there so many […]
Navigating Legal Tech Adoption in your Team
Uwais Iqbal, Founder of Simplexico AI, has spent years watching law firms get excited about AI, trial a few tools, and then quietly shelve them when nothing really changes. Despite two to three years of noise around generative AI, many firms are still not seeing real return on investment. Vendors promise transformation; lawyers see experiments, […]
Why Ranking Still Matters for Lawyers
Our Friday session with Dmytro Fedoruk, founder of Ranking Copilot and former head of M&A at Clifford Chance Kyiv (now Redcliffe Partners), and Milos Trifunovic, COO at Ranking Copilot, to unpack why rankings still matter – and how technology can finally take the pain out of directory submissions. Setting the scene: a universal law firm […]
‘Niche’ Arbitrations – Maritime, Sports, IP Arbitrations
The Platforum9 International Arbitration Forum session, moderated by Velimir Zikovic, associate professor at Warwick University, set out to challenge a lazy assumption about “niche” arbitrations, with a keynote contribution from James Clanchy, a London-based maritime arbitrator and full member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA), who used maritime arbitration as a case study to […]
Risk Based Digital Compliance in the EU
Our latest session hosted a deep-dive with Professor Andrej Savin of Copenhagen Business School, on the organisational realities of “risk-based” digital compliance in the EU. Savin unpacked how the AI Act, GDPR, cybersecurity, and platform rules shift responsibility onto businesses themselves – and why in-house counsel and boards now sit at the centre of AI […]
Transforming Lawyers
Our Moderator for this session was Zsofia Varnai, a former White & Case lawyer and in-house counsel who is now a legal recruiter and certified coach. Drawing on her experience across Budapest, Paris, and London, Varnai now works with lawyers in transition – helping them reposition their careers and develop both personally and professionally. The […]
The New Alternative Legal Career
Paul Levy, Senior Consultant at Jameson Legal Tech, shared his candid view on how legal careers are evolving beyond the traditional lawyer track. Drawing on years of experience placing talent across law firms, in-house teams, and legal tech vendors, Levy mapped out where the opportunities are – and what skills today’s lawyers and law students […]
How Leaders can help steer successful transformations
In our live conversation last week, Leadership Strategist and former Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Alexia Maas, explored how legal leaders can steer meaningful transformation in an era of relentless change, AI disruption, and mounting regulatory complexity. The discussion ranged from strategy and simplification to AI, client value, rankings, and the next generation of legal […]