The Legal AI Monthly Round-Up
At the close of February, we welcomed George Hannah for a wide-ranging discussion on the biggest developments in legal AI over the past month. In just 28 days, the market delivered volatility, bold branding moves, insurance innovation, and renewed questions about value, trust, and the future of junior lawyers. Market Shock: The Claude Legal Plugin […]
Why Global Collaboration is Key to Building Your Arbitration Practice
A Collaborative System at Its Core Niamh Leinwather opened the session by reframing arbitration not merely as a dispute resolution mechanism, but as a fundamentally collaborative enterprise. Drawing on her experience at the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), Leinwather emphasised that arbitration depends on trust between parties from different legal systems, cultures, and commercial realities. […]
What Makes A Firm AI Native?
From AI-Assisted to AI-Driven In yesterday’s live session, the legal industry’s rapid shift from scepticism to experimentation with artificial intelligence was front and centre. The more pressing question is no longer whether to use AI, but what it truly means to be AI native. Moderators Alex Baker, Founder of Legal Tech Collective, and Chris Bridges, […]
Ai Is Not About Tech, Its About Jobs!
From Courtroom to AI-Native Founder Our Moderator Ben Chiriboga, began his legal career as a litigator in Miami. A pivotal moment came during a high-stakes case involving complex e-discovery. Facing likely defeat, Chiriboga persuaded his firm to invest in early AI-powered technology. In six hours, the system accomplished what he had been unable to complete […]
Transitioning From Lawyer to BD Professional
At last week’s Business Development Forum, Barbara Koenen-Geerdink, Partner and Co-Founder of Beyond Billable Hours, and Andrew Hutchinson, self-described “growth geek” and legal sector strategist, explored what growth really means for law firms today and why the conversation is more complex than headline merger announcements suggest. The Consolidation Wave Koenen opened by framing growth as […]
How Lawyers Can Effectively Serve Start Ups?
In our live session this week, Patricia Wing, founder of SuLE and a former VC and M&A lawyer, discussed how lawyers can better serve start-ups at a time when technology is reshaping legal delivery, founders’ expectations are shifting, and traditional fee models are under increasing pressure. Wing began by outlining her career in venture capital […]
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 […]