21 April 2023
On this week’s From The Courtroom to the Boardroom, Stephen Ward, Managing Director of Clerksroom, Legal Innovator, Barristers’ Clerk, Speaker and Author – talks to Simon Gibson about all things tech and disruption at the Bar. We discuss Stephen’s experience as one of the youngest senior Barristers’ clerks in the country at Temple and Gray’s Inn, the challenges he faced disrupting the traditions of the business of the Bar, the biggest opportunities for tech innovation for Barrister’s today and if the Clerksroom ‘virtual chambers’ model, really is better for Barristers.
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Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
6:29 – What is ‘Clerksroom’
9:35 – The challenges in disrupting the traditional model
11:32 – Solicitors setting their own budgets
15:04 – Mental well-being of barristers
16:16 – Mental well-being of barristers
19:22 – Navigating the vision and plan
21:11 – Ad Break
22:41 – Lawyers implementing new technology & good leadership
27:32 – Billybot & AI
35:41 – Market chance and deregulating the legal marketplace
39:49 – Metaverse
43:43 – International aspirations