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Winter 2018
Merry Christmas!
This edition will provide you with details of our last event – Halloween Cocktails, along with our
next – the much anticipated Christmas Party! We also have a guest article on the increasing
importance of A.I in legal work, along with a piece on LawWorks, and what you can do to help
the local community . Read on for more...
Halloween Cocktails
Our spookiest event of the year took place at ‘Puzzles?’,
with young lawyers from 5 different firms attending.
Thank you to all who braved the cold night for attending
Save the Date! and to ‘Puzzles?’ for hosting us.
THE COMMITTEE:
Alex: alex.hartnoll@hegarty.co.uk Melissa: Melissa.casey@spw-law.co.uk
Amir: amir.choudhary@buckles-law.co.uk Rebecca: rjrudge@greenwoodsgrm.co.uk
Amelia: Aoconnor@regencychambers.co.uk Roxanne: Roxanne.Dean@taylor-rose.co.uk
Emily: Emily.malvaso@buckles-law.co.uk Sarah: selidgett@greenwoodsgrm.co.uk
James: James.Steward@hcsolicitors.co.uk Shamsher: ssingh@greenwoodsgrm.co.uk
Jonathan: jpmumby@greenwoodsgrm.co.uk Umrah: Umrah.Mirza@Taylor-Rose.co.uk
If you are interested in joining the committee, please email any of us for more details.
Opportunities to help with LawWorks
LawWorks’ Legal Advice Clinic is
looking for volunteers
LawWorks needs local volunteer solicitors in Peterborough to
help launch a new free legal advice clinic. Working in partnership
with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Women’s
Consortium, the clinic will offer free legal advice to vulnerable
women, including ex-offenders and victims of domestic violence
and rape.
Your advice could give someone hope at a time of crisis and open up options they
never knew existed. At the same time you will gain a greater depth of experience, a
great sense of achievement and you will prove to your employer that you are
dedicated to access to justice for all!
If you would like to volunteer and make a real difference, please contact Rosie
Collingbourne, LawWorks Support & Development Officer for the East of England, at
rosie.collingbourne@lawworks.org.uk or on 07921 451625.
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Opportunities to help with LawWorks
About the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Women’s Consortium
Being able to access this advice within a women-only venue, the Dawn Project run by
Cambridge Women’s Resources Centre in Peterborough, means they are in a safe and
supported environment.
http://www.cwrc.org.uk/
About LawWorks
LawWorks (the Solicitors Pro Bono Group) is a charity committed to enabling access
to justice through free legal advice. We encourage, facilitate, support and celebrate
the contribution of pro bono (by solicitors, law schools, law students and others)
across England and Wales.
LawWorks supports a growing
network of over 230
independent pro bono clinics
across England and Wales,
working with local community
organisations to reach those
people who are most vulnerable
and least able to access advice.
https://www.lawworks.org.uk/
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Featured Article
Each issue of our newsletter contains a guest article. This edition of the PYLG newsletter features
Lennox Desborough of Hegarty LLP Solicitors, covering the future of the legal professional in the
age of A.I. Read on...
Robo Law: How Advancing Many international firms have already taken
Technology Could Impact the the plunge in introducing A.I and innovative
technology into their everyday practice.
Future of the Legal Profession.
Take the IBM Watson enhanced RAVN system
for example which automatically reads,
Advanced technology and Artificial
summarises and even interprets key
Intelligence has increasingly become the
information from contracts and key
topic of much attention in recent years
documentation in minutes as opposed to
with predictions of driverless cars,
often hours spent by solicitors reviewing and
healthcare robots and autonomous
analysing the same data with the added
armed forces peering their heads around
factor of human error. Time and attention
the steadily approaching corner.
can therefore be spent more efficiently with
greater focus given to tasks of larger
Recent findings estimate, rather
substantiality.
gloomily, that by 2030 40% of all jobs in
the US will be replaced by A.I, with
similar figures for the UK. The common
perception has long been that the most
at risk jobs are largely focused around
the manufacturing and retail industry;
with machines taking the place of
humans on production lines and
supermarket checkouts.
Professional Risk
As technology rapidly improves and Alongside such developments within
machines become more intelligent (even traditional law firms the so called ‘Legal
learning on their own accord) other Tech’ industry has also begun to gain
professions traditionally established on increasing prominence with new digital
human logic and rationality could face start-up companies now offering legal
robotic adaptation. This includes doctors, services directly. This occurs not via the
journalists, taxi drivers and legal advice and advocacy of trained solicitors but
professionals. through the algorithmic design of advanced
A.I platforms.
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Featured Article
The future?
With plans afoot to expand the online
court system furthermore over the
coming years such technology could also
assist in ensuring that claims issued online
via litigants in person are both legitimate
and filed correctly; potentially reducing
the ever expanding court backlog.
If you would like to contribute to the newsletter please do contact a member of the committee.