Legal AI Lab

AI is not neutral. The gender gap in AI runs through the data it is trained on, the people who build it and the people who use it. And in legal, almost nobody talks about it. Nicky Leijtens, co-founder of She Breaks the Law and part of Bird & Bird, joins Hidde Bruinsma with examples that stick. Ask ChatGPT for career advice as a girl and the answer is less encouraging than the one a boy gets....

Personal branding is career insurance for lawyers. That is how George Hannah treats it, and it is paying off. George is a solicitor apprentice at Lewis Silkin and the founder of Best Practice, the legal AI newsletter he started in January 2025 with one viral LinkedIn post. Today it is a media company with a podcast and a personal brand of more than 12,000 LinkedIn followers, run entirely next to h...

Law firm disruption won't start with technology. It starts with the client. Bjarne Tellmann spent 25 years as general counsel at Coca-Cola, Pearson, and GSK. His book "Law in the Era of AI" maps how the changes inside corporations will force the legal industry to adapt or vanish. Firms are posting record profits. But 100% of GCs in a recent Axiom survey regret their law firm engagements. 89% no lo...

A banking lawyer at one of the world's largest law firms teaches herself Python on weekends. She builds an AI-powered billing tool in a Jupyter notebook. Months later, that tool is rolled out across the entire firm. Tanya Sadoughi is Linklaters' AI and Innovation Lead Lawyer for Global Banking. When ChatGPT launched one month into her innovation secondment, she saw the opportunity before most othe...

Lawyers are architects of society. But what happens when AI changes how law is accessed, practiced and understood? In this episode of Legal AI Lab, Soledad Atienza, Dean of IE Law School, explains why legal education must move beyond national systems and embrace a global legal mindset. AI makes legal knowledge more accessible than ever. That means law schools must shift their focus. From memorisin...

AI verandert de advocatuur fundamenteel. Niet alleen technisch, maar ook cultureel. In deze aflevering van Legal AI Lab spreekt Hidde Bruinsma met Elgar Weijtmans over wat het betekent om jurist te zijn in een tijdperk van generatieve AI. Elgar vertelt waarom hij zichzelf een generalist noemt. Waarom juist die brede blik steeds waardevoller wordt. En waarom advocatenkantoren die wachten op perfect...

Banning AI at law schools will not save legal education. It will make it unfair. In this episode of Legal AI Lab , Hidde Bruinsma speaks with Thibault Schrepel , Associate Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and founder of Stanford’s Computational Antitrust Project. Schrepel explains why banning AI creates distorted competition, why AI detection does not work, and why law schools...

AI verandert de rechtspraak sneller dan wie dan ook had verwacht. In deze aflevering spreekt Hidde Bruinsma met Jos Smits , Programmamanager AI bij de Rechtspraak, over deepfakes, bewijsproblemen, hallucinerende modellen en de ontwikkeling van RechtspraakGPT . Jos legt uit waarom klassieke ideeën over bewijs en waarheidsvinding niet langer houdbaar zijn in een tijdperk waarin beelden, stemmen en d...

Billions of decisions. Zero judges. And a justice system that lives inside your phone. Pietro Ortolani, Professor of Digital Law and Dispute Resolution at Radboud University, reveals why major platforms like Meta, Amazon and eBay already operate the largest dispute resolution systems on the planet. Much larger than any court we know. And far faster. In this wide ranging conversation, Pietro explai...

The world’s first AI law didn’t happen by accident. It was a political fight. Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament and lead negotiator of the EU AI Act , joins Legal AI Lab to reveal what really happened behind the scenes during the 36-hour negotiation that defined how artificial intelligence will be governed in Europe. He explains how Big Tech lobbying tried to weaken the rules, why...

Wat gebeurt er met de menselijke maat in de rechtspraak als AI steeds vaker dossiers analyseert, uitspraken schrijft en zelfs mee de raadkamer in gaat? Manuella van der Put, raadsheer bij het Gerechtshof ’s-Hertogenbosch en onderzoeker naar kunstmatige intelligentie in de rechtspraak, ziet grote kansen en fundamentele vragen. Ze praat over de grenzen van AI, de rol van emotie in rechtvaardigheid e...

Law firms that don’t embrace AI will soon look like relics of the past. Minesh Tanna, Partner at Simmons & Simmons and Chair of the City of London Law Society AI Committee, warns that the legal profession is changing faster than lawyers are adapting. In this episode of Legal AI Lab , Tanna discusses how AI is reshaping law firms, replacing manual tasks, and redefining what it means to be a law...

AI is not just changing the tools lawyers use, it is redefining the foundations of the legal profession. In this episode of Legal AI Lab , hosts Hidde Bruinsma and Martijn Doornbos speak with Professor Richard Susskind , the world’s leading voice on the future of law and technology. Together they explore how artificial intelligence is transforming legal education, reshaping law firms, and expandin...