For innovation to thrive in the legal industry, it needs creative ideas and voices – but not just those of the ‘majority.’ It needs a diverse range of thought that represents every demographic, and that’s exactly what LexisNexis is trying to achieve with its Innovation Panel.

Jacqueline So of NZ Lawyer sat down with LexisNexis NZ Customer Experience and Success Manager Alex Wakelin to discuss the value of constant learning and upskilling for lawyers and opportunities training can create.

AI is not a tool to be feared – it can be an important ally in bolstering the advice lawyers offer.

Jacqueline So of NZ Lawyer sat down with LexisNexis Pacific Head of Core Product Lindsay O’Connor to discuss how a document drafting tool like Lexis Create helps law firms to maximise their billing strategies.

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating once-in-a-lifetime challenges and change. For lawyers, creating a new work from home routine and establishing boundaries has been the critical first step in establishing a new normal. In this series, we talk to lawyers from different areas of the industry about how their firms adapted to the different stages of this global pandemic.

It is hard to aspire to be something that you cannot see. With such low rates of representation, pursuing a legal profession is not something many young Māori students could picture themselves aspiring to be.

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating once-in-a-lifetime challenges and change. For lawyers, creating a new work from home routine and establishing boundaries has been the critical first step in establishing a new normal. In this series, we talk to lawyers from different sectors of the industry about how they’ve adapted during the early weeks of this global pandemic.

This is the big question that keeps me up at night, since answering this informs the products and services that LexisNexis should develop. We attempted to tackle an answer to this question several years ago, and initially identified three mega trends that have / will impact the Legal Services industry: Since then, we’ve had a pandemic, which has fundamentally changed where and how knowledge workers operate.

Time-constrained law firm leaders need to maximise available tools so that they can do more of what they love

Unlike its generative predecessors such as Midjourney and DALL-E 2, ChatGPT seems to have caught the interest and imagination of the mainstream. I’d initially held-off writing anything on the launch of ChatGPT due to the hype that accompanies these launches, but over a month later, it is still very much in the public consciousness. While it is still early days, ChatGPT represents a significant set forward in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), which leads us to the questions of what is generative AI? What happens next? And what does this mean for legal professionals? I’ll try my best to answer each of these, with a little help from ChatGPT along the way!