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From 4 June, law firms have a four-week window to submit their diversity data to the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Simply asking firms to collect diversity data will not impact demographics though.

There are valuable lessons for lawyers in Lloyds Bank’s current “the M-word” advertising campaign, highlighting how people avoid conversations about money because it makes them feel awkward.

The very best technology allows staff simply to get on with their job. It works away in the background and we don’t even notice it’s there.

One day I had a lightbulb moment. “Why don’t I set up a website with basic information for people which they pay to access? The fees would pay for the site and my time.” That thought changed my life.

This particular deal saw me stay in the office for the next five nights, with barely two hours sleep each night in either one of the office sleep pods or a sofa in a corridor.

Life has dealt me a fantastic hand and, trust me, I know it. You’d be hard pushed to guess this about me though – I’m in eating disorder recovery.

We can become a little obsessed with blogging and many law firms have embraced this form of content generation for their own websites. But to what end, and is it worth the hassle?

The Lord Chief Justice recently set out a challenge for the legal sector. “It is not every generation that is called upon to question the fundamentals of their systems, of their ways of working,” Lord Burnett said.

How, specifically, can AI help the legal sector? While we’re years away from truly autonomous forms of AI, weaker or ‘narrow’ AI is already enhancing our lives in several ways.

The Law Society is captured by a group of smaller law firms and individual solicitors who have a backward-looking view of what a law firm should be. Many appear contemptuous of ‘big law’, innovation and change.