Law://WhatsNext
Episodes
Legal Engineering's Moment - Mary O'Carroll on her new CEO Role and the skill set that is becoming highly prized
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ This week we sit down with Mary O'Carroll - the newly announced CEO of Legal Eng Consulting Group (LECG), and one of the most influential ...
The Quantum Paradox: Rebecca Keating and Laura Wright on the Race to Get Encryption-Ready
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Google says it will be able to break RSA encryption by 2029. Third-party actors are already collecting encrypted data on the assumption they'll be...
Inside the Machine: Bilva Chandra on Trust, Truth, and the Future of Knowledge in an AI World
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🎤 This week we sit down with Bilva Chandra — who has spent the bulk of her career working on AI safety, ethics, and governance at the places wher...
The AI Dividend: David Bushby on Corporate Teams Going It Alone
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🎤 This week we sit down with David Bushby — Head of Legal Operations at Canva and the voice behind In Counsel Weekly — for a conversation that&...
Legal Tech Trends with Peter Duffy (Q1 2026)
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️Peter Duffy is back for our quarterly deep dive into the biggest stories from his ever-popular Legal Tech Trends newsletter (celebrating its re...
The Outsider Inside: Nick West on Rewiring the Law Firm
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🎤 This week we sit down (for our first in-person episode) with Nick West — Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Mishcon de Reya — who has spen...
Who Pays for the Truth? The UK's Copyright Battle with Big Tech with Matt Rogerson
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️This week Tom sits down with Matt Rogerson — Global Policy Director at the Financial Times and one of the more prominent and forceful voices ...
AI Security, Agentic Risk & What lawyers need to understand with Rok Popov Ledinski
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with Rok Popov Ledinski — an independent legal AI and data consultant whose background spans high-security enterprise engineering throug...
AI Governance: Ethics, Agents & the Human Question with Catie Sheret, Oliver Patel & Peter Lee
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️Alex and Tom step aside for this one — handing the mic to their friend Catie Sheret (General Counsel at Cambridge University Press & Asse...
When will Legal vibe like code with Chris Bridges & Matt Pollins
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The vibe coding conversation in legal has gone full culture war: one side says they've built a billion-dollar startup in 10 minutes, the other say...
Vibe Lawyering with Artur Serov
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ This week we sit down with Artur Serov — a Senior Commercial Counsel working in-house across corporate, commercial, and AI compliance — wh...
Evals & Benchmarking Legal AI with Anna Guo
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with Anna Guo — a Singapore-based lawyer, startup advisor, and founder of LegalBenchmarks.ai — who has quietly built one of the most r...
Vibe Coding a Doc Review Assistant with Anson Lai
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Season 2 is here.In our opener, we sit down with Anson Lai — commercial counsel by day, relentless tinkerer by night — who walks us through how he...
Our First Year in Review 2025
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Law://WhatsNext - the show where we catch up with leading practitioners (lawyers; technologists; educators and more) who are leveraging eme...
Legal Tech Trends with Peter Duffy (Q4 2025)
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Peter Duffy for our quarterly ritual of dissecting the big headlines of Peter's popular Legal Tech Trends newsletter and rumin...
Lawyer x AI Builder Jamie Tso
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hot off the heels of breaking legal LinkedIn last week, we caught up with Jamie Tso - a Hong Kong-based lawyer who's been building-in-public and spark...
In Conversation: Two CLOs (Andy Cooke & Sam Ross) on Communication, Performance and Ethics
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex and Tom step aside for this one—no hosts, no scripts—just Andy Cooke (CLO of Perk) and Sam Ross (CLO of Remote) in conversation. What begins ...
The AI Content Tsunami with Guy Shahar
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Creating content has never been easier. With both LLMs and world models (Sora 2, Veo 3, Marble) the fidelity of what we can produce at the tip of a pr...
The View from the Interface with Kevin Cohn
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with Kevin Cohn, Chief Customer Officer at Brightflag, who occupies one of the most unique vantage points in legal services – the interf...
AI workflows, agents, governance and security
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a twist to what has probably become our “normal” programming, this episode features just the two of us in conversation. We explore the implicat...
AI, Entrepreneurship & Space Law with Memme Onwudiwe
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we sit down with Memme Onwudiwe for a conversation that starts in a Harvard Law classroom - transitions to his building an AI company before...
The UX of Legal AI with Nicole Braddick
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Braddick needs no introduction - but if you had to rush one for the purposes of publishing a podcast 👀 you might say she’s the Global Head...
Visualising Justice: Rule Mapping and the Future of Legal AI with Stephan Breidenbach
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with Stephan Breidenbach, co-founder of the Rulemapping Group and a German scholar who's been quietly revolutionising how we think abo...
Building A Scalable Privacy Function That Matters with Ben Martin
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We catch up with Ben Martin, the former Director of Privacy at Trustpilot and author of "GDPR for Startups," who's currently living his ...
Architecting our Legal Future with Dan Hunter
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we sat down with Dan Hunter, Executive Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London and serial legal tech entrepreneu...
Copyright, Competition, and Content Authenticity in the Age of AI with Dana Rao
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have fun sitting down with Dana Rao (the former General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer at Adobe) - where we cover the implications of AI progress ...
GPT5 - Pt 2 with Sigge Labor (CTO) and Jacob Johnsson (Legal Eng) of Legora
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rapid dispatch: we pulled in Sigge Labor (CTO) and Jacob Johnsson (Legal Engineer) from Legora - one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world ...
GPT5 - Pt 1 with Jake Jones (CPO & Co-Founder, Flank)
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emergency drop: we grabbed Jake Jones (CPO & Co-Founder, Flank) for a quick-fire reaction to OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5 launch. We cover his day-one imp...
The Future Lawyer
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this compelling episode of Law://WhatsNext, hosts Tom & Alex dive into the transformative shifts underway in legal education and junior lawyer ...
Quarterly Legal Tech Trends with Peter Duffy (Q2, 2025)
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this quarterly deep-dive, we reconnect with Peter Duffy, the brilliant mind behind the Legal Tech Trends newsletter, for our regular temperature ch...
Product Counsel(ling) in the Age of AI with Sam Lewis
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with Sam Lewis, Senior Product & Privacy Counsel at Canva, who kicks things off by asking us the most important question of 2025: &quo...
Building to Last: Legal AI & Engineering with Ross McNairn
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ross McNairn, CEO and Founder of Wordsmith, brings a rare perspective to legal tech - lawyer turned software engineer turned CTO at companies like Sky...
Building Beyond the Hype with KD and Priyam (HashiCorp)
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our first "on record" informal coffee-style conversation with a fellow in-house team, we catch up with Kshitij (KD) Dua (Director of Legal Ops) and...
Leading, Complex Systems, and AI with Jessica Block
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Block thinks about the technological transformation we are all experiencing the way physicists think about quantum mechanics – as a system w...
Zero to One: A Builder’s Journey with Jenn McCarron
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Law://WhatsNext, we welcome legal ops guru, pioneer, visionary and friend, Jenn McCarron - President of CLOC, former Director of Le...
Q1 2025 Legal Tech Trends with Peter Duffy
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter drops the quote of the quarter: "Legal is sexy now when it comes to people working in technology and innovation". In our latest episode, we're m...
Building in the Era of AI Workarounds with Jake Jones
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We dive into the machine room of AI-native legal tech with Jake Jones, co-founder of Flank (formerly Legal OS) – a designer-turned-entrepreneur who'...
Responsible AI with Hadassah Drukarch
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We explore responsible AI governance with Hadassah Drukarch, former Director of Policy and Delivery at the Responsible AI Institute and current PhD re...
An Unruly World with Sean West
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Law://WhatsNext, we sit down with Sean West, co-founder of Hence Technologies and author of the soon-to-be-released book Unruly, av...
A2J, AI, Humanity and more with Sam Flynn
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we chat with Sam Flynn, COO of Josef – a friend we've known for years who brings a rare blend of technical expertise, legal insight...
AI in our Justice System with Steph Needleman
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steph is the Legal Director at JUSTICE (all caps to distinguish it from the system itself), a human rights and law reform organisation working to make...
From Public Company to AI Start Up with Laurie Ehrlich
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Law://WhatsNext, we sit down with Laurie Ehrlich, who made the bold move from Chief Commercial Counsel at Datadog to Chief Legal Of...