Legally On The Move: The Lawyers Retreat is Back in Ibiza 2026 - Kim Simmonds - E05
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What is the purpose of the Lawyers Retreat Ibiza 2026 and this podcast series?
Welcome to Legally on the Move, the Lawyer's Retreat Ibitha 2026, a special legally speaking podcast mini-series sponsored by Cleo. We're back here in Ibiza as the official media partner for the Lawyers Retreat. And if last year taught me anything, it's this: when you get the right people in the right environment, good conversations quickly turn into real opportunities. Across this series, we'll be bringing you voices, ideas and honest reflections from a retreat built around leadership, well-being, AI, growth, business development and the future of lore. So whether we're pull side, post-panel, or catching up in between sessions, expect practical insights, fresh thinking, and conversations that go beyond the surface.
So let's get into it. Welcome to the Legally Speaking podcast recording live here from Ibetha for the Lawyers Retreat. And I am joined by name, title and organisation, please.
Kim Simmons. I'm CEO and founder of Law Three Sixty Five and Cloud Contracts Three Six Five.
You absolutely are, and it's been an absolute pleasure getting to know you more over these couple of days here in Ibiza. And with that, what brought you to the Lawyers Retreat this year?
So I never heard of the Lawyers Retreat, to be very honest with you. And a friend of mine, Alex, uh, who's also here, said to me, Oh, you really must come along. I think you'll find it really interesting. I'm obviously a law firm owner. Yeah. And sometimes we do move in the dark. We don't always know what we're doing. And sometimes it's really nice to be surrounded by like minded people with some amazing sessions that can sort of push you out of your boundaries and uh your comfort zone. So that's why I'm here.
Yeah, the comfort zone is great, but nothing ever grows there, as we say a lot on the show. So you've built businesses around the idea that legal should help growth rather than slow it down. So where do you see legal creating friction for ambitious companies?
So where uh what I've always seen throughout my whole working life, now I worked for a big American law firm in New York as an MA lawyer, all the way through to a regional firm to a small, you know, all kinds of size firms. And the reason why I created Law Three Sixty Five in the first place was because the friction for me that I saw was there was a lack of transparency with what the lawyers were doing. So clients were frustrated. They didn't know if a piece of work really took five hours or twenty hours. Had absolutely no understanding. This whole thing with hourly and billable rates and all the rest of it was a real taxing effort on the client side to really get their head around. But also the client success, lawyers were not interested in how customers or clients felt about the work that they were giving the lawyers because you know, a lot of them it's their business, they're under time pressure, they want to get that deal done.
The lawyers have got ten things to do, they're not worried. worried about that particular one client, but that one client's only concerned about that one piece of work. So it's really bridging the gap and making lawyers more aware of customer success which is definitely being more recognized these days, but it wasn't always the case. Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely. And another big theme of the the lawyers retreat this year has of course been AI. Um can't get away from that. What are the most practical ways you think AI can improve contract work throws growing businesses right now?
Okay, so I mean I have a really interesting take on this. Maybe a bit of my background might help first frame it. So about five years ago, we set up Cloud Contracts 365, which is a separate business to my law firm, Law 365. Cloud Contracts was built very much, it's an AI legal platform, and it was built for business owners. So where business owners could self-serve. That meant that they could go on the platform and they could build their own contracts, they could review contracts. Contracts using our own proprietary AI review tool and they could manage contracts.
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