LegalTechTalk 2026: Privacy, AI and the New Legal Engineer - Ben Martin - E05
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What is the purpose of the Legal Tech Talk 2026 miniseries and who is hosting?
what happens when the brightest minds in legal technology and innovation come together to shape the future of our profession welcome to the legally speaking podcast legal tech talk 2026 miniseries as the uk's number one legal podcast and show ranked in the top one percent of podcasts globally we're delighted to be returning as the official media partner for legal tech talk for the third time Having supported this event since the beginning, we've witnessed firsthand how it has become Europe's largest legal technology conference, bringing together the people, ideas and innovations transforming the legal industry. Across this special series, we'll be speaking with some of the world's leading legal professionals, founders, technologists, change makers to explore what's next for law.
Because our mission remains the same. Inspiring legal minds, transforming legal futures. Let's get into it.
Hello everyone and welcome to the Legally Speaking podcast sponsored by Clio, recording live here at Legal Tech Talk in London.
Joining me now is another fantastic guest. Please kindly introduce yourself, name, title and organisation.
Hey, my name's Ben Martin. I am a legal engineer and the head of privacy at Wordsmith, which is a legal AI platform for in-house lawyers. Absolutely. And you're doing a fantastic job, it has to be said, and very present here at Legal Tech Talk 2026.
The big theme about this year is transformation. In your view, what's the biggest single shift in the legal industry right now that people can no longer afford to ignore?
So I think at a very high level, it's probably AI adoption. So using AI in some sense. So I work in AI, so I see a lot of people starting to adopt it. And where we see teams really getting excited and starting to gather pace and build on it. You see the transformation happen massively. Probably then a sort of micro level, I think agent adoption and building of workflows that are more complex than just taking your problem to a tool to fix it. That for me feels like the next step on. And we had a really great session with people building lots of cool stuff today. So, yeah, it's been really good. Yeah. And I think it's a really valid point. Legal Tech Talk 2026 this year has really ramped up. What drew you to Legal Tech Talk 2026 and what's been a highlight for you thus far?
Yeah, so it's actually my first time ever coming here. And I think, well, the reason I'm here is because Wordsmith have one of the, I think, Diamond sponsors. So we have a full sort of squad here today. But the thing that I think has been absolutely brilliant is just the conversations with so many different people and just the scale of it and meeting people who I've not seen. We bumped into Henry earlier and people I've not seen in years. And it's actually really nice to just see that whole legal community. Yeah, absolutely. And Henry Nelson Case, we're big fans of here on the show. He's also been on the show. Go and check out his episode.
He's also at that corporate lawyer on socials. Okay, the problem. What is the problem or challenge you're fixated about trying to solve?
And why should people care about it in the legal industry? So my background is data protection. I'm a privacy lawyer and I have been hounding and haranguing everyone within Wordsmith talking about records of processing activity and the big data protection challenges. So we hear a lot about contract law and redlining within the AI world. But there's this whole piece for privacy lawyers, for compliance, for risk governance professionals. And that feels to me a little step behind. And I really think that building these tools is going to be a massive leap forward for them because things like record of processing activity, subject access requests, really time consuming, really repetitive. And there's so much that can be done to save time.
And I guess the kind of overarching theme of... Why I care about this and why I'm passionate about it is because it just makes people's jobs more fun. I had so many things in my last role which were very manual and quite frustrating.
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