Global Legal-Tech Competition: AI and its impact on legal practice

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on legal practice

AI has the ability to revolutionise various aspects of the legal profession, such as improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing access to the justice. Such areas might include automating routine tasks to allow legal professionals to focus on more complex and value-added work, predictive analytics to assist in strategy development and to offer clients a competitive edge, providing affordable legal assistance to those who might not have the resources to hire traditional legal services, and risk management and compliance to ensure adherence to legal standards. 

About the Global Legal-Tech Competition

Legal Tech is rapidly expanding, and new players and startups are bursting onto the scene in extraordinary ways, providing powerful solutions and innovative opportunities for law firms, corporations, and both private and public organisations.

Edinburgh Law School is pleased to team up with IE Law School, LexisNexis, and the Law Schools Global League to host the next Global Legal-Tech Competition on Wednesday, 19 February 2025 in Edinburgh. 

We want to give back to the blossoming Legal Tech industry and help these promising young companies realise their potential to become harbingers of change and innovation within the industry.

This cutting-edge and highly anticipated competition has been designed to seek out and support startups that have a positive and forward-thinking outlook on the major challenges faced by legal operators and legal systems today. 

Finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their projects in June 2025 in Madrid to an exclusive virtual audience of industry experts, comprised of investors, VC’s and mentors—all pioneers in the legal and business worlds respectively. 

Agenda

15:30 – 15:45 Opening Remarks by Soledad Atienza and Jim Speta (LSGL Co-Presidents)

15:45 – 16:15 Keynote – “LegalTech and Global AI Regulation” by Professor Lilian Edwards (University of Newcastle)

16:15 – 16:30 Introduction of Competition and Presentations

16:30 – 17:30 Pitch Presentations

• Amender
• Jupiter Lex
• Tau Oracle

17:30 – 18:15 Roundtable Discussion on “LegalTech in Scotland Today” with Hermione Hague, Matt Jewell, and Professor Burkhard Schafer (whilst judges deliberate)

18:15 – 18:30 Winners Announced and Closing Remarks

Further information on the LegalTech Venture Days

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