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Lewis Silkin Technology Lawyers Contribute To Book: Rising Roles In Law: Designing The AI-Enabled, Data-Driven Law Firm
Two new chapters in Rising Roles in Law explore how legal operations professionals and AI-enabled teams are reshaping the legal profession. The contributions examine who performs this transformative work, what capabilities they currently possess, and which skills they must develop to bridge the gap between AI investment and measurable returns.
United Kingdom Strategy
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Lewis Silkin
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Sustainability In Aerospace And Defence: Driving A Low-carbon Future
The aerospace and defence sector faces one of the most challenging decarbonisation journeys in the global economy, yet its advanced technologies are simultaneously enabling critical environmental solutions worldwide. From satellites monitoring deforestation to drones supporting reforestation and autonomous vehicles tracking ocean health, the industry's expertise extends far beyond its own emissions reduction efforts. How can organisations balance the dual imperatives of operational performance and environme
United Kingdom Environment
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Gowling WLG
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What Is Shadow AI? The Growing Risk Inside Legal Departments
Shadow AI—the use of unapproved artificial intelligence tools within organizations—poses significant risks for legal departments handling confidential and privileged information. This article examines how legal teams can identify shadow AI usage, understand the regulatory and ethical implications under frameworks like the EU AI Act, and implement governance strategies that balance innovation with compliance and data protection.
United Kingdom Privacy
Axiom
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Women In Retail: Hear From Continue's Lydia Hartley In Womble Bond Dickinson's Latest 'Retail Review' Podcast
Lydia Hartley, co-founder of Continue, discusses the growing role of resale in retail and how brands can unlock new commercial opportunities through the circular economy. She shares insights on shifting consumer behaviours, securing investment, building teams, and navigating growth in the competitive retail technology landscape.
United Kingdom Media & IT
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Womble Bond Dickinson
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Shaping The Future Of AI With Matt Clifford (Video)
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming capability, growth, and risk across industries at unprecedented speed. Matt Clifford, entrepreneur and former U.K. Government AI Advisor, explores what this acceleration means for U.K. competitiveness, enterprise adoption, regulatory approaches, and the emerging risks that businesses must address today. From AI for science to the evolving cyber threat landscape, this conversation examines the practical implications of AI's rapid development and the criti
United Kingdom Strategy
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Winston Taylor
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Is Anyone Really A Processor In The Age Of AI? Responsibility And Risk Under Data Protection Law
The distinction between data controllers and processors under data protection law is becoming increasingly problematic in the age of AI and new technologies. Courts and regulators are trending toward finding parties to be controllers rather than processors to ensure individual protection, creating significant legal and reputational risks for organizations that fail to carefully analyze their true role in data processing relationships.
United Kingdom Privacy
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Marks & Clerk
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Caught In The U.K. Filing Trap: How Defense Software Companies Can Lose Their U.S. Patent Strategy Overnight
U.K.-based defense software companies face a critical legal obstacle when seeking U.S. patent protection: mandatory U.K. filing requirements that trigger government security screening, potentially blocking the very international applications they need. How can companies navigate the intersection of software patentability standards, national security restrictions, and criminal liability risks?
United Kingdom IP
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Winston Taylor
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Humans In The Loop Won't Fix AI Hallucinations. Here's Why.
AI hallucinations are not temporary glitches but fundamental features of how large language models operate, generating plausible yet false information through pattern prediction rather than fact retrieval. Despite widespread reliance on human oversight to catch these errors, confirmation bias and practical constraints make such review inadequate, raising critical questions about professional liability when AI-assisted work contains fabricated citations or data. As courts begin sanctioning professionals for
United Kingdom Commercial
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Marks & Clerk
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Generative AI Will Not Replace Traditional Software – But Must Merge With It
The software industry faces a critical strategic choice as generative AI capabilities advance: should enterprise systems be replaced by large language models, or is there a more nuanced path forward? This analysis examines why the probabilistic nature of LLMs makes them fundamentally unsuited to replace deterministic enterprise software, and proposes an integration strategy that combines the strengths of both approaches.
United Kingdom Strategy
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AlixPartners
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How To Make Decisions While AI Disrupts Itself
As generative AI evolves beyond transformer-based large language models, corporate leaders face unprecedented disruption from world models, open-weight alternatives, and intelligent orchestration platforms. Strategic decisions made just months ago are being upended by rapid innovation, forcing organizations to navigate a landscape where even their chosen AI partners are being disrupted by new technological paradigms.
United Kingdom Strategy
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AlixPartners
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