BotL’s flagship program, The Law Tech Clinic educates and trains law students on legaltech, legalops and design thinking.  A 2022 Alumni of Lander & Rogers Law Tech Hub, the clinic is a 12 week program that helps law students understand how technology can improve client experience by partnering with law firms to create a real ‘project’ that students can use design thinking techniques to create tech solutions.  With a focus on no-code, the program has enhanced their law firm partner’s legaltech capabilities whilst educating law students on design thinking and building tech solutions. To learn more, head to https://www.botltech.com.au/

Michael J Bommarito II and Daniel Martin Katz recently published a paper on whether ChatGPT would be able to pass the US Bar Exam.  To practice law in the US, applicants must complete at least 7 years tertiary education, including 3 years at an accredited law school, before they are eligible to sit the Bar Exam.  The authors experimented on whether Open AI could pass the Bar exam.  Results were mixed,  but the authors concluded that Open AI will be capable of passing the Bar Exam in the very near future.  Click here to read about the experiment - https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4-could-pass-bar-exam-ai-researchers-say/

In a world first, US software company DoNotPay’s ‘robot lawyer’ will be appearing in a US Court representing a client charged with traffic offences.  Using machine learning to match text and voice recognition, combined with data sets from US legislation and case law, the robot will be able to formulate legal advice to the client in real time.  The robot won’t address the court directly, rather it will be accessible via the client’s smartphone, listening to the judge and prosecution and providing advice via headphones. Head here to read the full story featured in the SBS news - https://apple.news/AP0wd8f3ZTQOT5EZn8mPIiA

Dr Allan McCay from the University of Sydney Law School published a brilliant overview of the impact neurotechnologies could have on the law in July of this year.  This world-first report commissioned by the Law Society of England and Wales discussed how this technology could be applied to monitoring criminal offenders and lawyers in the future.  Since publishing, neurotechnology and the law has become a hot topic globally in conferences held in New York, Istanbul, Australia and the UK, and is set to hit the mainstream news with Elon Musk’s launch of Neuralink. You can learn more here - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/neurotechnology-law-update-allan-mccay/?trackingId=L147mOMNTumDI5LlRMKtbQ%3D%3D

Aussie LegalTech company, Josef, have just banked an additional AUD $5.2million as they expand further into US and European markets.  This year, Josef co-founders, Sam Flynn, Tom Dreyfus and Kirill Kliavin, announced US venture capital-focused law firm Gunderson Dettmer and UK magic circle firm Clifford Chance had signed on as customers.   Josef is a simple and easy to use software platform that allows lawyers to build their own automation tools without the use of code for tasks such as document drafting, data analysis and client onboarding.  To learn more about Josef's global expansion, head to AFR’s article here https://www.afr.com/technology/us-uk-legal-giants-embrace-aussie-automation-start-up-20221124-p5c0xv 

Calling all legal tech start-ups and scale-ups - the 2023 LawTech Hub by Lander & Rogers is open for applications!  The first of it’s kind in Australia, the LawTech Hub offers a free program to lawyers and entrepreneurs who are designing and building transformative legal technology.  If you are disrupting the legal industry through automation, blockchain, AI, machine learning, predictive analytics or more, then apply to be in the next cohort of the LawTech Hub for 2023!  To apply, click the link here https://www.landers.com.au/legal-innovation/lawtech-hub