There are two questions: firstly whether AI itself actually exists and secondly, whether the businesses that purport to be selling AI services are actually ‘AI washing’.

As a youth in the 80s, I never had much success with “actually I’m in insurance” as a chat-up line. It evoked the image of a corporate pencil pusher living for their retirement.

We are seeing some evidence of law firm buyers taking a more cautious approach to the way they structure deals and conduct their due diligence.

Insurance market cycles usually work in peaks and troughs, and are sensitive to interest rates – when rates are high, many write for volume so they can earn decent returns from the money they have banked.

Africa is consistently proving itself to be an attractive market and rapidly becoming one of the biggest players in the global economy. So how can law firms successfully expand to the market?