The Lord Chief Justice recently set out a challenge for the legal sector. “It is not every generation that is called upon to question the fundamentals of their systems, of their ways of working,” Lord Burnett said.

How, specifically, can AI help the legal sector? While we’re years away from truly autonomous forms of AI, weaker or ‘narrow’ AI is already enhancing our lives in several ways.

The Law Society is captured by a group of smaller law firms and individual solicitors who have a backward-looking view of what a law firm should be. Many appear contemptuous of ‘big law’, innovation and change.

I recently met with officials from the European Commission to discuss what Brexit will mean for GDPR compliance, including the current extension until the end of October.

So we are about to launch head first in to another great legal services experiment. Away with all those restrictive practices that successive governments consider so heinous. All hail innovation and market forces.