We are living through a period of unprecedented change in the legal market. Everywhere you look there is speculation about the future of law firms, and Big Law in particular, fuelled by the rise of AI and a new generation of "new-mod firms" built without the legacy baggage of traditional practices. Some of that speculation is useful. Much of it has become noise.
Read MoreWe are living through one of the most dynamic periods in the history of legal services. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the way that law firms and lawyers work, and it is doing so faster than many anticipated. What is perhaps less well understood, but equally important, is that this transformation will also change the very nature of the knowledge that lawyers need to access. That knowledge will be different in form, different in structure, and different in purpose. Law firms and knowledge functions who grasp this now and adapt will be the ones that thrive.
Read MoreWe are entering a new and consequential phase in the evolution of artificial intelligence, one that demands we raise our standards of governance significantly. If the challenge of the last few months has been governing AI tools, the challenge of the next few months will be governing AI agents. The organisations that fail to appreciate it risk being caught badly off guard.
Read MoreAs many of you will know, enshittification is a phenomenon coined by author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow to describe the predictable and troubling behaviour of online platforms as they mature.
Read MoreHyperscale Group’s Digital Onion has, for some years, served as a useful framework for understanding the efficiency challenge facing full service law firms. For those unfamiliar with the concept, imagine three concentric circles. The innermost circle represents digital basics - practice management systems, document management, email management.
Read MoreAt Hyperscale Group, we have been involved in a huge number of pilots and proof of concepts over the years — almost too many to count. These have come in many shapes and sizes, spanning a wide range of sectors and disciplines.
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