Image source: canva.com  If you thought we wouldn’t take an interview with ChatGPT and ask for an opinion on its role in legal innovation, you are wrong. Because we absolutely did. And it was “kind” enough to deliver some useful insights.   Read on. Q: Hello. How are you? ChatGPT: Hello! As an AI, I do not have the ability to experience emotions or physical sensations, so the concept of “how are you” doesn’t apply to me. But I am here to assist you with any information or help you need. How can I help you today?   Q: How old are you? ChatGPT: As a language model AI, I do no ..read more

Source: canva.com For anyone watching the news lately, the advancements in AI (notably of OpenAI and its star project ChatGPT) must have caught some attention. With Machine Learning systems becoming easier to use and more widely available, one could wonder if 2023 represents a game changer for the legal industry.  The pandemic has made automatization and digitization play a vital role in the legal business. So much so that stakeholders now contemplate AI’s role in the new legal architecture. And, going further, the place of lawyers in the AI 2.0 era. Has the point of no return b ..read more

Dear Colleagues Dear Readers It’s been a (long!) while, yet we are back! Let us begin with an explanation for our silence, our stance on the current situation and a little programming note for what you may expect of the blog in the coming months.   THE WAR IN UKRAINE   Our writing hiatus started on February 24th, 2022; when the world as we knew it ceased to exist, with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Gorbachev’s dream of a “common European home” – our dream of building a joint future based on the shared Central and Eastern European experience – in an instant proved just that ..read more

1. Introduction   Giles Thompson is the Head of Growth at Avvoka, a document automation, collaboration, negotiation, and analytics platform with a global client base that includes many CEE lawyers. Giles spearheads its revenue growth strategy, works with leading law firms, in-house legal teams, and businesses. Aside from this, he spends lots of his time designing and creating bespoke document automation solutions for clients. Previously, Giles worked as a city lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills and Kirkland & Ellis. He also had in-house experience working for BP’s in-house legal team ..read more

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What is ESG?   You may already be familiar with the term “ESG”, yet in case not just yet – let’s start with deciphering what stands behind the E, S and G in this acronym. ESG is a term used for an organization’s environmental (E), social (S) and governance (G) performance. A related term is “ESG investing”, where investors invest in companies based on their ESG performance. The latter term, “ESG performance”, actually also comes a lot in corporate governance-related content due to non-financial reporting requirements of which we have been seeing more and more on the news.   ESG is ha ..read more

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Current State of Legal Tech in Turkey   Ongoing digitalisation trends in every other sector also push the legal sector to become faster, more agile and user-oriented. Changes coming from different places have a strong impact on legal systems to change. Turkish legal professionals have also been feeling this trend and pressures as well. However, the legal tech market is still immature and slowly developing in Turkey. Let’s take a look together at what’s going on in Turkey.   Turkish Legal Ecosystem in a Nutshell   Before explaining the Turkish legal tech landscape, it would be be ..read more

Alban Krasniqi As part of our exploration of the Central and Eastern European legal tech and innovation scene, we are heading to the Balkans. Today, we have the pleasure of introducing you to Alban Krasniqi from Pristina, Kosovo.   Alban is a lawyer specialised in constitutional law and human rights who has worked extensively with the main Kosovan rule of law stakeholders since 2015. On top of this, Alban is one of the few pioneers of legal innovation in his country, currently developing a legal search engine.   Here’s Alban’s legal innovation journey.   Tell us a bit about yo ..read more