Joanna Goodman

London

Freelance IT Columnist at Freelance

Journalist, Writer and Editor at Freelance

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Articles

All in it together

1 week ago | lawgazette.co.uk | Joanna Goodman

The benefits of becoming an employee-owned law firm can be cultural as well as financial. As Joanna Goodman hears, for some it is the magic pill that cures the headache of successionMyerson: converted from an LLP to an employee ownership trust last SeptemberLaw firms are culturally and structurally hierarchical, commonly represented by a ‘pyramid’. So why would partners make the leap to joining the ‘John Lewis economy’ and become employee-owned? Around 30 have done so.
GenAI generation gap

2 weeks ago | lawgazette.co.uk | Joanna Goodman

Digital literacy is an integral part of education for the lawyers of tomorrow. Law firms must be attuned to the impact of AI on juniorsThere have been recent news stories about the use of GenAI tools in universities. While their rules and policies on GenAI use vary, there is general agreement about the need to improve digital literacy among students and academic staff.
GenAI finds its voice

1 month ago | lawgazette.co.uk | Joanna Goodman

Voice-first interaction is recasting AI as a digital colleague rather than a tech tool. This could be the ‘new frontier’ for GenAIA Harvard Business Review article titled ‘How people are really using GenAI in 2025’ by Marc Zao-Sanders identifies a shift from technical use cases to personal and professional applications. The evolution of agentic AI towards more emotive use cases is leading people to interact with large language models as digital colleagues rather than tech tools.
Pointing the finger

1 month ago | lawgazette.co.uk | Joanna Goodman

The low downThe involvement of lawyers in high-profile scandals has reinforced the impression that they are simply hired guns beholden to the client’s whim. From the Post Office Inquiry to attempts to silence a critical examination of Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs, the profession’s public reputation has taken a battering. Yet ethical conduct underpins the significant professional privileges and protections solicitors enjoy. What to do? Support could be improved.
AI and mid-sized firms roundtable: Intelligence testing

2 months ago | lawgazette.co.uk | Joanna Goodman

For mid-market firms, the advent of generative AI is a double-edged sword. The technology can handle routine tasks and free up billable time, but also obscure intrinsic flaws in processes.
Following the money

Mar 4, 2025 | legalgeek.co | Joanna Goodman

Now that lawtech, and specifically legal AI, is recognised as a mainstream investment, money is changing the shape of the sector at least as much as advances in technology. In February, legal AI saw record fundraising, with multiple announcements revealing a complex network of funding interrelationships. For example, OpenAI backed GenAI assistant Harvey raised $300m in a Series D funding round with investors including REV, a VC partnership backed by LexisNexis parent company RELX Group.
AI change agents

Feb 28, 2025 | lawgazette.co.uk | Joanna Goodman

Agentic AI offers law firms a new level of automation and the possibility of removing the need for human interactionAgentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems and models that carry out a sequence of activities to fulfil complex functions without requiring separate prompts for each task. An AI agent can be programmed to handle a process or workflow that involves multiple tasks autonomously without human interaction.
Intellectual property in the age of artificial intelligence

Feb 24, 2025 | lawgazette.co.uk | Joanna Goodman

Alleged copyright infringements in the training of AI models, compulsory mediation and the boundaries of Brexit are among the recent landmark developments exercising IP lawyers. Joanna Goodman reportsIn the early weeks of 2025, IP lawyers have seen the first ruling in the UK to require compulsory mediation, and an important and high-profile decision in a lookalike products dispute.
New world disorder

Jan 24, 2025 | lawgazette.co.uk | Joanna Goodman

The exponential rise of GenAI heralded a deluge of new security threats – are law firms up to the challenge? Most UK law firms are now using artificial intelligence in some capacity. Firms also anticipate an increase in its use across core processes – document drafting and review, onboarding and compliance, workflow management and e-discovery. AI is handling legal tasks, but it is also introducing sophisticated security risks.
Imitation game

Nov 22, 2024 | lawgazette.co.uk | Joanna Goodman

Nearly five years after Brexit, UK businesses and their lawyers are still navigating its impact on intellectual property (IP) rights. In addition to territorial and jurisdictional differences, digitisation makes it easier to register large numbers of trade marks and patents. Meanwhile, developments in artificial intelligence are raising new legal challenges around the use of copyrighted content for training large language models such as ChatGPT.