Joanna Goodman

London

Freelance IT Columnist at Freelance

Journalist, Writer and Editor at Freelance

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Articles

Clients and technology roundtable: Plugged in

6 days ago | lawgazette.co.uk | Joanna Goodman

AI innovation is conditioning clients to expect a speedy service from lawyers. How are mid-tier firms meeting this challenge, as well as ensuring that staff have the right skill-set?
UK primed for 'AI take-off'

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

London Tech Week showcased the UK’s AI acumen, backed by £1bn of government funding. But digital infrastructure needs critical attentionSir Keir Starmer’s speech opening London Tech Week at Olympia on Monday was another demonstration of the government’s commitment to the transformative power of artificial intelligence, following January’s AI Opportunities Action Plan. The intentions were laudable, and the investments impressive, particularly in developing talent and skills.
A firm of one's own

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

How do you avoid the dream of building your own specialist firm from becoming a nightmare? Joanna Goodman talks to solicitors who knowWell-established law firms are worried about succession, given a decline in the number of solicitors who see partnership as ‘the goal’. Yet one group remains keen on ownership. There is, it seems, no shortage of solicitors willing to take the training and lessons learned at large commercial firms, and apply them in their own, much smaller, specialist outfits.
All in it together

1 month 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

1 month 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

2 months 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

2 months 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

Mar 30, 2025 | 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.