Summary:

Episode 11 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our interview with Nick West, Chief Technology Officer of Mishcon de Reya and Director of MDR Lab, a legal tech incubator run out of Mishcon’s offices in London. Building on the discussion begun in our blog post entitled “Law Firm.VC?  Law Firms Launching Legal Tech Incubators, Accelerators, and Venture Arms” and continued in our conversation with Dan Jansen of Nextlaw Labs on Ep. 6, our conversation with Nick explores the structure and purpose of MDR Lab, Mishcon’s motivations for starting the Lab, the successes of its first cohort, trends on the legal tech landscape, and the key distinctions and differences between the UK and US legal tech markets.

For more information about MDR Lab, please visit: https://lab.mdr.london/.

The Blacklines & Billables Podcast | Exploring law firm associate success and the cutting edge of legal technology and innovation

Amid a rapidly changing market for legal services, Blacklines & Billables takes a critical look at the cutting edge of legal technology and innovation, as well as law-firm associate success and development.  An avid legal technologist and former Biglaw associate in New York and London, host Christian Lang explores the promise—and pitfalls—of an evolving legal and technological landscape with leading practitioners, legal tech founders, and other thought leaders, building upon the conversations begun on the Blacklines & Billables blog.

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