Christina is passionate about the role of technology to enable better legal services and systems, and is a committed advocate for equality in the sector. She is an award winning published author, speaker and lecturer and frequent media commentator. Christina chairs the Ethics Unit to be established as part of the Lawtech Sandbox, to provide practical guidance to those innovating in lawtech.

Her recent projects include the development of intelligent tools for law firms, tools to support e-democracy and legal knowledge-based systems. Her passion is in bridging together academic, industrial and public sector bodies to deliver technologies that can benefit multiple sectors of society.  Katie is past president of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law and regularly features in the media in the UK and internationally.  

Chris works with law firms, startups and a range of leaders across the public and private sector on lawtech and wider sector innovation and has extensive insight into the sector and its development and opportunities. He has a background in law and tech companies, including legal COO roles, and is passionate about reengineering legal services – change he is advancing through his work, for the benefit of the UK market and beyond. Chris is closely involved in developing the Lawtech Sandbox and serves on its Steering Board.

Previously Professor of Private Law at the University of Bristol and Professor of the Law of Obligations at the University of Oxford, Sarah has a close involvement with the active lawtech community in Bristol and Bath. Sarah is committed to ensuring the law meets the needs of business and wider society and brings both a real-time and forward looking lens to this. Digital trade is a current focus, as well as the treatment of intangibles, smart contracts, digitised material and distributed ledger technology. Sarah sits on the LawtechUK Jurisdiction Taskforce and is contributing to the Lawtech Sandbox.

He has deep knowledge of the legal sector, and investor insights from his time as CEO and Chairman of Legal Zoom, which raised over $750M from venture capital and private equity during his 18-year tenure. Prior to starting Legal Zoom in 2000, Brian practiced corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell and served as Assistant Vice President at Oaktree Capital Management. Brian earned his juris doctor degree from UCLA School of Law.

Rosemary brings business and client perspective to the Panel, including through her NED experience at HSBC and EY. Rosemary initiated and chaired the Investment Taskforce whose work has evolved into the development of the Lawtech Sandbox, with which Rosemary is closely involved; establishing and chairing the Business Unit to provide expert support and mentoring to participants, and facilitate live testing.

Richard has written ten books, his work has been translated into 18 languages and he has been invited to speak on lawtech in over 60 countries. In the 1980s, he wrote his doctorate on AI and the law at Oxford. Richard is a founding member of the Panel, having identified the opportunity for cross sector leadership in 2017. He chairs the LawtechUK Commercial Dispute Resolution Taskforce, focusing on online dispute resolution, and leads the development of Remote Courts Worldwide.

Sir Geoffrey is committed to enhancing the role of technology, both in the UK and globally, in dispute resolution, the delivery of legal services, and the advancement of access to justice and the rule of law.  Sir Geoffrey helped establish the Panel as the Lawtech Delivery Panel in 2017 and chairs LawtechUK’s Jurisdiction Taskforce, responsible for delivering the Legal Statement on Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts.