LawscotTech Advisory Board

Set up in 2018, the LawscotTech Advisory Board has oversight of all LawscotTech activities and delivery of LawscotTech’s strategic goals. In doing so it aims to:

  • Facilitate a thriving legal technology environment by bringing together solicitors and others working in the legal sector with technologists.
  • Through technological advances, improve efficiencies and create competitive advantages for solicitors and clients.
  • Showcase a globally respected hub for legal technology innovation in Scotland.
  • Collaborate with partners in other business sectors throughout Scotland and globally.
  • Engage the Scottish business community’s interest in the legal sector.
  • Stimulate engagement from outwith the legal sector.

Who we are

Chair:

  • Murray Etherington, Partner, Thorntons Law

Vice Chair:

  • Sarah Blair, Director of Technology and Transformation, Thorntons Law

Members include:

  • Alan Moffat, Faculty of Advocates
  • Aleks Tomczyk, Founder and Managing Director, Exizent
  • Andrew Hinstridge, Head of Customer Legal, Virgin Money and Law Society Board Member
  • Andrew Mowlam, Head of Legal Technology, Innovation and Insight, Sky
  • Callum Murray, CEO of Amiqus
  • Christopher Barnes, solicitor at Levy & McRae
  • Danae Shell, Co-founder and CEO, Valla
  • Hermione Hague, University of Edinburgh
  • Lynsey Walker, Partner at Addleshaw Goddard
  • Nicola Anderson, CEO of Fintech Scotland
  • Ross Nicol, Partner at Addleshaw Goddard and Convener of the Technology Law and Practice Committee
  • Ross Yuill, Solicitor Advocate and Director, The Glasgow Law Practice
  • Stephen Moore, Moore Legal Technology

Executive Team (Law Society of Scotland):

  • Beth Anderson, Head of Member Engagement (Executive Lead)
  • Fiona Paterson, Member Services Coordinator (Secretary)
  • Antony McFadyen, Senior Solicitor, and Secretary to Technology and Law Committee
  • Jack Rowberry, Business Development Manager
  • David Meighan, Head of Education

Our strategic pillars

LawscotTech is driven by its strategic pillars, each of which sit alongside each other, and none are any less of a priority.

  • Work with our universities to embed legal technology and innovation into the syllabus.
  • Guide trainees and their supervisors on the use of technology as part of the traineeship.
  • Increase the breadth and depth of legal technology skills and experience within the profession.
  • Encourage upskilling and identify leadership within the sector.
  • Continually publish best practice guidance for procuring and successfully adopting technology in the legal sector.
  • Build confidence in decision makers to empower them to invest.

  • Facilitate collaborations with legaltech providers, public body organisations and law firms/employers.
  • Strengthen cross-sector strategic collaboration to help all our members adopt technology.
  • Support our LawscotTech community by celebrating their successes.
  • Develop a louder collective voice and ensure everyone working in the legal system in Scotland knows LawscotTech and how it can help them succeed.
  • Help to identify the new opportunities opening up for the profession from legaltech.

  • Identify barriers to successful technology adoption and act to help remove them.
  • Measure success against a baseline by identifying the starting point, 'where are we now?'.
  • Develop and maintain a library of challenges defined by the sector.
  • Engage in and motivate the discussion of ethics within the profession, wider justice sector and regulatory bodies where these relate to technology.
  • Support the use of technology that improves access to justice for all citizens and businesses.

  • Develop connectivity amongst different technology clusters.
  • Broaden LawscotTech stakeholders across the UK.
  • Build upon the learning of others in the wider technology eco-system.
  • Promote the importance of the legal sector to the growth of Scotland’s digital economy.
  • Encourage technology companies to invest in Scotland by helping them understand the sector.

Contact details

To find out more or if you want to get involved in LawscotTech in some other way please email us at tech@lawscot.org.uk.

In this section