AI and the Employed Bar: Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges

A Middle Temple Employed Bar Society event in association with the Centre for Ethics & Law, UCL Laws Faculty, University College London.

This event is taking place in person AND will be streamed live.  This page is for tickets to attend IN PERSON. To book a virtual ticket to attend online CLICK HERE. We will not be able to admit anyone with a virtual ticket.

Tickets are free and can be obtained as follows:

• Members of Middle Temple can book via this event page.
• Members of other Inns can book via the Treasury Office on  020 7427 4800.
• Non-Members from the legal profession please book via the Eventbrite link.

The session will be followed by a drinks reception kindly sponsored by the Centre for Ethics & Law, UCL Laws Faculty, University College London.

This event will consider some of the key legal, ethical and practical opportunities and challenges facing Barristers working in the employed sector.

In particular:

• The practical uses of LLM generative AI in an in-house legal practice
• An update on the types of legal and ethical issues emerging from the use of AI in-house legal practice
• The ethical issues which must be considered by inhouse lawyers when using AI

The event will focus on the practical and ethical aspects of LLM generative AI. For example, the panel and the discussions will cover:

• Issues relating to confidentiality
• Accuracy and reliability
• Source identification and audit trails
• The problems which may arise from out of date and misleading source material
• The integration of LLM AI into research and due diligence, together with contract drafting and analysis processes.

The event will be chaired by Dr Alan Brener, Associate Professor (Teaching) and Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethics & Law, UCL. Alan worked in financial services for a couple of decades including heading the retail legal and contracts teams at Santander UK before undertaking his PhD. Among his books is one on the relationship between control functions, lawyers and corporate boards based on his research and own experiences.

The speakers are:

Alison Cotrell CB

Alison was an economist in the City and later Director of Financial Services at HM Treasury. She then became the founding CEO of the Financial Services Culture Board which focused on improving ethics and culture in financial services firms. Alison holds Non-Executive Director (NED) roles in the health and charity sectors. She is also a NED at LINK which runs the UK's ATM network. Alison’s work has given her a deep insight into corporate governance and professional services.

Professor Orla Lynskey (UCL)

Orla Lynskey is Chair of Law and Technology at UCL Faculty of Laws and holds visiting Professorships at the College of Europe Bruges and the University of Notre Dame.  She teaches and conducts research in the area of digital regulation, with a particular interest in issues of data governance. She is a section editor of the Modern Law Review and Editor-in-Chief of the specialist journal International Data Privacy Law.

Professor Phillip Morgan

Phillip is a professor at York University Law School. He is also a barrister and he sits as a part time judge on the Employment Tribunal of England and Wales, and the First-tier Tribunal. Phillip has focused on the law and AI and published extensively on this subject including most recently ‘Introducing Private Law and Artificial Intelligence’, Introduction in Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press, 2024). The book launch for this work was hosted last year by UCL’s Centre for Ethics and Law.

Flora Page KC

Flora is a barrister at 22 Essex Street chambers. Her particular expertise is in corporate and financial crime. Flora is board member of the Legal Services Board and Chair of the Institute of Business Ethics. Her work involving companies has given her an unique perspective into corporate governance and culture and ethics. This was clearly evident in her work on the Post Office scandal and public enquiry.

Dr. Raphael Reims

Raphael Reims is a lawyer, experienced Compliance expert and the Head of Compliance UK and Ireland of the BMW Group. Raphael previously worked at the German law firm Noerr and the international law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He studied at the London School of Economics and German universities and holds a Ph.D. in law. He was shortlisted for the Rising Star Award of the International Compliance Association.