Do legal tasks need lawyers?

AI consciousness; US expansion; and how a small team can have a big impact - all in this edition of The Bundle roundup.

Welcome to the very first edition of The Bundle roundup, where we’ll be unpacking what happened this month at Juro (and beyond). ‍

Let’s dive in.

As well as being a long month, January has also been a jampacked one. We started by welcoming Daniel Hulme, a globally recognized expert in AI and CEO of Satalia (a WPP company) to our podcast to explore AI consciousness, ethics, and the future of tech in legal.

If we apply our smarts in the right way, we can create a world where people might not necessarily access paid work, but everything they need to survive and thrive as a human being is free and abundant - Daniel Hulme

As host Richard highlighted, as knowledge workers, lawyers still feel like they’re in the copilot phase of AI, using it as a partner to execute the same tasks as we always have; just faster, better, and smarter. 

There are huge numbers of mundane tasks that’ll be fully automated by AI, and strong leaders and managers should reward their people for using AI to do that.

Richard dove into this in more detail in the first-ever monthly edition of the Brief Encounters newsletter, exploring exactly what lawyers want from AI (Spoiler: it’s not just contracts!). It’s not just hype, those who have adopted AI are working differently from how they were a year ago. 

But what about if you’re in a small legal team?‍

Earlier in January, we hosted a webinar all about how lean legal teams can outperform in 2025, including how technology can enable teams to do this. 

Now, we’re not saying you should automate everything, but it does suggest that at least some of your effort could be directed elsewhere. We believe that legal teams won't grow significantly in the next decade, and instead, some of that work will be done by AI.

Take it from sole counsels Victoria Ferguson (C TWO) and Michael Haynes (Juro), who shared their thoughts on empowering the business as a lean (or solo) legal team: 

1. Perfection is very much the enemy of done.

2. The guardrails for technology should align with those for humans.

3. If technology is speeding up routine legal tasks, it allows for a broader focus on impactful areas.
   

You can check out the recording below.

What’s in the news?

For those reading from the UK, it’s been a pretty big month for businesses, as the UK government revealed its AI opportunities plan. 

Richard took to the blog “to take a closer look at the plan, highlight what’s here, what matters, and what’s missing.” It’s not every day that the UK pins its plan for economic growth on the technology you build and work with daily. 

Read Richard’s in-depth analysis of the plan in this blog post. 

In other exciting news, we were thrilled to announce the opening of our US headquarters in Boston. The US is one of our largest markets, with over a third (and rising!) of our customers located there. 

We’ll be looking to hire roles across our teams in Boston so be sure to keep an eye on our careers page if you think that could be you. 

Juro’s Chief Revenue Officer, Rob Massa commented on the move, noting:

Juro’s US growth was strong in 2024, driven by our uniquely flexible product and community of users. Now’s the right time to put boots on the ground near our valued US customers and accelerate growth even further

Customer spotlight: Entourage Health Corp

We sat down with Mimi Mulhall, VP of People, and Samara Doobay, Legal Counsel at Entourage Health Corp to discuss their journey with Juro. As the company went from strength to strength, the contract process became fragmented; enter Juro. 

Both legal and HR wanted to win back the time they were losing to admin and regain confidence in their contracts. Entourage’s legal team selected and implemented Juro in 2021 to streamline its workflows, and they onboarded the HR team as end users quickly after.

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‍What’s coming up next month?

We loved bringing so many of our London-based community together in person last year - so we’re doing it again! We’ll be hosting an exciting roundtable discussion all about how lean legal teams can outperform in 2025. 

Spaces for these events are limited but you can look out for more in-person events on our website.
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But for those in London and beyond, we have an exciting webinar coming up on the 20th of February: Legal department metrics in the age of AI: what should you measure?

Plus, Stephanie Corey, CEO at UpLevel Legal Ops, will be joining our panel, with a career that spans decades, Stephanie has played an instrumental role in shaping the legal operations industry. 
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Stephanie co-founded both LINK and the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), cementing her reputation as a leader in the evolving legal operations landscape - so this won’t be one to miss.

If you want to learn which metrics can transform your legal team into a strategic powerhouse, join us at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT on Thursday 20th February. Sign up here.

That’s all for this month, we’ll see you here in February to catch up on all things Juro.