Author Archives: Sean West

DateOct 9, 2024
GeoLegal Weekly #39 – Legal is the New Cyber – Reflection on our HBR piece
Last week, we put forward in HBR a fairly straightforward argument but one that hadn’t really been made before: If political volatility is going up and the cost of legal actions (due...
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exploding pager
DateSep 18, 2024
GeoLegal Weekly #36 – Exploding Pagers and The Internet of Weapons
Just a quick note before jumping into this week’s essay – I’m hosting all-day GeoLegal Summits in New York and London in October with unbelievable speakers from top corporations, law firms and geopolitical analysis...
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DateSep 4, 2024
GeoLegal Weekly #34 – Terms & Conditions
I contemplate terms and conditions while taking an autonomous taxi. Hence also launches a fashion fundraiser to support the next generation of female Rwandan coders! Last Saturday night, I was...
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DateJun 19, 2024
Lawyers must be increasingly aware of technological, geopolitical trends:
Legal departments in multi-national corporations must navigate the impacts of trade wars and economic sanctions, political instability and conflict, inter-region regulatory divergence, cybersecurity and state-sponsored cyberattacks, and standards applying to...
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DateNov 29, 2023
Legal Industry Rules on Cusp of Sea Change as Tech Forces Gather
Erin Levine is on a mission to provide affordable divorce services to expand access to justice. She told me she first looked to scale up her family law practice using...
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metaverse
DateNov 1, 2022
Lawyers — Our Only Hope In The Metaverse!
One of the great paradoxes of the legal profession is that lawyers are stereotyped as allergic to technology while simultaneously being at the bleeding edge of the way society interacts...
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