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20 May 2016 / Karl Chapman
Issue: 7699 / Categories: Features , Profession , Technology
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Virtual reality

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Karl Chapman tracks the march of virtual assistants

The technological revolution we’re living through will affect all of us and impact all sectors of the economy and society. Its language includes many buzz words and phrases: artificial intelligence; machine-learning; big data; the internet of things; smart assistants; deep automation; blockchains; computational law; the cloud.

We see a rapidly growing desire among Riverview Law customers to understand how this will impact business models generally and their organisation, their function, and their people specifically. Twenty-six years after Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web there is a realisation that none of us are immune from the exponential impact of Moore’s law. A law that has had (and will have) many consequences, including IBM Watson (a computer) beating the two all-time (human) champions on the TV game show Jeopardy! and Google AlphaGo beating the Go world champion.

Law is definitely not immune from this revolution and one of the leading change agents in the legal market will be digital/virtual assistants. Tools that when deployed to customers change their

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Walkers—Muriel Marseille

Walkers—Muriel Marseille

Ashurst's Chief Risk Officer joins Walkers

Excello Law—John Osborne

Excello Law—John Osborne

Northern family lawyer John Osborne joins Excello

mfg Solicitors—Rebecca Rogers, Kennedy Langley & Victoria Griffiths

mfg Solicitors—Rebecca Rogers, Kennedy Langley & Victoria Griffiths

Trio of promotions announced at Kidderminster law firm mfg Solicitors

NEWS
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The Court of Appeal has reinforced that domicile depends on intention rather than residence alone, in a significant post-Brexit ruling on cross-border financial remedy claims
The Chancery Division's long history comes to an end this autumn as it is reborn as the Business and Property Division, prompting questions over whether the shake-up is really necessary
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) continues to show that failing to disclose regulatory issues can attract harsher consequences than the original misconduct itself
Rejecting a generous settlement can prove an expensive mistake, as two recent high-profile cases demonstrate
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