FFO Feat: Hotshot, ClauseBuddy, Legal Innovators California

Morning all, here’s your Friday Follow-On, covering upcoming events, webinars, and the top walk through of the week.

Hotshot Webinar on AI and Future of Lawyer Training – Thursday, April 3

On Thursday, April 3 – 12 Noon EST, 5PM UK, Hotshot and Artificial Lawyer will be hosting a new webinar on the future of legal education and lawyer training, especially with regard to how legal tech and AI are reshaping this crucial area for lawyer development and learning.

The panel will include:

  • Caitlin Vaughn, Managing Director of learning & professional development at US law firm Goodwin,
  • Ian Nelson, Co-Founder, Hotshot,
  • Chair – Richard Tromans.

Book your place here.

Training Lawyers for the Age of AI

Training is having a moment like never before as GenAI is causing an evolution of the associate role. This is making law firm leaders to consider what new skills associates need, how they should learn these skills, and who is best placed to train them.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss these issues and more, and we’ll also look at Goodwin’s innovative training program designed to prepare associates for the GenAI era, which won the Financial Times’s 2024 innovation award in the category of skills & people.

It’s free to attend, but please RSVP here

ClauseBuddy AL TV Walk Through

This week’s AL TV Walk Through is with ClauseBuddy, an AI-powered toolbox of legal drafting solutions, created by ClauseBase, that lives inside MS Word and Outlook. It allows lawyers to: 

  • Draft smarter with automatic clause extraction from an organisation’s own drafting history, clause library curation, and automated smart templates for more effective knowledge management.
  • Negotiate better with tons of quality-of-life improvements to assist in selecting the right fallback clauses, visualizing an organisation’s drafting playbook, and finding inspiration for drafting compromises. 
  • Review faster with AI-powered document analysis and proofreading.’ 

In this video ClauseBase co-founder Senne Mennes walks us through some of the key features of ClauseBuddy. This includes its AI-powered drafting and reviewing functionalities, as well as its capabilities towards leveraging lawyers’ existing knowledge. There is then some Q&A with Artificial Lawyer.

AL TV Productions, 2025.

You can watch inside the page, or go directly to the AL TV YouTube channel here where there are now over 150 videos to watch.

And here are two great legal tech events you’ll want to attend, one in-person, the other virtual:

Legal Innovators California – June 11 + 12 – San Francisco

The Legal Innovators California Conference in San Francisco takes place on June 11 + 12.

The landmark event in the heart of the Bay Area tech world will be across two days: Day One: law firms, and Day Two: inhouse. Come along and engage with the leading legal tech experts from law firms, inhouse and tech companies in California and from across the world. 

Tickets are on sale now – see ticket page here.

See here for more information, tickets, speaking and sponsorship opportunities.

ILTA India Live Virtual Event – March 20, from 15:00 to 16:30 (UTC)

Join us for the ILTA India Inaugural Event, where top experts from global and Indian legal ecosystems will share practical insights, success stories, and challenges in adopting AI & automation in legal practice.

Speakers include:

  • Yasmin Lambert (Managing Director, RSGI)
  • Saurabh Karn (Founding Member, Sarvam.AI)
  • Richard Tromans (Founder, Artificial Lawyer & Tromans Consulting)
  • Rohit Shukla (Chief Digital Officer, Khaitan & Co.)
  • Horace Wu (Founder & CEO, Syntheia.io)
  • Sumitro Chatterjee (Global Director of Operations, LexFusion (now part of B+B))
  • Moderated by: Shreya Vajpei, Chief Ecosystem Officer, Indian LegalTech Network (ILTN)

Link here to register for the ILTA India virtual event. 

And of course, see you all in New York for Legal Week! More on this soon.

That’s all folks, have a great weekend!