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Document Automation: Is this the end of the Interview?
The document automation questionnaire, sometimes still called an interview (a term HotDocs coined decades ago), is dying. That's the claim doing the rounds, and it's not entirely wrong, it's just aimed at the wrong target. It isn't the questionnaire that's dying, it's the hours lawyers and paralegals lose retyping...
Don’t Bother With the Microsoft Store. This Free Alternative Is Way...
Windows 11 is stuck in the past when it comes to application management. I have to hunt down individual installers every time I set up a new PC, and subsequently updating any of those programs often proves equally tedious. What Windows needs is a single, comprehensive place to install...
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Compliance has traditionally been associated with paperwork, manual checks and the challenge of proving that the right processes were followed. But as regulatory scrutiny increases and accountable institutions face greater expectations around customer due diligence, the industry has been moving towards a more practical...
How Lawyers Can Buy the Right Laptop Without Overspending
The most reliable way to save money on a laptop is not hunting the deepest discount. It is buying only what you actually need and refusing everything else. For South African lawyers and legal staff, that means a machine that handles document-heavy work, online research platforms, video consultations, and...
THE SYNTHETIC WHISTLEBLOWER: Corporate Governance in the Age of AI Internal...
It’s 02:13 on a Tuesday. Nobody’s browsing the procurement ledger for entertainment, because even corporate masochism has its limits. Yet the company’s compliance engine has matched invoices, emails, access logs and emissions data, and concluded that the “rounding issue” in Division Four looks remarkably like fraud. It doesn’t need...
Digital Arbitration, Real Risks: Building Cybersecurity Into the Process
A tribunal secretary uploads witness statements to a shared drive an hour before a hearing. Counsel forwards case documents to a personal e-mail account to work from home. An arbitrator pastes a confidential submission into a general-purpose AI assistant to draft a summary. Five years ago, none of this...
Daan’s Snippets – 28 September 2026
Practice News and case law
Yes, lawyers have feelings! And believe it or not, legal practice appears to be detrimental to our mental health: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/legal-profession-is-detrimental-mental-health-say-41-lawyers-2026-09-10/
E-commerce has, over the past year, generated most of the complaints directed at our Ombud for Consumer Goods and Services.
Of interest to most of us, is...
R58 Million land fraud scheme exposes serious conveyancing red flags
A Special Investigating Unit (SIU) investigation has uncovered an alleged R58 million fraudulent land-transfer scheme in Ekurhuleni, involving 208 municipal stands in Villa Liza that were transferred into private hands without the required municipal authority. The investigation examined the transfer of 221 vacant stands between 2018 and 2022.
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Accepting ‘cookies’ may leave your privacy in crumbs
You browse online for a new pair of leather shoes. Soon afterwards, advertisements for similar footwear begin following you from one website or social media platform to another. Then come the marketing messages or calls.
It may feel coincidental, but the digital trail created by your browsing habits can be...
September: Busy Is Not the Same as Growing
September is often when the year begins to reveal whether a law firm is truly moving forward — or simply moving faster.
By now, the financial year is well underway. Matters have progressed, invoices have been sent, payments have come in, new clients have been added and the workload may...
Lawyers must shape AI, not simply adopt it
Governance, not speed, will decide who benefits from legal artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future consideration for the legal profession. It is fast becoming an everyday tool for lawyers, compliance officers and regulators, forcing organisations to decide not whether to adopt it but how to use it...
THE AI BORDER WALL (The Friction of Frictionless Tech in a...
The corporate dream is seductively simple - build an autonomous AI agent once, release it everywhere, and watch it scale while the humans vanish to an off-site to discuss “strategy” over coffee that tastes faintly of procurement. The agent doesn’t need sleep, visas or one of those motivational breakfasts...
Visibility before velocity: Taking control of IT infrastructure costs
Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from experimentation to everyday business operations. Whether it's developers using AI-assisted coding tools, knowledge workers leveraging intelligent assistants, or organisations embedding AI into customer experiences, the pressure to adopt these technologies has never been greater.
What often receives far less attention, however, is the infrastructure...
THE BLACK BOX MUTINY – Why Less Intelligent AI May Be...
Corporate optimism tends to peak just before litigation. There’s usually a polished deck, a consultant repeating “at scale”, and an AI system nobody in the room can explain without calling the vendor. The board approves it. Procurement applauds. Legal stays quiet, which isn’t necessarily reassurance.
Welcome to the friction economy - the expensive collision between hyper-automated systems and stubbornly un-automated humans. Machines can...
New charges escalate TMPD officer and attorney wife theft case to...
Prosecutors have added another fraud charge against a couple accused of allegedly stealing and laundering millions from deceased estates after a new complainant reported losing over R1.3 million from a deceased estate.
Attorney Charlotte Tibana and her husband, Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) officer Peter Nonyane, also known as "Gagash",...
Why business email compromise keeps landing on law firms, and why...
The verification rule has been in the Legal Practice Council Rules for years. Whether it gets followed on a busy Friday afternoon is a separate matter.
If you have been anywhere near a law firm’s accounts function in the last few years, you have probably heard some version of this...
The Architecture of Awe – Why the World Needs Beautiful Words
In a world increasingly governed by the cold precision of algorithms and the binary rigidity of numbers, we’re often told that data is the ultimate truth. We’re told that numbers rule the world. But while numbers can measure the...
The High Cost of Low Stakes
Why a Staff Writer is a Death Sentence for Your Brand …
"Hiring a staff writer to explain the law is like hiring a Lego architect to build a cathedral. The dimensions are correct, but the soul has been traded for interlocking plastic safety....
The Bot that Cried “Statute”!
Why Your Law Firm Needs a Human (Specifically, a Belletrist) …
Let’s be honest - we are all currently living in a digital fever dream. If I see one more LinkedIn post generated by a bot that starts with "In...
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