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From Prompt to Practice: Navigating the New Era of Legal AI...
The legal profession has spent the last few years drowning in a sea of generic artificial intelligence. Law firms and in-house legal departments were told that conversational chatbots would revolutionize their workflows, only to find themselves wrestling with rigid software that required massive subscription overhauls, manual prompt engineering from...
When compliance gaps turn into expensive lessons
The latest regulatory action against a major financial institution, resulting in a R28 million administrative penalty for shortcomings under the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA), is a timely reminder that compliance cannot be treated as a once-off exercise.
What stands out to me is not the size of the penalty,...
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...
South African boards now have a legal duty to be trained...
A change buried in financial sector regulation last year raises a standard the rest of the market hasn't caught up to.
A regulation that came into effect in South Africa's financial sector in mid-2025 has quietly redefined what a cybersecurity awareness programme is meant to cover, and now includes the...
Legal Cloud Based Workflow Solutions
Smarter Dictation - Streamlined Workflows - More Time for Your Clients.
A smarter way for legal professionals to manage dictation, documents and workflow
In the legal profession, time is valuable. Fee earners need to spend their time advising clients, preparing documents, reviewing cases and progressing matters — not managing administrative processes.
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Has AI Actually Saved Lawyer’s Time?
AI is helping lawyers review contracts, organise files and tackle routine administration in a fraction of the time. But a revealing discussion among legal professionals suggests that saving time is only half the story.
Artificial intelligence has made some impressive promises to the legal profession. Faster research, quicker contract reviews,...
THE ALGORITHMIC SÉANCE: Reconstructing an AI Decision After the Machine Has...
When AI’s Perfect Memory Becomes Conveniently Paranormal…
September took us into the Friction Economy: that expensive little collision between hyper-automation and the stubbornly unautomated human. October takes the argument somewhere colder. Because knowing where the risk lives is one thing. Inviting it into the business, giving it a login, and...
AI Could Give Us Our Time Back
Artificial intelligence should not only help us do more. It presents an opportunity to rethink productivity and reclaim some of the work-life balance technology helped erode.
Artificial intelligence could give us back something technology has steadily taken away. Time may be the most valuable resource we have.
Until now, much of...
Supporting the People Who Shape South Africa’s Information Landscape
Libraries are essential to education, research and access to knowledge across South Africa. At the heart of every library are dedicated professionals who connect people with trusted information, embrace new technologies and respond to evolving user needs.
One of the most important opportunities for learning, collaboration and professional growth within...
LPC Examination Results Analysis – October 2026
Conveyancing and Notary examinations - all nine provinces - analysis of the published results lists (prepared 9 October 2026)
Conveyancing candidatesPaper 1 pass ratePaper 2 pass rateNotary pass rate10344.8%5.4%11.9%27 cleared every paper written45 of 931; 81 to orals46 of 854; 97 to orals74 of 622; 111 to orals
Key findings
Outright pass...
When risk leaves the building: Are organisations really managing third-party risk?
As businesses become increasingly reliant on external technology providers, outsourced services and interconnected supply chains, managing risk can no longer stop at the organisation's own boundaries.
For many years, third-party risk was largely viewed as a procurement responsibility, focused on supplier selection, contractual agreements and pricing. Today, however, the conversation...
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.
What makes...
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...
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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