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Group One - AI and the Law
A podcast produced by Solid Gold · Technology, Business · 4 episodes · 2025-06-30 to 2025-10-24
All things Artificial Intelligence and South African Law.
Group One Advocates presents 'AI and the the Law', a podcast series exploring the sweeping changes brought about by the exponential growth of AI technologies and their specific impact on all aspects of South Africa's legal system.
Hosted by Gavin Rome SC, alongside Ziyaad Minty and Sechaba Mohapi, the series delves into AI's influence on legal practice, ethical considerations, intellectual property, and access to justice. Through expert interviews and discussions, we aim to unpack the challenges and opportunities AI presents for the South African legal system and the future nature of the legal profession.
Episodes
In this episode, Sechaba Mohapi and Gavin Rome SC host Professor Sylvia Papadopoulos, a leading AI law expert and associate professor at the University of Pretoria and acting director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Law, to discuss AI’s impact on legal practice, including automation, contract review, and predictive analytics. They talk about the demonstration at the Johannesburg Arbitration Week 2024 (JAW) where AI was pitted against an esteemed panel of human legal experts in producing arbitration awards. They emphasise the responsible and ethical use of AI and the need for legal…
In this episode of the Group 1 AI and the South African Law podcast series, host Gavin Rome SC delves into the transformative role of AI in democratising access to justice in South Africa. Joined by Amber Williams of Empire Partner Foundation and Raphael Segal, founder of My AI Lawyer, the discussion explores how innovative technologies are bridging gaps in legal services for underserved communities.
From EPF’s digital case management platform that drastically reduced ProBono.org’s case backlog to My AI Lawyer’s AI-powered legal assistant answering 100,000 user questions in 18 months, this…
The transformative changes brought by AI to legal practice in South Africa.
Is AI coming to take away our jobs as lawyers and hand them over to large language models? In the second episode of the Group One Advocates AI and the Law podcast series, host Gavin Rome SC explores this provocative question with two highly experienced intellectual property attorneys, Leanne Mostert and Aalia Manie. Together, they discuss the transformative changes — both promising and concerning — that AI is bringing to the legal profession, from efficiency gains to ethical dilemmas and training challenges.
Introductory episode to the series.
In this brief inaugural episode of the Group One Advocates AI and the Law podcast series, Gavin Rome SC, Ziyaad Minty, and Sechaba Mohapi of Group One Advocates introduce the series, offering an overview of AI's disruptive impact on the South African legal system. They preview upcoming episodes featuring expert guests discussing topics like AI in corporate law, AI and prediction of judicial outcomes, privacy, and ethical dilemmas in the evolving legal landscape.
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