Jul 12, 2024
In an age of rapid tech advancement, PhD candidate Chantal
McNaught is fascinated by the navigation of conflict between law as
a profession and law as a business. Zooming out and taking a more
holistic approach to the purpose of law is essential, she
argues.
In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy
speaks with New Zealand-based Chantal McNaught, who is a PhD
candidate at Bond University and a practice advisory manager at
LEAP, to discuss her upcoming dissertation, the philosophical
questions in distinguishing between the profession of law and the
business of law, navigating the uncertainty of new and emerging
technologies, and the need for practitioners to properly reflect on
the implications of their use of new tech.
McNaught also delves into environmental and external factors
contributing to broader uncertainty, the need to think more
holistically about one’s role as a lawyer in a changing
professional services marketplace, the questions lawyers need to
ask of themselves and their businesses, the importance of theory in
informing the practical, and why such undertakings are so exciting
for lawyers to sink their teeth into.
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