Digital Law

Explore where a career in the Digital Law Group could take you!

At Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, we embrace innovation – for our clients and ourselves – and from innovation, deliver insight and solutions. This means we celebrate thinkers who have a firm grasp of the past and present, but with an eye to the future.

Our Digital Law Group implements this vision: we’re a global team of experts within Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer who are dedicated to capitalising on the complex legal problems and opportunities brought about by digitalisation. We’re lawyers but we’re also coders, researchers, writers, and philosophers. We value diversity of thought and acquire cutting edge skills and bring new ideas to maturity so that our clients can receive advice from the vanguard.

The Digital Law Group’s Virtual Experience gives you the opportunity to work on some of the technical problems that we tackle on a daily basis. You will learn about connected autonomous vehicles and smart legal contracts, and learn about what happens when technology goes wrong.  

The tasks in these modules are challenging and that reflects the nature of the work that we do in the Digital Law Group. In real life you would have the opportunity to discuss the issues with your supervisor and other colleagues so you would not be tackling the tasks alone.

We also appreciate that you will have different levels of experience and knowledge, and that some of you will not have studied law – that is not a problem; all of the tasks (whether involving legal issues or not) can be tackled by applying general analysis and critical thinking skills. We have included some brief notes on some of the key legal concepts that do come up in the tasks or example answers. 

If this sounds interesting to you, then participate in our Virtual Experience: we would love to hear from you.

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

• Preparing a client bulletin about connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs)
  Keeping our clients and team up to date with CAV technology and key legal and regulatory issues
  • Industry Analysis
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Legal Writing
• Preparing your first Smart Legal Contract
  Breaking down a real world contract so it can be converted into code
  • Critical Thinking
  • Process Mapping
  • Pseudocode
  • Design Thinking
• Preparing an internal memo on a dispute involving a Smart Legal Contract
  Identifying issues and developing potential arguments and suggestions for contractual improvements
  • Critical Thinking
  • Problem Identification
  • Creativity
  • Presentation Skills
• Preparing an internal memo on legal issues arising during the testing of CAVs
  Identifying relevant legal framework, identifying legal risk and considering how to remove and minimise these risks
  • Critical Thinking
  • Problem Identification
  • Creativity
  • Writing Skills
• Preparing the first draft of a section for a client-facing note
  Summarising the dispute resolution clause and potential issues under the clause
  • Critical Thinking
  • Problem Identification
  • Presentation Skills