Technology is advancing at break-neck speed, disrupting norms and driving progress. Global technology giants have emerged including Scotland’s own ‘unicorns’ – fast growth start-ups now valued at over a billion pounds - FanDuel and Skyscanner. As technological advances continue, more and more companies are, in effect, becoming technology businesses. BDO LLP has predicted that technology will be the biggest disruptive influence on the legal industry over the next five years while new terminology such as cloud, blockchain, fintech, AI and big data have become commonplace terms.
The legal profession face two distinct challenges. Clients expect their firm or in-house team to have a solid understanding of the issues while firms also need to consider deeply what technologies can be utilised to creative competitive advantage.
Building a picture of what all this means can feel overwhelming. Having practical experience rather than just theoretical knowledge is increasingly beneficial for lawyers. The Law Society is again partnering with CodeClan, Scotland’s pre-eminent digital skills academy, to provide this accredited CPD training to members who want future-proof themselves and their firms by gaining a working knowledge of coding.
There are limited places available on the course so please sign up quickly.
Why should I attend? You will explore the tools, techniques and terminology used by software and digital development teams, learn how to code a simple program and find out how contemporary web and software applications are developed and evolving.
During the session you will cover:
An introduction to the latest developments in automation and machine learning
An introduction to programming languages and data representation
Learning basic coding skills to create a simple command-line program accessing data
Key programming concepts, principles, vocabulary and the programming mindset
