The Fifth Court - DSBA Legal Podcast of the Year - E81 The Fifth Court - Arko Ganguli - co-founder Legitify, simplifying cross-border transactions, digitalizing notarization

E81 The Fifth Court - Arko Ganguli - co-founder Legitify, simplifying cross-border transactions, digitalizing notarization

07/03/24 • 37 min

The Fifth Court - DSBA Legal Podcast of the Year

E81 The Fifth Court

Supported by Clio Legal Software

Hosts Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL spoke to Arko Ganguli, co-founder of Letigify, an AI powered solution using audio-video authentication that allows clients to notarize documents online remotely from anywhere, without the hassle of visiting a notary public in person.

Arko is a trained lawyer and a legal consultant for over eleven years, working with various clients and organisations in different sectors and domains. He's also a certified mediator and a design thinking practitioner, with a passion for changing the way law works in the world, enabling legal teams and their clients to carry out their business more efficiently. He's eager to explore innovative ideas in legal tech, and to collaborate with other entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors in the field.

And as always, our two hosts discuss three new cases from the Decisis.ie website

An asylum case taken by a Ghanian national who claimed he was gay. IPAT questioned his bona fides.
A family law case where foster parents tried to adopt a fostered child who had complex medical needs, but the birth mother withheld consent.
A defamation case involving Google, YouTube (owned by Google) that was taken too late to join them as defendants.

Arko recommends 'Judgement at Nuremberg' a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed by Stanley Kramer,

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E81 The Fifth Court

Supported by Clio Legal Software

And as always, our two hosts discuss three new cases from the Decisis.ie website

An asylum case taken by a Ghanian national who claimed he was gay. IPAT questioned his bona fides.
A family law case where foster parents tried to adopt a fostered child who had complex medical needs, but the birth mother withheld consent.
A defamation case involving Google, YouTube (owned by Google) that was taken too late to join them as defendants.

Arko recommends 'Judgement at Nuremberg' a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed by Stanley Kramer,

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E80 The Fifth Court - Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, FORBES 30 Under30 Listmaker - legal AI in action

E80 of The Fifth Court was recorded at the Dublin Tech Summit

AI not a concept, but a reality now in law. This is a must listen-to episode if you want to know what's about to happen to your legal practice.

Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk is FORBES 30-Under-30 Listmaker. He's also co-founder and CEO of the AI company Xayn. His company is working with CMS, an international law firm, offering companies and organisations advice on a full range of legal issues. CMS consists of 18 independent law firms with about 80 offices worldwide and is the world's 5th largest law firm by lawyer headcount and the 21st by revenue.

Prior to founding Xayn, Leif-Nissen Lundbæk worked at Daimler AG and IBM. He holds a degree in Economics from Humboldt University in Berlin, an MSc in Mathematics from Heidelberg University, an MSc with Distinction in Software Engineering from Oxford University, and a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London.

Plus three more cases from the Decisis.ie casebook

A case where a wedding guest slipped on a dancefloor and her case was appealed right up to the Court of Appeal. The judge was very specific is his view on the plaintiffs sobriety at the event.
A case involving a bank lending a mortgage to a couple, where the husband was making repayments but the lending contract was with the wife.
A contractual dispute between an Irish company and a Dutch company involving a heat exchanger and chicken manure.

With thanks to Clio legal software

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E82 The Fifth Court - Kevin O'Higgins, solicitor and scion of one of the country's best known legal families

E82 The Fifth Court

Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL talk to Kevin O'Higgins, solicitor, about his life and times.

As he says himself, 'After 40+ years of practising law, I’ve learned a few things along the way!' and he shares some of that knowledge at

https://ohigginssolicitors.ie/blog

BTW, when he started in law a fax machine was seen as near revolutionary!

A sole practitioner he says he's so busy he sometimes turns business away.

His recommendations for a legal book, Eugene McCague's book on law firm Arthur Cox.

And, as always, three cases from the Decisis.ie casebook;

A Judicial Review of a case involving The College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland and recognition of a qualification
A Personal Injuries case taken against the State judged to be an abuse of the appeal process
An Isaac Wunder order, a person claiming he was 'immune from court orders'

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