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Joseph Raczynski Named Top 10 AI Entrepreneurs Making an Impact in 2025
Top 10 AI Entrepreneurs Making an Impact in 2025 from MSN In a world where artificial intelligence is reshaping industries at lightning speed, some entrepreneurs aren’t just keeping pace, they’re setting the standard. These are the innovators building smarter systems,…
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Kleros.io (a Thomson Reuters Incubatee) Publishes Handbook of Decentralized Justice
Kleros.io is a blockchain startup which Thomson Reuters incubates in the Legal Technology space. They recently published a book about dispute resolution using blockchain technology. I had the good fortune to work with Federico Ast, Founder & CEO on a…
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Modern Law Magazine: Embarking on an Era of Abundance in the Legal Industry
Here is my latest post from Modern Law Magazine. By Joseph Raczynski Over the course of the next five years, the legal industry will be flush with opportunity. While much of the rote legal work will be done by automation,…
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Traveling Around the World (literally – 37,503 miles or 60,355 KM) – A Global Jaunt to Connect with Customers
Over the last eight weeks I have traveled around the world to meet our customers, with enough miles technically to have traversed the earth one and a half times or over 37,000 miles. Background: I had the good fortune to…
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Video: Generate 2018 – Darkside of the Web
Have you wondered what is going on these days on the Web with cybersecurity for Law Firms? This is a deep dive and more information on how a hacker goes after IoT devices from the Generate Conference in London.
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Video: Generate 2018 – Blockchain & Legal
What does the future of blockchain look like in the Legal industry. See this overview with special insights from Kleros on how dispute resolution might be enabled through this technology.
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Forum Magazine: Blockchain’s Promise – Verifying Value One Block at a Time
Originally published in Forum Magazine by Joseph Raczynski Blockchain technology is truly transformative, impacting almost every industry. Over the next decade, this technology will significantly transmute the legal landscape as well – a process that has already begun. Blockchain was initially…
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The vice grip of cybersecurity concerns on law firms
Originally published on Legal Insights UK & Ireland By Joseph Raczynski Law firms stand in a very precarious position in the cybersecurity world. Next to financial institutions, private legal institutions are a virtual honey pot for cybercriminals. Any breach, no matter…
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Risk Management in the Cryptosphere: A Talk with Gibson Dunn’s Judith Alison Lee
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute By Joseph Raczynski Cryptocurrencies and its underlying blockchain technology is upending the traditional paradigm for financial institutions and regulators around risk management. This disruption includes unique challenges around identity association and verification in the cryptosphere, specifically…
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How medium-sized law firms can use legal tech to compete with the big industry players
Originally published in the Legal Insights UK & Ireland By Joseph Raczynski The familiar trio of ‘People, Process, and Technology’ play a role in every business. However, as medium-sized law firms increasingly compete for the same pool of clients with large…
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Legislating for the future: Drones in the UK
Portions originally published in The Guardian. by Joseph Raczynski 1. What are your thoughts on the UK’s drone regulations/regulatory approach, and how does it compare to other approaches around the world? Are there any ideas we should borrow from Australia,…
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Artificial Intelligence and the UK vs. US Approach
Originally published on Legal Insights UK & Ireland By Joseph Raczynski, edits, questions and preface by Ann Lundin and Joe Davis. Artificial intelligence will threaten most jobs at some point soon—and new jobs will emerge’ The impact of innovative technology is…
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Classification of Cryptocurrency: Coins, Tokens & Securitized Tokens
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski One of the most contentious debates in the cryptocurrency world surrounds classification of blockchain-based digital assets, tokens and cryptocurrencies. A panel at the recent Thomson Reuters Regulation of Financial Services Conference discussing the…
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Kill Chain: The 7 Stages of a Cyberattack
Originally published in the Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting Blog By Joseph Raczynski In our new world reality where cyberattacks are a daily occurrence and every organization must focus on critical infrastructure surrounding cybersecurity, businesses have begun to think like the…
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Podcast: The Hearing With Kevin Poulter & Joseph Raczynski – Future Legal
Episode 2 of THE HEARING is now live! In episode 2 of The Hearing Podcast Kevin Poulter speaks to futurist Joseph Raczynski on #legaltech #AI #blockchain and the future of the robot lawyer. Listen now and subscribe to #thehearingpodcast on: iTunes – https://tmsnrt.rs/2swyzmz Spotify –…
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Harvard Business School Panel: How Should ICOs and Cryptocurrencies Be Governed?
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute by Joseph Raczynski BOSTON — Recently I moderated a session at Harvard Business School surrounding its first annual Business, Regulation and Technology of Blockchain Conference. It was held in conjunction with the MIT China Innovation…
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Cyberattacks are here to stay – protect your organization with these 10 best practices
Originally published on the Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting Community Connect by Joseph Raczynski Our online connections can be downright frightening! The diabolical among us seize every opportunity to plunder our personal information. In fact, FireEye, a leading cybersecurity corporation, has…
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Podcast: What the Heck is blockchain?
I had the pleasure of being a part of the Thomson Reuters Innovation Podcast series recently. This was a discussion about blockchain. In this talk with Katherine Manuel, Senior Vice President of Innovation in Strategy/Business Development, Jordan Kleinsmith – Director, Innovation…
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Beyond Cryptocurrency: 5 Questions about the Future of Blockchain for Thomson Reuters Technologist Joe Raczynski
Written by Gina Scialabba and originally published by the Legal Executive Institute Blockchain — we’ve all heard about it, and also heard that it will certainly disrupt the financial, legal and public sector worlds near you. The real questions surrounding the future…
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Podcast: The Technology of Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies with Judith Alison Lee of Gibson Dunn (Part 2)
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski, Gregg Wirth, and Judith Alison Lee In the second part of our podcast on the technology behind blockchain and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, I speak with Judith Alison Lee, a partner in the…
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Podcast: The Technology of Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies with Judith Alison Lee of Gibson Dunn (Part 1)
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski, Gregg Wirth, and Judith Alison Lee In the first part of our podcast on the technology behind blockchain and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, I speak with Judith Alison Lee, a partner in the…
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How to Launch an ICO Token on Ethereum in 90 Minutes
By Joseph Raczynski So you want to have your own cryptocurrency, eh? It is surprisingly not too cumbersome to create. If you have some very basic coding skills, general understand of a digital wallet, and the ability to follow point…
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Podcast: The Legal Impact of Autonomous Vehicles (Part 2) with Phil Yannella of Ballard Spahr
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski, Gregg Wirth, and Phil Yannella In the second of our podcasts on autonomous vehicles, I speak to Phil Yannella, the co-practice leader of Ballard Spahr’s Privacy and Data Security Group, about security…
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LegalWeek 2018: The Future Phase of the Legal Industry Holds Choppy Waters for Big Law
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute By Joseph Raczynski NEW YORK — Believe it or not, Big Law is primed to be disrupted within the next several years. At least according to one version of the future from LegalWeek’s fascinating…
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Leveraging blockchain to decrease data breaches, increase security
Originally published in Thomson Reuters By Joseph Raczynski In the not-too-distant future, blockchain will get personal – very personal. That’s a good thing when it comes to integrity of your digital identity. The Internet is a complex space for identity…
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Podcast: The Legal Impact of Autonomous Vehicle Connectivity with Neal Walters of Ballard Spahr
Originally published in The Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski, Gregg Wirth, and Neal Waters In a new podcast, Neal Walters, the practice leader of Ballard Spahr’s Product Liability and Mass Tort group, speaks with Joe Racyznski, a legal technologist and…
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Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies in Legal
By Joseph Raczynski Las Vegas, NV – ITLACON – Sarah Burno, Partner, Arent Fox and Joseph Raczynski, a technologist at Thomson Reuters, explore how blockchain will impact the Legal industry and discuss the beginnings of the cryptocurrency crazy.
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The Guardian: Driverless car crashes and data theft: law experts predict the court cases of the future
Very happy to have had a small role in this content. Originally published in The Guardian Driverless car crashes and data theft: law experts predict the court cases of the future | Legal horizons | The Guardian The rise of technologies such…
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MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain Busts Open New Thinking
By Joseph Raczynski Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab – Cambridge MA – October 2017 – In one of the more unique and unusual conferences I have participated, the inaugural MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain was a meeting of 200 minds…
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Exploring Blockchain Proof of Concepts in Deployments and use Cases in the Finance Industry
By Joseph Raczynski October 2017 – Blockchain 360 IoT Conference – InterContinental New York Times Square – An esteemed panel took the stage to discuss the state of the union surrounding proof of concepts in the financial industry. The focus…
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Legal Technology/Internet 4.0 – How will Legal Technology Change the Industry?
By Joseph Raczynski INSOL Europe 2017 Annual Congress Warsaw INSOL Conference – Joseph Raczynski Warsaw, Poland – Sofitel Victoria. Before the full contingent of 400 attendees at the INSOL Europe Annual Congress a panel of three stepped into the future…
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2017 Emerging Legal Technology Forum: Examining the Blockchain Business Revolution
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski TORONTO — With a nearly palpable pre-session buzz, the blockchain panel at the Thomson Reuters 2017 Emerging Legal Technology Forum finally took stage in the afternoon, titillating attendees with an in-depth overview surrounding…
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Podcast: The Legal Implications of Driverless Car Technology with Akerman’s Gail Gottehrer (Part 2)
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski, Gregg Wirth, and Gail Gottehrer In a new two-part Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute podcast, Joe Raczynski, Legal Technologist and Futurist with Thomson Reuters Legal, discusses the hot topic of…
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Podcast: The Legal Implications of Autonomous Vehicle Technology with Akerman’s Gail Gottehrer (Part 1)
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski, Gregg Wirth & Gail Gottehrer In a new two-part Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute podcast, Joe Raczynski, Legal Technologist and Futurist with Thomson Reuters Legal, discusses the hot topic of…
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Blockchain, a Disruptive Force Now Impacting the Legal Industry
Originally published in LegalBusinessWorld By Joseph Raczynski Blockchain, a Disruptive Force Now Impacting the Legal Industry Defining the technology and citing real world examples in Legal Basics of Blockchain We are at the precipice of transformative change in nearly every industry. …
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Understanding the Impact of Emerging Legal Tech: What is Here, What is Coming & What is Important?
This was originally posted in The Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski Major credit for these events goes to the respective Field teams in Boston, New York, and Hartford as well as home office – Marketing – on pulling…
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Blockchain Takes the Stage at the British Legal Technology Forum 2017
Originally published in the Legal Executive Institute By Joseph Raczynski LONDON — The recent British Legal Technology Forum 2017 — Europe’s largest event with more than 1,400 attendees and emceed by Richard Susskind — peered into the future of the legal…
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Emerging Technology in the Legal Industry (Video)
By Joseph Raczynski In this Vlog, learn about Emerging Technology in the Legal industry. I focus on the impact of the Trinity of Forces (Cloud, Infinite Processing Power and AI) on Emerging Technology in the Legal industry. The Emerging Technologies…
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Cybersecurity Trends and The Dark Web in Legal (VBlog)
By Joseph Raczynski The latest video on Cybersecurity as it relates to the Legal industry. This was recorded for Thomson Reuters across all business units.
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Legal Technology is “Thriving”: Richard Susskind Hosts the British Legal Technology Forum 2017
Originally posted on the Legal Executive Institute By Joseph Raczynski LONDON — The British Legal Technology Forum 2017, Europe’s largest event focused on legal technology, was held recently at the exquisite Old Billingsgate along the Thames River. The event showcased…
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Blockchain Podcast from the British Legal Technology Forum 2017
Legal Technology and Blockchain. How I anticipate this will impact the legal industry.
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Increasingly Cloudy — Law Firms Continue the Flight into the Storage Heavens and What the Future Holds
Originally published on the Legal Executive Institute By Joseph Raczynski With the recently released ILTA Technology Survey there is little question that Cloud adoption is drifting upward at law firms. I have also seen this trend through recent conversations with…
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Blockchain Explained (59 mins)
By Joseph Raczynski This is a talk that I gave recently about Blockchain technology based on my engagement and understanding of the technology since Bitcoin circa 2011. I preface this with how technology is having an impact on all of…
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Is Virtual Reality Finally Ready for Business Use?
Originally published on Practice Innovations By Joseph Raczynski “It’s like dreaming with your eyes open” – VR Developer We are rapidly entering a time where space – the distance between people – will have little relevance. Even at this moment,…
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The Future: What Does Mixed Reality Look Like – Magic Leap
By Joseph Raczynski I put this video together in November for a written piece that will be coming out in January. This is an example of what Mixed Reality might look like while wearing a special set of glasses which…
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How prepared are law firms to face cyber security threats?
By Joseph Raczynski The hacking of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca last April resulted in 11.5 million leaked attorney-client privileged documents, exposing the widespread use of off-shore businesses by wealthy individuals and corporations around the world and highlighting the imperative…
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Thomson Reuters Innovation Lab at Communitech – Kitchener, Canada
By Joseph Raczynski Visit to the Communitech Innovation Lab near Waterloo Canada to see the Thomson Reuters Innovation Lab. In addition, a group of customers and TR employees went through a Design Thinking Workshop. Other companies at the location include;…
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360 Video: Design Thinking Workshop – Thomson Reuters Innovation Lab at Communitech
By Joseph Raczynski 360 Degree Video of a Design Thinking Workshop at Communitech, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Led by Dave Inglis we start down the path of a Design Thinking Workshop with Alston & Bird. Shot with the #SamsungGear360. *With 360…
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ILTACON 2016: When Will Blockchain and Smart Contracts Be Important in Legal?
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — If someone had told you in 1993 that the Web would be integral to your life today, would you have believed them? Well, the discussion around blockchain technology at ILTACON 2016 harkened back to that same…
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ILTACON 2016 SESSION: NEW INTERNATIONAL STANDARD FOR CLOUD DUE DILIGENCE
The cloud is becoming increasingly ubiquitous at law firms. In fact, a recent ABA Technology Survey stated that 46 percent of cloudless firms will be transitioning in the next 6-12 months. In the session on the “New International Standard for…
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ILTACON 2016: Re-Imagining Legal Technology for the 21st Century
So reverberated the words of Mike Walsh a Futurist/CEO of Tomorrow, across an audience of more than 3,000 legal professionals at ILTACON 2016, a four-day conference that centers on the intersection of technology and the legal industry.