AI for In-House Lawyers: How to Scale, Save Time, and Stay in Control with Lucy Tyrrell of Wordsmith AI
In this episode of The Influencers, our host Leo von Gerlach speaks with Lucy Tyrrell, General Counsel at Wordsmith AI, about how AI-native platforms are transforming the daily realities of corporate legal departments. They discuss practical ways in-house teams can automate contract review, manage knowledge, and scale effectively without losing control of risk. Whether you’re a sole GC or leading a large legal team, this conversation offers clear takeaways on integrating AI to work smarter and free up time for more strategic work.
About Wordsmith AI: Wordsmith AI develops AI tools for legal teams to automate workflows, including pre-financing due diligence, contract risk analysis, and compliance audits.
About Hogan Lovells: Our Digital Transformation offering helps clients navigate the full breadth and depth of the seismic forces impacting their organizations – and today’s society. Leveraging team members across our 2800 lawyers on six continents, we provide integrated advice on the multifaceted regulatory, governance and enforcement issues and risks that arise across the many technologies and trends that comprise the new digital future.
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Steering through the Global Race for AI Supremacy - Explained by Hogan Lovells Partners Charmian Aw and Mark Brennan
In this episode, Mark Brennan and Charmian Aw join host Leo von Gerlach to explore how clients can navigate the rapidly evolving geopolitical tensions around the development of AI & data technology. The conversation spans the global “AI race,” the balance between innovation and regulation, and how multinational businesses can build smart, scalable compliance strategies amid diverging global frameworks. From Charmian’s “calibrate and enable” approach to Mark’s insights on governance, benchmarking, and policy clarity, this episode offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at how leading lawyers are helping clients innovate responsibly across jurisdictions.
About Hogan Lovells: Our Digital Transformation offering helps clients navigate the full breadth and depth of the seismic forces impacting their organizations – and today’s society. Leveraging team members across our 2800 lawyers on six continents, we provide integrated advice on the multifaceted regulatory, governance and enforcement issues and risks that arise across the many technologies and trends that comprise the new digital future.
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Inside Washington’s Crypto Pivot: Senator Kyrsten Sinema in conversation with Global Digital Finance’s Elise Soucie Watts
In this special edition of The Influencers, recorded live at Hogan Lovells’ Digital Assets and Blockchain Summit, Elise Soucie Watts, Executive Director at Global Digital Finance, speaks with Senator Kyrsten Sinema about the dramatic shift in U.S. digital-asset policy under the new administration. Together they explore the transition from regulation-by-enforcement to a coordinated legislative and rulemaking framework anchored by the Genius and Clarity Acts—and what it means for market structure, bipartisan politics, and global alignment. For in-house counsel, this episode offers a rare insider’s view of how Washington is shaping the future of crypto, fintech, and financial-market regulation.
About the Digital Assets Summit: Every Fall, we gather policymakers and industry leaders to attend our annual summit on digital assets and tokenization, held in partnership with Global Digital Finance, a non-profit whose mission is to promote and underpin the greater adoption of market standards for the use of crypto and digital assets.
About Hogan Lovells: Our Digital Transformation offering helps clients navigate the full breadth and depth of the seismic forces impacting their organizations – and today’s society. Leveraging team members across our 2800 lawyers on six continents, we provide integrated advice on the multifaceted regulatory, governance and enforcement issues and risks that arise across the many technologies and trends that comprise the new digital future.
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Inside Meta: How Mixed Signals from Regulators Impact AI and Business
In this episode of The Influencers, Meta’s Ania Helseth joins Hogan Lovells’ Leo von Gerlach to talk candidly about Europe’s fast-moving AI regulatory landscape. From the AI Act to the EU’s code of practice, she explains why a patchwork of rules and signals is making it “really difficult to start launching new products when you don’t really know what rules apply to you.” For in-house lawyers and business leaders, it’s a rare inside view on how regulation is shaping innovation - and what to watch next.
About Meta: Meta Platforms, Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate known for its social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, and its development of virtual and augmented reality technologies through its Reality Labs segment.
About Hogan Lovells: Our Digital Transformation offering helps clients navigate the full breadth and depth of the seismic forces impacting their organizations – and today’s society. Leveraging team members across our 2800 lawyers on six continents, we provide integrated advice on the multifaceted regulatory, governance and enforcement issues and risks that arise across the many technologies and trends that comprise the new digital future.
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AI & American health: What’s changing now?
In this new feature of The Influencers, we turn the spotlight on our own Hogan Lovells partners for the first time. Melissa Bianchi and Cybil Roehrenbeck join Leo von Gerlach to unpack how U.S. federal AI initiatives are reshaping healthcare. They explore the government’s digital health ecosystem, the CMS interoperability framework, and the balance between innovation and privacy. This episode delivers practical insights into both the regulatory hurdles and the business opportunities in the fast-evolving world of AI in healthcare.
About Hogan Lovells: Our Digital Transformation offering helps clients navigate the full breadth and depth of the seismic forces impacting their organizations – and today’s society. Leveraging team members across our 2800 lawyers on six continents, we provide integrated advice on the multifaceted regulatory, governance and enforcement issues and risks that arise across the many technologies and trends that comprise the new digital future.
If you enjoyed today's episode, we'd love for you to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us reach more listeners and continue bringing insightful conversations on digital transformation and law. Thank you for your support!
Welcome to The Influencers, where we bring you insightful conversations with leaders from business, academia and regulating authorities about all aspects of digital transformation and law. How will AI, big data, crypto and other deep digital technologies interact with the emerging laws and regulations? How to support innovation and progress without compromising ethical standards and the need for social responsibility? What are the stories behind new business ventures or legislative initiatives? And most of all: how to harness technological advancements to create wealth and wellbeing for all?
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