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Feb 2024
32m 24s

Iain Quirk KC (Part 1)

The Legal 500
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Will Tolcher, global bar editor of The Legal 500, speaks to Iain Quirk KC, a King's Counsel at Essex Court Chambers and co-founder of pinqDR - a lawtech start-up aiming to bring the same legal underpinning of heavyweight international arbitration to a broader class of disputes through innovations in technology and arbitral rules.

The first of this two-part episode looks at Iain's route to silk at the commercial bar, the genesis of pinqDR, how its rules work for users and the use of generative AI at the bar. 

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