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      "url": "https://www.simmons-simmons.com",
      "position": "Partner",
      "startDate": "2024",
      "summary": "Data in the AI era: data licensing, AI training rights, and the commercial and regulatory plumbing where data meets compute.",
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        "Built and shipped STRIDE, the firm's real-time digital regulation tracker — in-house teams use it instead of a quarterly PDF round-up."
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      "url": "https://www.deloitte.co.uk",
      "position": "Partner",
      "startDate": "2021",
      "endDate": "2024",
      "summary": "Commercial technology partner in Deloitte Legal — cloud, big data and AI advice for businesses whose product is mostly data.",
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        "Led Deloitte's responses to major tech-policy consultations, including the Law Commission's digital assets paper.",
        "Hired, trained and ran a team of lawyers in these sectors.",
        "Product-owned the practice's SaaS tools: data-rights management and open-source permissioning."
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      "name": "Kemp Little LLP",
      "position": "Associate, later Partner",
      "startDate": "2010",
      "endDate": "2021",
      "summary": "Helping clients buy and sell software, data and services at a tech boutique — mostly new tech and regulated industries.",
      "highlights": [
        "Helped build the practice into Band 1 for technology law.",
        "Built and ran Four Corners Intelligence — a contract-portfolio analysis product that won an FT Innovative Lawyers award and later followed the practice into Deloitte."
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      "name": "Kemp Little Technology Limited",
      "position": "Founder & CEO",
      "startDate": "2017",
      "endDate": "2021",
      "summary": "The company behind the firm's legal-tech products — sold to Deloitte alongside the firm itself."
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      "name": "Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP",
      "url": "https://www.fieldfisher.com",
      "position": "Trainee Solicitor",
      "startDate": "2008",
      "endDate": "2010",
      "summary": "Training contract. Admitted as a solicitor in 2010."
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      "organization": "The City Law School, City St George's, University of London",
      "url": "https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk",
      "position": "Visiting Professor",
      "startDate": "2025"
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      "organization": "Society for Computers and Law",
      "url": "https://www.scl.org",
      "position": "Member, LegalTech Board",
      "startDate": "2026"
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      "institution": "Queens' College, University of Cambridge",
      "url": "https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk",
      "area": "Natural Sciences",
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      "startDate": "2002",
      "endDate": "2005"
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      "url": "https://www.ntu.ac.uk",
      "area": "Law",
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      "score": "Commendation",
      "startDate": "2005",
      "endDate": "2007"
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      "title": "Innovation in the business of law: Technology",
      "date": "2019",
      "awarder": "FT Innovative Lawyers Awards",
      "summary": "For Four Corners Intelligence."
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      "name": "Legal technology"
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      "name": "Data licensing"
    },
    {
      "name": "AI regulation"
    },
    {
      "name": "Contract automation"
    },
    {
      "name": "Open data"
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      "name": "Running"
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    {
      "name": "Cycling"
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      "name": "Skiing"
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    {
      "name": "Rugby"
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      "description": "Contract-portfolio analysis — every important clause of every contract, organised and instantly reportable. Won an FT Innovative Lawyers award in 2019.",
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      "name": "AI Collider",
      "description": "Compare AI stances — corporate, regulatory, technical — as colour-coded grids across 72 dimensions.",
      "url": "https://aicollider.org"
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      "description": "Turned SCL's 60-page PDF of EU AI Act clauses into a filterable site with swappable defined terms and drafting options.",
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      "name": "Magic Story Club",
      "description": "AI bedtime stories, personalised to the child you describe.",
      "url": "https://magicstory.club"
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      "name": "Operation GoGoGo",
      "description": "Kitchen-TV dashboard that gets three kids out the door — RAG status and a countdown to departure.",
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      "name": "LessIsMortgage",
      "description": "Side-by-side mortgage scenarios — fixed vs tracker, terms, overpayment strategies — with the full financial picture.",
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      "name": "GoodKnight",
      "description": "Over-the-board chess for Kindle, with Stockfish pointing out pins, forks and skewers mid-game.",
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