Contributors
Legal Practice Intelligence publishes analysis and opinion from practitioners, consultants and legal technology leaders across Australia and APAC. Meet the contributors who write for LPI.

Steve Richardson
Co-Founder and CTO, SILQ
Steve is the Co-Founder and CTO of SILQ, where he has led the platform’s technical development since its inception. Combining deep engineering expertise with a focus on practical design, he continuously evolves the software to meet shifting industry needs and user feedback.
Articles by Steve Richardson
- Starting Your Own Practice? Make the Shutdown Your Head Start
- What Should Your Legal Software Be Doing for You?
Also featuring Steve

Richard W. Smith
Director, GSJ Consulting
Richard W. Smith is a specialist business development and growth strategist with more than three decades of experience working with law firms across Australasia. GSJ Consulting is a boutique strategic consulting and growth advisory agency based in Sydney, Australia. Richard writes LPI’s K-Shaped Legal Market series.
Articles by Richard W. Smith

Daniel Yim
Founder, Sideline and Bumpd
Daniel Yim writes and teaches on legal technology and transformation. He is the founder of technology start-ups Sideline and Bumpd, and previously worked at Gilbert + Tobin and Axiom. Daniel writes LPI’s LegalTech Trainwrecks series.
Articles by Daniel Yim
- How 2 “Zoom-In” Pivots Led to a Product Lawyers Wanted
- LegalTech Trainwrecks #8 – 4X Not Always Gold
- LegalTech Trainwrecks #7 (Tracking Knowledge Resources)
- LegalTech Trainwrecks #6 (Knowledge Resource Retrieval)
- LegalTech Trainwrecks #5 (Precedent Retrieval)
- LegalTech Trainwrecks #4 (Contracting Platform)
- LegalTech Trainwrecks #3 (ACN Check)
- LegalTech Trainwrecks #2 (Online Negotiations)
- LegalTech Trainwrecks #1 (No Confetti)
- What It’s Like Learning to Code as a Lawyer (Part 2)
- What It’s Like Learning to Code as a Lawyer (Part 1)
- The Real Reason Behind Slow Legal Tech Adoption
- What Law Can Learn from Other Industries re. Innovation
- Legal Innovation Careers
- Legal AI: Revenge of the Humans
- Legal Automation Projects and the First Pancake
- Custom Legal Technology? You Can Do It with No Code
Also featuring Daniel
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