Shoosmiths Podcasts

Pavan Sumal joins Amy Leech to talk about the recent announcement by the UK Government to increase visa fees.

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The Shoospeak HR podcast is brought to you by the national employment team at UK law firm Shoosmiths. Tune in for your fix of the latest legal views, thought provoking discussions and opinions about all things employee relations and human resources.

Suzanne Burrell is joined by Adam Davis, Managing Director of K3 Advisory, and Becky Wood, Trustee Director at Vidett, to discuss recent risk transfer market experience, preparing for buy in or buy out, and some common issues in those projects.

Last year, 2022, saw the completion of around 200 risk transfer transactions, representing around £30bn in liabilities moving from pension schemes to insurers. In 2023 we are already seeing a very busy market, and thanks to improved funding positions for many defined benefit schemes, this year the number and value of transactions looks set to be even higher.

In recent months the pensions press has been commenting on capacity issues in the buy out market. For schemes aiming to buy out, preparation will be key, and Suzanne, Adam and Becky discuss some of the steps schemes should be taking to stand the best chance of transacting in a busy market. Stay tuned for future episodes in this risk transfer series where we will be discussing the later stages of a buy out project as well as alternatives to buy out. Until then, you can find more information on today's speakers at www.k3advisory.com and www.vidett.com.

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Welcome to our latest podcast series ‘Rail Talk with Shoosmiths'. During each episode, we invite industry experts to discuss current 'hot' topics and to explore different areas of the rail industry.

On this episode of Rail Talk, Michelle Craven-Faulkner speaks to Haydon Bartlett -Tasker, Managing Director of Crosstech, in the first of their discussions about the role of AI in the rail sector both now and in the future.

As a hot topic in most walks of modern life, Michelle and Haydon discuss the potential for AI and how it could change our railway network in years to come

Any comments or questions then please do let Michelle know as we can incorporate them in an appropriately AI based fashion in Part 2 of the discussion. Watch this space for more details

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Andy Graham, Amy Anderson and Amy Leech go back to basics and discuss handbooks and employee policies.

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The Shoospeak HR podcast is brought to you by the national employment team at UK law firm Shoosmiths. Tune in for your fix of the latest legal views, thought provoking discussions and opinions about all things employee relations and human resources.

Blockchain litigation lead, Matt Green will be hosting our latest podcast series, 'In Early - The Crypto Podcast' - Listen to episode 16.

This week’s episode features Nanda Khiara, a fine art and NFT artist, who has been featured at the UNESCO Paris 2022, the World Economic Forum 2023, and at NFT.NYC 2023.

We speak about what NFTs are, the value of art in the NFT medium, both to the artist and to the buyer, why fine art purchasers are not always keen to purchase the NFT version, as well interaction with copyright, ownership and authorship, and looking at Artificial Intelligence in art making, the role of the metaverse and where we as an industry can grow, including how ASMR plays a role in helping people interact with digital art. 

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Vikas Shah MBE chats to Adam Wagner on the rule of law.

Susanna Reid from ITV’s Good Morning Britain calls him “the barrister who kept the legal receipts”. Put simply, Adam knows more about the Covid regulations which upended our lives from March 2020 onwards than arguably anyone else in the country. During the pandemic, he acted for the Good Law Project’s challenge to the Metropolitan Police’s refusal to investigate the Downing Street parties and two key judicial reviews of the hotel quarantine system. He regularly acts in politically sensitive public inquiries and inquests. Adam also is a passionate advocate, educator and writer on human rights and can be heard regularly on TV and radio. He regularly writes for the publications like the New Statesman and Prospect. 

The Business in the Digital Age podcast features interviews with changemakers, mould-breakers, future leaders and other leading figures, who show us what matters in the digital age, and accompanies the book 'Legal Practice in the Digital Age'.

Written by David Jackson, Tony Randle and Paul Caddy the book contains the hard-won insights lawyers and firms need to survive and thrive in the complex, post-pandemic age.

Buy your copy: https://www.globelawandbusiness.com/books/legal-practice-in-the-digital-age

In this episode of Journey Through a Contract sees Felicity Forward, Ayesha Chandegra and Joel Murphie discussing business to consumer contracts. The podcast focuses on: how to identify consumer contracts, the key consumer protection laws, risks of non-compliance, as well as highlighting material developments in the consumer law arena. 

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The Journey Through a Contract series is brought to you by the Commercial and Projects team at Shoosmiths, aimed at explaining the basic terms of a commercial contract.

Paul Caddy chats to Nadia Papamichail on effective decision making.

Nadia Papamichail is a Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School (at the University of Manchester) and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute—the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. She has previously held research posts at the Universities of Leeds and Manchester, as well as a visiting lectureship at Warwick Business School.

Nadia’s research focuses on improving decision-making using technology. In her co-authored book on decision making, Nadia notes that while humans may be the best decision makers on the planet, we aren’t quite as good as we think we are. We’re regularly subject to biases, inconsistencies and irrationalities in our decision making.

In this podcast, we explore how we can get better at something we probably don’t think about very much at all: making better decisions, particularly using tech.

The Business in the Digital Age podcast features interviews with changemakers, mould-breakers, future leaders and other leading figures, who show us what matters in the digital age, and accompanies the book 'Legal Practice in the Digital Age'.

Written by David Jackson, Paul Caddy and Tony Randle, the book contains the hard-won insights lawyers and firms need to survive and thrive in the complex, post-pandemic age.

Buy your copy: https://www.globelawandbusiness.com/books/legal-practice-in-the-digital-age  

Joseph Raczynski joins Paul Caddy to discuss horizon-gazing and what the future might hold.

Joseph is a leading technologist and futurist. He speaks globally on subjects like blockchain, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, the Metaverse, NFTs and cybersecurity. Joseph hosts Technology Snippets Today a video podcast series which explores cutting edge technology and innovation. He served as a mentor with the Columbia IBM Blockchain Accelerator and is a presidential committee appointee to the American Bar Association, Center for Innovation Governing Council. He also serves as a corporate liaison to the Council on Foreign Relations.

In this podcast, Joseph discusses how technology like AI in particular is going to be such a game-changer, but it is still something that needs to be examined much more. There aren’t only legal issues to consider with a lot of new technology, but ethical and moral ones too.

The Business in the Digital Age podcast features interviews with changemakers, mould-breakers, future leaders and other leading figures, who show us what matters in the digital age, and accompanies the book 'Legal Practice in the Digital Age'.

Written by David Jackson, Tony Randle and Paul Caddy the book contains the hard-won insights lawyers and firms need to survive and thrive in the complex, post-pandemic age.

Buy your copy: https://www.globelawandbusiness.com/books/legal-practice-in-the-digital-age

Blockchain litigation lead, Matt Green will be hosting our latest podcast series, 'In Early - The Crypto Podcast' - Listen to episode 15.

This week's guest is Erica Stanford, the best-selling author of “Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption”. 

Matt and Erica look at the history of crypto scams, from initial coin offerings to collapses of entire exchanges like Mt Gox, and hear her thoughts on where we are today, with recent SEC actions in the industry. Erica considers how notable frauds have shaped today’s market and why major players have adapted to ensure they are best positioned to mitigate risks. Erica also runs the Crypto Curry Club, is a speaker and commentator on all things blockchain and is a Fintech expert at CMS. 

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