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oh goodness me there's something film
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ringing oh my God they are very grassly
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staring I do quite a lot of public
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speaking uh very fortunately as part of
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my role yes and I would have loved to
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have had the opportunity to be able to
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practice the presentations and train uh
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utilizing these types of Technologies
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particularly as a junior lawyer as I'm
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working my way through and building that
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brand and practice around myself as
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well welcome to the future of law a
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world where new technologies meets
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lawyers today we're diving into The
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Cutting Edge use of virtual reality at
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Law Firm Herbert Smiths free Hills with
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the head of emerging Technology Group
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Alexandra has shown us two different VR
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headsets today one by meta and the other
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one by Apple but why VR well this new
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tech is revolutionizing the way lawyers
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collaborate train and strategize the
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program that we're going to set you up
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on first today is the one you can see in
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front of you it's called virtual speech
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and virtual speech is a soft skills
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training program which can be configured
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specific needs and requirements as well
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I do quite a lot of public speaking uh
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very fortunately as part of my role yes
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and I would have Lov to have had the
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opportunity to be able to practice the
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presentations and train uh utilizing
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these types of Technologies particularly
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as a junior lawyer as I'm working my way
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through and building that brand and
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practice around myself as well now this
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can be anything from a courtroom
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simulation to creating scenarios that
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challenge lawyers in a pitching meeting
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what you have in front of you are is an
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audience of very willing participants
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who are very interested to hear what you
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have to say about the topic of of your
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choice the whole purpose of this is to
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be able to give people a realistic
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experience of presenting in a high
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pressure environments it's something
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that's very frequent in the context of
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law firms and legal practice um but
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something that's very difficult
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practically to do without being live in
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a room and actually experiencing it
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yourself so this is a good middle ground
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to be able to try people out in these
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circumstances they can choose from a
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range of backgrounds including a grand
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Auditorium or a TED Talk how often do
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you get to do a tedex talk the avatars
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in front of you will move around uh
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we're going to get them to uh
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potentially call out things whilst
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you're speaking as well so they're going
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to be a little bit rude uh get like this
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that you ever do an actual tedex tour
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I'm getting heckled so well you might
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get heckled I've heard some quite quite
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amusing things said by them before so
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let's see where they get to depends how
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good your speech is and then we will uh
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see what it does in terms of
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understanding what you've been saying
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and then being able to provide you with
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some feedback on that as well this
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experience can showcase any
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unpredictable things that can happen
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during a presentation such as coughing
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phone calls or even just people not
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liking what you're saying the program
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offers feedback on your performances
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which aims to educate you on your
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strongest and weakest points okay and
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then when you're happy press begin and
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we'll leave you to present to your
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theater I'm here to present to you today
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oh God I hear cough this way um
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about why I think the makeup industry is
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sort of struggling at the moment I
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personally think oh sorry I'm getting
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really now I personally think that the
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beauty system should protect younger
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children a little bit better than they
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do in terms of their social media oh
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goodness way there's someone film
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ringing oh my God they are very grassly
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um cares about this topic it just sit
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pointless to me oh that's that's a bit
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rude so that live question so you've got
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a mobile phone going off and you've just
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been told nobody cares about the topic
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because it's pointless yeah what they're
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doing is using generative artificial
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intelligence again processing the speech
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you're giving and then would be asking
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back questions or saying things specific
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to that speech so you can't prepare for
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these types of things right so if you
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want to look over to the left hand side
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of the screen and you'll see end speech
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yeah so if you click on the end speech
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button so first and foremost how did you
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find that that's a bit nerve rapping
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it's quite hard isn't it it is very hard
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the overall score uses AI to recognize
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what you're seeing how you're seeing it
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and even down to how much eye contact
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you're using there are a lot of
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businesses starting to incorporate VR
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and the new forms of tech into their
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work but like everything comes legal
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issues a Hands-On approach means lawyers
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at the likes of Herbert Smith free Hills
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can have a deeper understanding of the
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tech their clients are using there are
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opportunities in everything and I would
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again emphasize this is a horizon 3
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technology for us where does the future
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lie what's the potential for this
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however while VR is offering firms like
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Herbert Smith freehills an interesting
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way of developing skills it is important
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to acknowledge that VR technology like
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this isn't for everybody for midsize or
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smaller firms this level of Technology
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May remain everreach due to cost to put
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into context Apple Vision Pro sells for
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£32,000 and that's just before you add
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on the software prices for an example
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future visual said that this small scale
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VR scenario the price can range anything
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from 15 grand to 30 Grand at a time when
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businesses need to be tied over their
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belts smaller businesses may not be able
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to put this kind of money to the side
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however firms like Herbert Smith freeh
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Hills this is loose change to them for a
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firm that generates 1.3 billion pound in
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Revenue over the last Financial year so
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now as larger law firms Advance with
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this new technology the feeling is
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smaller firms may be left behind in the
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dark due to the financial aspects of
