Jun 19, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 10 segments
Can AI replace lawyers? Matt Lamb thinks it can replace far more of the legal process than most people realise. After building startup programmes inside major law firms, Matt left a secure legal…
Matt LambGuestJay LawrenceHostWould you consider it to be an intrapreneur? Because you're going in and you're starting almost like a business segment of the law
Oddly, one of the first initiatives, startup programs we set up was actually called Cube.
Oh, was it? Yeah, a play on incubate, but also the box idea of thinking outside of the box.
Any law firm that I was at knew that they can't cut the cost of their fees by, you know, 70% in order to win a client.
We got in a lot of trouble very often for... giving very, very sort of lenient fee structures to our clients, the startup clients that was.
However, you had to be in the game whenever startups are sort of pre-seed-seed in order to then really benefit
There's another incubator scheme or program where you can take, because we have this in my industry, and you're in wealth management, but if you're working with somebody who is an early stage entrepreneur, or they are a high earner and they are accumulating wealth, but at quite a fast rate, you want to have a solution for them.
But if your minimum investment is 300,000 pounds, that is a quite a high benchmark for a lot of people to achieve and to become a client.
Actually, creating the incubator is the hardest part because your fees, it's not economical for a very long time.
But you're doing it on the basis that you think that there is an opportunity in the future.
Would you consider it to be an intrapreneur? Because you're going in and you're starting almost like a business segment of the law
Oddly, one of the first initiatives, startup programs we set up was actually called Cube.
Oh, was it? Yeah, a play on incubate, but also the box idea of thinking outside of the box.
Any law firm that I was at knew that they can't cut the cost of their fees by, you know, 70% in order to win a client.
We got in a lot of trouble very often for... giving very, very sort of lenient fee structures to our clients, the startup clients that was.
However, you had to be in the game whenever startups are sort of pre-seed-seed in order to then really benefit
There's another incubator scheme or program where you can take, because we have this in my industry, and you're in wealth management, but if you're working with somebody who is an early stage entrepreneur, or they are a high earner and they are accumulating wealth, but at quite a fast rate, you want to have a solution for them.
But if your minimum investment is 300,000 pounds, that is a quite a high benchmark for a lot of people to achieve and to become a client.
Actually, creating the incubator is the hardest part because your fees, it's not economical for a very long time.
But you're doing it on the basis that you think that there is an opportunity in the future.
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