Interview with Chris Fowler, General Counsel Technology at BT Group plc
We had the pleasure of speaking to Chris Fowler today. Chris is General Counsel Technology at BT Group plc in London. He is accountable for the legal support to Technology which is the unit in BT responsible for the design, delivery and management of BT’s fixed and mobile network infrastructure, its research and development activities and its internal IT infrastructure. Chris is responsible for the intellectual property, security & investigatory powers, network deployment & network property legal teams.In this episode we hear his thoughts on how best to implement legal tech in a large complex organisation. He argues you need to have a proper strategy and be aware of your company's IT infrastructure before embarking on bringing software in.His big hope for the legal tech industry is that it lowers the cost of accessing legal services, making it more accessible for people everywhere.