Sidebar with Francois
Hosted by Francois Joubert (a tech entrepreneur with a law degree and a curiosity that won’t quit), each episode pulls up a chair for engaging guests from law, business, and beyond. No scripts. no agendas. Just real talk on what matters, what’s changing, and what’s next.
Podcasting since 2025 • 39 episodes
Sidebar with Francois
Latest Episodes
The Defender’s Dilemma: A Comparative Guide to Incident Response Tools for the Modern Law Firm
In the legal industry, a data breach is more than a technical failure; it is a high-stakes litigation and regulatory event. For the firm’s General Counsel and management committee, the immediate aftermath of a cyberattack—often called the "Gold...
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Season 13
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Episode 15
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18:56
The 2026 Strategic Guide to Audit-Ready AI Adoption
By 2026, AI adoption has evolved. It is no longer a simple technical pilot. Instead, it has become a fiduciary obligation. Firms must now pivot from “Generative AI as a Chatbot” toward “Agentic AI as Infrastructure.” This guide provides a rigor...
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Season 13
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Episode 14
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22:51
The Great Maturity: Legal Technology Spending Trends for 2026
If 2023 was the year of GenAI experimentation and 2024 was the year of cautious implementation, 2026 is shaping up to be the year of "The Great Maturity."For law firm partners and Chief Innovation Officers, the era of "buying tech...
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21:07
Beyond the Firewall: A Practical Guide to Zero Trust for Small and Mid-Size Law Firms
For decades, law firm cybersecurity followed the "Castle and Moat" strategy. You built a strong perimeter (the moat)—usually a firewall and a password—and assumed that anyone inside the walls was trustworthy.But in an era of remote depos...
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Season 13
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Episode 9
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23:51
Beyond Chat: Why Microsoft Teams is Becoming the Digital Headquarters for Modern Law Firms
In the "old days" (which, in legal circles, means circa 2019), a law firm’s hub was the physical file room or a shared server drive that was notoriously difficult to access from home.Today, the landscape has shifted. Between hybrid work ...
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Season 13
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Episode 8
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23:07
