Matthew Vincent

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Innovative lawyers must do more than keep up — they must lead

Europe now boasts a start-up scene to rival the US. According to Sifted, the entrepreneurs’ content platform backed by the Financial Times, some 98 cities across the continent have produced at least one tech unicorn: an early-stage business valued at $1bn, or more. But information about the business incubator and accelerator programmes running in these places — and their success rates — can still be hard to find. So the FT, with its research partner Statista and its colleagues at Sifted, has de…

Government finance ministers and stateless mid-transit migrants inhabit very different ends of the corridors of power — and yet their need for innovative thinking in legal advice appears equal. So, for our judges in this Innovative Practitioner category of the FT Innovative Lawyers awards, the challenge was assessing how well the shortlisted lawyers delivered this advice, as well as the outcomes they achieved. On that measure, José Alberto Navarro’s pro bono work for detained migrants and refug…

Does Gen Z know its Gen AI from its artificial general intelligence? Prove that you do by answering these 10 questions

Shareholders have a right to be angry about corporate malfeasance and institutional incompetence. But should they, automatically, have a right to much more? Take the case of the London-listed outsourcer Serco and security group G4S from July 2013. Shares in the two fell heavily when they were accused of overcharging the government by millions of pounds for the electronic tagging of offenders. Serco had £236mn wiped off its market value in a day, after it was found to have billed for tagging cri…

Our new series examines the benefits, risks and ethics of using artificial intelligence in all walks of life by talking to those at the centre of developments