15. Law Encoded w/ Andrew Stirling of Tanda

the Field trip

Andrew Stirling is the Head of Product Compliance at Tanda, the world’s #1 platform for rostering, attendance, labour insights and workforce success, and a local Brisbane technology success story. Andrew has been in this role for 18 months, following him making the very bold decision to leave solid partnership prospects at a top tier law firm. We go wide with Andrew, with discussion including what prompted him to make this significant career pivot, the challenges and successes of his journey so far and the broad gap between the thinking of lawyers and software engineers and how he is successfully bridging that divide. We also dig deep into our respective views on what technology is doing and might do to the way law is practiced.

A great conversation. We hope you enjoy.

Find out more about Tanda at https://www.tanda.co/

'The Field Trip' also available in video at: https://youtu.be/M0NPXTwBo-E

and as a written transcript at: https://www.fieldql.com/podcast-transcripts

Find out more about Field at https://www.fieldql.com

Overview

00:00 Open

01:43 Legal to non-legal career transition

06:59 Tanda and Andrew's product compliance role

14:50 From (employment) awards to code, and Tanda Paysure

18:04 Proactive legal services as a new market

22:24 Daily activities compared with private legal practice

26:40 From legal rules to algorithms

32:49 Transferability of legal skills

36:42 Learning new things

39:11 Rapid fire questions

42:03 Legal digital platforms

48:34 Value of information generated by legal process

56:31 Impact of tech on legal process

59:31 Future thinking - employment law

01:09:41 Andrew is obsessed with - great business books!