Integrative Lawyers of the World

Anirudh Rastogi, India - Integrative Lawyers of the World, S4 Ep. 3

Episode Summary

Each ILOW series features a lawyer from a different continent and showcases different ways of practicing integrative law. In this episode, ILOW features Anirudh Rastogi -- an integrative lawyer from India who is the founder and managing partner of Ikigai Law which serves technology and innovation.

Episode Notes

Our guest in this episode is Anirudh Rastogi of India so interesting.  Anirudh is the founder and managing partner of Ikigai Law which serves technology and innovation. He and Ikigai Law help innovators navigate the uncertain legal waters where technology sails faster than laws and regulations.  He also has an innovative approach to contracts, which he discussed in his TEDx Talk, Reimagining Contracts to Empower Millions. In our conversation, we discussed technology and innovation, visual contracts, and more.

Conversation Highlights:

• Law and technology
• How to manage legal and regulatory uncertainty 
• Balancing our fear of the consequences (known and unknown) with the benefits of technology.  
• How over-regulation can limit technology and innovation
• How technology and innovation develop the solutions to their own problems – if allowed to develop
• How regulation  is sometimes welcomed and can-- if in the right balance –encourage innovation. 
• Examples of innovation and emerging technologies
• Visual Contracts 
• Contract Design versus Contract Drafting
• In designing a contract, lawyers should ask – how can I create this in such a way that it would DELIGHT the parties
• Different ways to design contracts including visual contracts and comic contracts
• Contracts can level the bargaining power of the parties, empower each party, and establish a true meeting of the minds
• What being an integrative lawyer means to him 

For more information and to contact Anirudh:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anirudhrastogi
Ikigai Law Website: https://www.ikigailaw.com/#acceptLicense
Email: anirudh@ikigailaw.com

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