Christ’l Dullaert: Creativity Is the Real Bottleneck in Legal Innovation

Christ’l Dullaert has been questioning the foundations of the legal profession long before AI became part of everyday legal work. Lawyer, legal philosopher, columnist, and author of ten books, she was one of the earliest voices on innovation in the Dutch legal sector.

In this conversation, we explore why lawyers often understand change intellectually but still fail to act, why AI committees are too narrow to deal with what is coming, and why trust and interpretation are becoming more valuable than information itself. Christ’l reflects on her career in private practice, in house roles at the Port of Amsterdam and Vodafone, her time in New York working with institutions such as Harvard and the United Nations, and her return to the Netherlands where she founded one of the first interim agencies for lawyers and notaries.

We also discuss the importance of the right side of your brain, risks of cutting junior lawyers too early, how clients are becoming the real drivers of innovation, and why a project based Hollywood model may better fit the future of legal work.

Curious whether your brain is more left or right oriented? The test mentioned in the conversation is available in Dutch here:https://www.123test.com/nl/brein/#its123-testAnchor

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