Richard Kemp

Richard Kemp

Kemp IT Law
Richard is a partner at Kemp IT Law. Richard has built an outstanding reputation for advice that combines commerciality and client service with innovative legal solutions to the business challenges of technology development, deployment and regulation. As an IT lawyer, Richard is consistently top ranked in the leading directories. He appears in Legal 500’s Hall of Fame 2020, is ranked by Who’s Who Legal 2021 as a Global Elite Thought Leader for Data, and is top ranked by Chambers.

Contributed Articles

The impact of AI and cloud computing on lawyers, fees and IT budgets

Law firms need to reconsider their IT budgets as AI and technology transforms how they resource and manage legal matters, write Paul Longhurst and Richard Kemp

6 Jun 2024

How much supplier due diligence is enough for a major system procurement?

Firms should consider using project-specific RfPs when evaluating potential IT suppliers, write 3Kite’s Paul Longhurst and Kemp IT Law’s Richard Kemp

6 Feb 2024

Is AI really here yet, have we missed the boat, are we struggling to keep up?

Law firms continue to wrestle with how to adopt AI and the potential impact on their businesses, write Paul Longhurst, Jenni Tellyn and Richard Kemp

14 Nov 2023

What ‘optimising’ your annual software costs really means

Firms which have bought perpetual licences for their software may find they need to switch to subscription fees when moving IT systems to the cloud, write 3Kite’s Paul Longhurst and Kemp IT Law’s Rich...

17 Oct 2023

I Robot: the rise of AI, machine learning and ChatGPT in legal

3Kites' Paul Longhurst and Kemp IT Law's Richard Kemp discuss the potential for AI in the legal profession and how the technology is likely to impact law firms

29 Mar 2023

Lawyers know best… you just need the right one!

3Kites’ Paul Longhurst and Richard Kemp of Kemp IT Law on how best to approach the negotiation of legaltech contracts

2 Sep 2022

Why systems support is the way to a good night’s sleep

The need to maintain legaltech has an important regulatory angle, explain 3Kites’ Paul Longhurst and Richard Kemp of Kemp IT Law

17 Jun 2022

To be, or not to be… compliant, that is the data retention question

3Kites’ Paul Longhurst and Richard Kemp of Kemp IT Law on how law firms are adapting to GDPR

23 May 2022

Let my firm open the file (with apologies to Pete Townshend)

Why is opening new files so easy for some law firms and so hard for others? And what are the regulatory requirements?

1 Apr 2022

Mr Blue Sky – moving your firm’s applications to the cloud

3Kites’ Paul Longhurst and Richard Kemp of Kemp IT Law explain the benefits of moving away from on-premise systems and the practical steps to take

25 Feb 2022