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- Kennedys Hires Karen Peskett-Hall From Hogan Lovells For Transformation Role
Insurance-focused law firm Kennedys has appointed Karen Peskett-Hall (pictured) as its first Director of Transformation to oversee a change programme at the 2,400-people and 44-office
- Legal Tech Pac-Man Litera Reactivates, Gobbles Up BigSquare
Legal tech Pac-Man, Litera, seems to have got its M&A groove back with the purchase of BI data provider BigSquare, after six months of rest
- Welcome to the Legal Tech Speak Easy – You’re Invited!
LexisNexis, in association with Artificial Lawyer, is launching a new get-together for legal tech and innovation professionals: The Legal Tech Speak Easy. The inaugural community
- Doc Auto Pioneer ContractMill Becomes ‘Ment’ in Major Rebrand
In a major rebrand, doc automation pioneer, ContractMill, has become Ment. The Finnish company hopes that the totally new name should help it to continue
- Aderant Buys viGlobal, More Deals Expected Across Sector
It looks like we are having an M&A moment. Aderant is ‘to acquire the assets’ of viGlobal, a people management software company. Meanwhile, an AI
- The True Value of Legal Tech Is Making Life Easier
Legal tech produces many business benefits for law firms and inhouse legal teams, but its value is often experienced on a very human level and
- Law Firms Facing Worst Financial Conditions in Years – TR Data
You can hear the squeal of brakes……as Thomson Reuters data shows that its Law Firm Financial Index (LFFI) has dropped to 36, down 10 points
- Listed Law Firm DWF Hires Rachita Maker For ALSP Role
Publicly listed law firm, DWF, has appointed Rachita Maker to the new role of Global Head of Legal Operations, Technology and Consulting for its Mindcrest
- Legal Innovators London Is Back! – Nov 10/11
Legal Innovators London is back for 2022, with the two-day landmark legal tech conference taking place this year on November 10 and 11. After the
- Linklaters and CreateiQ – In-Depth Interview
What is CreateiQ and what are Linklaters‘ main goals for this legal tech offering developed inside the firm? Artificial Lawyer talked to Shilpa Bhandarkar (pictured
- ‘Project Colechurch’ – A Contract Review Company Is For Sale
Using the code name ‘Project Colechurch’ the Marks Baughan financial group is currently pitching a ‘leading AI-driven contract review and analytics’ company to potential buyers
- LawtechUK Launches Consultation on ‘Blockchain-Deployed’ Digital Securities
The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT), an industry-led group of LawtechUK, tasked with ‘positioning English law as a law of choice for new technologies’, has launched
- Why is There a Return to Profit Fundamentals for Law Firms in 2022?
By BigHand. Iridium Technology, now part of BigHand, has shared the results of its fourth annual law firm profitability survey in partnership with LawVision. The
- Setting Your Organization up for Contract Management Success: 4 Best Practices for CLM Readiness
By Colin Levy, Director of Legal and Evangelist at Malbek. In a world where many CLM features have simply become the starting point, often a
- Government Gives LawtechUK £4m To Continue Its Work
LawtechUK, the taxpayer-funded legal tech organisation, has been given £4m by the British Government so that it can continue its work. The move comes as
- Let’s Celebrate! Female Founders in Law’s Stock is Finally Rising
By Dana Denis-Smith. I am not a ‘list’ person, but there is one list I have been updating religiously since January 2020 – this is
- Legislate Granted US Patent for ‘Semantic Document Generation’
Oxford-based legal tech startup, Legislate, which has a focus on contract creation and management, has been granted a second US patent for its technology, in
- ALITA Winners from India, Hong Kong SAR + Oz ‘Reflect Pan-Regional Ecosystem’
The Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA) has announced the winners of its second annual ALITA Awards at TechLaw.Fest in Singapore, with winners from
- Vagueness in Legal Language: It’s Not All Bad
By Megan Ma, CodeX Research Fellow, Stanford Law School. Vagueness has a bad reputation. But, is vagueness necessarily bad? Take, for example, when asked whether
- Legal Tech Funding + Valuation Announcements Are Going Astray
The way that the legal tech sector handles the announcement of funding news and valuations looks like it’s going astray. While the market in some
- ContractPodAi Offers Free Automation of the Standardised oneDPA
CLM company ContractPodAi is to make freely available a doc automation facility for the oneDPA, a standardised open-source data processing agreement, created in partnership with
- Exterro Bags New Funding, Aims for IPO in the Near-Term
eDiscovery company, Exterro, which has expanded considerably since 2018, is aiming to go public perhaps as early as 2023, its CEO, Bobby Balachandran, told Artificial
- Happiness is….Accepting AI’s Limitations
Genuine happiness comes from being at one with the truth. So, let’s face facts, ‘AI’ tools are not perfect. They will always miss things, sometimes
- CLOC Partners With Theorem For Vendor Directory + Marketplace
CLOC, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, has partnered with Theorem to launch a technology hub and legal tech vendor directory. The move comes as a
- Alexandra Lennox to Lead LawtechUK as Jenifer Swallow Leaves
LawtechUK, the Government-backed legal technology group, has appointed Alexandra Lennox as its new Director following the departure of Jenifer Swallow, who became its first boss
- S+M’s Collaborate Pays Off for Della as Hengeler Signs Up
Hengeler Mueller, arguably the leading law firm in Germany, has become a customer of legal AI company Della, following the startup’s involvement in Slaughter and
- Thomson Reuters Ventures Invests in Priori Lawyer Marketplace
Thomson Reuters Ventures, along with several other funds, has invested in US-based Priori, the lawyer marketplace aimed at helping inhouse teams find the right person
- Wilson Sonsini-Backed SixFifty Launches US Privacy Tool for Complex Landscape
SixFifty, the Utah-based legal tech developer which is backed by Wilson Sonsini, has launched an automated tool for US data privacy law compliance, in what
- Evisort Focuses on NLP Training, After ‘No Humans in the Loop’ Push
CLM 2.0 company Evisort, which has long had a strong emphasis on its ‘no humans in the loop’ NLP capabilities for contract analysis and data
- ‘Legal Industry at Stalemate Over Hybrid-Working Expectations’ – Survey
By BigHand. BigHand’s latest industry report has uncovered an unprecedented level of employee volatility within law firms with increased lateral hiring, salaries rising fast, and
- 5 Critical Lessons for Legal Tech Founders in Today’s (or Any) Economy
By Jim Wagner, Founder, Lean Law Labs. ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,’ – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two
- ‘You Will Be Legally Liable For AI Outcomes’ – UK Government
A new policy paper by the UK Government has set out key aims for AI regulation that could have far-reaching consequences if made into law
- What is Norton Rose Fulbright’s LX Studio?
‘From tiny acorns, mighty oak trees grow’ so the saying goes, and it’s fair to say that US-based LX Studio, the new innovation project of
- Crunch! Legal Tech Funding Dips This Quarter
New data from Legal Complex shows that the expected VC investment crunch for legal tech appears to have arrived, with the lowest number of funding
- Can You Predict Litigation Outcomes Using a Judge’s Personal Information?
Pre/Dicta is a litigation analytics company that seeks to provide lawyers and clients with a steer on case outcomes, such as motions to dismiss, by
- WCC: Creative Tension + Finding Your North Star
Last week Artificial Lawyer attended the World Commerce & Contracting (WCC) association’s London conference. There was plenty to see at what was very much a
- Clarilis, FromCounsel + Arthur Cox Co-Develop Automated Irish M&A Doc Suite
Following the successful launch by Clarilis and FromCounsel of an automated private M&A suite for the English market in May 2021, the dynamic duo have
- Legatics Webinar: Firms of the Future: Adapting to Change – July 21
Transaction management pioneer, Legatics, will be holding a live webinar on Thursday, July 21 at 9.30AM (BST) – ‘Firms of the Future: Adapting to Change
- Gavelytics to Close: ‘We got extremely close to success’
Litigation analytics pioneer Gavelytics, created by LA-based Rick Merrill, is to close. Merrill told Artificial Lawyer this afternoon: ‘I remain vastly enthusiastic about the potential
- BRYTER Lends a No-Code Hand to Help Ukrainian Refugees
United for Ukraine (UfU), an NGO providing information and assistance for those displaced by the war in Ukraine, and BRYTER, the no-code automation platform, have
- Open Cap Table Coalition Releases 1st Version to Solve Shared Problem
In a very significant example of key players in the legal market coming together with other stakeholders to solve a shared problem, the Open Cap
- Thomson Reuters Fires Back at LexisNexis in CLM Duel
Not wanting to be outdone by rival LexisNexis’s purchase of CLM company ParleyPro, fellow legal tech giant Thomson Reuters has announced ‘new features and capabilities
- Ontra Buys FundFormer + Interview With CEO Troy Pospisil
Ontra, which is a mix of an ALSP and legal tech provider with a focus on contracting, has bought FundFormer, a document provider for fund
- UBS Places Regulatory Know-How Modules on PartnerVine
Investment bank UBS is now providing regulatory know-how modules on PartnerVine, the Swiss-based platform that offers informational products usually from law firms, such as Simmons
- Law Firm Profitability: Pricing Directors’ Priorities for 2022 and Beyond
By BigHand. Forward-thinking law firms are currently focused on how best to grow profitability in 2022 on the back of strong growth in 2021. The
- How the Cloud Valuation Collapse Will Impact Legal Tech
Collapsing valuations for Cloud and SaaS companies could have funding consequences for larger legal tech companies that are currently looking for major new rounds of
- Summize Launches ‘Premium Playbook’ with TLB Collaboration
Digital contracting startup Summize has partnered with The Law Boutique (TLB) – creators of the oneNDA and Claustack projects – to launch a new framework
- ‘The Laws of Organic Growth’ – LexisNexis Report
A new report by LexisNexis, ‘The Laws of Organic Growth’, explores how law firms respond to the need for growth and considers several key aspects
- LawtechUK Invites Applications to Regulatory + Mentoring Programmes
UK Government-backed LawtechUK, which is supported by Tech Nation and the Ministry of Justice, is looking for legal tech founders to join two new programmes
- SoftBank + Goldman Sachs Join $101m Raise for Japan’s Legal AI Pioneer
Japan’s legal AI pioneer, LegalForce – which provides NLP doc analysis and contract management – has received $101m in a new fundraise joined by the
- Elite Law Firm Cleary Gottlieb Formally Launches ClearyX
Elite New York law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, has today officially launched ClearyX, ‘a new platform designed to reimagine how legal services can
- Agiloft Aims to be Most Integrated CLM With Workato Hook Up
CLM company Agiloft has gone all in on integrating with other software and leveraging data across the enterprise, in particular it has now boosted its
- Factor + BT Expand Partnership, Create ‘Virtual Bench’ Team
Contract-focused ALSP Factor and telecoms giant BT have renewed and expanded their long-term managed services relationship. They have also created a special nine-person ‘virtual bench
- 3 Legal Techs Join Tech Nation Asia-Pacific Project
Tech Nation, the UK Government-backed growth platform for tech startups, has named three legal tech companies as part of a 20-strong group that will join
- Using AI to Discover the Right Lawyer For Your Invention
‘Inventors are from Mars, lawyers are from Venus’ say the creators of Patent Lawyer Finder, which uses NLP to search USPTO filings to match your
- My Legal Marketplace To Compare Prices + Drive Transparency
Marc May, the founder of The Legal Technologist and a consultant at Syke, is launching a new venture – My Legal Marketplace (MLM) – which
- Australia’s WiseTime ‘To Join’ US-Based IP Platform Anaqua
Perth-based WiseTime, which also has offices in the UK and US, has ‘entered into a definitive agreement to join Anaqua’, the IP management platform, in
- Sony Innovation Fund Invests in Clausematch Compliance Pioneer
Sony’s Innovation Fund, and other investors, have joined a $10.8m funding round for compliance and RegTech company Clausematch. The UK-based business, which traces its roots
- Virtual Reality Courts Could Be the Future – Study
A study of what needs to be done to modernise the German court system has concluded that one possible future will to be move some
- AirSlate Bags $51.5m + UiPath Invests, After $90m Last Year
AirSlate, which provides workflow automation solutions – and includes a focus on contracting needs – has bagged a $51.5m funding round led by G Squared
- CLM Without Expert Legal Input is ‘Quite Scary’
‘CLM implementation should be a lawyer-led process,’ explained Georgina Powling, a Partner at Addleshaw Goddard (AG), ‘it’s quite scary how much is done without legal
- 3 Legal Tech Start-Ups Join MDR Lab Summer Programme
Three young companies have joined Mishcon de Reya’s MDR Lab as part of its ‘intensive product-focused programme’ for early stage start-ups. They are: Version Story
- Unlocking Value for Clients with Legal Tech
By Thor Alden, Legal Innovation Manager, Dechert LLP. Dechert has long been known as a law firm that delivers creative solutions for clients. In recent
- Is Legal Tech Facing a VC Funding Crunch?
Is the legal tech sector facing a VC funding crunch and if so, what will it mean? The short answer is: yes, it probably is
- Majority Want Online Courts To Keep Going – Survey
A major survey by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) of 1,000 individuals, plus 1,000 businesses, has found that a majority want to keep the online
- The Legal Tech Fund Bags $28.5m from Orrick, McDermott + DocuSign + Others
The aptly-named ‘The LegalTech Fund’ (TLTF), has bagged $28.5m in capital, exceeding its $25m goal, they have announced. Officially closing the raise in November 2021, TLTF attracted investment
- Only 37% of Lawyers are Satisfied with their Firm’s Technology
A new survey has found that only 36.7% of lawyers are satisfied with the tech tools on offer at their firms, and with only 37.1
- Product Walk Through: Juro – The Contract Automation Platform
Juro, the all-in-one contract automation platform, is a well-known legal tech company, but do you actually know what it can do? In this week’s AL TV
- LOD / Syke JV Hires 1st COO With Catherine Spitzer
Flexible resourcing pioneer (and they really were one of the first….) LOD and legal tech consultancy Syke have hired Catherine Spitzer as the first-ever Chief
- Dutch Lawyers Launch ‘Uncover’ for Litigation Case Management
Two Dutch lawyers, Caroline Korteweg and Ingrid van de Pol-Mensing, whose past employment includes stints at major law firms Jones Day and De Brauw Blackstone
- Steve Jobs’ Garage, The Future + Legal Innovators
What took place at Legal Innovators California? Like most good things in life you just had to be there, (after all, that’s the whole point
- Product Walk Through: Henchman – Contract Drafting System
This week’s AL TV Product Walk Through is all about Henchman, a Microsoft Word add-in that helps legal professionals draft and negotiate contracts faster by
- Contract Data Startup Syntheia Acquires Motionize
In a rare move, one legal tech startup has acquired another. Syntheia, a contract data startup, has acquired Motionize, which helps with access to KM
- Deloitte Spin-Out Arteria AI on Its Citi Investment
It’s not every day that a global bank invests in a legal tech company, so Artificial Lawyer caught up with Abrar Huq, Co-Founder & Chief
- The AI Ecosystem – Reflections
By Sophia Adams Bhatti, Head of Purpose & Impact, Simmons & Simmons. The team and I at Simmons & Simmons recently had the pleasure of
- Legal Innovators California – Here We Go! June 9 in San Francisco
Here we go! It’s been a long time in the making and the Legal Innovators California conference is all set for June 9 in San Francisco, and we
- Deloitte Spin-Out Arteria AI Bags Investment from Citi Bank
Arteria AI, the digital documentation startup that span out of Deloitte, has received an undisclosed investment from Citi SPRINT (Spread Products Investment Technologies), the strategic
- Ruby Datum to Provide Free VDR Services to Crowdcube Community
Ruby Datum, the virtual data room (VDR) pioneer, has partnered with Crowdcube, the European crowdfunding site, to provide its services to the group’s community to
- David Wang on Innovation: ‘Aim High and Articulate’
David Wang is Chief Innovation Officer at Wilson Sonsini, a firm that has been involved in plenty of pioneering legal tech projects. Artificial Lawyer asked
- Breaking the Law-Time Continuum
Albert Einstein helped us to see that space-time is one integrated system, and the legal world also has made it clear that law and time
- Peerpoint’s Carolyn Aldous: ‘I Ask Lawyers – What Makes You Happy?’
Allen & Overy’s Peerpoint is a flexible resourcing business – it’s also something that its Managing Director, Carolyn Aldous, firmly believes can help make lawyers
- Why Is Big Four Firm Deloitte So Focused on Contracts?
Deloitte is a $50 billion revenue Big Four firm dominated by audit and business consulting. But why the growing focus on contract management? Craig Conte
- Slaughter and May Announces Student Innovation Prize Winner
Slaughter and May has announced the winner of its Innovation Competition for students, where the winner received £1,000 and will join the leading law firm
- The Optimised Lawyer: Electra Japonas Meets WorldCC’s Sally Guyer
In this latest episode of ‘The Optimised Lawyer’ podcast by Electra Japonas, CEO and founder of The Law Boutique and co-founder of Claustack, and shared here on
- Are Some Inhouse Lawyers Falling Out of Love With Word?
New data from Juro suggests that at least among inhouse lawyers at more agile, fast-growth companies, the love affair with Microsoft Word may be cooling
- Epiq Partners With Litify ‘The Legal Wrapper for Salesforce’
Litify, which calls itself ‘the legal wrapper for Salesforce’ and is built upon the well-known sales and CRM software system, has formed a partnership with
- Linklaters’ CreateiQ to Automate Key ISLA Securities Docs
CreateiQ, the doc automation and contract management platform developed by global law firm Linklaters, is to work with the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) to
- Mini-Robolawyers? The Rise of Selling Self-Service Solutions to Law Firm Clients
By Hasan Choudhary, Global Marketing Executive, Neota. Thanks to the Netflixes, Amazon Primes, and DoorDashes of the world, we expect most things today to be
- FromCounsel + Clarilis’s Legal Content / Doc Auto Partnership Grows
Combining legal content with doc automation to productise contracts makes a lot of sense, and FromCounsel and Clarilis’s partnership is taking another step forward. This
- ‘Law Students Need to Hear from People on the Ground’ – Alice Armitage, LexLab
How do you help law students to really get to grips with legal tech and the changing profession? One solution is to host your own
- 77% of Inhouse Lawyers Experience Failed Legal Tech Projects
In what is a sobering finding amid the CLM buzz, a survey by Onit’s ContractWorks group found that over three-quarters (77%) of inhouse lawyers had
- CLOC: A Shift in the Centre of Gravity
In this guest post for Artificial Lawyer, Hugo Seymour, Chief Operating Officer at Della, looks back on what happened at CLOC’s CGI event in Las
- Two-Thirds of Lawyers: ‘My Job has a Negative Impact on Mental Health’
A new survey by transaction management platform Legatics and YouGov, has found that two-thirds of lawyers (67%) reported that their jobs have had a negative
- AI Pioneer ThoughtRiver Launches Construction Sector Tool as Strategy Evolves
In a break with the strategy most NLP-driven doc review companies have taken so far, ThoughtRiver has launched a sector-specific tool targeting just the construction
- Legal Innovators California – 10 Free Tickets for the San Francisco Conference
The Legal Innovators California conference is on June 9 in San Francisco and one of the core elements of the event will be the legal service providers and
- How Far Are Law Students Looking For Change?
A new survey of US law students about why they choose certain law firms for summer associate roles suggests that many embrace the status quo
- Julia Salasky’s Legl Bags $18m – ‘It’s a Fantastic Validation’
Legl, the ‘SaaS platform for law firm operations’ and the brainchild of legal tech pioneer Julia Salasky, has bagged $18m in new funding, after getting
- CLM + Governance Platform DiliTrust Bags €130m as the Money Keeps Coming
Paris-based DiliTrust, which focuses on governance solutions for inhouse teams, as well as providing a CLM system, has received €130m (£110m) in funding – in
- Relativity Announces Microsoft Machine Translation Integration + More
At Relativity Fest in London today, the pioneering eDiscovery and investigations company has rolled out a mass of announcements, ranging from a focus on ethical
- 8 Legal Experts on the Future of the Billable Hour
By Henchman. Are you still billing by the hour? The reality is that most lawyers are and plenty will still be using it in the
- Efficiency Is All About Getting What You Want
Efficiency is at the heart of legal technology, i.e. less time or effort expended to get the desired result. Yet, efficiency is also why people
- Save The Date! Legal Innovators California – June 9
Here is one for your diary: the Legal Innovators California conference is on June 9 in San Francisco. We will be exploring a range of key issues
- CLOC Dispatch #3: Telling Stories at CGI
By Casey Flaherty, Chief Strategy Officer, LexFusion. The CLOC Global Institute began with a story to a full house. Jenn McCarron (pictured above) was spellbinding
- CLM Evisort Bags $100m + Analysis
Evisort has raised $100m in capital, including equity and venture debt financing – as the legal tech world goes into CLM overdrive. This was a
- ALSP Factor + Mayer Brown Launch Flat-Fee Compliance Service
In an interesting example of an ALSP formally partnering with a major law firm, Factor and US-based Mayer Brown, along with specialist financial risk group
- 6 Reasons Why We’ve Reached the Enterprise CLM Adoption Tipping Point
By Andy Wishart, CLM Futurist & CPO at Agiloft. The CLM market has taken off like a rocket, fuelled by global shocks, including the pandemic
- PocketLaw’s Olga Beck-Friis On Their €10m Funding: ‘It’s a Huge Milestone’
PocketLaw, created in Sweden by Olga Beck-Friis and Kira Unger and now rapidly spreading into new markets including the UK, has gained €10m in Series
- Why CLM’s Impact Matters to All of the Legal Tech Sector
The adoption of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software by corporates is going to have a major and long-term positive impact on the whole of the
- CLOC Dispatch #2: How Do Legal Ops Professionals Go Pro?
By Casey Flaherty, Chief Strategy Officer, LexFusion. Many legal operations personnel have no idea what they are doing. This is not an insult. It is
- Now SirionLabs Bags $85m – But Can All These CLMs Succeed?
CLM company SirionLabs, which started in 2012, has just bagged $85m in new cash amid what is now a super-intense competition for inhouse clients
- LexisNexis Buys CLM Parley Pro
In a move that adds extra spice to an already hot market segment, LexisNexis Legal & Professional has bought CLM Parley Pro ‘to complement LexisNexis
- Are Single Theme Incubators a Better Approach?
The Vienna-based Legal Tech Hub Europe incubator has launched its fifth cohort, this time with a strong focus on Know Your Customer (KYC) tools, rather
- Malbek to Reduce ‘Negotiation Round Trips’ with New Contract Tool
CLM company Malbek has launched a new functionality that identifies all contracts with ‘similar asks’ received from a counterparty during negotiation and then recommends to
- PwC’s Société d’Avocats Buys Day One Consultancy As Talent War Grows
PwC’s legal arm in France, PwC Société d’Avocats, has bought Paris-based consultancy Day One to create ‘Legal Business Solutions’, which is a new practice in
- CLOC Las Vegas – Why Are We Here?
By Casey Flaherty, Chief Strategy Officer, LexFusion. A decade ago, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) called itself a ‘book club’ and held small meetings
- Clarilis Launches Pre-Automated Model Commercial Lease Docs
Clarilis has launched a suite of pre-automated model commercial lease (MCL) docs in a move that should help property lawyers to speed up transactions. It
- LawTech Hub Announces 2022 Cohort – Inc. DraftWise + SettleIndex
Australia’s first ever legal tech incubator, created by Lander & Rogers back in 2019, has announced its 2022 cohort, which includes companies from the US
- Protective Orders in US E-Discovery: A Panacea for Privacy?
By David Horrigan, Relativity. Many privacy advocates around the world applauded when Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective in May 2018. The grand
- TermScout: $5m Funding + Carlos Gamez Hire – Plus AL TV Walk Through
TermScout, which gives users a detailed rating of key terms in software contracts, such as whether they are market or favourable (see AL TV Walk
- Microsoft Interview – Part Two: Driving Efficiency + Legal Ops
Microsoft is one of the largest companies in the world – so what they think about how legal needs are met really matters. Artificial Lawyer
- Webinar: The True Scale of Burnout in the Legal Profession
By Legatics. As a group of professionals and former lawyers, the Legatics team knows what it takes to work on transaction management: the long hours
- Neopolis + Legalme – Why We’re Joining Fuse
As you have just read, Allen & Overy’s Fuse has launched its latest cohort. Artificial Lawyer asked two of the companies – Neopolis and Legalme
- A&O Unveils New Fuse Cohort of Fintech + Legal Tech Companies
Allen & Overy’s Fuse has announced the 16 legal tech and fintech companies that are part of its new cohort, or that are continuing to
- ALSP Talent War Heats Up as Big Four Firm EY Gains + Loses
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has hired Alex Fortescue-Webb and Daniel Marks from Big Four firm EY to co-lead and expand the firm’s legal
- The Human Element of the Virtual Office
By Tom Dunlop, CEO, Summize. The thought of buying a gadget or utilizing new technology used to be exciting. Think about when you got your
- ‘AI Becoming Ubiquitous’ in M&A – Litera Survey
A survey and report by Litera, looking especially at M&A, has found that lawyers believe that AI – i.e. NLP analysis – will become ‘ubiquitous
- Killer Whale Strategies Invests in Cleary-Backed 10BE5
Killer Whale Strategies has announced that it has made a small investment in Cleary Gottlieb-backed capital markets startup, 10BE5. The company said that this stake
- Deloitte Legal + Contractify Launch Combined CLM Offering
Deloitte Legal and Contractify have launched what they call an ‘affordable end-to-end contract lifecycle management solution’ in Belgium, which also connects the legal tech company’s
- LegalZoom + Website Builder Wix Form Partnership
We have seen a lot of legal tech partnerships in recent months, but this is a new kind of deal – listed legal services provider
- With Palantir Foundry Hence Aims to Improve Legal Buying
Hence’s co-founders are not your average legal techies. Sean West was in a senior role at famed geopolitical risk consultancy, the Eurasia Group, and Steve
- Fact360 – Bringing Temporal Network Analysis to Legal Investigations
Fact360 is a machine learning startup that first grew out of work conducted at Goldsmiths University, then in 2020 went its own way. Its claimed
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