Legal tech is meant to improve the lives of lawyers and their clients. Meanwhile the legal world is growing steadily and is so vast now it’s almost a trillion-dollar industry. Selling legal tech pr… | Continue reading
The UK’s Law Commission has today confirmed that ‘the existing law of England and Wales is able to accommodate and apply to smart legal contracts, without the need for statutory law ref… | Continue reading
LawtechUK, the taxpayer-funded initiative within Tech Nation, has announced the eight companies that will join the latest cohort of its ‘R&D environment’, AKA the Lawtech Sandbox, w… | Continue reading
In a move that marks the end of an era in some ways, ROSS – one of the first ‘legal AI companies’ is to close. It rose to fame very rapidly, but had hit harder times – even … | Continue reading
In an important contribution to the debate about the use of data in society, insurance-focused law firm, Kennedys, has said that it believes that when it comes to areas such as GDPR ‘we have … | Continue reading
Nuix, a company started 20 years ago in Australia and which is now a global player in eDiscovery and complex data investigations, looks set to finally list on the ASX this week in what is a rare IP… | Continue reading
In the ‘Innovator’s Dilemma’, the Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen, states that the best route to success is to listen to your clients, but at the same time … | Continue reading
Last night the final stage of the European Women of Legal Tech Awards 2020 took place, with 50 winners named across five categories. Here is the full list of winners for the awards. | Continue reading
Engine B, a company created by Shamus Rae, previously KPMG’s innovation and AI head, is working with Microsoft, universities and professional services firms to build the equivalent of Open Ba… | Continue reading
To many people blockchain is the technology world’s version of Esperanto, the manufactured global language that never really caught on, despite looking like a useful idea on paper and still h… | Continue reading
Consolidation in the legal tech sector is gathering pace as private equity interest reaches a new level of ambition with the creation of ProfitSolv – a specially made investment company that … | Continue reading
Brainspace, the investigations and Ediscovery pioneer, is understood to be for sale. Two sources independently told Artificial Lawyer in recent days that they understood the company is for sale. On… | Continue reading
By now you’ve probably noticed that there is a new language model in town called GPT-3, and it has the potential to have a significant impact on legal tech – and many other sectors R… | Continue reading
Tech circles have been lit up over the last few weeks following the unveiling by OpenAI of GPT-3, a new type of pretrained language model capable of generating natural language text and computer co… | Continue reading
Elite legal services business (LSB), Slaughter and May, is calling for early-to-mid stage companies to join its Fast Forward emerging tech incubator programme, now in its fourth iteration, and whic… | Continue reading
By Leonie Power, Partner, and Alexander de Gaye, Associate, in the Privacy team at UK-based law firm Fieldfisher. Introduction What’s in a face? Quite a lot it seems if you have the right tec… | Continue reading
We need to end the traditional law firm monopoly in America. And, by the looks of it that project is now well underway. On Monday, Big Four firm Deloitte announced the launch of its Legal Business … | Continue reading
Serein AI is a new legal tech company focused on advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the legal field and beyond, created by four founders – two from the law, two from academia. It&… | Continue reading
Yesterday, Artificial Lawyer reported on a tech company, H4, co-created by former banker, Joe Seifert (pictured above), that has been hiding somewhat in the shadows until recently, and which just r… | Continue reading
H4 has just announced that it has received an investment of approximately $27 million from a consortium including J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Barclays and global law firm Linklaters. H4 is a digit… | Continue reading
Do you fancy providing the software to help the UK to launch a new digitally based alternative dispute resolution (ADR) platform? If so, then sign on to mytenders for the LawTechUK group’s Re… | Continue reading
By Sarvarth Misra, Co-founder and CEO of ContractPodAi Due in part to an unprecedented series of tech disruptions and global shocks, digital transformation needs to take hold in the legal industry … | Continue reading
BRYTER, the no-code automation platform, has bagged a $16m Series A investment led by top enterprise software VC firms, Dawn Capital, and Accel, which has also been an investor in RPA leader UiPath… | Continue reading
John Danahy, a partner at global law firm King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) in London, has created a new NLP-driven platform called Contract Genetica, which among other things can tap multiple firms&… | Continue reading
Fuse, the tech and innovation space of Allen & Overy (A&O), has announced its fourth cohort, which will operate remotely and include a full fintech stream of four companies. It starts 3rd J… | Continue reading
Although Artificial Lawyer has covered funding stories since the lockdown, such as LawGeex and Bodhala, the reality is that these are still nervous times for many startup founders. Luckily the UK G… | Continue reading
The UK is to launch a LawTech Sandbox with the goal of driving more research & development (R&D) in the area of digital transformation of legal services. It will be funded via part of the £… | Continue reading
Contractbook, the document creation and management platform, has launched a Gmail importer that extracts contracts from your Gmail account and uploads them into an organised overview inside their s… | Continue reading
The Scale LegalTech accelerator created by Big Four giant PwC has opened for its second cohort, but will operate primarily via Zoom video conferencing. New cohort members include Clarilis and Prosp… | Continue reading
People are getting excited that more lawyers are now making use of e-signatures because of the Covid-19 lockdown. But why? For some, they’re just glad to see further adoption of digital tools… | Continue reading
As reported yesterday, legal tech giant Thomson Reuters is suing NLP-driven legal research company, ROSS, on the basis that they believe their case law data and related research was in effect ̵… | Continue reading
‘The notion of putting 7,000 people in a building may be a thing of the past,’ Barclays’ CEO, Jes Staley, said recently. And he is right. Even after the initial surge of Covid-19 … | Continue reading
Legal tech app store, Theorem, is to offer vendors on its platform the ability to gain a security and risk assessment ‘badge’ via Prevalent, a tech testing company that works with leadi… | Continue reading
Global legal referral network, Lex Mundi, in conjunction with Microsoft Europe, US law firm Morrison & Foerster (which is a Lex Mundi member) and Cambrian Futures, have produced a new AI Readin… | Continue reading
By Toni Vitale, partner and head of data protection at JMW Solicitors The UK Government recently approached O2, Vodafone, EE and Three about using phone signals as part of its efforts to tackle the… | Continue reading
For lawyers, what needs to stay analogue, i.e. physical, impromptu, unstructured and face to face, and what should be moved into the digital realm? That is the key question. As, after you have answ… | Continue reading
Pactum is a new AI-based Q&A platform that enables companies to automate commercial contract negotiations on ‘a massive scale’. It’s just signed up Walmart for a pilot and fro… | Continue reading
Disco, the fast-growing US legal tech company with a focus on eDiscovery, has laid off dozens of staff due to ‘the coronavirus and economic uncertainty’, making it the first business in… | Continue reading
One recent estimate suggested that US GDP will drop by around 30% in the next quarter. Usually a 5% drop is considered a major slowdown. The UK and other major economies are in a similar position. … | Continue reading
A new Tech Nation Report has found that the US continues to lead the world in tech Venture Capital (VC) investment for another year. But that in 2019 UK tech companies saw £10.1bn in investment … | Continue reading
Artificial Lawyer has been asking people in the legal and legal tech community how they are adjusting to the new world of Covid-19-driven working from home (WFH). Here is the view of Shilpa Bhandar… | Continue reading
A survey by ContractPodAi, the AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform, has found that 62% of companies are still using Excel, SharePoint or email to manage their business’s contrac… | Continue reading
Introducing a new downloadable whitepaper by Kira Systems In 2018, Thomson Reuters surveyed more than 400 corporate counsel and senior administrators on their efforts to improve efficiency and incr… | Continue reading
In some fascinating research by Joshua Holt of the BigLawInvestor site, data appears to show that when adjusted for inflation, Big Law first year salaries have only increased by 2.9% in the last te… | Continue reading
Gartner, the influential research organisation often looked to by the legal tech community for validation, has come out with strong support for smart contracts. They also recommended businesses now… | Continue reading
For some time lawyers have been wondering whether cryptocurrencies (crypto assets) can be considered as real property under the law. This matters because without legal certainty on this point it… | Continue reading
Breaking news: UpCounsel, a web-based marketplace for legal services, which is understood to have raised $12 million in 2018, is to shut down its site. Artificial Lawyer received a verifiable copy … | Continue reading