The statement from Justin Kan appears to raise as many questions as it answers. Have a read of the text below and see what you think, but things that occur to Artificial Lawyer that remain unanswer… | Continue reading
In news that comes as a shock to some, but perhaps not to others who always doubted the business model, the pioneering Californian law firm Atrium LLP is understood to be looking at scaling back it… | Continue reading
In popular culture, AI is often depicted as a threatening presence. Its ability to automate tasks typically reserved for humans inspires a fear that it will ultimately lead to our complete and tota… | Continue reading
The California State Bar’s Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services (ATILS), is looking at the dangers of ‘dark pattern’ marketing that could arise from tech comp… | Continue reading
Ian Schick, the co-founder and CEO of patent drafting automation company Specifio has now launched Draft Builders, a ‘gig economy’ patent attorney network, in what is a novel business m… | Continue reading
Juro, the pioneering contract management platform, has raised a $5m Series A round led by Union Square Ventures. The New York-based fund was an early backer of Twitter, Twilio and Kickstarter. CEO … | Continue reading
Rather than make more predictions, here are some of the key things that Artificial Lawyer guarantees you will happen in the year ahead. Billable Hours The billable hour will remain the dominant mea… | Continue reading
This pro bono guest post explains how BRYTER, the legal automation platform, worked at the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos, Greece, along with the European Lawyers in Lesvos (ELIL) project, to help ma… | Continue reading
As many of us prepare to head back to the office in 2020, here is a soft start to the New Year in the shape of a quiz. Some questions are tricky, some are lighthearted, and others are designed to h… | Continue reading
Microsoft’s own venture fund, M12 Ventures, has joined in a $15m investment into legal AI doc review and analysis challenger, Evisort, in a huge boost for the company that only just this February a… | Continue reading
Wow. What a year 2019 has been! It says something about a market when after what was an already frantic period of change that things are still humming with significant activity. Here are some of th… | Continue reading
This year has passed so quickly and so much has happened, but now the question is what will happen next year? What will be the big themes of 2020? What will change? Artificial Lawyer asked a variet… | Continue reading
Legal Innovators is back! After the great success of the inaugural event this year, the landmark Legal Innovators conference will now take place over two days, on the 7th and 8th October 2020 in Lo… | Continue reading
Artificial Lawyer caught up with Peter Wallqvist, the co-founder of one of the earliest and most pioneering legal AI companies, RAVN*, and who is now embarking on a new career as a process engineer… | Continue reading
Despite the much discussed theory that as more tech enters the legal profession the number of lawyers will decline, there is no evidence for that – yet. In fact, the most recent data shows th… | Continue reading
Digital banking pioneer Starling Bank is to to offer ‘affordable legal services’ to its 88,000 business customers through the Sparqa Legal online platform, which it will now provide to … | Continue reading
Welcome to the latest Artificial Lawyer Product Review. Today we are presenting Part One of the results for Luminance. Luminance is a UK-based legal AI doc review and analysis company, and in a sho… | Continue reading
In a significant move that will no doubt send ripples through the market, Deloitte Legal has today launched Deloitte Legal Ventures, a large-scale tech engagement programme that will see 14 mostly … | Continue reading
This article introduces a new downloadable whitepaper by Kira Systems. Countless industries have been digitized over the past decade, leveraging new technology to future-proof their businesses by i… | Continue reading
‘You know what? One day all Ts & Cs will be made this way,’ is probably not something the team at global law firm Reed Smith said to each other when they created TermJet, an expert … | Continue reading
What makes a good hackathon? After being a judge for two very different hackathons, here are some thoughts from Artificial Lawyer’s Editor. Two Approaches There are many varieties of hackatho… | Continue reading
Coadjute, a proptech blockchain network, has launched a project to develop new mortgage and home buying technology with a consortium of leading property software providers, and is backed by one of … | Continue reading
The next generation of lawyers have a strong preference for digital visual tools, according to a major survey of American law students aimed at understanding future lawyers’ attitudes to legal rese… | Continue reading
The California Consumer Privacy Act: Are You Ready? By Stuart Brock, Director at Seal Software The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted by the California legislature in June, contains a … | Continue reading
Eigen Technologies, the legal and financial services AI doc review company, has completed a major $37m (£29m) Series B funding round co-led by Lakestar and Dawn Capital, with participation from Sin… | Continue reading
Today, two startup legal tech companies bagged $19.2m in new funding between them: time management system Ping got $13.2m in a Series A round (and was once a member of the Mishcon de Reya MDR LAB &… | Continue reading
A comprehensive resource for firms looking to take advantage of the latest time and cost saving legal process automation tools, by LawGeex. What task do you suppose lawyers dread most? If you guess… | Continue reading
Hello and welcome to another episode of LegalTech Tapas with Andrew Jardine. In this podcast Andrew gives a short summary of Clause, the smart contract creation platform, and chats with Head o… | Continue reading
Artificial Lawyer’s editor is in Tokyo for a few days for the country’s first ever legal tech hackathon, and one thought came to mind while on the plane over: given that Japan has yet t… | Continue reading
Artificial Lawyer is relaunching its Product Reviews. We are now seeking feedback on legal AI company Luminance. The move is driven by a growing need for better feedback on the many legal tech pro… | Continue reading
The UK’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has given £2m ($2.59m) in Government funding to Tech Nation, a scale-up network for tech entrepreneurs, to support the digital transformation of the UK lega… | Continue reading
The UK’s Home Office is facing a landmark Judicial Review to reveal how an algorithm it uses to triage visa applications works – in what appears to be the first case of its kind here, a… | Continue reading
What would appear to be the first ever US/Chinese legal AI partnership for document review has launched, formed by LegalSifter and Chinese company DocQbot, in what is a major step forward for the t… | Continue reading
Welcome to the latest interview in our Women in Law – Female Founders series by Dana Denis-Smith, CEO of Obelisk Support. This time Dana speaks with Finland-based Hannele Korhonen, co-founder and c… | Continue reading
Last week, smart contract consortium, the Accord Project, held its first ever major conference, marking a key moment in the development of the 200-member global group and a declaration that the tec… | Continue reading
Earlier this week Artificial Lawyer wrote about the new French law that seeks to prevent people analysing and sharing statistical data on named French judges’ decisions. The story went global… | Continue reading
Artificial Lawyer recently broke the news about how PwC was launching its first law tech scale up accelerator – now here is the full list of the companies that have joined. The first PwC LawT… | Continue reading
Smart contract consortium, the Accord Project, has been welcomed into the Linux Foundation – the global and well-resourced open source organisation that has over 1,000 corporate members, rang… | Continue reading
You have just over two weeks left to respond to the LawTech Delivery Panel’s UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) consultation on the status of cryptoassets, DLT and smart contracts under English law. … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Artificial Lawyer wrote about how France had made it illegal to publish statistical information on named judges’ decisions. The reaction globally has been significant, with people … | Continue reading
In a startling intervention that seeks to limit the emerging litigation analytics and prediction sector, the French Government has banned the publication of statistical information about judgesR… | Continue reading
AI company, Ayfie, which handles text search and analytics, has bagged a new law firm client for its KM-focused ‘Locator’ application, as interest in tapping tools to reveal internal kn… | Continue reading
Legal AI pioneer, Seal Software, has launched a marketplace that will aim for clients to eventually share, or sell, their own NLP models to other users of the platform, in what is a groundbreaking … | Continue reading
A new survey on access to justice (A2J) has found that almost 60% of people believe ‘the justice system is not set up for ordinary people’ and interestingly, about the same number also … | Continue reading
Does the use of NLP and ML techniques to crunch case law and find predictable patterns that point to an outcome indicate a coming revolution in litigation finance? Because if AI tools can give you … | Continue reading
Doc automation company, Clarilis, has formed a partnership with UK law firm, TLT, to provide document automation services to corporates. The move follows an earlier ‘re-seller’ type of … | Continue reading
AI company Eigen Technologies has formally partnered with HighQ as part of its AI Hub initiative that seeks to link unstructured data analysis companies to its collaboration platform. Eigen is the … | Continue reading
Legal tech on its own clearly cannot solve the problems society faces, but Hanzo, a web data analysis company, often working on investigations and ediscovery, is taking aim at helping compliance te… | Continue reading