From the Ukrainian ‘Wild East’ to a middle-aged legal disrupter: The innovation lawyers making a difference Innovation in the law has been highlighted in a Financial Times article identifying 10 key innovations from law firms for the list prepared by both the FT and RSG Consulting. The recent list included a Ukrainian lawyer in the […]
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Welcome to Casetext’s handy guide to your first 14 days of solo law practice! Powered By LawFuel – Casetext – What’s in this Guide on Starting a Law Firm? My name is Mike Whelan. As managing editor at Casetext, I advocate for solo attorneys both inside the company and to the industry as a whole.
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Powered By LawFuel –ATLANTA – July 30, 2019 – Aderant, a global leader in law firm management software, announces the release of Handshake 3.9.3, the latest version of the Handshake software that powers the intranets and knowledge management portals of the AmLaw 200. The release debuts Handshake Search, a premier universal search engine that allows
Powered By LawFuel – With this initial five year contract, DWF will become a provider of insurance and real estate legal services to BT. A number of staff from BT’s in-house Claims and Corporate Property teams will transfer from BT to DWF in the fourth quarter of 2019. DWF will use its Complex, Managed and Connected Services platforms to
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Machine-Learning Legal Document Drafter Gets Equity & Government Investment A startup legaltech venture, Genie AI, that is used to permit “intelligent” contract editor for law firms and an upcoming product targeting GDPR compliance has received £2 million in equity and government funding. Investment came from tech investor Connect Venture with participation from a number of
Thomson Reuters Buy Top Allen & Overy Collaboration Platform HighQ Powered By LawFuel – TORONTO and LONDON, July 18, 2019 – Thomson Reuters (TSX/NYSE: TRI) today announced that it has acquired HighQ, a leading collaboration platform for the legal and regulatory market. Based in London with offices in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and India, HighQ offers
Josh Taylor* Small law firms don’t take cybersecurity seriously enough. According to an American Bar Association survey, only 42 percent of firms reported taking action to increase their digital security measures in the previous year. Even more concerning: 27 percent said they did so to better protect client or contract data security. For a group
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Slaughter and May today announces the first cohort of legal tech developers for Slaughter and May Collaborate, its new legal tech programme. The six businesses, selected by the Collaborate team alongside the programme’s client and expert panels, were chosen from over 50 applicants from a diverse range of tech products. The first cohort is as follows:
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Another new legal ‘bot’ to enter the online world is Melbourne-based startup Josef, which has just closed a $1 million funding round and is set to roll out its bots across major law firms globally. Josef started its online life helping community law centres to better use their online resources and communicate more effectively but
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Your law firm job may be comforting, but it’s not always comfortable Beth Lebowitz* You did everything right. You attended your OCIs during law school, hearing again and again that going to work for that big law firm was the best, if not the only, option. You worked those summer internships, and were lured in
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