Clifford Chance has started an interesting robotics training programme, together with ‘Josef’, a legal automation platform, to train lawyers on how to work with a ‘no code’ platform to develop contracts. LawFuel wrote about Melbourne-based legal ‘bot’ Josef and receiving investment funding earlier this year. The firm’s press release explaining the initiative is below – […]
Amazon sells just about everything else, so why not legal services? The retail giant has announced a new venture linking law firms with businesses seeking to obtain intellectual property rights. The company said it had created IP Accelerator to market itself to small and medium businesses in the US who want to protect their ideas.
ThoughtRiver Unveils AI-powered Microsoft Word Remediation Tool for Lawyers Powered By LawFuel – Users can access ThoughtRiver’s technology within Word documents to analyse and edit contracts at the same time. Ease of use top priority for lawyers, millions of work hours to be saved. ThoughtRiver to demo new plug-in at Legal Geek Conference. London, UK.
Peter Crossen – The growing list of litigation funding companies normally sees investment banking types setting up funds. But in the case of litigation startup Legalist the founder is a 23 year old Harvard dropout – just the sort of person to attract the attention of venture capital funders like Peter Thiel. Legalist founder Eva
ThoughtRiver accelerates international growth across three regions and hires new VP of Sales Powered By LawFuel Richard Cobb joins from Intralinks as VP with SaaS and legal sector expertise Key appointment to support AI company expanding rapidly across UK, APAC and the US ThoughtRiver also announces new Microsoft Tableau integration to enable access to increased
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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
