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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‘Disruption’ is what new-tech is largely about and it’s the same with law-tech. As AI and other tech developments continue to challenge the old-style legal market, one of the largest ‘players’ in the legal world is actively seeking disrupters in the legal market to help. Slaughter and May are seeking any “exciting new product” that
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Charles Needham* The Practice of law is increasingly doing away with the notion that ‘lawyers’ in the conventional sense are the ones to provide the advice businesses and people require. The need for lawyers is diminishing, with the onset of technology and ‘new-model legal providers’, who are now handling business and personal issues in a
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The ongoing development of legal technology is changing many things in the legal profession and the need to understand what is happening has become more important than ever for the profession. But law firms can innovate without having to spend a great deal too, as was recently demonstrated by legal entrepreneur Tamina Cunningham-Adam, one of
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FT has named Orrick the Most Innovative Law Firm in North America and chosen Orrick’s Chief Innovation Officer Wendy Curtis – “a driving force behind much of the innovation at the firm” – as the Most Innovative Lawyer of the Year. No other firm has won this award as many times or back-to-back. Wendy joins past winners from
