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.The scheme connects […]
ThoughtRiver Unveils AI-powered Microsoft Word Remediation Tool for LawyersPowered 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. September
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 Shang
ThoughtRiver accelerates international growth across three regions and hires new VP of SalesPowered 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 business
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From the Ukrainian ‘Wild East’ to a middle-aged legal disrupter: The innovation lawyers making a differenceInnovation 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 “wild east”
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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. I practiced
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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 identify
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Machine-Learning Legal Document Drafter Gets Equity & Government InvestmentA 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 angel investors,
Thomson Reuters Buy Top Allen & Overy Collaboration Platform HighQPowered 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 a
