Legal AI Industry
UK Gov-Backed Report Calls for AI Data Trusts; Praises Legal Sector
An ambitious UK Government-backed report into the nation’s AI industry has called for the creation of Data Trusts, while also praising the progress of AI …
Year: 2017
French Legal AI
French Magistrates See ‘No Additional Value’ in Predictive Legal AI
French magistrates who were testing case prediction technology by legal AI start-up Predictice as part of a Ministry of Justice-supported test project, have said that they see …
Start-Up Investment
Allen & Overy Invests in Member of its Fuse Start-up Incubator; Hires 1st Global E-Discovery Head from EY
Global law firm, Allen & Overy, has made an equity investment in Nivaura, a fintech company developing a cloud based service for the issue and administration …
Legal AI Funding
ROSS Intelligence Gains $8.7m in Major Series A Funding
Legal AI research pioneer, ROSS Intelligence, has today announced an $8.7m Series A funding round, adding to its previous $4.3 million Seed round, making it …
Legal AI Client Win
Legal AI Co. Luminance Sees Singapore Growth With Rajah & Tann
One of Singapore’s leading legal groups, Rajah & Tann Asia, has adopted legal AI company Luminance for its due diligence process work, in an important client win …
Smart contracts
Etherparty Promises to Be LegalZoom of Smart Contracts
A new smart contract company, Etherparty, is launching a system that allows anyone to create legally binding, self-executing contracts that will be placed on the Ethereum …
Legal AI in Germany
Meet RFRNZ: The New German Legal AI Co. With Big Plans
Artificial Lawyer recently caught up with Sven von Alemann, the co-founder and CEO, of Germany’s latest legal AI company, RFRNZ, which has a focus on …
Big Four + Legal AI
Deloitte Sets out Its Legal AI Strategy and Ambitions
Artificial Lawyer caught up with Tony Reid, a principal at global professional services firm, Deloitte, to find out more about its evolving approach to legal …
Legal AI Updates
Kira Updates Legal AI Classifier To Spot 35 Different Doc Types
Pioneering legal AI company, Kira Systems, has released a new version of its document classifier which will allow users of the natural language processing system …
AI + Law Firm Employment
Survey: Workers Embrace Automation; Implications for Law Firms
In an interesting survey of 2,000 UK office workers, tech company WorkFront found that people are far more open to partial automation of their jobs and …