News Wrap
LegalTech/AI Wrap-Up, Feat: Barclays, Diligen, BLS + Luminance
Always plenty of news coming out of the legal AI and wider legal tech world, so here is another quick wrap-up of what’s important. …
Month: August 2018
Platformisation
Beyond eDiscovery: Relativity’s Legal Tech ‘App Store’ Strategy
Artificial Lawyer recently caught up with Shawn Gaines, the Director of Product and Community Marketing, at ediscovery platform Relativity and asked him if he could tell us some more about the company’s ambitious growth strategy to create a ‘legal tech app store’. …
Smart contracts
Tezos Foundation Funds Smart Contract Project with Clause
Blockchain developer the Tezos Foundation has announced that it will issue a undisclosed sum as a grant to Clause to develop a smart legal contract layer on top of its own Tezos blockchain. …
Legal Knowledge
Meet Knowlex, the Belgian Legal Tech + KM Pioneer
Artificial Lawyer is always keen to hear about new legal tech companies, especially from markets that don’t get a lot of coverage, and so it was great to catch up with Nico Del Rio, Manager, at Knowlex, a Belgian legal tech pioneer. …
Legal Tech
UK Gov Leads Legal Tech Trade Mission to Austria + Switzerland
Following an earlier success in relation to fintech, the British Government is leading a legal tech trade mission to Austria and Switzerland. …
Blockchain
HSF + IBM Build Australian National Blockchain for Smart Contracts
Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), IBM and tech network Data61 have formed a consortium to build the Australian National Blockchain (ANB) – the country’s first cross-industry, …
Legal AI Hire
Seal Software Makes Big Pharma Hire in Healthcare Push
Leading legal AI company, Seal Software, has added to its recent hire of legal ops expert Julian Tsisin from Google, with now the hire of Dave Pasirstein, a veteran of the pharmaceutical industry with nearly 20 years at Merck. …
Legal Spend Analysis
Legal Spend Pioneer, Apperio, Bags $10m Series A Funding
In further proof that legal tech startups are still booming, UK-based legal spend pioneer, Apperio, has this morning announced the completion of a $10 million (£7.5 …
Legal Data
What Machine Learning VDR, Ruby Datum, Did Next
Artificial Lawyer last caught up with virtual data room (VDR) company Ruby Datum, which uses a healthy dose of machine learning, back in December 2017, …
Blockchain
World Bank Launches 1st Global Blockchain Bond, K&WM Advises
The World Bank has launched the world’s first BONDI, or ‘blockchain operated new debt instrument’, which it claims is the ‘first bond to be created, allocated, …