Market Analysis
‘We Will Survive’ – Legal Tech Companies on the Crisis
Lay-offs, battles with landlords over paying rent on an empty office, a drop in demand from potential buyers, these are some of the areas Artificial …
Month: April 2020
Special Announcement
Legal Innovators California Moves to November 19, 2020
Special Announcement: The Legal Innovators California conference will now take place on November 19, 2020. — Given the current situation we have chosen to move …
Contract Negotiation
Pactum ‘Automatically Negotiates Contracts on a Massive Scale’
Pactum is a new AI-based Q&A platform that enables companies to automate commercial contract negotiations on ‘a massive scale’. It’s just signed up Walmart for …
Litigation Prediction
Solomonic Bags 1st Investment Funding, ‘Bullish’ On Growth Through Crisis
Litigation prediction startup, Solomonic, has completed its first ever round of external investment funding, signed global firm Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) for a two-year licence …
Tech Group Hire
Kennedys’ Tech Group Nabs Luminance Senior Staffer
Kennedys IQ, the self-contained tech group of insurance specialist law firm Kennedys, has nabbed Kimberley Davies (pictured), a long-time Luminance senior staffer, for the role …
Document Automation
Big Win For A&O + Avvoka as Loan Market Assoc Builds Doc Automation Platform
The Loan Market Association (LMA) – the influential standards setting organisation – has after a competitive tender process picked Allen & Overy and legal tech …
WFH
‘We’re Never Going Back’ – Legal Introverts Demand Home-Working Forever
(And hope you enjoyed this second April Fool’s Day story as well…but…* see below.) The Legal Introverts League (LIL) is demanding that commercial law firms …
Good Deeds
Trump To Personally Guarantee Big Law Partner Profits (Not Really…)
(Hope you all enjoyed this April Fool’s Day story…!) US President and well-known altruist, Donald Trump, has committed his vast personal fortune to help out …