Legal Tech Moves
Carlos Gamez Leaves TR + Partha Mudgil Joins H4
Two major moves in the legal tech world have taken place: Carlos Gamez, Senior Director, Legal Platform for Thomson Reuters, has left the giant company; …
Month: January 2021
Investment
Contracting Platform Precisely Bags €1.8m Seed Funding
Swedish contracting platform Precisely has raised €1.8m in a Seed funding round led by Peak Capital, marking the fund’s first investment in the region. Precisely …
Investigation
Synergist, a Thomson Reuters Partner, ‘Closes Down’
Synergist, one of the first contract negotiation platforms and an integration partner of Thomson Reuters, seems to have closed down. Its apparent demise is all …
Job Losses
Kira’s Strategic Restructure Sees 20-Plus Staff Depart
Kira Systems, the legal AI pioneer, has undergone a strategic restructure leading to 23 staff departures and several others moving to different roles across the …
Inhouse + Legal Tech
What Do Corporate Clients Want From Legal Tech?
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) 2021 survey of Chief Legal Officers (CLO) has concluded and it gives us some indications of what corporate clients …
Investment
VC Fund of Ayfie Ex-CEO Invests $1.75m in Dealcloser
Bryce Catalyst, a VC fund co-run by Erik Baklid, the former CEO of legal AI company, Ayfie, has invested $1.75m in dealcloser, a transaction management …
Legal Tech Careers
The Best Legal Techs to Work For in London Are…
Every year tech recruiter Otta puts together a board of industry experts to create the Rocket List, a 50-strong table of startups and scale-ups operating …
Legal Automation
Making Sense of Automation in Legal – A Buzzword-Free Primer
By Ed Wilson, CEO of Autologyx, the no-code digital operations platform. Automation is Everywhere Take grocery shopping, for example. Even just five years ago you …
Collaboration Platform
News Analysis: What Is Lupl + What Will It Do?
Lupl is something quite special in the world of commercial law, it’s proof that law firms can really collaborate together to make something that’s of …
The Innovator's Dilemma
How Far Has Technology Really Disrupted the Legal World?
Has technology really disrupted the legal world? That is the question, and it’s formulated in terms of how pioneering economist Clayton Christensen saw things: i.e. …