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 …
Month: January 2021
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. …
Incubator/Accelerator
A&O’s FUSE Calls On Legal Tech + FinTech Companies to Join Cohort 5
Allen & Overy’s FUSE innovation and tech incubation space is calling for legal tech and fintech companies to apply for its latest cohort – its …
WFH
The Office Paradox: WFH vs Billions in Property Investment
As a new survey on the demand for working from home (WFH) confirms what we knew already: that many lawyers would like to stay home for at least part of the week, even after the pandemic, we are faced with the paradoxical fact that major property investors are pouring billions of pounds into buying up office space in London and other key centres. …
Legal Tech Growth
ContractPodAi Keeps Expanding, Now With Oz Launch
As a small number of legal tech companies close offices, or even shut down entirely, others are still expanding. Take ContractPodAi for example, which is …
Legal Tech Closure
German Legal AI Pioneer RFRNZ Closes Down
German legal AI pioneer, RFRNZ, which had a focus on contract analysis, has closed down and is now going through an insolvency process. The company’s …