Investment + CLM
CLM Leeway Bags $4.2m – Largest Ever French Legal Tech Seed Funding
French CLM startup, Leeway, has raised $4.2m, in what is the largest Seed funding round ever in France for a legal tech company. They have …
Month: March 2021
Industry Moves
Stuart Barr Departs TR: ‘HighQ Was Like My Third Child’
Stuart Barr has left HighQ, the legal information and collaboration platform that was bought by Thomson Reuters in 2019, making him the last senior executive …
Legal Tech vs Enterprise
Who Will Win the CLM Game of Thrones?
Who will win the CLM ‘Game of Thrones’? Can such a battle even be won by one company? And is the secret to winning here all about moving beyond legal tech, dropping the word ‘legal’ and becoming a true enterprise software company on the same level as Salesforce? …
People Management
Why Law Firms Must Take a Holistic Approach to People Management in 2021
By BigHand People are the most important asset to the legal industry. It’s undeniable to any law firm of any size or practice type. So …
AL TV - Product Walk-Through
Luminance: Product Walk Through – Doc Review
Artificial Lawyer is doing a series of AL TV Product Walk Throughs of doc review systems for some of the more well-known products. This week …
Market Trends
Legal Tech in a Reopened World
While some countries are facing a third wave of Covid-19, others such as the UK, are realistically preparing for some level of ‘re-normalisation’ in the …
Tech Survey
Is The Legal Sector Starting To Move Away From Email?
A new survey of people working across the legal sector in a variety of roles has found that over half use WhatsApp and just over …
(Major) Industry Moves
Former A&O Managing Partner, Andrew Ballheimer, Joins Factor
In what is one of the biggest legal sector moves in years, Andrew Ballheimer, the global managing partner of Allen & Overy up until October …
Contract Data Standards
Legal Schema to Build ‘Common Framework For Structured Contract Data’
Peter Hunn, the founder of Clause, has launched Legal Schema – an ambitious project to create a ‘common framework for the expression of structured data …
Legal AI
Legal Tech Needs A Paradigm Shift
By Christophe Frèrebeau, CEO of Della The pandemic may have nudged many legal departments and law firms along the path to digitisation, but despite the …