Law Firm Innovation
Orrick’s Vedika Mehera: ‘There Is So Much To Do’
Orrick is a pioneering law firm that has a well-developed innovation strategy. It invests in startups, builds its own tools, and has even published a …
Month: April 2022
Legal Tech Investment
Law Student Launches Legal Tech Investment Syndicate
Law student Ved Nathwani has launched Cataclysm Ventures, a legal tech investment syndicate aimed at early stage startups, in another example of how sector-specific funding …
Legal Tech Hires
From Death Tech to Legal Tech as Legatics Hires Farewill’s CFO
Transaction management platform Legatics has hired David Biggs from pioneering ‘death tech’ business Farewill to be its CFO, as the company steps up its expansion …
Digital Contracting
Summize – Digital Contracting – AL TV Product Walk Through
This week’s AL TV Product Walk Through is all about Summize, a pioneer in digital contracting. Tom Dunlop, CEO, shows that what began with automatically …
Legal Tech Funding
Kennedys-Led Group Bags £0.78m For Reputation Risk Index
Insurance-focused law firm Kennedys and a consortium of academic bodies and risk companies have been awarded £0.78m by taxpayer-funded Innovate UK to build a digital …
Big Four + NLP
PwC + ThoughtRiver Develop Schrems Compliance Solution
The NewLaw arm of Big Four firm, PwC, and NLP-driven contract analysis pioneer, ThoughtRiver, have created a solution to solve the Schrems II repapering challenge. …
Big Four + ALSPs
ALSPs? Big Four Are The ‘Dominant Brands’
Another aspect of the ‘State of the UK Legal Market’ report by Thomson Reuters is that when it comes to clients seeking ALSP-style input then …
Legal Tech? What?
The Legal Tech Tools Clients Are Actually Using – TR Report
In the latest ‘State of the UK Legal Market’ report, Thomson Reuters has found legal tech adoption among many clients remains at the very early …
Tech + Law Students
Linklaters Celebrates its European Law Student ‘Linkathon’
Global law firm Linklaters has recently concluded its Linkathon 2022 – a legal hackathon where law students across Europe were invited to work in teams with the …
Investment
Clara ‘Legal OS For Startups’ Hits $3.5m+ Seed Funding
Clara – a startup that is helping startups – and which styles itself ‘a legal Operating System providing an integrated set of self-service tools to …