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Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed Jana Blount as Director of Client Solutions and Digital Strategy for the Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific (EMEAPAC) region.

She joins Norton Rose Fulbright from her own consulting firm. Prior to that, at DLA Piper she led a multi-disciplinary team developing AI-powered products for client-facing solutions as well as internal efficiency.

Blount commented: ‘I’m excited to join Norton Rose Fulbright and am impressed by its long-term commitment to legal tech and innovation. I look forward to collaborating with the firm’s existing teams, partners and clients to create products and solutions that not only respond to today’s challenges but also anticipate tomorrow’s opportunities – ensuring that we and our clients remain agile and competitive in a constantly changing environment.’

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NetDocuments is to acquire OpenText’s legal document management solution eDOCS.

Under the agreement, NetDocuments will acquire the technical assets, intellectual property, and dedicated personnel associated with eDOCS. Following closing, eDOCS customers and partners will continue to be fully supported, while gaining a clear pathway toward integration with the NetDocuments intelligent, cloud-based legal DMS when they choose to adopt it.

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Ius Laboris, the employment lawyers alliance, and law firm Lewis Silkin, have launched Delphius – an AI powered guide to global employment law for inhouse teams.

Delphius answers legal queries, will be regularly updated by experts from across more than 50 jurisdictions, and provides access to information on current legislation as well as any upcoming changes to the law.

Users can ask follow up questions to drill down into the detail of an issue, and when additional support is required it can connect the client to a lawyer from the jurisdiction in question, they added.

‘The tool provides concise guidance on a wide range of topics – from discrimination law in Hong Kong, to collective dismissals in France and Italy, or parental leave in Brazil,’ they explained.

Richard Miskella, Joint Managing Partner at Lewis Silkin, said: ‘We’ve developed Delphius directly as a result of conversations with our clients, many of whom were asking us for faster, smarter access to reliable international legal guidance. Our goal was to create a product that tangibly makes life easier for in-house legal teams, and complements our existing expertise in international employment law. We’re really proud to have achieved that.’

You can see more about Delphius here.

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Legal tech company Everlaw has announced the appointment of former Google executive Max Christoff as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer. Christoff previously worked at Google, leading the Chrome Browser team, and launching Google Wallet (later renamed Google Pay).

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Los Angeles-based law firm Sklar Kirsh’s Co-Chairman, Jeffrey Sklar, has co-founded PortOptix, an AI-driven platform for private equity fund portfolio companies.

PortOptix features a PortaAI Assistant, a purpose-built generative AI platform for private equity firms, alongside advanced tools for deep optimization discovery, strategic purchasing leverage and portfolio community collaboration. These tools are designed to uncover efficiencies and opportunities that traditional approaches often miss, they added.

Sklar commented: ‘PortOptix is designed to change that dynamic – harnessing AI and collective purchasing power to unlock EBITDA growth and enhance exit valuations for private equity firms.’

Just goes to show, you don’t have to be a massive global law firm to build impactful legal AI tools. For more information see here.

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Altorney, which describes itself as ‘a developer of unconventional legal solutions’, has rolled out MARC, which automates first-pass eDiscovery review at scale and reduces the volume sent to traditional review platforms. In a single project for a food and beverage giant on a case involving more than 200,000 documents, MARC cut review costs by 62% and hosting costs by 78%, they said. More here.

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SpotDraft Webinar: Setting Up A CLM – ‘From Pilot to Production in 90 Days‘

28 October, Tuesday – 4:30 – 5:30 PM GMT – Free to attend, but please RSVP here.

‍Implementing a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system is often seen as a long, complex process – but it doesn’t have to be. With the right approach, legal teams can go from pilot to production in just 90 days.

In this session, we will cover:

• How to scope, pilot, and roll out a CLM with speed and confidence.
• Common pitfalls that derail implementation—and how to avoid them.
• Change management tactics to drive adoption across legal and business teams.
• Practical benchmarks to measure success in the first 90 days. 

‍Whether you’re evaluating a CLM or already planning implementation, this conversation will give you insights to accelerate results and prove ROI effectively.

The panel will include:

• Eduardo Rastelli, Legal Transformation Programme Manager, Standard Chartered
• Sabrina Pervez, Regional Director, EMEA SpotDraft
• Richard Tromans, Founder, Artificial Lawyer (chair)

Free to attend, but please RSVP here.

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Two AL TV Product Walk Throughs: Lupl and Westlaw Advantage

The first AL TV Product Walk Through is with Lupl, the task management and workflow automation platform built for law firms. Designed to be used by partners through to paralegals, Lupl is practice-agnostic and helps legal teams centralize work, streamline tasks, and reduce ‘work about work’, the company explained.

Taking us through the video is Abhijat Saraswat, Chief Revenue Officer, and India Preston, Director of Customer Success. We cover:

• Matter planning and integrated knowledge: flexible workstreams let you customize views, create checklists, and review matters in the way that works best for your team.
• Seamless integration and automation: import and export directly from Word and Excel, while connecting with core legal tools like Outlook, Teams, iManage, and NetDocuments.
• AI-driven task management: generate matter plans and tasks quickly, with dashboards and reporting that give clear visibility into progress and outcomes.

Please press Play to watch inside the page, or go to the AL TV Channel to watch this and over 180 other videos.

AL TV Productions, 2025.

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In this second AL TV Product Walk Through, Thomson Reuters’ Mike Dahn, Head of Product Management at Westlaw, shows us the new AI features of Westlaw Advantage, focusing on Deep Research and their litigation document analyzer. This also is provided via their CoCounsel Legal AI assistant. Plus, they have added an agentic capability that can plan how it will carry out the research task you are working on. 

One key aspect shown here that really stood out was the way Westlaw can now not just provide increased clarity around citations during one’s own work on the platform, but can reveal citations from others’ work product that can’t be verified. I.e. this should really help to remove the challenge of people including ‘hallucinated cases’.

Dahn also goes into how TR is thinking more broadly about AI and legal research, and explains how human verification – and supporting that – is a key part of their strategy.

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Legal Innovators Conferences in London and New York – November ’25

If you’d like to stay ahead of the legal AI curve then come along to Legal Innovators New York, Nov 19 + 20 and also, Legal Innovators UK – Nov 4 + 5 + 6, where the brightest minds will be sharing their insights on where we are now and where we are heading. 

Legal Innovators UK arrives first, with: Law Firm Day on Nov 4th, then Inhouse Day, on the 5th, and then our new Litigation Day on the 6th. 

Both events, as always, are organised by the Cosmonauts team! 

Please get in contact with them if you’d like to take part.