Law Firm Investment
Cleary Gottlieb Invests in Legal Tech Startup 10BE5
In a rare move for one of New York’s elite Wall Street firms, Cleary Gottlieb has made a minority investment in legal tech startup 10BE5, …
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Contract Acceleration
ThoughtRiver Targets Contract Acceleration – But What Is It?
ThoughtRiver, the legal AI company that has pioneered the area of NLP-driven contract risk pre-screening, is expanding its offering to encompass far more of the contract negotiation phase – all as part of a deeper strategic expansion into what the company defines as ‘Contract Acceleration’. Sounds good, but what is it and what does it mean? …
Legal Tech M&A
Opus 2 Buys Bar Squared in Major ‘Barrister Tech’ Move
Opus 2, the pioneer of cloud-based collaboration software for disputes, has acquired Bar Squared, the leading provider of management software for barristers’ chambers, in what …
M&A
More Consolidation As AffiniPay Buys ClientPay
More consolidation, this time within the ‘billing tech’ field. AffiniPay, which is a professional services payments conglomerate, has acquired ClientPay, a company focused on online …
Tech Consulting / Legal Ops
UnitedLex Ramps Up Consulting War With 5 Ex-Big Four Hires
ALSP UnitedLex has raised the stakes further in the ongoing battle for market share in the legal ops and tech consulting space, after hiring in …
Structured Contracts
Linklaters’ Nakhoda and the ISDA Create Contract Platform
‘Would you like your contract super-structured or generally unstructured as usual?’ is not a question you often get asked. But it’s an area of focus …
Deal Platform
Legatics Hires Ex-BBC News Engineer, Bags Top Swedish Firms
Deal management platform Legatics has a spring in its step at the moment, after hiring as its CTO the former Head of Software Engineering at …
Means of Production
Lawyers, Tech + the Means of Legal Production
‘The means of legal production’ is a phrase this site has been using since it launched, but what does it signify? And most of all, …
News Wrap
News Wrap: Freshfields, Simmons + MDR LAB
There’s always more things happening than you can shake a legal tech stick at, so here’s a news wrap to bring a few key items …
KM Masterclass
Knowledge Unlocked – KM Masterclass with iManage, Foundation + Sidley
Welcome to this AL TV Masterclass, which features iManage and Foundation Software talking with international law firm Sidley Austin about how they worked together to …