Legal Tech Japan
SoftBank + Goldman Sachs Join $101m Raise for Japan’s Legal AI Pioneer
Japan’s legal AI pioneer, LegalForce – which provides NLP doc analysis and contract management – has received $101m in a new fundraise joined by the …
Law Firm Innovation
Elite Law Firm Cleary Gottlieb Formally Launches ClearyX
Elite New York law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, has today officially launched ClearyX, ‘a new platform designed to reimagine how legal services can …
CLM
Agiloft Aims to be Most Integrated CLM With Workato Hook Up
CLM company Agiloft has gone all in on integrating with other software and leveraging data across the enterprise, in particular it has now boosted its …
ALSP
Factor + BT Expand Partnership, Create ‘Virtual Bench’ Team
Contract-focused ALSP Factor and telecoms giant BT have renewed and expanded their long-term managed services relationship. They have also created a special nine-person ‘virtual bench’ …
Asia-Pacific
3 Legal Techs Join Tech Nation Asia-Pacific Project
Tech Nation, the UK Government-backed growth platform for tech startups, has named three legal tech companies as part of a 20-strong group that will join …
AI + Lawyer Search
Using AI to Discover the Right Lawyer For Your Invention
‘Inventors are from Mars, lawyers are from Venus’ say the creators of Patent Lawyer Finder, which uses NLP to search USPTO filings to match your …
Price Comparison
My Legal Marketplace To Compare Prices + Drive Transparency
Marc May, the founder of The Legal Technologist and a consultant at Syke, is launching a new venture – My Legal Marketplace (MLM) – which …
Legal Tech M&A
Australia’s WiseTime ‘To Join’ US-Based IP Platform Anaqua
Perth-based WiseTime, which also has offices in the UK and US, has ‘entered into a definitive agreement to join Anaqua’, the IP management platform, in …
Investment
Sony Innovation Fund Invests in Clausematch Compliance Pioneer
Sony’s Innovation Fund, and other investors, have joined a $10.8m funding round for compliance and RegTech company Clausematch. The UK-based business, which traces its roots …
Virtual Courts
Virtual Reality Courts Could Be the Future – Study
A study of what needs to be done to modernise the German court system has concluded that one possible future will to be move some …