Investment
AirSlate Bags $51.5m + UiPath Invests, After $90m Last Year
AirSlate, which provides workflow automation solutions – and includes a focus on contracting needs – has bagged a $51.5m funding round led by G Squared. …
CLM + Law Firms
CLM Without Expert Legal Input is ‘Quite Scary’
‘CLM implementation should be a lawyer-led process,’ explained Georgina Powling, a Partner at Addleshaw Goddard (AG), ‘it’s quite scary how much is done without legal …
Incubators
3 Legal Tech Start-Ups Join MDR Lab Summer Programme
Three young companies have joined Mishcon de Reya’s MDR Lab as part of its ‘intensive product-focused programme’ for early stage start-ups. They are: Version Story, …
Unlocking Value
Unlocking Value for Clients with Legal Tech
By Thor Alden, Legal Innovation Manager, Dechert LLP. Dechert has long been known as a law firm that delivers creative solutions for clients. In recent …
VC Crunch
Is Legal Tech Facing a VC Funding Crunch?
Is the legal tech sector facing a VC funding crunch and if so, what will it mean? The short answer is: yes, it probably is. …
Online Courts
Majority Want Online Courts To Keep Going – Survey
A major survey by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) of 1,000 individuals, plus 1,000 businesses, has found that a majority want to keep the online …
Money!
The Legal Tech Fund Bags $28.5m from Orrick, McDermott + DocuSign + Others
The aptly-named ‘The LegalTech Fund’ (TLTF), has bagged $28.5m in capital, exceeding its $25m goal, they have announced. Officially closing the raise in November 2021, TLTF attracted investment …
Legal Tech Satisfaction
Only 37% of Lawyers are Satisfied with their Firm’s Technology
A new survey has found that only 36.7% of lawyers are satisfied with the tech tools on offer at their firms, and with only 37.1% …
Product Walk Through
Product Walk Through: Juro – The Contract Automation Platform
Juro, the all-in-one contract automation platform, is a well-known legal tech company, but do you actually know what it can do? In this week’s AL TV …
Legal Tech Hires
LOD / Syke JV Hires 1st COO With Catherine Spitzer
Flexible resourcing pioneer (and they really were one of the first….) LOD and legal tech consultancy Syke have hired Catherine Spitzer as the first-ever Chief …