Law Firm Innovation
A&O Unveils New Fuse Cohort of Fintech + Legal Tech Companies
Allen & Overy’s Fuse has announced the 16 legal tech and fintech companies that are part of its new cohort, or that are continuing to …
Talent War
ALSP Talent War Heats Up as Big Four Firm EY Gains + Loses
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has hired Alex Fortescue-Webb and Daniel Marks from Big Four firm EY to co-lead and expand the firm’s legal …
Real vs Virtual
The Human Element of the Virtual Office
By Tom Dunlop, CEO, Summize. The thought of buying a gadget or utilizing new technology used to be exciting. Think about when you got your …
Legal AI + M&A
‘AI Becoming Ubiquitous’ in M&A – Litera Survey
A survey and report by Litera, looking especially at M&A, has found that lawyers believe that AI – i.e. NLP analysis – will become ‘ubiquitous’ …
Investment
Killer Whale Strategies Invests in Cleary-Backed 10BE5
Killer Whale Strategies has announced that it has made a small investment in Cleary Gottlieb-backed capital markets startup, 10BE5. The company said that this stake, …
Big Four + Contracts
Deloitte Legal + Contractify Launch Combined CLM Offering
Deloitte Legal and Contractify have launched what they call an ‘affordable end-to-end contract lifecycle management solution’ in Belgium, which also connects the legal tech company’s …
Partnership
LegalZoom + Website Builder Wix Form Partnership
We have seen a lot of legal tech partnerships in recent months, but this is a new kind of deal – listed legal services provider …
Legal Buying
With Palantir Foundry Hence Aims to Improve Legal Buying
Hence’s co-founders are not your average legal techies. Sean West was in a senior role at famed geopolitical risk consultancy, the Eurasia Group, and Steve …
AI + Investigations
Fact360 – Bringing Temporal Network Analysis to Legal Investigations
Fact360 is a machine learning startup that first grew out of work conducted at Goldsmiths University, then in 2020 went its own way. Its claimed …
Conference
Legal Innovators California’s Inhouse Focus + 10 Free Tickets
The Legal Innovators California conference on June 9 in San Francisco is fast approaching and one of the areas we are focusing on is the …