Build Your Own Law Firm
Kula – ‘Shopify for Lawyers’ – Joins Y Combinator
Kula, which enables lawyers to leave their firms and create their own businesses, has joined the renowned Y Combinator incubator and received investment from it. …
Contract Standards
oneNDA Launches Claustack – A Community For Contract Standardisation
oneNDA has launched Claustack, a new open-source initiative where lawyers can come to collaborate on creating standardised contracts, share knowledge and access templates for free. …
AI + Contract Review
BlackBoiler Gives More Control To Clients, Boosts CLM Usability
NLP-driven contract review tool, BlackBoiler, which works off red lines in prior documents, is handing more control to the users by allowing them to create …
Legal Tech
Do Richer Lawyers Mean More Legal Tech or Less?
Commercial lawyers, they’ve never had it so good – if you’re measuring just in dollars and pounds – but does this do anything for legal …
Doc Automation
Doc Auto Database of 250 Companies Launches to Help Lawyers Choose
Catherine Bamford, the well-known legal engineer, has launched a free resource called the Doc Auto Database that lists 250 providers of document automation software to …
Legal Tech
Wilson Sonsini – 1st Ever Law Firm in Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative’ List
Wilson Sonsini, which has rolled out multiple legal tech and innovation projects in recent years, has become the first ever law firm to make Fast …
Legal Tech M&A
Thomson Reuters To Buy AI Doc Analysis Company ThoughtTrace
Thomson Reuters (TR) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ThoughtTrace, an NLP-driven document analysis business, in what is a major step for the giant …
Data, Data, Data + APIs
LexisNexis Launches API Dev Portal to Give Firms 360 Degree Legal Data View
LexisNexis has launched an API Developer Portal – a digital pipeline – that allows law firms and legal departments to get a 360 degree view …
Big Four Tech Partnership
EY + Microsoft Extend Partnership to Focus on Legal Needs
Big Four firm EY and tech giant Microsoft have extended their partnership to focus on a new initiative for legal and compliance matters, in another …
Legal Week
Less is More for Legal Week’s State of the Industry Report
Legal Week has now properly started, marked by the traditional ‘State of the Industry’ report – and if there is one key takeaway this year …