Legal Tech M&A
BigHand Buys Iridium Technology in Major Legal Tech Deal
BigHand, the provider of operational and financial products for law firms, has acquired US-based Iridium Technology in a deal that brings together a range of …
Delivery + Process
A&O Hires from HSF To Open New Delivery Centre in Oz
Allen & Overy has hired Derek Chia as the new Head of the Advanced Delivery Centre in Australia, which is due to open in the …
Contract Ops
The Birth of the Contract Operations Professional
As in nature, the world of work is constantly evolving and new professional species come into existence every few years. One such new arrival is …
Virtual + Hybrid Hearings
A Life Less Binary: The Future of Disputes
By Eimear McCann, Commercial Director, TrialView. Are we living in binary times? In an age of cognitive overload, the temptation to veer to extremes has …
Eats, Works, And Leaves
20% Want To Leave The Law, Can Legal Tech Help?
A global survey of lawyers by the IBA has found that a fifth of those under 40 wanted to leave the profession, citing work-life balance …
Law Firm Innovation
Reed Smith Launches Free Arbitration Mobile App
International law firm Reed Smith has launched a mobile app to allow people to calculate the potential costs of an arbitration in various venues across …
Black Founders
Definely + Robin AI Join UK Black Tech Founders Trade Mission to NY
As part of the Government-backed UK Black Tech Founders Mission to New York in February, Nnamdi Emelifeonwu (above left), co-founder of Definely, and Richard Robinson …
Mobile Legal Services
Rocket Lawyer Hires CTO From PwC, As Mobile Phone Strategy Grows
Rocket Lawyer (RL) has hired Sumit Malhotra as its CTO from Big Four firm PwC where he was SVP Engineering. CEO, Charley Moore, told this …
Beyond Email
Lawyers Live In Their Inboxes, But Dashboard Legal Has A Solution
Lawyers spend 66% of their day working with emails, according to new research. Dashboard Legal wants to change that by providing a collaboration and project …
Legal Tech M&A
Alt Legal Buys Towergate’s Trademark Citation Business
In an unusual move, US-based legal tech company, Alt Legal, a leading provider of automated trademark docketing software, has bought Towergate Informatics’s 2(d) Citation Watch …