The Legal System
Using the Billable Hour is Like Burning Fossil Fuels
Using the billable hour is like burning fossil fuels, and the battle to move beyond the time-based legal economy is like the struggle to end …
Big Four
Deloitte + PERSUIT Team Up To Help Clients With Legal Procurement
We started the week with an interview with Deloitte about its Thomson Reuters alliance, now we end the week with the Big Four firm signing …
Legal Tech Hires
Hiring News: Kennedys, Jameson Legal Tech + Servient
This site tends not to cover too many staff hires, but there’s been a bunch of them this week, so here’s a round up featuring: …
Incubator/Accelerator
MDR LAB Welcomes Della, FundRe + Windemnity
Mishcon de Reya’s pioneering incubator, MDR LAB, is bringing aboard three legal tech startups to join the autumn cohort of its Improve Programme. The companies …
Data Strategy
Kennedys Hires Former UK Gov Adviser For Data Strategy Role
Insurance-focused law firm, Kennedys, has hired Antonio Acuña – a former adviser to the UK Government’s Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) – …
A2J
Pot Smokers Breath Easier As Easy Expunctions Bags $6.25m
Easy Expunctions, a legal tech company that helps to clear people’s criminal records in the US so that they can then pass job checks, has …
API
The Evolution of APIs: From Nice to Have to Necessity in the Legal Industry
By Josh Blandi APIs are everywhere. They connect you to your latest TV binge on Netflix. They’re at work when you Venmo your friend for …
New York, New York
Eigen Says Cheerio and Moves HQ to New York
NLP-driven doc analysis company Eigen Technologies is moving its head office from London to the Big Apple. The move, they said, is in order ‘to …
Vive La No-Code
No-Code Platform BRYTER Opens in Paris
Now, BRYTER will always have Paris. BRYTER has opened a new office in Paris. It follows the recent establishment of a regional team in Stockholm, …
Legal Ops
Slaughter and May Seconds New Legal Ops Executive To Diageo
While it’s been a long tradition for law firms to send junior associates to clients as part of ‘value added’ deals that help to build …