AI
AI’s Explainability + Transparency Challenges
By Minesh Tanna, Simmons & Simmons and Jacob Turner, Fountain Court Chambers. AI adoption is increasing, particularly since the start of the Covid pandemic. In …
Legal Tech IPO
KLDiscovery Files For IPO, 6th Recent Legal Tech Listing
Ediscovery company KLDiscovery has filed its S-1 form with the SEC for an IPO in the US. This makes it the sixth legal tech company …
Smart contracts
UK Law Commission Gives Smart Contracts The Green Light
The UK’s Law Commission has today confirmed that ‘the existing law of England and Wales is able to accommodate and apply to smart legal contracts, …
Legal Ops
After the Joinder Deal, What Next for Brightflag?
After buying Joinder where is ‘legal operations platform’ Brightflag heading? When it started some years ago the idea was just to use NLP to read …
Legal Standards
SALI – An Update on the Standards Project
By Kelly Harbour The SALI Alliance seeks to improve the legal industry by moving it towards standardising how we describe legal work through a common …
Internships
Linklaters Internships For 16-18 Year Olds To Cover Legal Ops + Tech
Linklaters has launched a new global Business Teams Virtual Internship Programme aimed at 16 to 18 year-old students. They will engage with Marketing, Finance, Legal …
ELM
Elevate Rolls Out Managed Dashboards as ELM Platform Expands
Law company Elevate is well-known for its legal process work, but it’s also a growing legal tech producer in its own right, and is now …
Big Four + No-Code
PwC Partners With No-Code System Checkbox + Targets Inhouse Teams
The NewLaw arm of Big Four firm PwC in Australia has partnered with no-code system Checkbox to help ‘accelerate the digital transformation of inhouse legal …
Component Strategy
Iron Man + the Component Approach to Legal Technology
We’ve seen APIs and consolidation, but the future of legal tech could also be about using a component approach, or what we can call the …
Software Survival
Travers Smith Solves the Outdated Deal Bible Problem
Imagine the situation: a client calls you to ask about some information held in an old deal bible. You find it on the firm system and click to open – but it won’t open. Instead you get the message: ‘Error – this file type is no longer supported.’ You click again, same message. The client is waiting. And then you realise: you’re locked out of your own deal bibles because of outdated software…..oh no! …