Investment
SoftBank Makes 1st Legal Tech Investment With MarqVision
Giant Japanese conglomerate, SoftBank, which has backed WeWork and Uber, has made its first legal tech investment in the shape of MarqVision, an IP protection …
Investment + CLM
‘CLM 2.0’ Funding Increases as Malbek Bags $15.3m
CLM startup, Malbek, has just bagged $15.3m in Series A funding, showing that interest in the new wave of ‘CLM 2.0’ companies is only growing …
Legal Tech M&A
Onit Buys BusyLamp – 5th Acquisition Since 2019
Onit, the enterprise workflow and CLM platform, has bought BusyLamp, the legal spend and matter management company, in what is its fourth M&A deal in …
Product Walk Through
Product Walk Through: Cortical.io – Semantic Folding Doc Analysis
Cortical, or Cortical.io as it likes to be known, started 10 years ago as an academic research project and has evolved into a contract analysis …
Legal AI Moves
Brian Kuhn Leaves Elevate for Baker McKenzie ‘Moon Shot’ AI Project
Brian Kuhn, previously with IBM, and most recently with law company, Elevate, where he was its VP for Digital Strategy & Solutions, has joined Baker …
Law + Code
Law Isn’t Code – And That’s A Good Thing
The law isn’t code, and that’s a good thing. Here is why. Theory and Reality From time to time you’ll hear the refrain that the …
Legal Workflows
ServiceNow: ‘Legal Matter Management is a Massive White Space’
ServiceNow is a $4.5 billion revenue workflow company that has set its sights on the legal market, in particular legal matter management inside corporates. Artificial …
Universal Platform
Can Lupl Become the Legal World’s Universal Platform?
Can Lupl become the legal world’s universal platform? That is the question. Duncan Weston, Executive Partner of CMS, believes so. It is an ambitious project …
Legal Tech M&A
ESG Demand Sees Mitratech Buy Germany’s Alyne
In part driven by the growing demand for ESG compliance solutions, i.e. Environmental, Social, and Governance, US legal software heavyweight, Mitratech, has bought Germany’s Alyne. …
AI Inventors
Thank the Maker! AI Cannot Be ‘An Inventor’ UK Appeal Court Rules
To quote from the venerable protocol droid, C-3PO: ‘Thank the maker!’ Or in this case let’s thank the UK’s Court of Appeal in London, which …