Legal Tech M&A
LexisNexis Buys Closd Deal Platform
LexisNexis has announced that it has acquired Closd, a Paris-based legal transaction management system. Closd will become part of LexisNexis Legal & Professional. The acquisition …
Contract Negotiation
DocJuris – One Click Amendments, Product Walk Through
DocJuris is a contract negotiation platform that has just released a new one click amendment capability. In this AL TV Product Walk Through, CEO, Henal …
CLM
Icertis Sued Over Alleged Failings of CMS Implementation
Lawyers in the US have filed a complaint against Icertis on behalf of Change Healthcare Operations LLC (CHC) over a contract management system (CMS) implementation …
Legal Tech M&A
Deloitte Spin-Out Arteria AI Buys Financial Services Arm of H4
Arteria AI, a CLM company that spun out of Deloitte, has bought the financial services arm of the UK’s H4, another CLM platform. Co-Founder and …
Legal Research
Product Walk Through: EisphorIA – Legal Research
Just when you thought there could be no more new legal research platforms, here comes EisphorIA, which is something of a multi-purpose, NLP-driven system that …
Climate Tech
S+M Unveils Climate Tech Entrepreneurs Cohort
Slaughter and May has announced the new members of its Fast Forward entrepreneurs programme, which will focus on climate tech. This is a separate project that …
The Great Resignation
The Winners in Law’s ‘Great Resignation’ Will Be Firms that Focus on Innovation, Not Compensation
By William Dougherty Law had an attrition problem before the pandemic hit. Now it’s in hyperdrive, dovetailing with a wider movement of dissatisfied workers quitting …
Legal Tech + London
Spain’s Bigle Legal Opens in London, Bags Funding From Cuatrecasas
Bigle Legal, the Spanish doc automation company, has launched an office in London, underlining the UK’s importance as a centre to the world’s legal tech …
Buying Legal Tech
ELTA + Theorem Marketplace Partner Together
The European Legal Technology Association (ELTA) is partnering with marketplace and onboarding platform Theorem to provide ‘shared vendor intelligence and click-to-launch legal tech test drives’ …
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 …