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 …
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 …