Funding
Google Black Founders Fund Awards Grants to Define + Robin AI
Google’s Black Founders Fund has awarded grants to two legal tech companies – Define, the drafting tool, and Robin AI, the contract analysis startup. They …
Tech Adoption
‘Lack of Role Models’ A Key Cause for Slow Tech Adoption
A new report on the barriers to legal tech adoption has found that a lack of senior role models in law firms was a key …
Market Standards
CLOC Endorses SALI Standards In Important Step
Influential inhouse and legal ops group, CLOC, has decided to publicly back the SALI Alliance project, which is developing legal matter standards across the industry. …
AI Contract Analysis
TR Joins AI Contract Analysis Club With HighQ Expansion
Thomson Reuters (TR) has joined the NLP-driven contract analysis club via its new HighQ Contract Analysis extension, a doc review and analysis tool that uses …
Legal Tech Market
LawtechUK Launches Hub + Legal Tech Directory
LawtechUK, the Government-backed industry body, has launched a new hub that links to educational material, its various projects and tools, and a directory that includes …
Contract Negotiation
Luminance Targets Inhouse With Contract Negotiation Tool
Luminance has launched what it’s calling a ‘brand new AI-powered platform’ called Luminance Corporate, which will focus on the contract negotiation phase of inhouse legal work, such as keeping tabs on counter-party clause changes. The new approach will also work within Microsoft Word. …
AL Analysis
The DocuSign/Clause Deal – A New Era For Smart Contracts
Last night Artificial Lawyer shared the news that DocuSign is to acquire smart contract pioneer, Clause, beginning a new era for the technology’s real world use. This site now considers what this all means and hears more from co-founder, Peter Hunn. …
Legal Tech M&A
DocuSign To Acquire Clause, the Smart Contract Pioneer
As predicted by Artificial Lawyer, DocuSign is to acquire smart contract pioneer Clause. The deal will see DocuSign gain Clause’s IP, with its team, led …
Legal Tech M&A
Relativity Buys Text IQ to Boost NLP Capabilities
Relativity, the eDiscovery and compliance pioneer, has bought New York-based Text IQ, a company that has developed a strong capability in natural language processing (NLP) and what it calls Socio-Linguistic Hypergraphs. (See Relativity’s in-depth responses to Artificial Lawyer’s questions below.) …
Doc Automation/CLM
Avokaado Targets UK Growth With Advantage Consulting
Document automation/CLM platform, Avokaado, which is based in Estonia but has built a pan-European client base since launching five years ago, is now targeting growth …