Big Four + CLM/AI
KPMG Allies With AI-Driven CLM SirionLabs
Big Four firm KPMG has formed an alliance with CLM company SirionLabs as part of their go-to-market strategy to provide corporate legal teams with legal …
Buy Nothing
Tunji Williams Leaves Litera, Launches ‘Buy Nothing’ App
Tunji Williams, the well-known former CEO of dealWIP and most recently Director of Adoption & Growth Strategy at Litera, has left the legal tech platform …
Innovation
How to Deliver Practical Innovation
By Ian Gosling, CEO of AUTTO, the no-code automation platform The Challenge ‘I wonder if we can do something during B-Innovative Week?’ In August, I …
Global Legal Tech
In Africa Legal Tech Faces a Challenge: Lack of Internet Access
We often think of legal tech as spanning the globe and knowing no borders. And that is right in large part except for one significant …
Industry Moves
RAVN Co-Founder Wallqvist Joins Leading Point
Peter Wallqvist, the co-founder and former CEO of RAVN, the pioneering legal AI company which in 2017 became part of iManage, has joined Leading Point. …
Legal Tech Moves
Carlos Gamez Leaves TR + Partha Mudgil Joins H4
Two major moves in the legal tech world have taken place: Carlos Gamez, Senior Director, Legal Platform for Thomson Reuters, has left the giant company; …
Investment
Contracting Platform Precisely Bags €1.8m Seed Funding
Swedish contracting platform Precisely has raised €1.8m in a Seed funding round led by Peak Capital, marking the fund’s first investment in the region. Precisely …
Investigation
Synergist, a Thomson Reuters Partner, ‘Closes Down’
Synergist, one of the first contract negotiation platforms and an integration partner of Thomson Reuters, seems to have closed down. Its apparent demise is all …
Job Losses
Kira’s Strategic Restructure Sees 20-Plus Staff Depart
Kira Systems, the legal AI pioneer, has undergone a strategic restructure leading to 23 staff departures and several others moving to different roles across the …
Inhouse + Legal Tech
What Do Corporate Clients Want From Legal Tech?
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) 2021 survey of Chief Legal Officers (CLO) has concluded and it gives us some indications of what corporate clients …