ELM
Chilean NewLaw Company Alster.Law Launches Kea ELM
One of the most rewarding things about running Artificial Lawyer is the fact that legal tech founders and developers from all over the world contact …
Contract Acceleration
Experience: the Critical Commodity in Deal Negotiation + Star-Studded Careers
By Tim Pullan, CEO, ThoughtRiver Is a 5 year PQE lawyer worth double their 2.5 year PQE self? The answer is almost certainly yes, and …
Law Firm Investment
Cleary Gottlieb Invests in Legal Tech Startup 10BE5
In a rare move for one of New York’s elite Wall Street firms, Cleary Gottlieb has made a minority investment in legal tech startup 10BE5, …
Contract Acceleration
ThoughtRiver Targets Contract Acceleration – But What Is It?
ThoughtRiver, the legal AI company that has pioneered the area of NLP-driven contract risk pre-screening, is expanding its offering to encompass far more of the contract negotiation phase – all as part of a deeper strategic expansion into what the company defines as ‘Contract Acceleration’. Sounds good, but what is it and what does it mean? …
Legal Tech M&A
Opus 2 Buys Bar Squared in Major ‘Barrister Tech’ Move
Opus 2, the pioneer of cloud-based collaboration software for disputes, has acquired Bar Squared, the leading provider of management software for barristers’ chambers, in what …
M&A
More Consolidation As AffiniPay Buys ClientPay
More consolidation, this time within the ‘billing tech’ field. AffiniPay, which is a professional services payments conglomerate, has acquired ClientPay, a company focused on online …
Tech Consulting / Legal Ops
UnitedLex Ramps Up Consulting War With 5 Ex-Big Four Hires
ALSP UnitedLex has raised the stakes further in the ongoing battle for market share in the legal ops and tech consulting space, after hiring in …
Structured Contracts
Linklaters’ Nakhoda and the ISDA Create Contract Platform
‘Would you like your contract super-structured or generally unstructured as usual?’ is not a question you often get asked. But it’s an area of focus …
Deal Platform
Legatics Hires Ex-BBC News Engineer, Bags Top Swedish Firms
Deal management platform Legatics has a spring in its step at the moment, after hiring as its CTO the former Head of Software Engineering at …
Means of Production
Lawyers, Tech + the Means of Legal Production
‘The means of legal production’ is a phrase this site has been using since it launched, but what does it signify? And most of all, …