Investment + No-Code
BRYTER Bags $66m – In Legal Tech Funding Speed Record
Decision automation company BRYTER has bagged $66m in a Series B funding round, reaching $90m in total investment in just three years, making it by …
CLM
CLM ContractPodAi Launches ‘Cloud’ in Major Expansion of Platform
CLM company ContractPodAi has launched ‘Cloud’, in what is a major expansion of the platform that streamlines a broad range of inhouse legal processes beyond …
Legal Tech Consortium
Casey Flaherty Leaves Baker McKenzie, Joins LexFusion
Casey Flaherty, the well-known Director of Legal Project Management at Baker McKenzie, has left to join legal tech marketing consortium LexFusion as a co-founder, (i.e. …
Market Maps
A Taxonomy of Contract Pre-Execution Tools
A few weeks ago Artificial Lawyer published the New Legal AI Map, which showed the main branches of NLP tools used in the legal sector …
Industry Moves
Strategy Head, Richard Punt, Leaves Thomson Reuters
Richard Punt, the former CEO of Allen & Overy’s Peerpoint group, and most recently Managing Director, Legal Strategy & Market Development at Thomson Reuters, has …
Time Strike
Associates Go On ‘Time Strike’ and Refuse to Log Billable Hours
[ This article was an April Fool’s Special. ] Associates at major law firms in the US and UK are today going on a ‘Time …
Digital Emergency
Global 1s and 0s Shortage To Hit Legal Tech Sector
[ This article was an April Fool’s Special. ] A sudden drop in the amount of 1s and 0s across the world is expected to …
Investment + CLM
CLM Leeway Bags $4.2m – Largest Ever French Legal Tech Seed Funding
French CLM startup, Leeway, has raised $4.2m, in what is the largest Seed funding round ever in France for a legal tech company. They have …
Industry Moves
Stuart Barr Departs TR: ‘HighQ Was Like My Third Child’
Stuart Barr has left HighQ, the legal information and collaboration platform that was bought by Thomson Reuters in 2019, making him the last senior executive …
Legal Tech vs Enterprise
Who Will Win the CLM Game of Thrones?
Who will win the CLM ‘Game of Thrones’? Can such a battle even be won by one company? And is the secret to winning here all about moving beyond legal tech, dropping the word ‘legal’ and becoming a true enterprise software company on the same level as Salesforce? …