Legal Tech Crowdfunding
Startup Crowdfunds as VCs Pause Seed Cash
Case management startup, Legal Connection, has opted to kick off their Seed round on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, rather than take a more traditional VC route, …
A2J Tech
Legal Bots to the Rescue in A2J / Compensation Project
In a solid example of using legal bots, AKA expert systems with interactive workflows to complete forms, to improve access to justice (A2J), LawDroid has …
InsurTech
Norton Rose Calls For Insurathon Startup Entries
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is calling for applications to join its new Insurathon 2020 programme. The winner may receive a small equity investment …
Legal Tech Community
BRYTER Open Hires Sidhu as New Community Head
BRYTER, the no-code automation platform, has hired Joanna Sidhu, a former associate at Ashurst, and most recently Head of Growth at Legl, to manage its …
Online Courts
Making Online Courts Work: Melina Efstathiou, Eversheds Sutherland
Online courts have truly come of age during the pandemic and Melina Efstathiou, Head of Litigation Technology at Eversheds Sutherland, has been right in the …
AL Book Review
Remember Blockchain? It Still Matters CMS Partner Writes
To many people blockchain is the technology world’s version of Esperanto, the manufactured global language that never really caught on, despite looking like a useful …
Consolidation
Consolidation Grows as ProfitSolv Aims to Roll-Up Billing Tech
Consolidation in the legal tech sector is gathering pace as private equity interest reaches a new level of ambition with the creation of ProfitSolv – …
Funding
Scotland’s Exizent Bags £3.6m, Ireland’s Bundledocs Bags £550k
Exizent, a Glasgow-based ‘death tech’ and legal tech company, that helps with the probate process, has raised £3.6m from a group of investors that includes …
A2J
Will ‘Legal Loans’ Help A2J Or Make Matters Worse?
A new company, LawAsYouGo, has launched with the goal of increasing access to justice (A2J) by providing ‘legal loans’ to people who otherwise could not …
Legal Tech Careers
Simon Black: From A&O Partner to Lexical Labs Co-Founder
We often think of legal tech start-up founders as people in their twenties and thirties, perhaps junior lawyers who have had a brainwave and decided …