M&A
VDR Datasite Bought By Private Equity Firm
In another example of private equity funds driving change in the legal tech and adjacent sectors, virtual data room (VDR) Datasite is to be acquired …
Acqui-Hires
After $8m Funding Athennian ‘Acqui-Hires’ Redox Tax Team
Following its $8m funding round, entity management platform Athennian has announced an ‘acqui-hire’ via the acquisition of the team from Montreal-based tax visualisation startup, Redox Technologies. The …
Contract Negotiation
Catherine Bamford on Contract Negotiation + Legal Tech
Contract negotiation is a vital part of commercial legal activity, yet the traditional approaches remain inefficient and depend on clunky technology. At the same time …
Legal Research
vLex Cloud Lets You Upload Own Docs to Boost Research
Law firms can now upload their own documents into vLex’s Cloud service allowing lawyers to extend their search and KM capabilities in connection with the …
Legal Life
What It Really Means to Be a Better Lawyer
By Angus Chudleigh, VP Commercial, ThoughtRiver Many things aren’t represented accurately on the big (or small) screen. Poker games rarely end with eight players going …
Legal Tech Consultancy
Mishcon Launches MDRxTech Consultancy
Mishcon de Reya has today launched MDRxTECH, a new tech consultancy group that will provide clients with digital transformation advice and legal engineering services. It marks …
Predictive AI
Bakers To Predict Client Demand With Holy Grail AI Project
Global law firm Baker McKenzie is to try and predict client demand through a partnership with AI company SparkBeyond. The Big Data-crunching and predictive analysis …
KM
iManage Partners with Foundation for KM Boost
iManage has formed a strategic partnership and integration with Foundation Software Group. Foundation enables large law firms to transform their disparate data about clients, matters, people, …
Precedent Marketplace
Trustle Precedent Marketplace Seeks To Widen Knowledge Sharing
Trustle is a new marketplace for precedents. At its core Trustle is designed to allow a lawyer to make a precedent purchase request to the international community of lawyers signed up to the platform. If no-one has what is required for sale, there is also a library of precedents that have already been listed that you can turn to. …
Legal Tech Market
Report: Private Equity Is Driving a Legal Tech M&A Boom
A new report on investments and M&A in the legal tech sector by advisory business Raymond James has shown there is a significant boom in …