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 …
News Wrap
News Wrap: GLTR Event, Travers Smith, CC Applied Solutions
On Monday, Oct 19, the Global Legal Tech Report for North America will have some of its key findings revealed during a live presentation and discussion (see more details below). …
Legal Tech M&A
Litera’s PE Owner, Hg, Said to Buy Majority Stake in Septeo Legal Conglomerate
Breaking News: A French business newspaper is reporting that Hg, the private equity fund that owns ever-growing legal tech platform, Litera, has bought a majority …
Investment
DISCO Bags $60m Funding, Moves Past Earlier Job Cuts
Ediscovery company DISCO has bagged an additional $60m in funding, valuing the company at $785m. The move follows a hard time for the litigation market …
Inhouse / Matter Management
Lawcadia Launches Rules-Based Engine for Matter Management
Lawcadia, the matter and spend management platform for in-house legal teams and their law firms, has announced the launch of a new rules-based engine. …
Crowdfunded Justice
Legaler Aid Launches to Crowdfund Social Justice
Legaler Aid, an Australian and US registered charity, has launched to crowdfund social justice legal cases, as well as rolling out a virtual legal clinic across the globe with major partners such as the world’s largest law firm network, Lex Mundi, as well as Neighborhood Legal Services, the largest legal clinic in the US, among others. …
Investment
DocuSign Joins $3.2m Investment in BlackBoiler
Leading esignature company, DocuSign, which invested in Seal Software and then bought the NLP business outright, has now joined a $3.2m investment round into BlackBoiler. …