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 …
Inhouse Efficiency
Why Do GCs Feel Buried in Low Value Work?
A recent survey by Juro and US law firm Wilson Sonsini found that in an indicative sample of legal teams at fast-growth companies, 67% felt …
Contract Dashboard
ContractPodAi Launches DeepSights Dashboard for GCs
ContractPodAi, the NLP-powered contract lifecycle management platform, has launched a new dashboard for inhouse legal teams that shows the current state of their contracts through a variety …