Remote Working
Obelisk Bags £50k for Remote Working Tech
Obelisk Support, the lawyer resourcing company, has bagged £50,000 ($63,000) in UK Government funding to help build remote working technology. The software development will be …
Legal Research
Thomson Reuters Launches Westlaw Edge UK
Thomson Reuters is launching Westlaw Edge, its next-generation legal research system, for the UK market. Edge was previously released in the US with a big razzle-dazzle, …
Big Four USA
Deloitte US: ‘This Market is Very Large’
Artificial Lawyer spoke to Valerie Dickerson, a partner within Deloitte based in Washington DC, about the launch of its Legal Business Services practice in the US, …
Legal Tech Strategy
LinkSquares Starts Alliance Program to Grow Business
Boston-based legal AI company, LinkSquares, is launching a partner ‘Alliance Program’ aimed at forging commercial and tech relationships with legal services businesses, consulting groups, and …
Incubator/Accelerator
S+M Calls for Emerging Tech Co.s to Join Fast Forward
Elite legal services business (LSB), Slaughter and May, is calling for early-to-mid stage companies to join its Fast Forward emerging tech incubator programme, now in …
Legal AI
Wolters Kluwer Partners With Della AI For Contract Insight
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory has launched a partnership with Della, an AI contract analytics software company for corporate legal departments and law firms. For …
Hires
The Law Boutique Hires TransferWise Head of Legal
The Law Boutique (TLB), a ‘Legal Optimisation Company’ that specialises in providing commercial and data protection support, has hired Gordon Youngson (pictured), Head of Legal for …
Facial Recognition
Facial Recognition in the Private Sector: Unmasking the Privacy Issues
By Leonie Power, Partner, and Alexander de Gaye, Associate, in the Privacy team at UK-based law firm Fieldfisher. Introduction What’s in a face? Quite a …
Incubator/Accelerator
Legal Tech Incubators Are Alive + Well Around the World
Despite some fears that the current crisis would kill off legal tech incubators and accelerators, most have still gone ahead ‘as normal’, albeit virtually. Artificial …
Process Cruncher
Factor Hires EY Law’s Ed Sohn as Growth Continues
Factor has hired Ed Sohn from Big Four group, EY Law, to be the process cruncher’s Head of Solutions. The move follows the recent hires …