Legal Tech M&A
As Predicted, Litera’s Owner, Hg, Has Bought Septeo
As Artificial Lawyer wrote in October, Hg – the owner of Litera – has made a major investment in international legal tech and legal sector …
Legal Tech Marketplace
How Does the Thomson Reuters Marketplace Work?
Yesterday, Artificial Lawyer covered the news that Thomson Reuters had launched its own marketplace, which will promote not just products and templates built within the company, but also market other legal tech companies and the services of professional firms, such as KPMG. But how does it all work? Artificial Lawyer dug into the Terms & Conditions to find out. …
Legal Data Sharing
IBA + Jus Mundi Launch Arbitration Data Sharing Initiative
The International Bar Association (IBA) and legal tech company Jus Mundi have launched a worldwide collaborative partnership to collect non-confidential commercial arbitration awards and make them easily accessible to the global legal community, in what is an important data-sharing project. …
Marketplace
TR Launches Marketplace for Templates, Services + Tech – KPMG Involved
In a surprise move, Thomson Reuters has today announced two new offerings, Thomson Reuters Marketplace and Thomson Reuters Legal Home. For example, it sells templates …
Legal AI M&A
Onit Buys AI Doc Analysis Company, Targets Review Work
Legal tech platform, Onit, which has a focus on enterprise workflow solutions and CLM, has bought legal AI company McCarthyFinch, as it embarks on a major expansion drive into the doc review market. …
Inhouse
Revealed: What the Business Actually Wants from Legal
Introduction to a new eBook, by Richard Mabey, CEO of Juro. We survey in-house lawyers every year at Juro, and on the surface, in-house lawyers …
Product Walk Through
Della AI – Q&A Capability: Product Walk Through
Della AI is a doc analysis company that has a strong focus on allowing lawyers to ask questions in natural language and get back a clear answer. The idea is that in real life, lawyers don’t think about contracts in terms of ‘extracting clause X or Y’, but rather just want to find the answer to a query. …
Real World Problems
The Probate System is Unfit for Purpose, But Can Tech Help?
A new survey has shown just how unfit for purpose the current probate system is – an area of legal work that at some point …
M&A
Epiq Buys Hyperion Legal Ops + Tech Consultancy
Epiq, the multi-stream legal services company, has acquired Hyperion Global Partners, a global business and technology advisory practice for legal operations and transformation. The acquisition …
CLM + AI
CLM Platform Agiloft Boosts Its AI Doc Analysis Capabilities
Growing CLM platform, Agiloft, has boosted its NLP analysis capabilities, improving the ability to train the system which now recognises close to 100 legal concepts across multiple contract types. The move shows that the company’s AI strategy is very much to build its own NLP applications that will become an intrinsic part of the platform. …