Corona Virus
How Will Covid-19 Impact the Legal Tech Sector?
The UK Government estimates that the peak of the Covid-19 virus will occur in the early summer (i.e. 10 to 14 weeks from now), the …
AI Investment
Eigen Bags $5m From Client ING, Will Partner On New NLP Uses
Financial services and legal sector-focused AI company Eigen Technologies has bagged a $5m investment from ING Ventures – which is a client. The additional funding …
Contract Automation
‘Contract Automation – Start Small, Win Big’ – The New Juro eBook
Introducing the New eBook by Juro: ‘Contract automation – start small, win big‘, by Richard Mabey, CEO and co-founder of Juro. There are tens of …
Algorithmic Bias
Bias In Recruitment Software To Be ‘Illegal’ in New York, Vendors Will Need Bias Audit
A new law by New York’s City Council will in effect make algorithmic bias in recruitment software illegal. It demands that vendors of such candidate …
Covid-19 + Contracts
The Impact of COVID-19 on Contracts – Kira Systems
The current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has seen an increasing number of Chinese businesses seeking exemptions for non-performance or non-compliance under their contracts. The economic effects …
#GLH2020
First GLH Results + Special Report on London Node
Here are the first wave of results for the Global Legal Hackathon (GLH), (see list below), showing the nodes around the world that have reported …
Legal Ops
Linklaters Forms New Legal Ops Group + Starts Ops Grad Scheme
Global law firm, Linklaters, has today launched a new combined Legal Operations function that brings together four existing teams of over 400 people. And, perhaps most significantly, …
Legal AI Adoption
Why Have Lawyers Been Slow to Embrace AI Technology?
By ThoughtRiver With the General Counsel’s team under pressure from all sides to deliver more with less, smart automated technology can provide a solution – …
Litigation OS
LitiGate – the ‘Operating System for the Litigation Process’
LitiGate, an end-to-end platform for litigation, has been working hard since forming in 2018 and is focused on achieving its goal: becoming the Operating System (OS) …
AL Profile
Tom Connor, Matheson, On Idea Sourcing + Creative Confidence
On any given day at Irish law firm Matheson, Tom Connor, Head of the Digital Services Group (DSG), may be found examining a range of …