News Roundup
News Roundup: Litera, Seal, Evisort, Knowable + Legal Week NY
It’s been quite a week with the Legal Week show in New York dominating Artificial Lawyer’s schedule (…and there was the small matter of the …
Smart contracts
Gartner Shows Strong Support for Smart Contracts
Gartner, the influential research organisation often looked to by the legal tech community for validation, has come out with strong support for smart contracts. They …
Hires
LinkedIn Makes Formal Statement on UpCounsel
Social media giant LinkedIn has finally made a formal statement on the UpCounsel saga. ‘Last year, a handful of UpCounsel employees accepted offers to join …
Uncategorised
UpCounsel – Round Three: ‘LinkedIn Not Acquiring’ – Updated
Artificial Lawyer understands that UpCounsel did seek an arrangement with LinkedIn, as far back as October 2019, however, in information shared by Raj Abhyanker, of …
Legal AI
M&A Non-Competition Provisions: A Kira Systems Deal Points Study
You may already know that Kira Systems’ state-of-the-art machine learning technology automatically identifies and extracts information from contracts and comes with over 900 built-in provision …
Standards
SALI Reaches Legal Standards Milestone With LMSS 1.0
The Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry Alliance (SALI) has announced today at the LegalTech Conference in New York that it has completed the final …
Crypto Regulation
Cryptocurrencies ‘Can Be Treated As Property’ – UK Courts
For some time lawyers have been wondering whether cryptocurrencies (crypto assets) can be considered as real property under the law. This matters because without legal …
Market Trends
UpCounsel – Additional Info Comes To Light – A LinkedIn Connection…?
Early yesterday, Artificial Lawyer brought you the news that UpCounsel, a web-based marketplace for legal services, which raised significant funds including $12 million in 2018, …
Market Trends
Another One Bites the Dust… UpCounsel To Shut Down Site
Breaking news: UpCounsel, a web-based marketplace for legal services, which is understood to have raised $12 million in 2018, is to shut down its site. …
Killing Time
Killing Time – How To End The Billable Hour + Liberate Legal Tech
A lot of people agree that the billable hour’s time is up. The problem is there doesn’t appear to be a clear path to reaching …