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 …
Client Win
ACC Europe Adopts HighQ In Useful Client Win
The European chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) has chosen to adopt HighQ – now part of Thomson Reuters. While perhaps not the …
Market Trends
As Orrick Becomes 3rd Big Law Investor, Will Reynen Court Dominate as the Gatekeeper of Legal Tech?
Never before has a single legal tech company received so much direct financial support from Big Law firms, nor has one company gained a position …
Incubator/Accelerator
ThoughtRiver, Lexoo, SeedLegals Join Tech Nation’s Upscale Programme
Three legal sector companies have joined Tech Nation’s Upscale growth programme: legal AI pioneer ThoughtRiver, legal doc provider SeedLegals, and Lexoo, the ALSP. (And, if …
Managed Services
Unlocking Revenue Opportunities Via Strategic Legal Partnerships
By ThoughtRiver Managed legal services have been widely hailed as the arrival of the new model of legal services provider. Forward-thinking law firms have enthusiastically …
Contract Analysis
Opus 2 Evolves Offering, Moves Into NLP-Driven Contract Analysis + More
You may have already heard of the Opus 2 platform, probably in relation to litigation work. What you may not have heard – and Artificial …