Big Four Strategy
PwC NewLaw Boosts Team As Legal Function Advisory Service Grows
The NewLaw arm of Big Four firm PwC, has hired Alan Angell, a partner from pioneering City boutique Fincap Law, to be part of its …
Platformisation
Reynen Court Appoints Bridgewater Hedge Fund Deputy GC To Board
Legal tech ‘App Store’ Reynen Court has brought in Sylvia Khatcherian formerly at Morgan Stanley and currently Deputy General Counsel at one of the world’s largest hedge funds, Bridgewater …
Contract Drafters
Contractbook Launches Client-Facing Contract Drafter Into Packed Market
Contractbook, the contract management platform, has launched a new questionnaire-based drafting tool aimed at helping clients rapidly create a wide range of contracts, and that can …
Legal Innovators
Legal Innovators: Isabel Parker, Chief Legal Innovation Officer, Freshfields
What has it been like building an innovation team inside a law firm? And what really is innovation in a legal business context? These are …
Event
Thomson Reuters Legal & Technology Procurement Conference 2019
Event Announcement: Thomson Reuters is delighted to bring you this year’s Legal & Technology Procurement Conference, which will be held on Tuesday, 5th November at etc. …
GC Survey
Tech Company GC Survey: Scaling Legal Processes Is The Top Priority
A survey of general counsel (GC) at high growth tech companies by Juro and US law firm, Wilson Sonsini, has found that scaling up legal …
Legal Tech + Recruitment
Deloitte Legal Highlights Use Of Its AI Tech To Recruit Young Talent
Deloitte Legal is holding out the use of its own legal technology, in particular an AI-supported CLM platform it built itself called dTrax, as a highlight …
Incubator/Accelerator
Latest LexisNexis Accelerator Cohort Has Strong A2J Focus
Five out of the nine legal tech companies in the latest iteration of the LexisNexis accelerator in the US have an access to justice (A2J) aspect, …
Female Founders
Women In Law, Female Founders: Mariana Hagström – Avokaado
Welcome to the latest interview in our Women in Law – Female Founders series by Dana Denis-Smith, CEO of Obelisk Support. This time Dana speaks …
Knowledge Discovery
Fenwick Elliott Picks Ayfie’s Computational Linguistic Tech for Knowledge Discovery
Construction and energy law firm Fenwick Elliott is working with text analytics provider Ayfie to enhance its knowledge discovery capabilities, in what is an important client …