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 …
APIs
Thomson Reuters Offers APIs For Westlaw Edge + PLC
Thomson Reuters has today announced that data from Westlaw Edge Litigation Analytics and Practical Law will be made available through application programming interfaces (APIs). By leveraging Thomson Reuters Legal Data …
No-Code Platforms
100+ PwC Legal Lawyers To Be Trained on BRYTER No Code Platform
In an important client win for no code, legal automation company, Bryter, over 100 lawyers within the European groups of PwC Legal are to be …
White Label / Legal AI
White & Case Whitelabels LawGeex For Client Contract Review Needs
In what is an important step for the legal AI contract review pioneer, global law firm White & Case is to deploy LawGeex’s software on …