April Fools
‘Legal AI Systems Unite, Give Birth To First True Artificial Lawyer’
At precisely 1.11AM (GMT) today (April Fool’s Day) legal AI systems around the world united and ‘gave birth’ to the first ever ‘super intelligence’, or …
Hackathon
Ashurst Holds 1st Legal Tech Hackathon, Partners With BRYTER
Global legal services business, Ashurst, will hold its first ever legal tech Hackathon on 10th/11th May at its Frankfurt office. As part of this event …
Legal Tech M&A
vLex Buys Justis Legal Publisher, Will Expand Use of AI Research Tools
Breaking News: vLex today has announced the acquisition of Justis Publishing, the UK-based online legal publisher with clients in over 40 countries. Terms of the deal were not …
Legal Data
ICLR Launches Legal Data Research Lab To Drive Innovation + Tool Building
In an important step forward for legal data sharing to help drive innovation in the key UK market the ICLR (the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting) …
incubator
Allen & Overy’s FUSE Tech Space Welcomes HighQ + 3 Other New Members
Allen & Overy has announced the new cohort members to enter Fuse, their collaborative tech innovation space. Starting in May 2019, the four new companies …
Legal AI Investment
Breaking News: DocuSign Invests $15m In Seal Software Legal AI Co.
Breaking News: DocuSign has today announced a $15 million investment in legal AI company Seal Software, which brings combined investment into the corporate-focused AI company so far to …
Legal AI Market Growth
Legal AI Market to Grow 36% Per Year, Says Market Research Report
A market research report has published data suggesting that the global legal AI market will grow at 35.9% per year/CAGR in terms of revenue between …
Legal AI
How Slaughter and May Is Making Use of Legal AI Across The Firm
Slaughter and May (S+M) recently set out how it is making use of legal AI technology across the firm in a talk at Oxford University’s Saïd …
Legal AI
Legal AI Capability Helps Clifford Chance to Pick iManage
It looks like one of several reasons why global legal services business, Clifford Chance, has chosen iManage as its DMS after an 18 month evaluation …
Legal Tech Hire
Ayfie Adds Lawyer to Management As It Expands Legal Market Push
Text analytics company, Ayfie, has hired US lawyer Jeanne Somma for the newly created role of Legal Insights Executive and Counsel, as part of a …