Courts + Legal Tech
How Africa’s Courtrooms Are Embracing Legal Technology
How Africa’s Courtrooms Became As Advanced As Anywhere In The World By Jon McNerney, CEO, CaseLines At the beginning of the year, we launched our first significant …
Legal Tech Education
HighQ Partners With BPP Law School For Legal Tech Education
Legal data collaboration platform, HighQ, and London-based BPP Law School, have partnered together for a programme to educate law students in the use of legal …
Legal Market Change
The Day After: Thoughts On The EY / Thomson Reuters LMS Deal
Many readers will have seen the news that Artificial Lawyer published last night about the signing of the deal between Big Four firm, EY, and …
WOW!
Deal Signed – EY Buys Thomson Reuters’ Legal Managed Services + AL View
Breaking News – It’s happened – EY has bought Thomson Reuters’ Legal Managed Services…! The EY announcement is below if you’d like to read the comments …
Legal Tech Investment
Tech ‘Leading’ Firms Are Most Profitable – Wolters Kluwer Survey
A survey of around 700 lawyers in the US and Europe has found that legal services businesses that generally are seen as ‘leading’ with legal …
Legal Innovation
Global Law Firm BCLP Launches ‘Innovation Champions’ Project
Global law firm, BCLP, has celebrated its first anniversary since its transatlantic merger by launching an Innovation Champions programme that will encourage lawyers and support …
Smart contracts
Clause Has ‘Grand Opening’ As Smart Contract Co. Welcomes All
Smart contract pioneer, Clause, has announced that on 16th April it will formally move out of Beta and ‘open for business’, where it will begin …
Legal AI Hiring
AI Pioneer Eigen Hires First VP of Engineering, Moves Into New Offices
AI review and analysis company, Eigen Technologies, has hired its first ever VP of Engineering following a major search. The new hire is Darren Clarke, who …
Legal Tech Investment
Around $1bn Invested in 2018 Into Legal Tech/NewLaw Companies – Investec
Research by investment bank, Investec, has found that around $1bn was invested into legal tech and related NewLaw businesses in 2018 alone (see below), at …
AI + Litigation Funding
Litigation Finance Group Apex Launches With Legal AI Co. CourtQuant
Apex Litigation Finance (Apex) has today announced its entry into the litigation funding market via a partnership with legal AI pioneer CourtQuant. The AI analysis provided …