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 …
AI + KM
Meet QIARK – An AI System That Triages Ideas + Delivers Insight
Meet QIARK, a new AI system that helps organisations to better understand what people think – and which could have some interesting use cases in …
April Fools
‘Post-It Note Shortage Leads Firms To Abandon Legal Innovation’
Law firms have today announced a global moratorium on all legal innovation projects in the wake of the on-going Post-it note shortage that is gripping …
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) …