Smart contracts
Smart Contract Pioneer Monax Launches Private Beta Platform
Monax, one of a handful of smart contract pioneers focused on the legal sector, has announced the private beta launch of its Monax Platform. The …
Legal Tech + Diversity
Linklaters Launches ‘Global Women in Tech’ Group in Diversity Drive
International law firm Linklaters has launched its own Global Women in Tech working group to drive change at the firm and reduce gender imbalance among its legal …
Legal Tech Adoption
‘Lawyers, Be Truly Curious About Legal Tech’ – Kerry Westland, Addleshaw Goddard
Are You Curious Enough? By Kerry Westland, Head of Innovation + Legal Technology, at international law firm, Addleshaw Goddard. Having just come out the other …
Smart Contracts + IoT
Clause Creates Smart Contract Template For IoT Devices
Smart contract pioneer, Clause, has developed a template self-executing contract that allows users to connect to a small and low cost IoT device. This will …
Legal AI Market
‘Things Will Continue As Normal’ After Luminance’s Lynch Charged With Fraud
Mike Lynch, the man behind the pioneering legal AI company, Luminance, has been charged with committing fraud in the US. The charges stem from the sale …
Getting Real With Blockchain
BP + Shell Back VAKT Blockchain Platform in Sign of Confidence
In what is an important sign of confidence in the value of blockchain technology, petroleum giants BP and Shell have backed the launch of VAKT, …
Legal AI Case Analysis
LexisNexis Launches AI/Ravel-Powered ‘Context’ Analytics System
LexisNexis has today launched Context, a new AI-powered component of the recently deployed Lexis Analytics suite, and what the company says is a ‘groundbreaking’ capability that …
Litigation Tech
Eversheds Sutherland Launches Litigation Platform With Opus 2
International law firm Eversheds Sutherland has launched CaseReady, a secure cloud-based litigation platform in conjunction with legal tech company Opus 2. The platform ‘enables lawyers, clients …
Legal AI Market
Will Amazon + Big Tech Devour the Legal AI Sector?
Amazon is to start selling a NLP/machine learning software service that will analyse and extract information from medical records. The new service is called Amazon …
AI + Cybersecurity
Law + Disorder: Law Firms, AI and Cybersecurity
Law and Disorder: Firms in the Firing Line By Max Heinemeyer, Director of Threat Hunting at cyber security company, Darktrace Since July 2018, an increasing number …