Legal AI Hire
Nick Thomson of Workshare Joins iManage to lead RAVN AI Team
Nick Thomson, the former Chief Revenue Officer at Workshare has joined iManage as general manager to lead the iManage RAVN AI business. …
AI + RISK ANALYSIS
LEVERTON Branches into Debt Risk Analysis With PE Firm
Legal AI company LEVERTON has announced that it has developed text extraction and analytics capabilities to look for debt risk and financial obligations within Non-Performing Loan (NPL) documents. …
AI + Workflow
Legal AI Co. Ayfie Launches Workflow Management Application
Legal AI and text analysis company ayfie has added an end-to-end workflow management solution to boost its legal production line capabilities. ‘ayfie Accelerator’ can also be used as a stand-alone product. …
Legal Tech Leaders
Legal Tech Leaders: Nick West, CTO at Mishcon de Reya
This is the first in a series of Legal Tech Leader Profiles that focus on people pioneering with legal automation, legal AI systems and data analytics in law firms and inhouse legal teams. …
Smart contracts
Video: OpenLaw Demo of ChainLink Integration in US Dollars
What this video does that we have not seen before is that it shows this approach is not just a theoretical model – this is a real integration, i.e. OpenLaw can do this for real. It works. …
Legal Economics
Legal Bills, Technology and the Weak Buyer Problem
‘Legal departments are no longer places where people can say ‘I have to spend this money’. They have to have a budget and work to it,’ says Wenzel.
‘And the way to start [with financial management] is with collecting data. It is all about quantitative data,’ he adds. …
Legal Tech M&A
Nuix Acquires Ringtail eDiscovery Platform from FTI Consulting
Breaking News: Nuix, a security, risk, and compliance software company, has today acquired the Ringtail eDiscovery software business from FTI Consulting for $55 million in further proof that the legal tech market is red hot at the moment for investment and M&A. …
Legal AI
Meet Author, the New Legal AI System Taking on the World
Meet Author, the new legal AI system that is set to take on the world, created by a group in New Zealand called McCarthyFinch. To find out some more Artificial Lawyer interviewed founder and CEO, Nick Whitehouse, (see below). …
Legal Tech M&A
iManage Acquires Risk/Compliance Co. Elegrity
iManage has today announced the acquisition of business process company Elegrity, that works in the risk and compliance management space. The company, which is around 20 …
Smart Contract Adoption
What the Rocket Lawyer/OpenLaw Smart Contract Deal Means
In what is the most significant sign yet of wide-scale adoption of the technology, online consumer law company, Rocket Lawyer, announced yesterday that it will be partnering with smart contract pioneer OpenLaw and blockchain developer ConsenSys, to roll out a variety of blockchain-based applications, starting off with a ‘Rocket Wallet’ to link to the Ethereum blockchain. …