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. …
ILTACON18
The Power of Sharing: ILTACon 2018
For a conference firmly rooted in AI, blockchain and all things legal tech, I was surprised that the focus of ILTACON 2018 was predominantly human. Human successes, human failures, and human communities in this evolving world of legal tech. …
Smart contracts
Google Extracts Smart Contract Data for Analysis with BigQuery
Google has announced the launch of a system to collect data from the Ethereum blockchain, including data on transactions from self-excecuting contracts. It will operate via its BigQuery enterprise data analysis platform. …
Expert Systems
Irish Firm McCann Launches New Neota Logic Compliance App
Leading Irish law firm, McCann FitzGerald, has added a further Neota Logic-based expert system to its suite of legal tools for clients, this time a Director Compliance …
Pre-Crime
‘Minority Report’ AI System, Intraspexion, Boosts ‘Pre-Crime’ Tech
Preventive risk system, Intraspexion, has increased the capabilities of its ‘pre-crime’ legal review tech. Named by Artificial Lawyer – part in jest, and part seriously …
Legal AI Funding
Kira Systems Bags $50m Investment, Largest Ever for a Legal AI Company
Legal AI pioneer Kira Systems has announced a $50m investment from Insight Venture Partners, making it the largest ever funding of an AI company in this sector, and one that will undoubtedly accelerate the company’s growth. …
Legal Tech
Legal Tech Startup Alacrity Bags Coca-Cola GC for Advisory Board
Legal tech start-up Alacrity Law has announced that Clare Wardle, General Counsel and Company Secretary of Coca Cola European Partners and Rob Dinning, Former General Counsel, Operations & Technology at Barclays Bank, have joined the company’s advisory board. …
Legal Tech R&D
Kennedys Brings India Tech Team Inhouse, Launches ‘Kognitive Computing’
International law firm, Kennedys, has launched a new data science and tech development centre in India after bringing inhouse a team it had been working …
BOTS
Meet Tolley.Ai The World’s First Tax Bot, And Help It To Learn
The tax group within LexisNexis, known as Tolley, has created an NLP-driven, automated tax bot that can answer questions about accounting issues and learn from the feedback you give it. It may prove to be of use to both accountants and lawyers working in this field. …