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. …
LTM
Legal Transaction Management Software is Finally a Thing
‘Someone’s going to do this one day,’ is probably the most frustrating comment I’ve received after a product demo. It simultaneously acknowledges the merit of the concept while offhandedly dismissing the ability to execute it. But it was one of first comments my co-founder, Sahil Zaman, and I got when we started talking about the concept for our company, Closing Folders. …
Smart contracts
ChainLink: Solving the Smart Contract Fiat Money Problem
Smart contracts that operate via a blockchain have one little problem: you can’t normally use British pounds, dollars or Yen (i.e fiat money), to conduct business with them. Instead you have to use a cryptocurrency, something that not everyone wants to do. …
News Wrap
LegalTech/AI Wrap-Up, Feat: Barclays, Diligen, BLS + Luminance
Always plenty of news coming out of the legal AI and wider legal tech world, so here is another quick wrap-up of what’s important. …
Platformisation
Beyond eDiscovery: Relativity’s Legal Tech ‘App Store’ Strategy
Artificial Lawyer recently caught up with Shawn Gaines, the Director of Product and Community Marketing, at ediscovery platform Relativity and asked him if he could tell us some more about the company’s ambitious growth strategy to create a ‘legal tech app store’. …
Smart contracts
Tezos Foundation Funds Smart Contract Project with Clause
Blockchain developer the Tezos Foundation has announced that it will issue a undisclosed sum as a grant to Clause to develop a smart legal contract layer on top of its own Tezos blockchain. …
Legal Knowledge
Meet Knowlex, the Belgian Legal Tech + KM Pioneer
Artificial Lawyer is always keen to hear about new legal tech companies, especially from markets that don’t get a lot of coverage, and so it was great to catch up with Nico Del Rio, Manager, at Knowlex, a Belgian legal tech pioneer. …
Legal Tech
UK Gov Leads Legal Tech Trade Mission to Austria + Switzerland
Following an earlier success in relation to fintech, the British Government is leading a legal tech trade mission to Austria and Switzerland. …
Blockchain
HSF + IBM Build Australian National Blockchain for Smart Contracts
Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), IBM and tech network Data61 have formed a consortium to build the Australian National Blockchain (ANB) – the country’s first cross-industry, …