AI + Patents
YC-Backed &AI Raises $6.5m, Launches AI Agent for Patent Work
&AI, a new legal tech startup focused on patent workflows and AI agents, has raised $6.5m in a seed round, with Y Combinator backing the …
M&A
Litera Buys Peppermint + CEO Marwaha Interview
In what is Litera’s largest acquisition since Kira, the ever-growing legal tech group has bought Peppermint Technology, the well-known Microsoft partner and developer of the …
ABS
Private Equity Buys A Law Firm…What Next?
It may seem like science fiction in some markets, but in England a private equity fund is busy buying up law firms and has formed …
Notaries
Docusign Launches Notary On-Demand Service
There are a lot of things you can get on-demand these days, now Docusign is launching a ‘Notary on-Demand’ service that will hook you up …
Arbitration
Maya Markovich Joins AAA ICDR Institute For A2J Push
Maya Markovich, the well-known access to justice (A2J) campaigner, has joined the American Arbitration Association’s (AAA) International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Institute. The AAA …
Funding
Ivo Bags $16m For AI Contract Review
Ivo, which started out in New Zealand before moving to San Francisco, has announced a $16m Series A funding round that will scale its AI-powered …
Sales Strategies
LexFusion Adds Fides Entity Management To Roster
LexFusion, the outsourced legal tech sales group, has brought Fides, an entity management company, into its stable of clients. In May last year it added …
Legal Efficiency
Paul Hastings Ex-Partner’s Startup To Cut Legal Costs By 75%…!
In an unusual move for a top New York law firm partner, Esther Chiang, who most recently was at Paul Hastings and also spent time …
Funding
Denmark’s Pandektes Bags €2.9m For GenAI Legal Search
Danish legal tech startup Pandektes has secured €2.9m in seed funding for their genAI research platform that helps to ‘navigate legislation, find case law, make …
webinar
‘The Limits of AI’ – Juro Webinar, Feb 26
Artificial Lawyer and Juro are hosting a thought-provoking webinar on Feb 26 at 2PM GMT, on ‘The limits of AI: Are there any legal tasks …