GenAI + Legal Ops
Jonathan Williams Joins Leya For Legal Ops Push
Jonathan Williams, who most recently was Head of Legal Ops at Calame, has joined pioneering genAI startup Leya. The move is part of a wider …
Incubators
AOS’s Fuse Incubator Calls For Applications
The Fuse legal tech / fintech incubator, which is part of A&O Shearman (AOS), is calling for applications to join its latest cohort – the …
Legal Tech M&A
CLM Agiloft Buys Screens, TermScout Will Continue
In a very genAI-focused move, CLM pioneer Agiloft has bought startup Screens, the brainchild of Otto Hanson and Evan Harris. The founders’ sister company, TermScout, …
ediscovery
Epiq Launches ‘AI Labs’ + 90% Faster eDiscovery
Multi-capability legal tech group, Epiq, is upping the ante on its AI offering, especially for eDiscovery, with the launch of ‘Epiq AI Labs’. It is …
Tech Spending
Tech Spending To Grow 9% Globally, Driven By AI
New data from ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has estimated that IT spending on a global basis rose in 2024 by 8.3% – a …
Legal Tech Funding
Legal Tech Burn Rate Dips For 1st Time Since 2018
New data from Legal Complex has shown that the burn rate for legal tech companies dropped in 2024, the first time it has done so …
Gov AI Plans
Sovereign AI Plan Could Mean £££ For UK Legal Tech
Following on from the earlier story about the UK Government’s new AI Action Plan (see here), there is one item that this site has spotted …
Gov AI Plans
Will UK AI Action Plan Help Legal + Legal Tech Sectors?
Today, the UK’s Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has announced the formal launch of the ‘AI Opportunities Action Plan’, a wide-ranging State-backed effort to drive …
Legal Speed
What If Lawyers Were Rewarded For Speed?
‘I feel the need, the need for speed!’ Tom Cruise exclaimed in Top Gun, but do lawyers and their clients feel the same way? And …
Associates
Will Law Firms Need Fewer Junior Associates?
New data from Thomson Reuters suggests that law firms now have fewer junior associates than before, as a proportion of the total fee earners. Meanwhile, …