Taylor Wessing engages machine learning provider Brainspace for UK disputes Legal Business In a push into disputes innovation, Taylor Wessing has started working with legal tech provider Brainspace for UK litigation analysis.
The arms race – City rivals ramp up AI tech for the battles ahead Matthew Field After a 2016 inflection point for automation, which City players are going beyond the hype and pushing ahead in the…
Deus ex machina: Linklaters signs up Lloyds and RBS to ring-fencing software as firm develops brace of AI products Matthew Field Linklaters has launched a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) products in the latest innovation push for the Magic Circle firm,…
Deus ex machina: Linklaters signs up Lloyds and RBS to ring-fencing software Matthew Field Linklaters has launched a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) products in the latest innovation push for the Magic Circle firm,…
Money machines: SFO spending on AI tops Slaughters as investigators use software in Rolls-Royce case Matthew Field The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is using artificial intelligence technology from RAVN Systems to work on its most important cases…
9,000 clients vote: BLP, Travers and DLA Piper win plaudits for innovation but City giants miss the mark Legal Business In a margin-conscious environment it is tough for advisers to catch a client’s eye, but according to flagship research into…
The bleeding edge – The legal tech debate Mark McAteer Cutting-edge legal tech is no longer an optional extra for law firms. In our latest round table with McCann FitzGerald,…
A buzzword, sure, but one with edge Guest Blog Macfarlanes’ Charles Martin reviews Heidi Gardner’s much-discussed new book on collaboration in professional services Collaboration within a law firm is…
The new black – the spin and substance behind collaboration Sarah Downey Collaboration has become the new innovation – the quality clients are supposed to want and progressive law firms strive to…
Legal tech landscape remains ‘highly fragmented’, Law Society report claims Legal Business Awareness of cutting edge legal tech remains limited among senior managers at law firms with a quarter unaware of most…
Former Ashurst securities head emerges at Fieldfisher to launch alternative legal business Legal Business Fieldfisher has formed a new business focused on offering alternative legal services aided by document-reading software. The new business unit,…
RPC splashes more than £3.5m on software for loss making consulting arm, LLPs reveal Legal Business RPC’s consulting arm will spend more than £3.5m on its acquisition of Cambridge software company Marriott Sinclair, purchased in July…
‘Innovation is happening’: Mishcon launches legal tech start-up scheme Legal Business Mishcon de Reya has become the latest firm to embrace innovation in legal tech, today (16 January) launching an incubator…
Efficiency drive: Freshfields shakes up London secretarial staff roles Legal Business Personal assistants at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London have been offered voluntary redundancy or the chance to apply for a…
‘Not just blue sky thinking’: Linklaters launches innovation group and pilots coding training Legal Business Linklaters has set up a partner-led global innovation team to oversee the firm’s use of technology, including plans to teach…
Slaughters and Addleshaws follow Simmons in developing fintech funds Legal Business Slaughter and May and Addleshaw Goddard are targeting the fintech market, following in Simmons & Simmons’ footsteps to develop funds…
On the bus – Inside the Norton Rose Fulbright masterplan Legal Business NRF chief executive Peter Martyr defied expectations to reinvent Norton Rose as a progressive global player over more than a…
Former DLA Piper and Linklaters chief Tony Angel takes advisory role at legal start-up Tagdox Kathryn McCann Tony Angel, formerly Linklaters managing partner and senior partner and global chairman of DLA Piper, has taken on a new…
‘Unprecedented applications in the legal industry’: Dentons’ Nextlaw backs two legal tech startups with funding and training Legal Business Nextlaw Labs, the legal tech platform launched by Dentons last year, has invested in two legal startups, alongside venture funding…
The rise of the machines: Slaughters latest to join rush to embrace artificial intelligence Legal Business Matthew Field reports on the latest from Global 100 players in legal tech Long regarded as the most conservative of…
