Serious enterprise software firm Kira Systems are recruiting a Customer Success Manager to be based in London with the company stating that the preferred candidate will have a law degree with legal practice experience. Kira Systems – a ‘graduate company’ from Legal Geek’s start-up map – is based in Toronto and equips enterprises with intuitive, […]
Derek Southall is launching a new venture that will provide a range of services to in house legal teams in relation to innovation, digital, futures, strategy, and technology. Hyperscale Group, founded by Derek Southall, has the support of Gowling WLG, who will use Hyperscale Group as a vehicle to drive forward strategic projects. Derek has […]
When a resource such as the TechCrunch-operated database Crunchbase passes comment on the state of the startup ecosystem, it’s worth paying full attention. In an article last week, Crunchbase declared that based on its studies of 43,008 global companies only 17% of startups have a female founder, and furthermore, there has been nearly no percentage […]
Legal Geek’s aim in 2016 was to make London the best city in the world for starting a LawTech startup. The 500+ delegates who attended our inaugural LawTech Startup Conference last year showed us that the appetite amongst London’s legal industry for achieving this ambition is clearly there and we were super surprised by the international […]
Legal Geek took its first foray into the world of cyber security and data protection on Tuesday 28th March 2017 with a meetup for over 100 LawTech professionals at Campus London in Old Street with LawTech start-ups encouraged to see opportunity not obstacles. The evening, sponsored by new Legal Geek partner Axiom, featured three keynote […]
This is a guest article written by Mark Holmes, the CEO of Waymark Tech. We’re living through a period of rapid regulatory change. Brexit and Donald Trump both promise to rewrite the UK and US legal systems. The result? 2017 will be the ‘Year of RegTech’ – the year when regulation technology proved itself and came […]
RAVN Systems today rolled out the latest tool on its production line of search and knowledge management solutions: the Time Narrative Classification Application, powered by the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform RAVN ACE. The tool aims to better analyse the time taken to carry out a project, lending itself to it the legal sector especially […]
The global company LexisNexis announced the first five participants in its new Silicon Valley legal tech accelerator programme based in the Lex Machina offices in Menlo Park, California. The five finalists – Visabot, TagDox, Separate.us, Ping, and JuriLytics – were selected from a list of 40+ promising startups for the interesting nature of their businesses […]
London-based financial technology company, ClauseMatch, revealed on Wednesday that it is working with Barclays to onboard thousands of the bank’s staff to its online editor platform in 2017. The link-up with Barclays has its origins in ClauseMatch successfully graduating from the inaugural Barclays Accelerator programme in 2014 – the same year in which ClauseMatch won […]
