Shruti Ajitsaria tells Legal Geek the vision behind Fuse (A&O)

Shruti Ajitsaria, Head of Fuse at Allen & Overy, talks about the tech innovation space she is heading up and her own personal interest in technological innovation within the legal sector. The connection between law and technology is suddenly undeniable; particularly over the last year, we have become accustomed to seeing lawyers around the world […]

Free travel grants for startups we meet on our RoadTrip

Legal Geek is excited to collaborate with NextLaw Labs to support the growing legal tech ecosystem in Europe. We are both committed to supporting start-ups that set out to transform the practice of law with technology. This tour of Europe, in Betty, a 1971 VW camper van, sets out to meet and showcase as many startups as […]

High Five Alert: RAVN Systems acquired by US-based iManage

RAVN Systems has been acquired by US-based document management solutions provider iManage, whose clients include more than 2000 law firms and 500 corporate legal departments. London-based RAVN Systems was founded in 2010 and offers cognitive computing solutions allowing clients to find, interpret and extract information from documents. What was the chat like on Twitter?    […]

Legal Geek on the WannaCry global hack

It’s nearly 10 days after the global WannaCry hack, and at Legal Geek we’re scratching our heads to work out what the real danger to emerge from this episode has really been. Is it the malware which affected 150 countries or the thinly-founded speculation and blame game which has followed? In light of that thought, […]

Legal Geek’s “Law For Good” program is a Finalist at LALY Awards

It is a great privilege to be shortlisted for the LALY 2017 award to reflect the hard work Helen has done through our ‘Law for Good’ program – HIGH FIVES. The awards ceremony takes place in London on Wednesday, 5 July 2017. The awards will be presented by Baroness Doreen Lawrence and will recognise the achievements […]

May 14th – The Day of London LawTech Incubators

 On 14 May, the international law firm Allen & Overy opened the application process for its London-based tech innovation space “Fuse”. A&O are seeking mature and start-up tech companies that have synergies with their business to work alongside them as part of “Fuse”, which is slated to open in September 2017. A&O is starting Fuse […]

Kira Systems seeking Customer Success Manager in London

  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, […]

New venture: Hyperscale Group

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 […]

Is the gender gap improving, consolidating or stagnating in LawTech?

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 […]

LawTech is no respecter of geographical boundaries

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 […]