Legal Geek Europe Road Trip 2017
Legal Geek breaks new ground with first cyber security event
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 […]
2017 will be the year of regtech – but law firms don’t need to worry
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 unveils latest tool to boost accurate time recording
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 […]
LexisNexis announced that 5 legal tech startups are joining its LexMachina accelerator
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 […]
ClauseMatch ties up Barclays contract as online smart document management platform launches
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 […]
Allen & Overy Launches Fuse – Innovation Space for LawTech Startups
Update: Applications for Fuse are now open and close on 12 June 2017. The Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy announced the launch of Fuse, a tech innovation space aimed at accelerating practical solutions to legaltech, regtech and dealtech challenges. From September 2017, the space will allow lawtech startups to work with Allen & Overy’s legal […]
UK Startup appointed to KWM administration role
The UK-based virtual data room platform, Ruby Datum, has been chosen to handle the transfer process of 30 terabytes of information following the high-profile collapse of King & Wood Mallesons’ (KWM) in January. Ruby Datam will be facilitating the extraction, storage and distribution of millions of documents to multiple purchasers following their appointment by administrators […]
Save the Date: Legal Geek Conference 2017 will be on Tuesday 17th October!
The Legal Geek Conference is back! In October 2016, we hosted the first Legal Geek Conference which brought together over 500 attendees from 10 different countries. This year, we are aiming even higher. The Legal Geek Conference 2017 will be on Tuesday 17th October in Shoreditch, London. It’s going to be huge with 1,000+ attendees from […]
Mishcon de Reya and L Marks Launched LawTech Incubator MDR LAB
Mishcon de Reya LLP and L Marks launched MDR LAB, a programme for lawtech startups to help them work within their target market to pilot and improve products and to gain a better understanding of how legal services are provided and where lawyers – and their clients – would benefit from new technologies. Successful applicants will […]
