Legal Week - IT - Law Firm Technology

PwC seals major US firm alliance in next step up for Big Four's ambitions in law

Ben Wheway — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 07:01:22 EST

Deal will see PwC and Fragomen team up to jointly pitch for work from multinational clients

Herbert Smith Freehills pilots litigation analytics platform to assist with case planning

Andrew Messios — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 06:29:23 EST

The international firm has partnered with analytics platform Solomonic to assess Commercial Court decisions and assist in future case planning

Linklaters set to roll out firmwide crowdsourcing project to develop innovative ideas

Andrew Messios — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:09:30 EST

The magic circle firm is the latest to seek ideas from its lawyers and staff

HSF lawyers develop in-house cyber platform to assist clients with security breaches

Andrew Messios — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:22:44 EST

The firm has developed software that identifies data and clients affected in a breach

CMS makes legal services and tech push with dedicated innovation team launch

Krishnan Nair — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:56:22 EST

New group to help join up the legal services and tech offerings of legacy firms.

Clifford Chance targets US growth for tech offering with hire of New York CEO for innovation unit

Christine Simmons — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00:21 EST

New York-based Jeroen Plink will lead the magic circle firm's new Applied Solutions unit

Ashurst to open new alternative legal services centre in Australia

Anna Zhang — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:00:09 EST

The initial team will comprise six to eight legal analysts and business services roles

Fieldfisher's alternative legal solutions head Georgiou to return to Ashurst

Rose Walker — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:59:09 EST

Chris Georgiou, CEO of Fieldfisher's Condor offering, to become co-head of Ashurst Advance

Ripple GC leaves blockchain network to join crypto-payments startup as legal chief

Andrew Messios — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:09:19 EST

Former PayPal and eBay lawyer takes new GC role amid legal claims against blockchain network

Legal artificial intelligence firm Kira raises $50m in first external funding round

Roy Strom — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:00:08 EST

Tech provider to firms including CC, A&O and Freshfields receives nine-figure valuation with first influx of capital

Transatlantic Legal Awards 2018 Transatlantic Independent Law Firm of the Year: Garrigues

Legal Week — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 02:52:59 EST

Full details of the Independent Law Firm of the Year category at the Transatlantic Legal Awards 2018

Freshfields' former Manchester pioneer on moving to DWF and 're-engineering' law firms

Krishnan Nair — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 05:52:11 EST

Anup Kollanethu on becoming DWF's new CEO of managed services

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Chambers Innovation: Serjeants' Inn

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:44:13 EST

Full details of the Chambers Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Future of Legal Services Innovation (Large Private Practice): Addleshaw Goddard

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:42:46 EST

Full details of the Future of Legal Services Innovation (Large Private Practice) category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Future of Legal Services Innovation (Mid-Sized Private Practice): Griffin Law

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:41:23 EST

Full details of the Future of Legal Services Innovation (Mid-Sized Private Practice) category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Future of Legal Services Innovation (In-house Legal Operations): Coventry Building Society

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:36:32 EST

Full details of the Future of Legal Services Innovation (In-house Legal Operations) category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Legal Services Procurement Innovation: Ofqual

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:35:18 EST

Full details of the Legal Services Procurement Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 AI Innovation: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:34:18 EST

Full details of the AI Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 International Law Firm Innovation: Ogier

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:33:17 EST

Full details of the International Law Firm Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 ABS Innovation: Richmond Chambers

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:29:04 EST

Full details of the ABS Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Rising Star Innovation: Kerry Westland, Addleshaw Goddard

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:27:49 EST

Full details of the Rising Star Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Marketing Innovation: Mills & Reeve

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:26:49 EST

Full details of the Marketing Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Business Development Innovation: Foot Anstey

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:24:46 EST

Full details of the Business Development Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 PR, Communications and Brand Awareness Innovation: Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE) and Stand Agency

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:23:56 EST

Full details of the PR, Communications and Brand Awareness Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Client Management Innovation: Ward Hadaway

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:23:00 EST

Full details of the Client Management Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Knowledge Management Innovation: Macfarlanes

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:19:27 EST

Full details of the Knowledge Management Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 CSR Innovation: Mayer Brown

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:17:54 EST

Full details of the CSR Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 HR Innovation: Shearman & Sterling

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:15:37 EST

Full details of the HR Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Diversity Innovation: Bird & Bird

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:14:02 EST

Full details of the Diversity Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Training Innovation: Shire Pharmaceuticals

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:12:43 EST

Full details of the Training Innovation category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Supplier Innovation (Technology): Intapp

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:11:00 EST

Full details of the Supplier Innovation (Technology) category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Supplier Innovation (Services): Fulcrum Global Technologies

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:10:06 EST

Full details of the Supplier Innovation (Services) category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Supplier Innovation (Resource Management): Mason & Cook

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:08:13 EST

Full details of the Supplier Innovation (Resource Management) category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

The Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018: who won what... and why

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:06:39 EST

A full rundown of all the winners at this year's Legal Week Innovation Awards

Legal Week Innovation Awards 2018 Supplier Innovation (Data Management): Advanced Discovery

Legal Week — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:04:38 EST

Full details of the Supplier Innovation (Data Management) category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards

Big Four v Big Law: what EY's Riverview deal means for the managed services market

Roy Strom — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:00:35 EST

EY has become the first of the Big Four to acquire a managed services law firm - but how will it impact the wider legal market?

The rise of the accountants continues: why Riverview's Big Four takeover is a big deal

Nicholas Bruch — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 00:00:25 EST

EY's acquisition of Riverview could accelerate the pace of consolidation involving alternative legal services providers

Clifford Chance launches new legal tech-focused training contract

Hannah Roberts — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 05:48:47 EST

Magic circle firm to take on five trainees with aptitude for fintech, coding and AI

Linklaters and Clydes become first international members of Singapore legal innovation scheme

Anna Zhang — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:02:35 EST

UK duo join local firms in initiative aiming to help legal community adapt to tech change

Linklaters' first-ever head of innovation on new ideas, tech priorities and introducing lawyers to coding

Joseph Evans — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 04:58:02 EST

Shilpa Bhandarkar, Linklaters' first-ever head of innovation, on harvesting the best new ideas from the firm's fee earners

Government cyber unit stresses legal sector threats and urges firms to protect themselves

Krishnan Nair — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 04:26:04 EST

Lawyers acknowledge scale of cyber security threat amid growing need for preventative measures

Global law firms' Africa push to be recognised at Legal Week's African Legal Awards

Legal Week — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:42:33 EST

Baker McKenzie, Hogan Lovells, DLA Piper and White & Case in the running to be named International Law Firm of the Year

Will the rise of artificial intelligence lead to more job cuts at law firms?

Krishnan Nair — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 07:09:43 EST

PwC report argues AI could create more jobs than it displaces over the next 20 years

CC targets 'different mindset and different way of working' with new innovation divisions

Gabrielle Orum Hernández — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 04:12:40 EST

Magic circle firm identifies opportunity to 'monetise experience in tech solutions'

Eversheds Sutherland seals deal to use Slaughters-backed AI platform Luminance

Hannah Roberts — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:47:08 EST

Firm becomes latest to adopt artificial intelligence platform for M&A due diligence contract review

'New law' leader UnitedLex targets UK law firm tie-up on back of major US deals

Ben Wheway — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:21:07 EST

Legal services provider sets sights on UK market after deal to take on 300 staff from US firm

Gowling WLG aims to demystify blockchain with free coffee app

Krishnan Nair — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 07:30:56 EST

Firm launches new incentives scheme to educate staff on blockchain basics with hot drink tokens

CrowdJustice founder Julia Salasky on democratising access to law, changing case funding and Stormy Daniels vs Trump

Georgina Stanley — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:29:40 EST

CrowdJustice founder Julia Salasky - Legal Week's Outstanding Innovator 2018 - on building a platform that has raised more than £7m from 200,000 people worldwide to fund hundreds of cases in the UK and US

'Billable hours do not help innovation' the tech conundrums law firms are grappling with

Legal Week — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:09:26 EST

Speakers from KPMG, Freshfields and Baker McKenzie discuss top tech issues at the Legal Week Strategic Technology Forum 2018

The Middle East Legal Awards 2018 - who won what, and why...

Legal Week — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:56:05 EST

All the details of the winners at this year's Middle East Legal Awards in Dubai

Nokia adopts AI technology for contract review as legal chief takes new business-focused role

Anna Ward — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:36:38 EST

Chief legal officer appointed president of Nokia Technologies as telecoms giant considers using AI to analyse law firm bills

'Our platform reduces lawyer time' ex-Linklaters adviser wins £13m investment for AI company

Hannah Roberts — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 06:44:11 EST

Goldman Sachs and Temasek invest in Lewis Liu's Eigen Technologies

SRA issues warning after Simmons London corporate partner named in scam emails

Joseph Evans — Wed, 16 May 2018 09:00:19 EST

Scam emails sent to members of the public claiming to be from Simmons corporate partner David Parkes

Reed Smith to give lawyers billing credits for work on innovation and technology projects

Dan Packel — Tue, 15 May 2018 15:09:00 EST

New initiative gives lawyers up to 50 hours of billable hour credits for time working on new innovations

A&O grows Peerpoint roster by 50% with New York and Frankfurt launches on the cards

Rose Walker — Fri, 11 May 2018 09:23:46 EST

Firm expands flexible lawyer service with former Marks & Spencer GC among new recruits

Charles Russell Speechlys makes 'significant' investment in City HQ in agile working push

Rose Walker — Fri, 04 May 2018 05:12:38 EST

Firm moves disputes team into newly fitted-out floor in effort to boost collaboration

Clifford Chance to launch new Asia support and innovation hub in Singapore

Anna Zhang — Wed, 02 May 2018 20:30:37 EST

Firm to recruit tech and project management specialists to support Asia-Pacific operations

'I hope this is the start of something bigger' - Barclays UK GC Pagni on 'turbo-charging' technology in law

Anna Ward — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:47:46 EST

Barclays UK GC Stephanie Pagni on the bank's launch of a law-tech hub and what she expects from partner law firms

EDF Energy cuts back UK legal panel by 40% as two firms win new appointments

Anna Ward — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:18:19 EST

Energy company brings in fixed fee 'shopping list' as panel is streamlined to eight firms

Allen & Overy selects five new companies to join innovation hub at firm's City HQ

Rose Walker — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:50:39 EST

Five companies will join Fuse next month including Kira Systems

Half of London's biggest law firms believe artificial intelligence tech will lead to job cuts

Joseph Evans — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 04:31:15 EST

Law firm real estate report finds finds concerns over AI impact as firms shrug off Brexit blues

Reed Smith launches technology innovation training programme for new associates

Dan Packel — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:00:05 EST

Firm to start training lawyers to be tech innovators from their first day

A&O, CC and Clydes among firms on board as Barclays launches first London legal technology hub

Anna Ward — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:32:54 EST

Bank to open first dedicated centre for legal-tech entrepreneurs in Notting Hill Gate

A&O's new litigation head sets out plan to create 'premier IP practice amongst global elite'

Rose Walker — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 05:18:09 EST

Incoming global litigation head Karen Seward on tech, talent and building on the firm's recent run of IP partner hires

Ashurst bolsters tech credentials with hire of GE Capital International IT director

Caroline Hill — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:01:00 EST

Firm makes GE Capital hire as long-serving chief technology officer prepares to leave

SRA issues warning after Norton Rose Fulbright London lawyer named in hoax emails

Joseph Evans — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:22:25 EST

Emails using London lawyer's name claimed to relate to inheritance payment following air crash

CMS partners with GlaxoSmithKline to create digital academy

Alex Berry — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:40:09 EST

New initiative aims to help pharma giant's in-house lawyers keep on top of emerging digital trends

'We don't regret the road not taken for a second' - Wachtell and Macfarlanes on why bigger isn't always better

Georgina Stanley — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 06:14:11 EST

From client demands to acquisitive rivals and alternative providers, Macfarlanes' Charles Martin and Wachtell's Adam Emmerich discuss the key challenges for independent law firms

Reed Smith to launch legal services hub in Leeds

Joseph Evans — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:14:08 EST

Firm to open second low-cost centre to support EMEA network

Clifford Chance aims to break away from 'terribly unpredictable' pricing with new AI tool

Anna Ward — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 05:46:44 EST

New tech helps to work out how long lawyers should spend on tasks to better predict pricing

Magic circle firms double down on legal smart contracts

Gabrielle Orum Hernández — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:25:21 EST

Allen & Overy, Freshfields and Slaughter and May are the latest firms to link up with the Accord Project to develop industry-wide standards for legal smart contracts.

Allen & Overy chief technology officer quits firm to join UBS

Rose Walker — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:19:48 EST

Ian Storer to join the Swiss bank in May after more than a decade at A&O

Electronic discovery concerns surround evolving electronic communications

Epiq — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 03:18:56 EST

Sponsored by: Epiq Methods of communicating electronically change rapidly. While traditional email communication is still widely used, more