Last year I was 30 minutes into a settlement call with a particularly difficult litigant in person on the other side. The client had given a ballpark figure for settlement and the claimant, one of the client’s customers, was a couple of zeros away from
Will Foulkes and Jermaine Smith are associates at a Top 100 UK law firm Thrings, which primarily act for clients from the South West. I had the pleasure of interviewing Will and Jermaine about their new initiative within the firm: the trainee coding programme. Thrings’
One of the roles of legal technology (Legal Tech) in arbitration is the provision of rapid insight into the results of law and fact scenarios. This allows arbitrators to endorse more reliable settlement approaches. Legal Tech has been used in arbitration for case management such
All businesses are being forced to engage with new technology and use data to optimise their operations. Law firms are no exception. But how should law firms approach software development? And how can law firms engage with data science? Our Global Editor, Becky Baker, discusses
While Europe and the US are seeing a rapid expansion in the legal tech industry, South Korea has just jumped on this tech bandwagon. There are just a handful of legal tech startups and only a few law firms that have explored the possibility of
By Alex Smith, Global Product Management Lead for iManage RAVN According to Gartner, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application development activity by 2024. Similarly, Forrester forecasts that the total spending in low-code will hit $21.2 billion by 2022, representing a compound annual growth
In my last article I argued for the development of a justice API which allows robot lawyers to communicate directly with the court’s computer systems. This would unlock the evolution of robot lawyers in litigation by enabling them to act for — rather than merely
