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Exactly one year ago, I left my previous law firm because the answer to this question was “no.” I worked at a top tier law firm in the traditional sense of the word. It had a strong focus on know-how, combined with the presence of renowned experts in the field. However, as an individual professional, […]

Former attorney of the prominent Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto firm, earner of the highest score of the Japanese bar exam and a graduate from the prestigious Kyoto University, Nozomu founded and is the CEO of LegalForce, Japan’s fastest-growing legaltech startup. LegalForce combines the power of AI with the knowledge of legal professionals to develop the […]

Insa Janßen, LL.M. (UCLA) is Legal Lead at Legal OS. She studied law in Münster and subsequently completed her LL.M. in media law with a focus on negotiation strategy in Los Angeles. Insa Janßen is admitted to the bar in Germany and NYS. She joined Legal OS in December 2020 after working for three years […]

William Dougherty is a Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Associate at Dentons in London and Co-Founder of Capacity. In January 2020, an article on Chambers Student wrote: “…firms were offering 1,357 training contracts per year – and receiving a total of more than 70,000 applications. That translates to a 2% success rate [in respect of the […]

Roman Kaczynski assists law firms and in-house legal departments in their digital transformation. He combines knowledge of the law with practical expertise in legal tech and innovation management to deliver organisational solutions which are adapted to the new realities of the business world. Legal data and analytics are often touted as the future of our […]

Large cuts to legal aid funding resulted in many people being unable to access legal advice when they need it most, leaving the law primarily to those that can afford it. This has meant that many people don’t understand, never mind enforce, the rights that are available to them as tenants. Legal technology is capable […]

Sophiya Volkova is a Legal Technologist at Ashurst and holds an LLB with Honours in Spanish from the University of Edinburgh. She also completed a masters in International Business and Emerging Markets at Edinburgh University Business School and was involved in exploring use cases for Hyperloop implementation in the UK. Sophiya is passionate about technology […]

Approximately 41,000 civil lawsuits are filed each day in the United States. Ninety-seven percent of these cases circulate at the circuit and the county level. This represents a veritable goldmine of information about the litigation process. There is just one small problem. Very few states have integrated court systems, which means this information rarely emerges […]

To make a revolution, it is generally beneficial to go back to basics. Therefore, to understand what visual laws are and why we need them, we must first go back and ask ourselves, what is a law? If we look in a dictionary for the definition of law, we may find that a law is […]

Maarten Truyens is part of that rare breed of lawyers who first picked up programming as a child and never let go. He went on to have a long career as a solicitor at an international law firm and as an in-house counsel in several financial institutions, all the while leveraging his programming background to […]

By Marcel Hajd (http://linkedin.com/in/marcelhajd) Introduction Not a day passes without a trending news story related to LegalTech. Ambitious lawyers and entrepreneurs are trying to enter the more and more competitive legal market, while convincing users how brilliant the LegalTech solution is they have brought to life. As a consequence, we may witness a number of […]

Looking at the legal landscape around the world, one could get the impression that the market for legal tech solutions is mainly limited to the USA, UK and Australia. While the legal tech market in these countries has reached a later stage of maturity, the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region is a huge area for […]

David is a technology adviser to the British Government. He focuses on emerging technologies and most recently worked on the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app. He describes his job as an intermediary between software engineers, ministers, and lawyers. He attributes many pitfalls of government technology programmes to low levels of technological literacy. Some of those […]

Since its inception in 2001, ‘business agility’ snugly fit into a list of cool catchphrases deployed by management teams to establish thought leadership. Simply put – the agile methodology plays on the idea of unit mechanics. Imploring teams to be lean, prioritize process evolution over documentation, and increase collaboration for better, faster results. So far, […]

As a result of Covid-19, it has become clear that there needs to be a more efficient way for lawyers to work around the globe. This calls for an innovative approach to work and the adoption of new technology. Global law firms have invested heavily in legal tech in recent years. For example, Linklaters launched […]

By Romesh Hettiarachchi After more than half a decade of practice, I decided to start my own law firm three years ago. Worried about my future in the legal profession, I committed myself to better understanding what makes a “modern lawyer” modern. I assumed being a modern lawyer simply meant having access to the latest […]

The Legal Tech Toolkit recently created a Document Automation Readiness Review here. What is it? The Review allows SMEs to assess their readiness for legal document automation. The output of the Review is a report in PDF format which provides general advice on preparation for document automation, an assessment of readiness and a recommendation based […]

By Jacob Field Young associates would greatly benefit from being taught how to truly and fully use Microsoft Word—either by their law school or their firm. My first introduction to the use of technology in the legal field was when my wife, then a first-year associate in a BigLaw firm, amusingly told me that the […]

Daniel is an experienced Banking Lawyer with an MSc in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship from The University of Manchester. He participated as a researcher of The Manchester Law and Technology Initiative and worked in Bancolombia as In-house Counsel and Innovation Champion. Currently, he lives in Colombia where he co-founded “Derecho + Innovación”. A digital startup […]

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 what I could offer. It was going nowhere. “I’m really […]