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On the 12 May this year I addressed around 600 lawyers at the annual dinner of ARDL, the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers at The Guildhall, London where I spoke about the role of equality, diversity and inclusion in Artificial Intelligence. I spoke about the potential of AI, its influence and impact on society […]

Taylor Wessing, the global law firm, recently announced the launch of an innovative employee incentive programme which is built on, and operated using, distributed ledger technology. The programme, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the legal market globally, is designed to provide micro-incentives to the firm’s lawyers and enhance the […]

Acquisition Will Extend Consilio’s Enterprise Legal Services Business to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia and Expand Its UK Business Consilio, the global leader in legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, has come to an agreement to acquire Lawyers On Demand (LOD), a pioneer in flexible legal talent, and SYKE, a premier […]

This article will discuss how employee turnover is impacting intellectual property and data protection, as well as the important role of digital forensics in both preventing IP theft and recovering from such an incident. With the tight labour market, and the recent trend of large numbers of employees leaving their jobs, the risk of intellectual […]

*Record scratch* *Freeze frame* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… That was me last year sat on the stage of a panel discussion entitled “Shape and Structure of Law Firms in the Digital Age”. Me, an employment lawyer for the 17 years sat with legal tech experts discussing what […]

I have been in the business of law for a LONG time, coming up to 30 years in fact. For 28 of those 30 years I was a “traditional” lawyer who drafted contracts for a living before eventually running a team of 55 that drafted lots of contracts for clients in many sectors. For the […]

The firm’s Innovation team has developed a new innovative tool to support Affinity Water’s objective of ensuring compliance across the business. Burges Salmon’s Innovation team has developed a Digital Compliance Tool in collaboration with Affinity Water, to support the company’s objective of ensuring compliance across the business. Affinity Water is a UK supplier of drinking […]

A little while ago we mentioned there was a competition coming! We’re now pleased to announce that we have three copies of The CLM Rx by Kami Paulsen up for grabs. Kami is an industry insider with 20 years of experience in the contract lifecycle management space. As Managing Director, CLM Solutions, for Elevate Services, Kami Paulsen […]

SYKE and Calame announce today an exclusive strategic partnership that brings together preeminent legal innovation companies from the UK and France. The partnership combines market-leading legal tech and operations expertise with specialist knowledge of the French in-house legal market. Both founded by in-house lawyers, SYKE and Calame will help French corporate legal departments with all […]

Happy belated International Women’s Day to all Legal Technologist readers! The accidental technologists (all being women) were keen to celebrate IWD and use this article to honour women in technology, carrying on the brilliant work of our Mills & Reeve “Inspiring Women in Technology” group. The accidental technologists thought long and hard about the themes […]

Generative AI is booming. The explosion of AI-powered chatbots and large language models (LLMs) was ignited by the release of ChatGPT in late 2022. Having captured the world’s interest, many organisations and industries are now looking at ways to incorporate AI chatbots into their day-to-day business, seeking innovative ways to drive efficiency. The limits of […]

For the last five years I’ve been responsible for delivering our innovation week, B-Innovative, at Burges Salmon (independent UK law firm). A firmwide event, it shines a spotlight on innovation, and aims to encourage everyone to explore and be inspired by the latest technology and novel approaches to innovative service delivery. Organising an innovation event […]

Today (2nd March 2023), legal tech company Henchman, announced that it has closed a £6 million Series A funding round to support continued company growth, and innovation in its platform that automates the search for relevant clauses and definitions when drafting legal contracts. The round is led by Adjacent VC and Acton Capital and joined […]

The future of legaltech is bright and inescapable. Law firms that embrace this changing landscape stand to survive and thrive, most of all those who carefully choose where to locate their business states Niamh Breslin, Territory Manager UK at IDA Ireland. Early adopters of technology are now reaping the benefits of embracing digital solutions with […]

Recent years have seen the advent of individuals publicly taking a stand against corporations with the means and incentive to destroy their careers, yet whistleblowers are winning. Sherron Watkins and Enron, Howard Wilkinson and Danske Bank, Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung and Theranos, Frances Haugen and Facebook to name just a few. There is no […]

Legal design is a buzzword in the legal business, but – while the hype can be considered as a positive factor in terms of publicity – it is also dangerous because it hides challenges, struggles, and risks that we face as legal designers. In this short article I highlighted three of them. Choosing (and balancing) […]

Global Information Management Leader Strengthens Platform to Deliver Best-in-Class Document Management and Automation Capabilities M-Files, a global leader in information management, today announced that the company has acquired Ment (formerly Contract Mill Oy), a leading no-code document automation technology company based in Espoo, Finland. With this acquisition, M-Files now delivers robust document automation capabilities that […]

Elizabeth Judson, Client Experience Lawyer in the employment & HR team at Napthens solicitors, explores the considerations that employers who utilise the Metaverse should consider, to make sure they and their people are protected. According to research carried out by Microsoft, about 50% of Gen Z and Millennials envision doing some of their work in […]

Mills & Reeve are App’y to help Something that comes up time and time again when we ask our people why they enjoy working at Mills & Reeve, is the interesting and varied clients and work. We’re incredibly lucky that our work spans a broad range of legal sectors and jurisdictions for a diverse range […]

With a potential recession on the horizon in some places in Europe we thought it would be useful to go through some tips on how to make the most of document automation – and by extension the efficiencies that can be absorbed from it. None of these tips relate to the implementation of tech itself […]