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In an era defined by dynamic technological innovation and a drive for legal empowerment, the Middle East’s legaltech landscape is experiencing a profound shift towards a harmonious integration of law and technology. This transformation spotlights Clara, the pioneering LegalTech leader from the United Arab Emirates, as it expands its influence into Saudi Arabia’s legal sphere. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Leading northern English law firm Napthens has launched AfterAthena, a new HR and H&S platform-based service designed to streamline and support HR & H&S processes and help businesses stay up-to-date with the latest legal developments and case updates. Initially launching to an existing client base of more than 450 businesses covering more than 150,000 employees, […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s almost five years to the day that I founded the Legal Technologist. The first publication was a bit of a newsletter – which contained mainly my articles on what I thought about document automation. The main reason I started it was to publish what people were doing with legal tech and reflect what people […]

Apperio, a leading provider of legal spend analytics and matter tracking software, announced today it has raised a $7 million growth round of venture capital funding. The company will use the funding to further develop its product for corporate counsel and meet the growing demand for new functionality from law firms. Apperio will also accelerate […]