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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Challenges and opportunities in legal data analytics The legal industry sits on top of mountains of data, collected in various locations ranging from in-house contract management tools to government databases and platforms by commercial providers. ...
Future or fiction? Despite three months of automated chasing, Amy’s customer had still not paid her invoice. She got out her phone and started a conversation with a robot lawyer. It asked her questions about ...
Law firms aren’t naturally set up to deal with the challenges presented by our data-saturated world. Law firms have historically dealt with the problem of information management and document-review using labour-intensive solutions: armies of paralegals ...
Introduction Flexible and agile working practices are emerging trends which have been adopted by law firms, to varying extents, as part of their working policies. This article will take a look at the key features ...