Before launching Office & Dragons, I was an M&A lawyer with Kirkland & Ellis in London and New York, advising large private equity firms on billion-dollar deals. In that time, I witnessed first-hand the mounting pressures that both our clients and our firm were facing.
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 and junior lawyers. Anexsys, an eDiscovery and digital forensics consultancy, gives
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 in agile working and discuss the latest industry trend: the legal
Mary Bonsor is CEO and co-founder of F-LEX, a legaltech startup using automation to create a seamless recruitment experience for applicants, law firms and legal departments. In Part 1 of our F-LEX series, Mary spoke to Becky Baker, our Editor, about her journey from lawyer
Great irregularities in life always bring forth droves of people wondering ‘what next’. I will join their ranks and outline my views on what is going to happen next in legal technology and how the ongoing crisis will reshape the legal industry. I will start with
If I was to describe my dream job, it would probably be what I’m doing right now. I’m a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, where I study the impact of novel technology on the legal sector. I spend a lot of
We are on the verge of the next revolution, one that will happen within us. The tool that will enable that revolution is CRISPR Cas-9 (CRISPR is the acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats). To put it simply, CRISPR is a system that makes it
Two major threats that the legal sector is facing at the moment are the growing number of alternative legal services providers (ALSPs) and the entry of the Big 4 accountancy firms – KPMG, Deloitte, EY and PwC. The result is an increasingly competitive market where
