ISSUE No.13
The podcast’s host, Mr Mark Beer OBE talked to Mr David Tuganov, Director, Neirostorm about design thinking, the use of a human-centered approach in the public sector, and implementing design thinking in a startup.
Source: AIFC LawTech Advisory Council
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The future of the legal industry was up for discussion throughout Ironclad’s “State of Digital Contracting, Winter 2020: AI and the Elusive Promise of Smart Contracting” virtual event Thursday. Spoiler alert: technology is expected to play a big role.
Source: Law.com
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Confinement has acted as a pressure cooker for many relationships. Citizens Advice reported a surge in divorce guidance searches during the first lockdown and new data from the Office for National Statistics shows the largest percentage increase in divorce in nearly 50 years.
Source: Raconteur
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Source: DevOps.com
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Peak into the private members club in any city and you will find a room full of lawyers and financiers drinking fine port. Little investment business is done, however. Investors want to place their money in fast-growing startups, not stodgy, conservative law firms. But that’s all changing. With the rise of legal tech startups, investors are hungry for deals in the high growth legaltech sector.
Source: e27
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Brightflag secures $28m investment as legaltech firm eyes global expansion
Legaltech company Brightflag has raised $28mn from investors as it seeks to expand its international footprint and fund further product innovation.
Brightflag – which provides AI-powered legal spend and matter management tech to in-house teams – currently has 90 employees spread across Dublin, New York and Sydney, with the company expected to add 60 new jobs globally by the end of next year. Growth investors One Peak led the deal, with existing investors Sands Capital Ventures and Frontline Ventures also taking part in the transaction.
Source: The Global Legal Post
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COVID-19 ups demand for AI-powered legal tech, but adoption is uneven: lead consultant, Kira Systems
A soaring demand for AI-powered legal tech has occurred alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, but a closer look at its adoption shows it is the older, dyed-in-the-wool tools seeing most of the uptake and legal organizations are “just scratching the surface” on legal tech’s potential, says Daniel Himmel, lead consultant at Kira Systems.
Source: Law Times
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With the shift to a remote work environment by most organizations in the early spring of 2020, we saw an acceleration of the already growing trend of cloud-based collaboration and video-conferencing tools in workplaces.
Source: JDSupra
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"I remember how we talked about how people presented," says Goyal, Director of Legal Innovation at Caravel Law. "The judges were saying, 'these people could be successful,' and they just also happen to be young white men. I was trying to advocate for others who had good solutions but didn't present the same way. Maybe they presented differently because they have a different background, but I thought their ideas were good."
Source: National Magazine
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Collaboration – Unleashing a New Wave of Data-Driven Innovation
This session will explore a new cross-sector consortium of major businesses and universities set to provide the key to the suffocating challenge of data access for regulated industries through a Responsible AI powered industry-agnostic platform; the AIR Platform.
Source: NetLaw Media
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