Your time is short. This quick read gives you 5 things you need to know from LegalTech in the past seven days. 1 Taking stock: LegalTech 2017 The number of LegalTech companies grew in 2017. Legal blogger Bob Ambrogi announced 23 additions to his list of LegalTech startups, bringing his list to 691 entries (The … Continued
It’s been a good year on the Twitters.
In a series of monthly interviews, LawGeex speaks to top In-House Counsel adopting legal technology to enhance productivity. Here, we speak to Chris Newby, General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer at AIG EMEA How is AIG’s in-house team organized? Size and reporting function? I have 70 lawyers in EMEA. I am based in London acting as General … Continued
On October 15-18 in Washington DC more than 4000 of the world’s top in-house counsels gather and debate on the future of law. It is a golden time for the in-house legal profession. Only last week the Financial Times branded in-house lawyers “the new pathfinders”, arguing that “the most innovative legal expertise is often close … Continued
In a series of monthly interviews, LawGeex speaks to top In-House Counsel adopting legal technology to enhance productivity. Here, we speak to Vicky Lockie, Senior Consultant VBL Consulting, and formerly Associate GC at Pearson. What is Pearson and how is its in-house legal team organized? Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, employing more than 35,000 … Continued
Brian Schmidt is Chief of Staff, and former General Counsel at Trello, a visual collaboration tool that creates a shared perspective on projects. Schmidt says Trello “occupies the organizational space between blank canvas-type tools (e.g. a word doc) and a niche-specific, structure-enforcing project management tool (e.g. Salesforce)“. In his role, Shmidt uses the collaboration tool to make his contract … Continued
Having spent the past 12 years selling software solutions and building sales teams for successful tech companies, I’ve sold to some tough customers, and for the first time, I’ve started to sell to lawyers. The legal profession has many leading innovators, pioneers even, and with any industry there are going to be those ahead of … Continued
TEL AVIV, Israel, September 6 2017: LawGeex, the leading AI contract review platform for businesses, has today launched product enhancements that provide more control, speed and consistency than ever before. LawGeex combines machine learning algorithms and text analytics to quickly review and approve everyday contracts, helping businesses answer the question “Can I sign this?” The … Continued
In this brave new world, lawyers should not forget about one of the more basic and cheap, but extremely effective, ways to instantly save time and money, work smarter and faster. Better communication and collaboration could be as simple as investing in quality Video Conferencing software to better communicate with clients and out-of-office colleagues, or allowing … Continued
