Your time is short. This quick read gives you 5 things you need to know from LegalTech in the past seven days. 1 CLOC delivers data on legal spend The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) aims to be data-first in reshaping the legal industry. CLOC’s 2017 State of The Industry Survey released last week (based on … Continued
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
Your time is short. This quick read gives you 5 things you need to know from LegalTech in the past seven days. 1 Happy #STEM Day to lawyers On November 8 the world celebrated National S.T.E.M Day. With occupations related to S.T.E.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) expected to grow 70 percent faster than other professions, … Continued
Your time is short. This quick read gives you 5 things you need to know from LegalTech in the past seven days. 1 Conferences: AI & Law There was reflection on the state of AI in Law at two conferences. At the College of Law Practice Management’s (COLPM) Futures Conference, “Running With the Machines, Mark Tamminga, … Continued
In the words of Harvard professors, Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani, the contract process now represents “a rush-hour gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car”. The International Association for Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM) has found that 83% of businesses are dissatisfied with their organization’s contracting process. The time spent on reviewing paperwork sees hard-pressed in-house lawyers blamed … Continued
The swamp of legal apathy was well and truly drained in Washington DC as the largest gathering of in-house lawyers assembled in the U.S capital. More than 4000 in-house counsel attended the ACC Annual Meeting (14-18 October 2017) to debate the hottest trends, innovations in the law, and future of the profession. Twitter, as always, was … 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
Michal Bell, LawGeex Head of Product, on the next generation of AI contract review helping reduce legal risk through consistency Legal knowledge tends to reside in lawyers’ heads, creating a dependency on lawyers sharing their know-how. AI is helping to distribute this knowledge simply, across an organization. Ensuring legal consistency across an organization is one of … Continued
