Tag: LawTech

Simmons & Simmons embraces NewLaw movement with ‘legal engineering’ acquisition
BigLaw continues to make big moves into the lawtech space

Lord Neuberger-backed AI contract drafting tool secures £2 million funding
It's currently being piloted by Clifford Chance, Pinsent Masons and Withers

Manchester Uni law students design app to field out-of-hours legal advice centre enquiries
Hits online shelves later this year

British 22-year-old lawtech entrepreneur raises £3.7 million from Facebook and Airbnb backers to help fund ‘robot lawyer’ app
Joshua Browder secures big financial boost

Inside Norton Rose Fulbright’s new lawtech module with York University
Those behind the first-of-its-kind, jointly-taught programme reveal the thinking behind the move

How lawtech looked in the 90s
ULaw campus dean Sarah Pooley reveals how innovation has long been a feature of legal practice and what it now means for future lawyers

‘Uncritical reliance’ on AI in criminal justice could lead to ‘wrong decisions’, says Law Society
Warning contained in new commission report

Ministry of Justice commits £2 million to legal tech
As barristers ballot on strike action enters final hour

Norton Rose Fulbright teams up with York University to launch lawtech module
Exclusive: 40 places up for grabs

‘Tech doesn’t respect boundaries — it is universal and affects how we run all our practice areas’
Legal Cheek Careers chats to Clifford Chance partner and co-head of the technology practice, Jonathan Kewley, about the firm’s new lawtech training contract

Tech isn’t meeting our needs, say nearly half of lawyers
Over a third considering career change as a result

BPP students to be taught digital skills through new lawtech partnership
Training on HighQ platform to be part of syllabus

Video: How innovative are law firms behind the scenes?
Legal Cheek probes beyond the marketing puffery

Estonia to build ‘robot judge’ to clear case backlog
Baltic nation's justice officials call on services of 28-year-old AI whizz

Robots are not coming to take our jobs — but they are changing the way we do them
Lawyers are no longer isolated providers of water-tight legal documents

5 things students need to know about lawtech
A panel of experts share their insights

‘Lawtech? We’ve no idea what it is’, say 50% of junior lawyers
Despite hype, two-thirds reported no change to their job role

Junior lawyers ‘endangered species’ due to automation, law prof claims
Rookies carrying out repetitive work face being 'gradually culled from firms'

Westminster Uni law grad to launch AI tool to help non-profits identify legal issues
Fraser Matcham came under fire last year from lawyers over ‘McKenzie Friends Marketplace’ website