Legal Technology

Filing error

By Mark Goddard | February 11, 2009

The practise of law around the world is at a tipping point, driven by the technology revolution. While US legal teams appear to be more concerned about the reality of growing volumes of electronically stored information (ESI), the UK's primary concern appears to be the lack of training in legal trends.

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Gauging the net worth

By Mark Goddard | January 21, 2009

There is a tendency to talk up the career benefits of online social networking. In this parallel universe, anyone serious about getting on in life has hundreds of career-enhancing Facebook contacts who they regale daily with tales from their carefully-tended blogs. This, supposedly, generates waves of business opportunities, coupled with many wonderful nights out, as boundaries between business and pleasure blur. The tech-savvy associate then completes their triumphant march to partnership with an ease unimaginable in the pre-internet age.This doesn't actually happen, right? While lawyers have been among the most enthusiastic social users of online networking - as illustrated by Allen & Overy's much-mocked ban in 2007 on staff using Facebook - it remains a rarity for the profession to use such tools to further their career.

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Confidence in IT teams takes a hit

By Mark Goddard | January 21, 2009

As belt-tightening across the legal profession notches up another level it is not surprising that IT departments have joined the list of casualties as a result of cutbacks.Legal Week Intelligence's fourth annual Information Technology Survey shows lawyers' confidence in their IT departments dipping for the third successive year, with just 11 of the 42 different categories seeing improved grades this year. At the report's launch earlier this month, delegates lucky enough to have signed off systems upgrades in last year's budgets breathed a sigh of relief as they listened to their counterparts' problems after orders to reign in costs for the foreseeable future. While the general sentiment was that projects that would lead to rapid, demonstrable cost savings would still get signed off, the majority of equipment and software upgrades were likely to be put on hold.

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Online advertising: Getting the balance of privacy right

By Mark Goddard | January 14, 2009

Online advertising comes in many guises: ads on search engine results pages, banner ads and email marketing, including spam, to name a few. For most people advertising is part and parcel of their online experience: sometimes useful, sometimes irritating, but perhaps most often ignored. However, there have been significant developments in online advertising recently which are causing debate among privacy professionals - particularly relating to behavioural or personalised internet advertising. Should those of us who are concerned about privacy really be cautious about embracing these new technologies?

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Corporate Counsel

Are You Utilizing AI Yet? It May Change Your Relationship With Outside Counsel

By Ben Seal | May 16, 2023

"There's a lot of potential for AI to totally disrupt our business, so we better be at the forefront of using it," says Grab general counsel Chris Betts.

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International Edition

Are You Utilizing AI Yet? It May Change Your Relationship With Outside Counsel

By Ben Seal | May 16, 2023

"There's a lot of potential for AI to totally disrupt our business, so we better be at the forefront of using it," says Grab general counsel Chris Betts.

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Legaltech News

Dykema's Head of Innovation Discusses the Firm's Generative AI Approach, and 'Fluid' Innovation

By Cassandre Coyer | May 16, 2023

Myka Hopgood, Dykema's senior director of strategic legal innovation, explains why the firm has decided to adopt Casetext's CoCounsel and how it approached generative AI as a firm.

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Legaltech News

Outside Counsel Management Platform Persuit Announces ChatGPT-Powered 'Proposal Analyzer'

By Rhys Dipshan | May 16, 2023

The company noted that its new Proposal Analyzer feature, which summarizes and analyzes law firm RFP responses for legal departments, is "the first in a series of enhancements" it intends to release.

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Legaltech News

Pramata Introduces GPT-Assist Tool and New Pre-Signature Contracting Functionality

By Stephanie Wilkins | May 16, 2023

Updates to the company's CLM platform include new pre-signature functionality that allows users to leverage their full contract repository, as well as a GPT-Assist feature that will leverage large language models to power the creation and maintenance of Playbooks and Approval Policies in natural language.

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Legaltech News

LinkSquares Launches ELM Platform in First Offering Beyond CLM

By Stephanie Wilkins | May 16, 2023

LinkSquares Prioritize, a tool designed specifically for legal task management and intake, will join the company's existing CLM offerings in LinkSquares Cloud, an ELM platform that combines legal task management and contract lifecycle management in one place.

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Legaltech News

Lifetime Achievement, Vendor: Sirisha Gummaregula, QuisLex

By Stephanie Wilkins | May 16, 2023

Not many people leave a promising practice at Shearman & Sterling and a GC-track position at a Fortune 500 company to start a company designed to disrupt the way both do business. But Sirisha Gummaregula did, forming an ALSP in 2006, and inspiring and supporting many women—and men—across the legal ecosystem throughout her career.

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Legaltech News

E-Discovery Provider IPRO Underwent Layoffs Earlier This Year

By Cassandre Coyer | May 15, 2023

IPRO's layoffs follow other e-discovery and legal tech companies that have announced cutbacks in recent months.

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Legaltech News

Most Innovative Legal Operations Team, Law Department: OpenText

By Stephanie Wilkins | May 14, 2023

"Legal innovation means doing something every day that scares you," say Jessica Vander Ploeg, Vice President Legal Operations, and Steven Rippberger, Senior Manager Legal Operations, at OpenText.

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Legaltech News

Legal Professionals Trust Generative AI—But Maybe Too Much

By Isha Marathe | May 12, 2023

The Outsell Legal Technology Survey 2023 shows that a large number of attorneys and legal professionals have faith in generative AI for legal work, but with the technology still maturing, the onus is on vendors to educate their customers.

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