LawtechUK announces the opening of applications for Lawtech Builder, an accelerator programme designed to empower current and prospective founders in the UK to transform their innovative ideas into viable lawtech products. The programme, that is free to join, will run from 17th September to 3rd December 2024, featuring ten highly-collaborative online sessions led by industry experts and seasoned founders.
Trowers & Hamlins leverage the Gen AI capabilities of Thomson Reuters CoCounsel for their annual legal hackathon. The international law firm worked with Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, to facilitate the legal hackathon for over 50 of their summer vacation scheme students.
Zylpha has announced the launch of its brand-new chat feature. As a company dedicated to continually enhancing user experience, this latest update aims to bring seamless, real-time communication within the platform. With this innovative addition, users can now connect with the Zylpha team and access support more efficiently than ever before.
The LSSA (Legal Software Suppliers Association) is delighted to welcome LawNeeds as the latest legal technology provider to join the Association. As the industry body for developers and vendors of legal systems, the LSSA maintains standards in technology and manages areas of mutual interest between lawyers and providers of legal software.
Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, today released its 2024 Future of Professionals report, an annual survey of more than 2,200 professionals working across legal, tax, and risk & compliance fields globally. Respondents predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to save them 12 hours per week in the next five years, or four hours per week over the upcoming year – equating to 200 hours annually.
Quiss Technology, a leading provider of managed IT services and serving many UK law firms, recently achieved re-certification in two important standards, ISO 9001:2015 the globally recognized standard for quality management and the new ISO 27001:2022 standard, one of the world's leading standards for information security management systems.
Fast-growing U.S. law firm Elias Law Group has gone live on the cloud version of 3E®, the market-leading financial and practice management solution from Elite, providing a powerful foundational technology platform to support its future.
The never-ending fragmentation of IT, driven by the rapid and constant evolution of Legal Tech, is causing huge cyber defence issues for UK legal firms, according to a new report from Managed Threat Detection & Response Provider, e2e-assure. The complexity in defence is exacerbated by the rise of the “citizen developer” in the legal sector, where technology is being put in the hands of those who feel the pressure to prioritise task optimisation and business continuity over security.
iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge WorkTM, today announced that Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP (SGR)— a full-service, international law firm with 350 lawyers in 14 offices across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany — has selected iManage Cloud as the knowledge work platform of choice for its firm. A longtime on-premises iManage customer, SGR conducted an extensive survey of the market before selecting iManage as the best cloud offering for the firm.
Bird & Bird today becomes one of the first international law firms to launch a proof of concept trial across multiple offices with Leya, a revolutionary platform that uses AI to automate tasks and provides access to both public and internal data.
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