Berlin Leg of Legal Geek Tour Complete

After an awesome event in Amsterdam to open our #LGRoadTrip organised in collaboration with Nextlaw Labs. For Berlin we collaborated with the ELTA Conference to organise an after party and interview people outside the venue in Betty. Jimmy also chaired a 15 person fireside chat on LawTech with meetups around the world. We met and interviewed in […]

Amsterdam Leg of Legal Geek Tour complete

What an amazing start to the Legal Geek Road Trip organised in collaboration with Nextlaw Labs. We met and interviewed 10 startups in The Hague and Amsterdam and jointly hosted a startup drinks in WeWork with Dutch Legal Tech with over 40 amazing guests. Congratulations to all the winning startups who won free startup travel tickets […]

Legal Geek hits the road

If you’ve been following the Legal Geek story since we got started, then you’ll notice that our Startup Map has become an authority for LawTech in the UK. But we know we’ve only scratched the surface of all the cool ways that lawtech startups can change the legal industry for the better – not just […]

What’s the point of hackathons anyway?

When lawyers want to change something they tend to put a big, hierarchical team together. A partner or two to take the big decisions and all the credit; associates to run things day to day; assistants and paralegals to do the actual work; maybe a project or business manager to keep things moving. So while […]

Shruti Ajitsaria tells Legal Geek the vision behind Fuse (A&O)

Shruti Ajitsaria, Head of Fuse at Allen & Overy, talks about the tech innovation space she is heading up and her own personal interest in technological innovation within the legal sector. The connection between law and technology is suddenly undeniable; particularly over the last year, we have become accustomed to seeing lawyers around the world […]

Free travel grants for startups we meet on our RoadTrip

Legal Geek is excited to collaborate with NextLaw Labs to support the growing legal tech ecosystem in Europe. We are both committed to supporting start-ups that set out to transform the practice of law with technology. This tour of Europe, in Betty, a 1971 VW camper van, sets out to meet and showcase as many startups as […]

High Five Alert: RAVN Systems acquired by US-based iManage

RAVN Systems has been acquired by US-based document management solutions provider iManage, whose clients include more than 2000 law firms and 500 corporate legal departments. London-based RAVN Systems was founded in 2010 and offers cognitive computing solutions allowing clients to find, interpret and extract information from documents. What was the chat like on Twitter?    […]

Legal Geek on the WannaCry global hack

It’s nearly 10 days after the global WannaCry hack, and at Legal Geek we’re scratching our heads to work out what the real danger to emerge from this episode has really been. Is it the malware which affected 150 countries or the thinly-founded speculation and blame game which has followed? In light of that thought, […]

Legal Geek’s “Law For Good” program is a Finalist at LALY Awards

It is a great privilege to be shortlisted for the LALY 2017 award to reflect the hard work Helen has done through our ‘Law for Good’ program – HIGH FIVES. The awards ceremony takes place in London on Wednesday, 5 July 2017. The awards will be presented by Baroness Doreen Lawrence and will recognise the achievements […]

May 14th – The Day of London LawTech Incubators

 On 14 May, the international law firm Allen & Overy opened the application process for its London-based tech innovation space “Fuse”. A&O are seeking mature and start-up tech companies that have synergies with their business to work alongside them as part of “Fuse”, which is slated to open in September 2017. A&O is starting Fuse […]