CrowdJustice Launches in the US
CrowdJustice is a platform for crowdfunding public interest litigation which is one of the startups featuring on the Legal Geek Startup Map. They launched their operation in the United States last week by helping to raise funds for Aziz v. Trump. The lawsuit was against the Trump administration on behalf of two brothers who were detained at […]
Legal Geek Startup Awards 2016
The LawTech startups with the most votes on our startup map (made possible thanks to Thomson Reuters) qualified to pitch at the Legal Geek Startup Awards in four categories: Best Document Automation Award, Best Machine Intelligence Award, Best Market Places Award, and Best Operations Award. The winners of the Legal Geek Startup Awards were announced in the evening of the Legal Geek Conference on […]
Final Event information: Legal Geek Confernece. 18th October 2016
– WHEN: 9am – 22.00: 18th October 2016 – WHERE: The Boiler House, 91 Brick Lane , London, E1 6QL – Due to capacity restrictions, at busy times we will be operating a “one in/one out” policy – Stay up to date on capacity on Twitter with #LGStatus – Dress casually and strictly NO ties – You need […]
Brexit: [good or] Bad for Law Tech in London?
Other than a catastrophic drop of the pound, the Brexit vote saw an unexpected surge in economical experts. We thought we could join their ranks. So, can something meaningful be said on the effects of Brexit on the Law Tech scene? First of all, it depends very much on the route UK decide to pursue […]
Shall we send robots to jail?
A month ago, AlphaGo, a software developed by Google Deep Mind defeated the champion Lee Sidol during a 5 game long match of Go. AlphaGo is a machine learning software that has been ‘trained’ with a database of 600.000 games and then by playing against itself. Its winning match made the history: and not only […]
Some very basic stuff on smart contracts: lawyers get ready for Blockchain
On Tuesday, the Government Digital Service organised a workshop on Blockchain gathering people from Academia, industry and government, and focusing on how blockchain technology could help improve our lives. Proof that the interest around blockchain is rising, not only for its implications on the financial market (you name it, bitcoin) but for even more practical uses. If […]
A.I. is dead, long live A.I.
“Have we missed the latest product innovation in AI and law or there is nothing out yet?” It seems like everyone has been talking about A.I. and law in the last year. Denton has invested in the IBM Watson-powered software ROSS. And just last week Vanderbilt University organised a conference titled ‘Will your next lawyer […]
Robots and Lawyers: Google Campus. Review of event.
With only 400 startups worldwide and a market predicted at $400 billion, legal tech has a short history with a limitless future. Unsurprisingly, the nature of legal tech is extremely regulated with significant non-uniform regulation and risk-averse, disaggregated stakeholders. However, this solid shield against innovation has only encouraged many gatherings of lawyers and technologists to […]
Lexoo Law Tech Startup Did it!
We are a little late reporting on our friends at Lexoo‘s exciting news – last month they raised $1.3 million in a funding round. Nice work team Lexoo, flying the flag for LawTech in London! Lexoo launched in July 2014 providing an on-demand marketplace to connect clients, often London startups, with validated lawyers for “free”. The revenue model […]
General Counsel’s love AI (?)
The number of in-house counsel’s is growing significantly, a big threat to law firms. Businesses are fed up with paying high billable hours and lawyers are bored of working crazy hours. A recent survey at General Counsel 2015, by The Economist and sponsored by LexisNexis (of course) found some interesting things in relation to LawTech opportunities. […]
