Technology
MoJ halts enforcement upgrade due to cash shortage
The Ministry of Justice has suspended the £58m project to change the way court orders are enforced and historic criminal debt is collected because it does not have enough money.
Investment and blockchain fuel digital legal giants’ expansion
A major developer of contract review AI software has raised $50m in investment from venture capitalists, while Rocket Lawyer is to introduce blockchain security.
Free wills website recruits firms in bid to become top brand
The founder of an online service centred on free wills is recruiting law firms and national charities in a bid to become “the leading will-writing brand in the UK”.
The challenge of digitising the courts
CaseLines, whose digital bundling software is used widely in UK criminal and civil courts, has gone from a start-up to major supplier in a matter of a few years.
Legal spend start-up secures £7.5m investment
A legal tech start-up focused on transforming the way companies analyse their legal spend has raised £7.5m in its first major funding round.
Lawtech tipping point coming, says new incubator resident
Next year will be the tipping point for law firm’s adoption of new technology, one of the first residents of a major lawtech incubator has predicted.
Legal tech project recruits big City firms
South-east Asia’s first lawtech accelerator has attracted three major UK law firms amid of flurry of technology related activity among City practices.
AI “to help lawyers make sense of complex evidence”
The company charged with digitising the courts is to deploy artificial intelligence to assist lawyers in understanding complex evidence, its chief executive has revealed.
Regional firm’s motoring law chatbot “first of many”
A regional law firm has launched a motoring law chatbot, with its solicitor creator saying he wanted to stop non-lawyers from deciding the direction of legal technology.
Blockchain and AI “could underpin” future law firms
A future where law firms are ‘distributed entities’ based on blockchain and smart contracts and lawyers will add value by being trusted advisers assisted by AI.
Blog
From ‘year zero’ to £6.5m – how a law firm found its second life
In 2018, I hit what I call ‘year zero’. On paper, Olliers Solicitors was a top-tier criminal defence firm but beneath the surface, I could see we were at a crossroads.
Linklaters’ chief growth officer takes the ‘blank sheet’ challenge
In the third and final part of this series, Lucy Murphy, chief growth officer at magic circle firm Linklaters, outlines her vision for the law firm of the future.
The ‘blank sheet’ challenge, part 2 – what would you do differently?
In the second part of this blog series, Shainul Kassam, managing director of small London firm Fortune Law, sets out how she would set up a law firm now.
