Tagged: legal technology

May 16, 2022 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Legal technology firm LawAdvisor Ventures has announced that it secured $5 million of investment across its portfolio of ventures in a seed round “involving some of the legal industry’s most influential thinkers.” The capital injection reportedly “includes investment from Ralph Baxter (former Chairman and CEO… Read More

May 5, 2022 @ 3:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Allen & Overy’s technology innovation hub, Fuse, has launched its sixth cohort with “a record number of technology companies.” This year, Fuse will host 16 businesses headquartered across the U.S. and Europe as it “reopens its physical space in A&O’s London office, which it will… Read More

April 14, 2022 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Clara, a legal OS offering an integrated set of self-service tools to help founders digitally form, manage and scale their startups, has announced that it has secured investment from The LegalTech Fund as the platform “emerges from its beta phase, taking its total seed… Read More

January 19, 2022 @ 5:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brightflag, the AI-enhanced legal operations platform, recently announced the launch of its Legal Service Requests module. This latest innovation provides corporate legal departments “a powerful new way to centralize intake, triage requests, and understand demand for legal services across the business.” As mentioned in a… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 12:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Legal Utopia, a powerful AI-enhanced app with the aim of “connecting legal consumers with a vast network of legal services,” has acquired 77% (£154,906) of its £200,000 target from 50 investors (at the time of writing) through a crowdfunding campaign carried out via Seedrs. With… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 1:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The blockchain and crypto-assets space has grown tremendously during the past 18 months due in part to the acceleration of the ongoing digital transformation. Many more consumers and business organizations are completing tasks online instead of visiting physical locations to avoid the further spread of… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Astra Protocol is pleased to confirm that it has acquired $9 million via its token raise. In addition, various investment groups and individuals have supported the Astra Protocol project, confirming the requirement for decentralized compliance in the DeFi sector. According to Astra, things are progressing… Read More

August 1, 2021 @ 11:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), a special economic zone in Dubai covering 110 ha, established in 2004 and a financial hub for the MENA region as well as South Asia markets, has reportedly invested an undisclosed amount in UK-headquartered Legaltech firm Clara. Clara has… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 8:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Around two-thirds or 67% of in-house attorneys at fast-growth firms said they were spending too much time doing “low-value” work, according to the results of a survey shared by Artificial Lawyer. Another survey, cited by JD Supra, of 1,057 legal professionals reveals that a third… Read More

May 25, 2020 @ 12:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iCONECT CA Inc., a privately-held firm focused on legal technology (Legaltech) and eDiscovery, has teamed up with Big Four auditing firm PwC’s Canada division. PricewaterhouseCoopers has chosen the iCONECT document eDiscovery platform, in order to improve its ability to take care of legal, privacy, regulatory,… Read More

April 9, 2020 @ 7:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paris-headquartered Jus Mundi, a Legaltech firm that aims to serve as the search engine for international law and arbitration, has secured €1 million in capital through its recent seed funding round. Jus Mundi’s management says the firm aims to become a leading resource for international… Read More

March 18, 2020 @ 9:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The government of Singapore has reportedly pledged $10.8 million towards a program dedicated to managing a legal technology (Legaltech) research program, which aims to digitize various laws, rules and agreements in the country. The grant was awarded to the Singapore Management University’s (SMU’s) School of… Read More

March 15, 2020 @ 10:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lauren Sturdivant, an experienced legal services professional, established a Birmingham-based company, in 2017, called Case Status, which provides attorney and client engagement tools and marketing software for law firms. Case Status says it offers a convenient way for legal services providers to keep clients updated… Read More

December 7, 2019 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Big Four professional services firm Deloitte’s law division has introduced a program aimed at “propelling” early-stage Legaltech firms while using their products. Via Deloitte Legal Ventures, the Legaltech startups will allow the Deloitte Legal team to use their line of products and services from their… Read More

May 28, 2019 @ 4:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

SeedLegals, a Legaltech platform for startup funding rounds, announced on Tuesday it secured $4 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by venture capital firm Index Ventures with participation from Kima Ventures, The Family and existing investor Seedcamp. Founded in 2017, SeedLegals… Read More