This article was originally published on LawTech.Asia and has been republished. In October 2018, LawTech.Asia published the first-ever detailed outline of the legal technology sector in Singapore. It was the result of a months-long project to map out the root, state and outlook of the legal technology sector in Singapore, and furthers LawTech.Asia’s fundamental purpose …

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With vast challenges facing the legal profession it is essential for law firm bosses to rehumanise the practice of law, and “prioritise people over budgets, office politics, timesheets and bureaucracy,” according to a chief executive. NewLaw firm Keypoint Law has just marked its five-year anniversary since launching in the Australian market. During this time it has grown from a …

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This article was originally published on The Law Society UK and has been republished. Legal tech isn’t magic and it won’t solve all your problems. Sorry. Without a detailed understanding of the problems you’re looking to solve, as well as the people and the processes governing them, there’s little point diving into a new tech …

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Originally published on Forbes.com by Mark A. Cohen Lawyers use words like masons lay stones. Words are tools of the legal trade. It’s odd, then, that one of the most important words in the legal lexicon, “upskilling,” is scarcely known to most legal professionals. That will change soon—here’s why. Upskilling is a term well-known to business. In …

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Legal technology companies have to get out of their own way in vying for law department adoption, and buyers need to know what they want. The legal technology industry has some significant hurdles to overcome in its increased push to sell into legal departments, general counsel say. And GCs admit that they are part of …

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Business tech is still behind, but it’s able to learn lessons from the consumer side. If you spend any time at all online, you have almost certainly experienced a form of data targeting. You know the drill: you log onto your Amazon account to search for an item you want to buy, and less than …

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This article was originally published on the New Zealand Law Society and has been republished. The legal profession is only starting to take advantage of the numerous opportunities that technology brings, although many aren’t taking advantage of what is one of the most popular forms of communication today – social media. Social media can provide …

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This article was originally published on Bloomberg Law and has been republished. Mike Gamson’s recent decision to leave LinkedIn to become CEO of e-discovery company Relativity is a notable illustration of a mainstream technology executive looking to take advantage of the burgeoning legal tech sector. Executives like Gamson, who have helped build big tech operations, …

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This article was originally published on the New Zealand Law Society and has been republished. Globally the data volumes experienced in the discovery process are increasing rapidly and this is no different in New Zealand. A common myth in New Zealand has been that our discovery data volumes are only small. This is not the …

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