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ALM Legal Innovation & Technology Awards 2024 – The Winners!
May 24, 2024 · ALM’s Legal Innovation & Technology Awards took place in London yesterday (23 May), with Addleshaw Goddard and DLA Piper the big winners of the day, both taking home three awards.. Hosted by British comedian Stephen Bailey, who did a great job of amusing the lunchtime crowd and presenting the awards, the ceremony celebrated the work of lawyers working in tandem with business services ...
Alt-V Law takes Collas Crill from LexisOne to Elite 3E in 14 months
Jun 4, 2024 · Legal management consultancy Alt-V Law has assisted offshore law firm Collas Crill to replace its legacy LexisOne ERP system with Elite 3E, in a project that we’re told was delivered from start to finish in just 14 months. Alt-V Law also engaged legal tech services provider Harbor on discrete elements of the project to ensure that the tight timeframe was met.
"The Gen AI LLM benchmarking war starts here": Harvey releases …
Sep 3, 2024 · Gen AI startup Harvey has released a benchmarking framework for quantitatively evaluating the performance of large language models on real-world legal tasks. The model supplements, it says, prior work that measures LLM legal reasoning in more structured settings. One of the challenges of evaluating LLMs on the tasks that lawyers do is that they are too complicated to be graded by multiple ...
Linklaters launches ReportiQ, a “genuinely end-to-end" due …
Mar 15, 2023 · Following two years of process mapping, planning and development, Linklaters has launched due diligence platform ReportiQ, which manages the due diligence process from scanning a data room to generating a final report. Built in partnership with Californian due diligence management vendor Wizdocs, ReportiQ enables Linklaters lawyers and clients to manage and track all stages of due diligence in ...
Nine months in – the Baker & McKenzie SAP experience
After many years in the planning stage and one aborted attempt to install it, Baker & McKenzie last December rolled out SAP across its 77 offices in 47 countries, becoming the first major law firm to adopt the latest version of a system long-embraced by the likes of Apple, Accenture and other major international players.
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Legal IT Insider has launched the first-ever practice management system industry report, which takes an unparalleled, in-depth look at the functionality of many PMS systems in the market. This report is written by our lead analyst Neil Cameron, who has decades of experience working as a technology consultant for law firms, including experience ...
Clyde & Co partners with LexisNexis on the development and roll …
Jan 15, 2024 · UK top 20 law firm Clyde & Co is in the process of rolling out Lexis Everyfile, LexisNexis’s web-based matter management application that was made generally available in October last year. Clyde & Co has been collaborating with LexisNexis on developing the product for around two years. The international firm, which has a large presence in the insurance market, has used LexisNexis’ case ...
McDermott and Akin become latest US law firms to hire directors …
Oct 1, 2024 · US law firms McDermott Will & Emery and Akin both announced yesterday (30 September) that they have appointed directors of AI, becoming the latest firms to create and fill this new role.. Akin announced that Jeff Westcott has rejoined the firm as director of practice technology & AI innovation, where he will focus on leveraging AI and other emerging technologies to enhance client service.
Nicola Foulston invests in Virtual Pricing Director as RBG …
Oct 1, 2024 · Nicola Foulston, the former CEO of listed law firm consolidator RBG Holdings, has invested an undisclosed but “substantial” amount in SaaS legal pricing solution Virtual Pricing Director (VPD), after two employment matters she was involved in came to an end.. Foulston was dismissed from RBG Holdings last year and sued the company, which includes law firms Rosenblatt, Memery Crystal and ...