Sign up for the fortnightly Curve email here. “I just happen to be a girl doing the job” According to data from Carta, in 2023 women made up only 13 per cent of all startup founders that year. Here’s one of them: Patricia Gannon, a lawyer turned entrepreneur who launched Platforum 9 in 2022. The […]
Sign up for the fortnightly Curve email here. How to make £10m Outside and inside the legal industry, people are aware that law can be a conservative industry to sell into. But that has not stopped certain companies from making major gains within it – from Luminance’s Series B backed by March Capital, to Clio’s […]
Sign up for the fortnightly Curve email here. Dinosaur partners will slow AI transformation Welcome to this week’s edition of Curve. Today we are looking at the notion that the AI revolution is hitting the legal market slower than other sectors, and a number of legal insiders think that the more senior partners are the […]
Sign up for the fortnightly Curve email here. How not to become irrelevant, champagne and free advice Ask anyone in the sector about what they think AI will change about the way lawyers “do law” and they’ll tell you it will help them get back to doing the things they love. Less process, less diligence, […]
Sign up for the fortnightly Curve email here. Using an avatar to bill; and BNP Paribas’ blue-sky bot There is a lot of chatter about the things AI could take away: jobs, creativity, lawyers. What the future of lawyers is going to look like remains a grey area, with firms unsure how to move forward […]