Tech-focused Bird & Bird has bolstered its client offering by creating a new role at the firm and hiring a legal tech expert from one of the Big Four to fill it. Hélder Santos joins his new firm from KPMG where he spent 18 months as the firm’s head of legal tech Solutions, having previously […]
Over 100 organisations have now cloned code shared online by Travers Smith that is intended to help businesses develop ChatGPT-style systems. When ChatGPT launched last November, Travers’ technology heads took a look at the product and decided – along with many other innovation professionals in law firms – that they were not comfortable with the […]
Macfarlanes this week pushed the button on its roll-out of generative AI tool HarveyAI, following the largest pilot ever carried out in the history of the firm. Around 15 per cent of Macfarlanes’ fee-earning population across every practice area and all levels of seniority spent time this June using the tool. The results were then […]
Firms are starting to pour investment into legal tech, but the same cannot be said for their clients
Lawyers at Taylor Wessing will be given virtual tokens to trade as part of a new incentive scheme that enables individuals to turn their points into monetary vouchers. The firm’s corporate, IP and financial services teams will participate in the trial phase of the scheme, which will last until the end of the 2023/24 financial […]
Following the launch of its mentoring product for aspiring Black lawyers, the Stephen James Partnership (SJP) has extended its technology solution to cater for qualified practitioners globally. Recruitment business SJP launched Black Lawyers Matter Mentoring in 2022, claiming victory at The Lawyer Awards this year for Best Technology Product. It is a digital programme that […]
As firms grapple with the advantages – and risks – associated with ChatGPT, Dentons has developed its own version of the product that it will launch later this month. Called “fleetAI”, the chatbot is based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model. It has been developed with Microsoft to ensure that data uploaded to the service […]
Simmons Solutions experienced record growth of 16 per cent last year, taking it to £25m from the £22m recorded the year before. Nearly a 14 per cent increase on the previous year, this makes it Simmons & Simmons’ fastest growing international practice group, having been integrated as a practice group at the firm at the […]
In-house lawyers want firms to be using cutting-edge technology, but firms are less keen, according to new research
What does it mean to be a disruptive GC? For Liberis’s Alexis Alexander, being disruptive means being clever with what you already have. Disruption and innovation doesn’t always have to come with hefty price tags and new tech launches. Having progressed from being a head of legal to a GC, she wanted to prove that […]
There has been a change in mindset at one North West firm, not least a greater interest in building products.
Eversheds Sutherland is looking to rip up the traditional legal services rule book with a range of AI-focused policies and processes, in a direct response to the extraordinary rise of ChatGPT at the start of this year. The firm’s new approach is likely to result in Eversheds mandating the use of AI technology wherever possible […]