Legal Technology

Microsoft outsources legal work to India with CPA Global deal

By Alex Aldridge | February 17, 2010

Microsoft has entered into an agreement with legal outsourcing provider CPA Global to offshore legal work to lawyers in India. The technology giant began a pilot scheme with CPA in October and formally rolled it out at the end of 2009. A team of between three and five qualified lawyers at CPA are handling multi-jurisdictional legal support work, including legal research, for Microsoft. The lawyers are based in CPA's offices in Gurgaon, near Delhi.

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Dentons and Herbert Smith lead on rescue of inflight technology firm

By Sofia Lind | February 10, 2010

Denton Wilde Sapte and Herbert Smith have advised on the rescue of inflight mobile technology company AeroMobile after five weeks in administration. AeroMobile went into administration at the end of December, with Dentons instructed in the lead role for administrator BDO.

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How secure is your PDF?

By Legal Week | February 10, 2010

Adobe PDFs are frequently used in the business environment, but, say Keith Jones and Ryan Lerminiaux, other measures should be taken to increase security on more sensitive documents

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A matter of timing

By Legal Week | January 13, 2010

The costs of disclosure have rocketed in recent years with the shift from paper to electronic documents. The growth of email, together with the increased use of portable digital devices, has combined to produce an explosion in the volume of documents created by businesses, and the courts have now begun to take notice. Lord Justice Jackson has identified the disclosure process as one of the main causes of excessive litigation costs, and a string of recent judgments have penalised litigants for failing to properly manage their disclosure exercises.

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The not-so-quick draw

By Legal Week | January 13, 2010

Many legal departments have significant concerns about how to handle data when called upon to do so for litigation or regulatory response. Many in-house lawyers consider that their company policies and procedures in this area are unclear and unworkable, with less than one in five aware of the existence of policies for collecting and processing data. According to our recent survey of more than 200 senior in-house lawyers, half of respondents admit to being concerned about the legal department's ability to find data.

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A higher platform

By Legal Week | January 13, 2010

Deciding to become an early adopter for Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system was one of those moments when all of the stars aligned. It was time to replace the hardware at Allen Matkins, and we wanted to improve the efficiency and administration of our technology environment as well as help our lawyers be more effective with 24/7 access to mission-critical tools. Windows 7 happened to become available at the right time, and the operating system performed as well as the marketing materials said it could. Allen Matkins is an entrepreneurial firm by nature, so this fact, coupled with our track record of choosing effective early solutions, made it relatively easy to gain firmwide approval.

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Technology provider of the year

By Legal Week | December 8, 2009

The importance of technology to the legal sector is underlined by the fact that it featured in several of the shortlisted entries for the two innovation awards. This year the British Legal Awards set out to recognise the contribution made by technology suppliers to the legal sector with this new category. Technology supplier of the year was one of the most closely fought of all the categories.

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Best use of technology

By Legal Week | December 8, 2009

LG wins this award for its project to turn fee earners' BlackBerrys into 'pocket offices'. The aim of this project was to boost LG's competitiveness by allowing staff to undertake an array of tasks while on the move that they would normally only be able to complete easily in their offices. The key features of the firm's pocket office concept are:

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The mark of the wise

By Legal Week | December 8, 2009

During the past decade and a half, the internet has grown from a small array of a few thousand websites to a vast network of hundreds of millions of distinct sites containing billions of web pages. Although the internet has presented a new frontier for both trademark use and infringement, the growth of social media sites during the past few years has posed particular challenges for brand owners. These sites, which include blogs, virtual worlds, marketplaces, image networks and relative newcomers such as Facebook and Twitter, allow users to interact with each other, effectively building a community.

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Non-profit group calls for rethink of law firm deal documentation

By Legal Week | November 26, 2009

Not-for-profit organisation Legal IT Innovators Group (LITIG) has teamed up with an in-house organisation counting BAE Systems and Barclays among its members to push for law firms to adopt a new, consistent system for sending deal documents to clients. LITIG, which is supported by more than 70 law firms across the UK, is calling for firms to use a standardised file system for deal bibles following research carried out by partner group Knowledge Management and IT (KMIT), which includes Barclays legal and compliance group's head of operations Andrew Dey among its members.

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The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Law Firms Crack Down on ChatGPT Use in Light of Privacy Concerns, Hallucinations

By Amanda O'Brien | June 23, 2023

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby has banned the use of the generative AI tool in the office. "The risks are just way too high," said chair Andrew Indeck.

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Legaltech News

Is Legal Tech's Future One-Stop-Shop Solutions or an Inevitable Unbundling?

By Isha Marathe | June 23, 2023

One-stop-shop legal tech solutions still hold a lot weight in the legal market. But with glitchy integrations and bloated tech packages, some see a potential "unbundling" of legal technology, akin to the disruption that hit cable TV.

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Legaltech News

Reader Survey: What Do You Want to See on Legaltech News?

By Legaltech News Staff | June 21, 2023

We want to hear from you! As our coverage evolves and expands, we want to make sure it aligns more closely with what our readers need, want and expect.

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Corporate Counsel

Breaking Boundaries in Legal Tech: The Game-Changing Potential of Generative AI

By Brandi Pack and Sumi Trombley | June 21, 2023

Despite an outpouring of media coverage for generative artificial intelligence (AI), some may still wonder whether reality will actually measure up to all the hype. Sure, this is a clear technological advancement, but haven't we been here before?

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Legaltech News

Microsoft Loop and Legal Discovery: What to Know Now

By Ryan Hemmel and Damir Kahvedžić, ProSearch | June 21, 2023

Microsoft Loop, a new web and mobile co-creation app in Microsoft 365 that offers interactive components for team collaboration, will create new challenges for managing and collecting data for discovery purposes.

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Legaltech News

Henchman Launches Gen AI-Powered Contract Review and Negotiation Features, Expanding Beyond Drafting

By Stephanie Wilkins | June 21, 2023

"Henchman was always focused on the complex contract drafting end of the spectrum, [but] with the rise of all the generative AI, ... there are huge opportunities to create great value, especially within the review process," Henchman co-CEO and founder Jorn Vanysacke told Legaltech News.

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Daily Business Review

Would Artificial Intelligence Lie to Us?

By Samuel Lewis | June 21, 2023

When it came to practical application closer to home—using generative AI in connection with the practice of law—I was cautious.

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Legaltech News

AI-Powered Deposition Startup Parrot Raises $11 Million

By Rhys Dipshan | June 20, 2023

Parrot is the second legal tech startup focused on modernizing depositions to close a funding round this year.

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Legaltech News

How Vendors and Clients Can Bridge the Divide Over How AI Applies to CLM

By Jim O'Hare, LegalEase Solutions LLC | June 20, 2023

Training AI is an aspect of implementation that vendors need to discuss more with their prospects during sales calls—and one that prospects must educate themselves better on to make more informed CLM purchase decisions.

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Legaltech News

The Hidden Reason Behind Big Law's Layoffs

By Paul Hodkinson | June 18, 2023

It is too easy to blame all the job cuts on market conditions, there is something else going on and it is more worrying for juniors, writes the Global Lawyer.

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