In the last couple of years, Tim McDonald put together an automation and optimization project where a few changes led to 85% of procurement contracts becoming self-serviced by his business team, so they never need any intervention from his legal team at all. The result was that the speed of procurement improved by three to four times compared to prior to his automation and optimization project!

Tim Perry is a fountain of knowledge on all manners of things, but on legal content in particular. Legal content is a subject that does not receive a lot of attention in the legal technology landscape, and this lack of attention is something which Tim and his team address at Practical Law Australia…

When it comes to sharing of knowledge and tools, there is a common perception that legal professionals are not very good at sharing of its valuable knowledge and resources. Whereas the common perception (one which I used to hold) is that the tech industry is much better at sharing than the legal profession…

A few days ago, I had a video chat with Tomoyuki Hachigo, co-founder of Sprintlaw (https://sprintlaw.com.au/), about how they built Sprintlaw by focusing on the needs of their target client groups – and created a firm that provides faster, simpler and more affordable legal services…

Much of legal technology seems to be focused on solutions that seem to “robotize the lawyer”, but Mark and I want to use this blog post to explore what could happen if we apply technology and data science to the layers above the expert services, and “robotized” those layers?