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Using legal data that is hidden in words, lines, nooks and crannies

Back in March this year, the brilliant Colin Lachance and I had a conversation about his joint venture, Jurisage, knowledge graphs, and legal data. For those interested in using data to solve legal problems, it would be worth your while to take a look at this video for our in-depth discussion.

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Syntheia acquires Motionize

We are delighted to announce that we have acquired Motionize, which also offers a Word Add-In that improves access to knowledge and provides drafting guidance to transactional lawyers.

Joshua Schoen, Co-Founder and CEO of Motionize, says, “We believe this combination will ultimately bring forth a category defining drafting product...”

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How Clearbrief designs and uses NLP to help litigators

Clearbrief is a technology startup in the US that has built an incredible piece of software to solve problems that litigators encounter in their work. We had a chat with their CEO, Jackie Schafer, about their award winning company, how their software is helping their customers, and how she and her team designed their products.

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How to choose the right innovation problem to solve

Isabela Loscher is the passionate Knowledge Management Officer at PPU. In this conversation, Isabela chats with us about addressing real problems for lawyers and the importance of going “back to basics”. We spend much of this conversation discussing how we can identify the right problems to solve.

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A masterclass in legal optimization – designing useful applications

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!

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Using visualizations to represent structural legal data in transactions

When people think of lawyers, they generally think of lawyers using words on a page or words spoken in court. Unless they have worked with lawyers through the planning and strategizing stages of a case, most people do not think of lawyers as visual creatures. The lucky few who have worked with lawyers extensively may know that, contrary to popular opinion, lawyers rely heavily on visualizations, like flowcharts and structure diagrams…

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