The legal profession has become better at understand what data science can do and where it can apply to the practice of law, but there is still an air of mystique around how lawyers talk about data science. Some still speak of data science as a black box process that can answer difficult questions with a wave of their hand. We had a conversation with the very humble Aquib Javed Khan about this…

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.

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...”

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.

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.

The majority of Syntheia’s team are engineers and data scientists who had not worked with legal technology prior to joining Syntheia, and so we asked them what they thought when they encountered the idea of “legal technology” for the first time.

We are excited to announce that Syntheia and BWD have joined efforts to explore how the labor-intensive task of generating annual reports can be made easier for companies.

Developers are an exceedingly rare (and often silent) group of professionals working inside the legal system, so we were lucky to have had the opportunity to learn how Ryan McDonough works alongside legal technologists and lawyers in their team…

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…