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Microsoft Teams email is reportedly being used to deliver a phishing campaign, in which users are sent what appears to be an automated message from Teams but in fact steals the recipient’s login credentials.

Editor Caroline Hill spoke to Daniel Lewis, VP of practical guidance at LexisNexis, about the new M&A analytics tool Market Standards and what is on the roadmap.

We’ve had to move our webinar with Egress to Thursday 5th November at the usual time, 4pm BST / 10am CT. See you in there!

Omnia Strategy – the international specialist law firm co-founded by leading barrister and former Prime Minister’s wife Cherie Blair CBE QC – has chosen Tikit to implement NetDocuments as its cloud-based document and email management platform.

Lexical Labs co-founder Simon Black takes us through some of the best bits of Legal Geek 2020, including the workshops (Daniel van Binsbergen explained how to create a contract playbook in minutes); a design thinking exercise; and speed networking (algorithmically powered, obvs.)

Borenius has selected Prosperoware’s cloud provisioning, governance and business continuity solution CAM as part of its roll out of the iManage Cloud, becoming the first Nordic law firm to do so. CAM helps to solve many of the challenges that firms face in managing multiple cloud services and Borenius is using it for provisioning of iManage Cloud, Microsoft Teams and HighQ, as well as to provide AWS backup for the DMS.

Editor Caroline Hill asked Lex Machina CEO Josh Becker to reflect on the rise and rise of legal analytics, on the eve before he left legal tech to run for CA State Senate.

No-code document automation-as-a-service platform Kim has formally unveiled the Kim Addin Accelerator, which makes self-serve forms available in Microsoft Teams, Word, Outlook and other enterprise tools “in minutes.”

Baker McKenzie has entered into partnership with AI research engine SparkBeyond in a bid, ultimately, to overhaul the way client services are delivered and, if the ‘holy grail’ is achieved, create a problem solving operating system that sits with knowledge workers.

iManage has entered a strategic partnership and integration with Foundation Software Group to make it easier for firms to deploy its knowledge management system iManage Knowledge Unlocked and surface curated connections between content, concepts and people.

There’s a new fund in town that officially launches today (19 October) and is raising $100m in growth capital to invest in high growth sectors including cyber security, legal technology and regulation technology. Bryce Catalyst is led by president and CEO Cary Burch and COO Erik Baklid: both are well-known names in the legal tech sector and there are other very familiar names in the Bryce team line up.

Travers Smith last week announced the launch of contract labelling tool Etatonna, which looks set to help law firms to take control of their own data and potentially build joint venture AI models. Editor Caroline Hill speaks to head of legal technology Shawn Curran.

Join me on Thursday 22 October at midday BST when I chair a webinar in which we’ll unveil the UK findings of the Global Legal Tech Report conducted in association with UKLTA and the Law Society of England and Wales. The report will provide key data on legal tech start-ups and the solutions they provide including metrics such as diversity, and how COVID has impacted them.

Editor Caroline Hill speaks to Agiloft’s CEO Eric Laughlin about the contract lifecycle management company’s recent $45m investment, including a deep dive into the funding and what we can expect to see on Agiloft’s roadmap

KPMG has launched a Global Legal Operations Transformation Services offering across its firms, designed to provide clients with a wide range of global strategies and cross-border capabilities to help meet the challenges they face.

eDiscovery leader DISCO today (14 October) announced a $60 million equity financing, valuing the company at $785 million.