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At the start of July, six international law firms announced that they are developing a protocol to help deliver a globally consistent approach to the use of online case management platforms for conducting disputes. Launched by Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), the initiative also includes Ashurst, CMS, DLA Piper, Hogan Lovells and Latham & Watkins.

Tim Haveron Jones has been appointed as global client development director at Epiq, starting on Monday (13 July).

This week Microsoft unveiled a raft of new features in Microsoft Teams including Together mode, which that uses AI segmentation technology to digitally place participants in a shared background, combating virtual meeting fatigue. Here are the changes.

The enforced and swift move from gatherings around meeting room tables to a variety of video-conferencing platforms (notably, but not exclusively, Teams and Zoom) brought about by the global Covid-19 pandemic, means that video has featured prominently and could well become one of the more important medias in terms of evidence in the months that lie ahead. Vince Neicho and Martin Bonney say we need to be careful about the consequences of leaping from the board room table.

The UK LegalTech Association has launched a sounding board for innovation leaders within UKLTA member law firms. The brainchild of Weightmans partner and innovation manager Catriona Wolfenden and legal engineer Beth Wells, the group is intended to be a form of innovation self-help group where members can share ideas, challenges and solutions under Chatham House Rules.

DocsCorp has acquired UK-based document assembly vendor verowave technologies, with the verowave platform (verodocs, verosheets, and veroslides) to be integrated into the DocsCorp document productivity suite and re-branded as veroDocs.

Many of London’s leading law firms have signed up a Race Fairness Commitment (RFC) to help recruit, retain and develop BAME talent – albeit the commitment appears to extend to lawyers rather than talent across the firm as a whole.

US national firm Schiff Hardin has gone live on ECFX Notice, which automates the electronic court notice workflow. The 250-lawyer firm, which practices across many federal and state jurisdictions, says it was looking to ECFX to help manage the challenges arising from the differences between court systems, as well as to create efficiencies more generally.

Congratulations to the women in law who made Computer Weekly’s 2020 longlist for the most influential women in tech!

We will be looking to the accounting sector for some of the best examples of Adobe’s platform being used to create the most efficient processes, from document generation to signature.

Rajah & Tann Asia, a leading full-service legal network in Southeast Asia, announced today the beta launch of ReadyDocs, a platform that enables clients to remotely create, edit, digitally sign and manage contracts from any device at any time.

IP technology leader CPA Global has issued a statement announcing its intention to move to an entirely remote working model post COVID-19.

Wilson Allen has promoted Shishir Shetty from VP of technology services to a newly created role of chief operating officer, effective July 1, 2020.

Litera announced today (1 July) the new summer lineup of hosts for its popular livestreaming service, Litera TV, as it celebrates its 300th episode this week. The new lineup includes several of the legal technology community’s most influential names, and Legal IT Insider editor Caroline Hill is honoured to be among them.

Morae Global Corporation has acquired respected legal management consultancy Janders Dean in a deal designed to give Morae a UK-based legal advisory practice group with a particular eye on the large law private practice and corporate legal market.

Global law firm Clyde & Co has entered into a global arrangement with legal technology leader DISCO to assist its lawyers in the eDiscovery process.