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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.

Nominations are now closed for the European Women of Legal Tech Awards 2020 but YOU CAN STILL VOTE for the women who are having a major impact on the digital transformation of the industry. We speak to Michael Grupp, CEO and founder of BRYTER and a co-sponsor of WOLT, to find out the latest on the awards, what they are bringing to the industry, and how you can get involved while there is still time.

Legal IT Insider is 25 years old! Founded by Charles Christian long before most lawyers had their own computer, this publication has for a quarter of a century been at the forefront of helping the legal market to stay abreast of IT wins, deals, movers, shakers and product news.

Automated contract markup technology provider BlackBoiler today (14 October) announces it has secured $3.2 million in Series A funding from a series of strategic investors including agreement cloud company DocuSign, which is a material investor.

In this webinar with Sudeep Venkatesh, Chief Product Officer at Egress, we will look at human layer security and how people, without meaning to, put company data at risk.

Leading Swiss law firm Walder Wyss has rolled out iManage Knowledge Unlocked, meaning it now has a better understanding of how members of the firm are using its knowledge management system, what searches they are carrying out, and where the gaps are in their library, which looks set to inform the firm’s knowledge management strategy.

A new website that will help legal professionals to find legal tech products and solutions across the globe launches today (13 October), founded by husband and wife Nicola (Nikki) Shaver and Chris Ford, who work at Paul Hastings and ZERØ respectively.

Wilson Allen has acquired UK-founded software training services business Capensys to help law firms accelerate and improve user adoption and IT change management, we can reveal.

Tiger Eye has rolled out a raft of new or enhanced features to its knowledge management platform Blueprint, including a new Blueprint knowledge portal, plus the ability to collate search bundles that can be shared as hyperlinks with colleagues. Advanced search tracking also helps KM teams to identify gaps in their libraries.