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CTS has been selected by family law firm, Woolley & Co, to provide a hybrid cloud platform.

The future of BCLP’s volume legal delivery and legal operations arm appears uncertain after the firm announced internally and to clients that it is conducting a review of the stand-alone unit, Legal IT Insider can reveal.

Addleshaw Goddard has appointed former PWC and DWF digital transformation specialist Jason Macarthur as head of legal operations in AG Consulting.

Mishcon de Reya LLP and Taylor Vinters LLP have entered into a strategic combination agreement. While the two firms will continue as separate entities their intention, subject to obtaining the relevant permissions, is ultimately to operate within the same group structure.

Grab a coffee and catch up on all the latest legal tech UK and US hires, wins and deals. And don’t miss the chance to complete our short ‘Back to work’ (or not) survey’, looking at the future of hybrid and what arrangements you have in place. Plus, take a look at our forthcoming webinars, where leveraging Microsoft Teams is the focus: it would be great if you can join us.

“Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.” Writer, strategist, and philosopher Sun Tzu certainly got human nature right in his ancient Chines treatise, Art of War.

Aderant promotes three, including Rafi Shure to EVP and COO; and Litera hires a new VP of sales for North America.

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eDiscovery and compliance provider Hanzo last week announced a substantial investment from Recurring Capital Partners totalling $10.5 million.

Onit has announced the general availability of InvoiceAI, which now includes both historical and real-time invoice review.

No-code contract lifecycle management provider Agiloft has expanded its leadership team by three, amid, we’re told, a 100% increase in customer bookings and more than 50% growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

Clifford Chance has selected Austin-headquartered records management provider FileTrail GPS (Governance Policy Suite) to replace and upgrade its incumbent OpenText LegalKEY system.

How can knowledge management benefit Legal IT leaders? And how could a mutual KM/IT partnership support IT leadership with their work? In this article, Dave Wilson, founder and managing director of Tiger Eye, explores the core benefits of knowledge sharing, curation and centralization for today’s IT leaders.

iManage is to end of life DeskSite, FileSite and Work Indexer (powered by IDOL) in a move that will see those core legacy products no longer supported after December 2023.

Contract drafting and review startup Definely has announced a £2.2m Seed+ funding, co-led by Microsoft’s venture fund, M12, and CRE Venture Capital. The latest funding follows a Seed round raised in September 2020, bringing Definely’s total investment to date to £3.4m.

In this live webinar we will be speaking with ClearPeople co-founder and director Gabriel Karawani; Gowling WLG’s IT director Shane Scott; and Nick Hedderman, the director of Microsoft’s modern work and security business group, which advises on a portfolio of products including Microsoft Office 365 and Teams.

In this live and interactive webinar, we will be speaking with senior Epona consultant Keith Vallely and product manager of DMSforLegal, Marcel Lang, about how you can live entirely in Microsoft Teams using Epona’s newly-launched solution, DMSforTeams.

Aderant has hired Sage’s vice president of sales for North America to lead its global sales teams as chief revenue officer (CRO), we can reveal.

Former Tikit heads Simon Hill and Mark Garnish have launched a new software development business aimed at providing organisations with project managed developers, involved in anything from ad hoc projects to full time development work.