One innovation head tells us they had the popcorn out all last week during a war of words on Twitter, which erupted after Kira Systems’ founder Noah Waisberg at Legal Geek called for the legal tech press at large to become more discerning in its coverage of ‘AI’ and emerging technology and try to help avoid some of the hype.
A valid call, I thought it would be worth reminding you of a few things you can expect from Legal IT Insider, given that some of the frustration in that war of words surrounded paid for product endorsements and the like.
We don’t pay to play
You can’t pay to post comments or news on Legal IT Insider. Full stop. We don’t run any advertorials or sponsored content. Our Legal IT Newswire was set up to enable the market to post their press releases for free as a way of giving something back to the community. If it’s confusing, let us know.
We commission big intelligence reports that are expensive (we pay someone to research and write them) and are sponsored. Sponsors are not given copy approval – the editorial content is independent.
We write negative stories about advertisers
We are not beholden to write positive stories about advertisers and our advertisers are smart and realise that the value of our proposition is that our editorial content is independent.
We may well post press releases or bits of releases
There has been some criticism on social media of the blind press release culture – mostly directed at those generating them en masse.
We separate the hot air from the substance and provide you with comment on the news. But given the volume of news being demanded and generated today you may well spot the odd press release. We follow up the more interesting stories with longer commentary in our monthly newsletter, the Orange Rag, sign up here: https://legaltechnology.com//latest-newsletter/
We are growing
You will spot content going forward from Amy Carroll, former editor of private equity publication Real Deals. Amy wrote our Accounting Tech report and is awesome. She is learning the legal tech ropes, please help her. Amy is working on a freelance basis but will be covering news stories most days of the week and continuing to write reports.
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