Global law firm Dentons this week announced a partnership with leading legal AI platform Legora to provide its lawyers with Europe-wide access to Legora’s collaborative AI tools.
Dentons says its lawyers will leverage Legora for end-to-end tasks including searching, reviewing, drafting, and editing documents, as well using its agentic capabilities to carry out research within both internal and external legal databases.
Commenting on the partnership, Wendela Raas, CEO of Dentons Europe, said: “This partnership with Legora underscores our continued efforts to be a leader in AI development and adoption. Rolling out the platform across our European teams will give our lawyers a considerable head start on time-intensive tasks, and the improved speed and efficiency will allow them to spend more time delivering the quality legal advice that our clients truly value. We look forward to working closely with the Legora team to further advance the platform and our AI capabilities in line with the needs of our clients and our people.”
Just today (2 July), Actionstep launched Scout, its AI Support Assistant. Scout has been created to help midsize law firms globally get the most out of their Actionstep Practice Management platform.
“Everything we do is driven and influenced by our customers. Scout provides the joint benefit of giving our customers better access to support, along with more relevant and timely information without needing to make a request through traditional support avenues,” shared Daniella Bohill, Actionstep’s senior vice president of customers. “Our customers’ time is valuable – Scout’s mission is simple. Just Actionstep answers, powered by Actionstep expertise.”
Powered by the same OpenAI technology behind ChatGPT, Scout is only trained on content from the Actionstep Practice Management Help Center and Knowledge Hub and does not access external data sources or share law firm user data. Since its introduction, Scout has resolved 83% of queries successfully and has saved approximately 140 customer support team hours.
Actionstep says that Scout is not replacing existing customer support options including the Help Center, Actionstep Academy, and the Knowledge Hub.
In a big hire announced this week, Jack Shepherd is joining White & Case as director of knowledge solutions, based in London. Shepherd, who joins from iManage, reports to chief innovation officer Isabel Parker, who also recently hired director of innovation and AI Alistair Wye from Latham & Watkins.
Parker said: “We are delighted to welcome Jack to the world class team we are building at White & Case. His expertise will help us to unlock the full potential of the Firm’s knowledge and accelerate our innovation strategy.”
And in the US, Litera has appointed Anthee Merichovitis as chief business transformation & operations officer.
Most recently, Merichovitis served as chief strategy & transformation officer at Kyriba (backed by Bridgepoint and General Atlantic). Prior to Kyriba, she held various global roles at Sitecore. She will report directly to Litera’s CEO Avaneesh Marwaha.
“As we continue to grow and innovate in product and go-to-market strategies with a renewed customer focus at Litera, we recognized the need for more operational focus to achieve our goals,” said Marwaha. “Anthee impressed us with her practical experience in successful transformation and value creation initiatives. It became apparent that she could immediately focus on key initiatives to help us drive necessary changes and add the rigor needed to continue to scale and deliver top-tier customer sentiment.”