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Legal IT Win: Top UK firm Hugh James adopts Virtual Pricing Director 

Legal IT Win: Top UK firm Hugh James adopts Virtual Pricing Director 

Hugh James has become the latest UK top 100 law firm to deploy SaaS legal pricing platform Virtual Pricing Director, we can reveal. VPD, which was conceived of and built
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Intapp’s Samia Rauf relocates to Melbourne in newly created regional MD for APAC role 

Intapp’s Samia Rauf relocates to Melbourne in newly created regional MD for APAC role 

Samia Rauf has this month relocated to Australia as Intapp’s regional managing director for APAC. This is a newly created role that Rauf took over in July last year, but she has now
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Guest post: Can AI and ChatGPT revolutionise client service operations? Yes, here’s how

Guest post: Can AI and ChatGPT revolutionise client service operations? Yes, here’s how

By Mike Quinn, business development director UK for Y Meadows In 1969 Evelyn Berezini invented the first secretarial word processor – Redactron. Did Evelyn realise it was the start of
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Ince Group to enter administration after major creditor withdraws support

Ince Group to enter administration after major creditor withdraws support

The board of London Stock Exchange-listed law firm The Ince Group announced today (12 April) that it has no choice but to place the company into administration, after a major
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Sorainen spin-off Crespect receives €227k development grant + first €605k tranche of new seed investment 

Sorainen spin-off Crespect receives €227k development grant + first €605k tranche of new seed investment 

Cloud legal practice management system and Sorainen law firm spin-off Crespect has received a grant €227,000 from the European Regional Development Fund for innovative product development and closed a seed
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Guest post: What’s hot in KM? A report on SKILLS 2023

Guest post: What’s hot in KM? A report on SKILLS 2023

By Lucy Dillon In March 2023, SKILLS (Strategic Knowledge and Innovation Legal Leaders’ Summit) celebrated over 20 years of annual peer-to-peer meetings. Here are some of the key findings of
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Kuberno announces £3.5M Series A financing led by Nasdaq Ventures  

Kuberno announces £3.5M Series A financing led by Nasdaq Ventures  

Legal entity management startup Kuberno today (12 April) announced the completion of a £3.5m Series A financing from Nasdaq Ventures. Alongside the financing, Kuberno will launch a commercial partnership with Nasdaq
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Breaking news: iManage receives substantial minority investment from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities 

Breaking news: iManage receives substantial minority investment from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities 

iManage has received a substantial minority investment from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities (BCTO), we can reveal, in a move that CEO Neil Araujo tells Legal IT Insider will help propel
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Guest post: Why Elite and ProLaw didn’t work at TR

Guest post: Why Elite and ProLaw didn’t work at TR

By Bill Bice, CEO of nQ Zebraworks; former founder and CEO of ProLaw Software and then at TR, West km. The vision was there. The execution wasn’t. West’s acquisition of
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Guest post: How GCs can support the CFO in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank failure

Guest post: How GCs can support the CFO in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank failure

By Olga Mack     On any normal day, the first priority of the general counsel is to take care of the company. Even during a monumental crisis – such
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Breaking news: TPG to acquire majority stake in Thomson Reuters Elite

Breaking news: TPG to acquire majority stake in Thomson Reuters Elite

European late stage private equity firm TPG has agreed to buy a majority stake in Thomson Reuters Elite at a valuation of $500 million. The announcement was made internally at
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Pinnacle creates Microsoft Legal Applications team to help firms leverage their MS investment 

Pinnacle creates Microsoft Legal Applications team to help firms leverage their MS investment 

Legal technology consultancy Pinnacle has created a Microsoft Legal Applications team that will help law firms to leverage their investment in Microsoft across their organisation. The team unites Pinnacle’s BI
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“This will level the playing field” – Advanced partners with Clarilis for real estate contract automation 

“This will level the playing field” – Advanced partners with Clarilis for real estate contract automation 

Advanced has selected Clarilis as its preferred partner for document drafting automation and will be offering Clarilis’ suite of real estate documents to its law firm customer base, making ‘off-the-shelf’
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The Orange Rag Newsletter is Here!

The Orange Rag Newsletter is Here!

It has been an extraordinary month in the world of tech and if you are a legal tech vendor who is not announcing a GPT integration, whether GPT is relevant
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Podcast: Charting Change in Legal with Caroline Hill and Ari Kaplan

Podcast: Charting Change in Legal with Caroline Hill and Ari Kaplan

In this third episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and Legal Industry Analyst Ari Kaplan of Ari Kaplan Advisors, reflect on
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UK Government’s new AI white paper confirms sector-by-sector approach to regulation

UK Government’s new AI white paper confirms sector-by-sector approach to regulation

The UK Government today (29 March) published a white paper that sets out its blueprint for regulating artificial intelligence. Instead of giving responsibility for AI governance to a single new
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Tech leaders call for an end to AI labs race and a six-month pause on training of AI systems above GPT-4

Tech leaders call for an end to AI labs race and a six-month pause on training of AI systems above GPT-4

A raft of technology leaders and top AI researchers have signed an open letter warning that AI labs are locked in an out of control race to develop and deploy
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