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Nexl raises $4m from investors including Australian B2B VC firm EVP

Nexl raises $4m from investors including Australian B2B VC firm EVP

Australian-headquartered CRM and revenue operations platform Nexl has successfully raised $4m, with participation from leading Australian-based B2B venture capital firm EVP with follow-on participation from Vulpes, Saniel Ventures and The
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HSBC agrees to acquire SVB UK as “existential threat” to UK tech sector averted 

HSBC agrees to acquire SVB UK as “existential threat” to UK tech sector averted 

HSBC announced today (13 March) that is has agreed to buy Silicon Valley Bank’s UK arm after the collapse of SVB in the US led to the UK arm being
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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 second 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, offer suggestions
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Women, Influence & Power in Law UK Awards – The winners

Women, Influence & Power in Law UK Awards – The winners

Congratulations to all of the winners of ALM’s Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards, which took place in Kensington, London last night (8 March) on International Women’s Day 2023.
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Cutting through the noise: The impact of GPT/large language models (and what it means for legal tech vendors)

Cutting through the noise: The impact of GPT/large language models (and what it means for legal tech vendors)

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and as the legal industry has become savvier about artificial intelligence, there is a temptation for some to write off OpenAI’s generative
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Search Acumen announces beta ChatGPT integration 

Search Acumen announces beta ChatGPT integration 

UK property technology firm Search Acumen announces today (8 March) that it has begun beta testing ChatGPT. OpenAI’s chatbot will be integrated within Search Acumen’s portal for lawyers, available to a select
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Report: Law firms under pressure as client demand for financial transparency grows

Report: Law firms under pressure as client demand for financial transparency grows

A new industry report out today (7 March) finds that clients are increasingly demanding financial transparency and certainty across their engagements with law firms as they look to alleviate their
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US: DLA Piper hires 10-strong data analytics team from Faegre Drinker 

US: DLA Piper hires 10-strong data analytics team from Faegre Drinker 

DLA Piper has poached a 10-strong data analytics team from Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, led by Bennett Borden, a qualified lawyer who joins as partner and chief data scientist
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Penningtons Manches Cooper swaps out Elite Enterprise for Aderant Expert Sierra

Penningtons Manches Cooper swaps out Elite Enterprise for Aderant Expert Sierra

UK top 50 law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper has swapped out its Elite Enterprise on premises practice management system for Aderant’s AWS-hosted PMS Expert Sierra. This is the first Sierra
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Report: Hybrid Working and Law Firms’ Long-Term Cloud Journey

Report: Hybrid Working and Law Firms’ Long-Term Cloud Journey

It is very easy to make assumptions about what the law firm cloud technology journey looks like in 2023, and those assumptions are, dare we say, often wrong. This report,
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Podcast: Understanding the impact of CRM on law firm success

Podcast: Understanding the impact of CRM on law firm success

Legal industry analyst Ari Kaplan this week interviewed Legal IT Insider’s lead analyst and industry expert Neil Cameron; author of our new Legal Industry Survey: CRM Software report. Kaplan asked
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Macfarlanes and Howard Kennedy among law firms to adopt Kim Document for automation

Macfarlanes and Howard Kennedy among law firms to adopt Kim Document for automation

UK top 100 law firms Macfarlanes and Howard Kennedy are among those using Kim’s no-code, SaaS document generation, assembly and workflow automation platform, as the UK-headquartered vendor flags high adoption
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EMEA legal tech investment: Henchman raises €6.5m Series A

EMEA legal tech investment: Henchman raises €6.5m Series A

Belgian contract drafting legal tech company Henchman announces today (2 March) that it has closed a €6.5m Series A to support global growth and innovation in its platform. Founded in
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Casetext unveils AI legal assistant powered by OpenAI’s “most advanced” large language model

Casetext unveils AI legal assistant powered by OpenAI’s “most advanced” large language model

US legal research provider Casetext today (1 March) unveils a legal assistant powered by OpenAI’s “most advanced” large language model, which it has customised for the legal sector. We’re told
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Fast-growing UK top 50 law firm Freeths selects Peppermint for CRM

Fast-growing UK top 50 law firm Freeths selects Peppermint for CRM

UK top 50 law firm Freeths is continuing its digitisation journey with the selection of Peppermint Technology’s SaaS Microsoft cloud-based client relationship management system, Client Engagement. Freeths, which has twelve
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QuisLex and ContractPodAi enter tech + services partnership

QuisLex and ContractPodAi enter tech + services partnership

New York and Hyderabad-headquartered alternative legal services provider QuisLex and contract lifecycle management vendor ContractPodAi have entered a partnership to help customers deliver large-scale CLM implementations. QuisLex supports clients across
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Guest post: Five legal tech options in-house teams don’t know they already have

Guest post: Five legal tech options in-house teams don’t know they already have

By Babar Hayat, head of tech and transformation at Konexo and Robbie Smith, technical consultant at Konexo Many in-house legal teams have access to some fairly powerful technology already without
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