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Bird & Bird appoints new head of legaltech and innovation

Bird & Bird appoints new head of legaltech and innovation

International law firm Bird & Bird today (2 October) announced the appointment of Hélder Santos as its new head of legaltech and innovation. Santos joins the firm from KPMG Law
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Legal Geek pulls out ALL the stops to get you to the conference: Details here

Legal Geek pulls out ALL the stops to get you to the conference: Details here

There may be a rail and tube strike on Wednesday 4 October but the Legal Geek team has gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that people can still attend the
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ILTA’s blockbuster technology survey for 2023 reveals all on collaboration tool adoption & governance, and plenty on gen AI

ILTA’s blockbuster technology survey for 2023 reveals all on collaboration tool adoption & governance, and plenty on gen AI

This article was edited on 1 October after ILTA notified us that their image depicting whether firms are, or are not, using generative AI was incorrect. That image has now
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Webinar: Supporting wellbeing and productivity in the modern age

Webinar: Supporting wellbeing and productivity in the modern age

Over two-thirds of legal professionals have experienced mental ill health and are at increased risk of burnout, anxiety or depression. One of a law firm’s key challenges in the modern
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Mark Bilson joins Xperate to lead US expansion 

Mark Bilson joins Xperate to lead US expansion 

Legal technology veteran Mark Bilson is joining Xperate as its chief commercial officer for North America, in a major hire for the UK-founded legal software development startup.  Bilson previously headed
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The Orange Rag Newsletter is Here!

The Orange Rag Newsletter is Here!

It is hard to believe that it has been a year since Charles Christian, Legal IT Insider’s founder and the ‘godfather of legal technology’, passed away. We will be hosting
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Simmons & Simmons to create six-strong LLM team led by Drew Winlaw 

Simmons & Simmons to create six-strong LLM team led by Drew Winlaw 

Simmons Wavelength partner Drew Winlaw has been appointed as global large language model lead at Simmons & Simmons to head a six-person team responsible for looking at generative AI for
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The legal industry reacts to Amazon investing up to $4bn in Anthropic

The legal industry reacts to Amazon investing up to $4bn in Anthropic

Amazon and Anthropic this week announced a strategic collaboration that will see Amazon invest up to $4bn in the gen AI startup, massively accelerating the development of its future foundation
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Am Law 100 law firm Ballard Spahr selects NetDocuments

Am Law 100 law firm Ballard Spahr selects NetDocuments

Am Law 100 law firm Ballard Spahr has selected NetDocuments as its cloud-based document management system following a selection process led by CIO Robert Holloway and external legal IT consultancy eSentio
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LexisNexis launches Lexis+ Ireland

LexisNexis launches Lexis+ Ireland

LexisNexis Legal & Professional has today (26 September) announced the official launch of Lexis+ Ireland. It includes practice notes, precedents and checklists, legislation and Irish judgments, including the Irish Reports,
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Elite appoints Lindsey Moorley as CFO post TPG acquisition

Elite appoints Lindsey Moorley as CFO post TPG acquisition

Elite announces today (25 September) that it has appointed Lindsey Moorley as chief financial officer, as it continues to assemble its executive leadership following its acquisition from Thomson Reuters by
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Actionstep acquires North American legal accounting platform Soluno

Actionstep acquires North American legal accounting platform Soluno

New Zealand-founded cloud practice management system vendor Actionstep has acquired Toronto-based legal accounting software company Soluno, from professional services payments company AffiniPay. Actionstep says that it intends to integrate the
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Gowling WLG rolls out disputes decision theory tool Eperoto across its Canadian offices

Gowling WLG rolls out disputes decision theory tool Eperoto across its Canadian offices

Gowling WLG has within the past six months rolled out disputes decision theory tool Eperoto across its Canadian offices, we can reveal. Speaking to Legal IT Insider, Toronto partner and
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Send us your wins, deals, and people moves for the September Orange Rag!

Send us your wins, deals, and people moves for the September Orange Rag!

The Orange Rag is out next week and we are pulling together the past month and half’s legal technology news, so if you want to be included please email all
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Macfarlanes announces partnership with Harvey

Macfarlanes announces partnership with Harvey

Macfarlanes has become the latest UK top 50 law firm to announce that it is to roll out HarveyAI, the generative AI tool designed for legal work, as part of
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CLOC and ILTA plan closer collaboration: A conversation with Joy Heath Rush and Mike Haven 

CLOC and ILTA plan closer collaboration: A conversation with Joy Heath Rush and Mike Haven 

ILTA’s CEO Joy Heath Rush and CLOC’s president Mike Haven discuss the importance of collaboration, as the industry faces new challenges that require a more joined up approach. I’d love
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DLA Piper’s CIO talks us through the UK and EMEA iManage Cloud selection

DLA Piper’s CIO talks us through the UK and EMEA iManage Cloud selection

Editor Caroline Hill chatted to DLA Piper’s CIO Paul Gilford about the strategy, process and timing of the firm moving to the iManage Cloud across the UK and EMEA. Paul,
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