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First woman in the UK sentenced live on television after cameras allowed in the courtroom

First woman in the UK sentenced live on television after cameras allowed in the courtroom

Jemma Mitchell today (28 October) became the first woman to be sentenced live on television in the UK, following a change in the law two years ago to allow cameras
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ILTACON Europe returns to London – here’s all the details you need 

ILTACON Europe returns to London – here’s all the details you need 

ILTACON Europe returns to London at the offices of Allen & Overy on Thursday 17 November 2022 as an in-person event, after a couple of years hiatus.    The event is being co-chaired
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The Orange Rag: A memorial to our founder Charles Christian

The Orange Rag: A memorial to our founder Charles Christian

Since I announced at the start of September that Orange Rag founder and all-round legal tech legend Charles Christian has passed away, there has been an outpouring of sadness and
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Two new UK Top 50 iManage clients move to the Cloud

Two new UK Top 50 iManage clients move to the Cloud

Mills & Reeve is set to migrate to the iManage Cloud assisted by integration partner Tiger Eye. Mills & Reeve is the second UK top 50 iManage client this week
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Staff at 68 courts across England and Wales strike over new case management system 

Staff at 68 courts across England and Wales strike over new case management system 

Legal advisors and court associates at 68 courts across England and Wales are taking part in a nine-day strike over the introduction of the Common Platform digital case management system,
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Bryce Catalyst hires OLAP Vision co-founder Jag Dhariwal to its advisory board

Bryce Catalyst hires OLAP Vision co-founder Jag Dhariwal to its advisory board

Venture capital company Bryce Catalyst has hired OLAP Vision co-founder Jag Dhariwal to join its advisory team as it extends its ‘operators helping operators’ investment model across high growth sectors
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UK CLM vendor Summize raises £5m Series A to grow US presence

UK CLM vendor Summize raises £5m Series A to grow US presence

UK contract lifecycle management disruptor Summize has secured £5m Series A investment from YFM Equity Partners (YFM) and Maven Capital Partners (Maven), as it looks to build its presence in
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Reveal acquires Technically Creative to create automated data connector suite

Reveal acquires Technically Creative to create automated data connector suite

eDiscovery provider Reveal today (24 October) announces the acquisition of Technically Creative, a New York-headquartered IT services provider specialising in compliance; data loss prevention; infosec; risk controls; discovery and automating
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63% of all legal contracts are gender-biased, new data reveals 

63% of all legal contracts are gender-biased, new data reveals 

Businesses are increasingly focused on improving their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion support, however, all too often they fall at the first hurdle through the use of gendered terms within contracts.
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Dechert and former partner Neil Gerrard sued over hacking claims

Dechert and former partner Neil Gerrard sued over hacking claims

Dechert and former partner Neil Gerrard sued for $100m over hacking claims How Gerrard’s accuser portrays the lawyer (yet to be confirmed in a court of law). Dechert has been
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Correction: FTI Consulting launches expanded corporate legal operations practice 

Correction: FTI Consulting launches expanded corporate legal operations practice 

Corrected on 21 October:  We initially said that FTI is launching a legal operations practice but it is expanding the offerings from its existing practice. FTI Consulting has become the
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Client intelligence: Stephen Allen joins Orgaimi as market evangelist 

Client intelligence: Stephen Allen joins Orgaimi as market evangelist 

AI-powered client intelligence provider Orgaimi has hired legal tech veteran Stephen Allen as market evangelist in order to drive awareness and develop use cases for its professional services customer base. 
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Norton Rose Fulbright wins 2022 FT Innovative Lawyers Awards for digital legal services – Here’s why

Norton Rose Fulbright wins 2022 FT Innovative Lawyers Awards for digital legal services – Here’s why

Norton Rose Fulbright has won the 2022 FT Innovative Lawyers Award Europe for digital legal services for a new offering in Germany that cuts the cost of certain capital requirement
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Breaking news: NetDocuments acquires Worldox in major DMS consolidation

Breaking news: NetDocuments acquires Worldox in major DMS consolidation

NetDocuments today (18 October) announced it has acquired global document management system rival Worldox, creating a business with 6,800 combined customers. Talks have been underway since the start of the
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SirionLabs makes it into Gartner’s CLM leader quadrant as five new vendors enter the table –the risers and fallers

SirionLabs makes it into Gartner’s CLM leader quadrant as five new vendors enter the table –the risers and fallers

SirionLabs has made it into Gartner’s leader board for contract lifecycle management as it publishes its 2022 magic quadrant table, which sees five new vendors enter the table and two
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UK Diversity: DELTAS unveils new panel members and plans to expand nationally in 2023

UK Diversity: DELTAS unveils new panel members and plans to expand nationally in 2023

Those of you in my LinkedIn network may have seen a post last week from NetLaw Media announcing the new members of DELTAS panel, of which I am thrilled to
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Legal Operations by Shearman – What it is, and what it’s not 

Legal Operations by Shearman – What it is, and what it’s not 

Since the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers 2022 awards became public a few days ago there has been a flurry of excitement and many column inches written about Shearman & Sterling’s
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