Foresights & Friends

- Legal operations advocates push for diverse training backgrounds

- Casetext expands research platform with product focused on the patent market

- Law firms form consortium to develop technology to facilitate automation in financial markets

- Thomson Reuters wins long-term DOJ contract for legal research tools

- Law firms want to use tech to cut costs but work is needed to identify, implement the right solutions

- LAWCLERK introduces duplication and notification features to help attorneys outsource projects

- Ashurst launches Fintech accelerator program

- Thomson Reuters and OpenLaw create automated, blockchain-driven smart contracts solution

- KPMG Legal absorbs Romanian law firm as part of EU expansion

- Latham & Watkins introduces mobile app to help investors navigate the regulatory landscape

- Catalyst founder launches nonprofit to promote open-source legal software

- EY leads the pack as Big Four continue to top ALSP rankings

- Pre-execution contract market a big opportunity to legal tech vendors

- Integreon and Seal Software partner to enhance managed services with AI

- Infinnium and Relativity unveil product integration to enable mass redaction and anonymization of native files

- iManage and Cognia Law partner to offer AI solutions

- And a report states that legal firms are paying more for IT due to risk aversion and limited tech talent

- Amazon enters the legal services industry with the launch of IP Accelerator

- Survey finds businesses increasingly turning to ALSPs

- Seal Software launches Seal Now contract negotiation product

- Oregan bar initiates actions to expand access to justice

- NetDocuments integrates Kira and SeeUnity to expand content understanding

- Law Society of Scotland introduces legal technologist accreditation

- Corporations looking to bring more eDiscovery tasks in-house

- Baker McKenzie unveils Disputes Clause Finder offering tailored arbitration clauses

- Small to midsize legal departments avoiding legal operations over uncertainty

- Eversheds, Harbour Litigation Funding partner to offer clients access to funding solutions

- Ashurst opens Brisbane office to extend reach of Ashurst Advance

- Integreon introduces cyber incident response service to allow for timely, compliant responses

- Epiq rolls out information governance services to help clients manage sensitive data

- Luminance introduces advisory board to accelerate Big Law's adoption of AI

- ShelterZoom unveils Contract of Things, making all contract elements fully digital, interconnected, interoperable

- Fastcase adds calendaring feature to Docket Alarm

- Reed Smith unveils innovation seats as part of the London training contract program

- U.K. Law Commission validates the use of e-signatures

- Pactum launches AI-powered negotiation tool

- Fastcase expands form filing capabilities with the acquisition of NextChapter

- Pinsent Masons introduces Spark Board to bring new perspectives to strategic decision making

- ThoughtRiver unveils Tableau integration in an effort to become a contract review platform

- Travers Smith debuts email management tool MatMail

- Despite failure of UnitedLex, LeClairRyan partnership, Big Law and New Law still have a future together

- Gartner: Majority of cost-effective legal departments invest more strengthening in-house capabilities

- Legal tech startups having trouble standing out in increasingly crowded market

- Deloitte Legal launches graduate training program

- Hogan Lovells innovation partner aims to define what innovation means for clients

- Utah Supreme Court approves working group recommendations, to pilot non-traditional legal services (update on the story from last week)

- Wolters Kluwer expands Cheetah Labor & Employment Law portfolio

- Opinion: Collaboration a key component of contract lifecycle management vendors overlook

- Clio raises $250M to develop cloud-based solutions for law firms

- Lex Machina adds Consumer Protection Litigation module to Legal Analytics platform

- Utah task force recommends changes to how legal services are regulated

- Survey finds ALSPs failing to show potential clients how they can solve business challenges

- Reed Smith appoints Innovation Engagement Manager to implement, develop efficiencies

- Clyde & Co. partners with AI startup to offer global threat assessments

- Opinion Minion app uses mobile phone camera to read citations then deliver the case