The deadline for the July/August Orange Rag is TODAY, 8 August! – Legal IT Insider
As per earlier social media messages, all content for the July/August Orange Rag needs to be with us by close of play today (8 August) if you want it to…
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ICO “provisionally” decides to fine Advanced £6m for 2022 health sector ransomware attack – Legal IT Insider
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today (7 August) that it has provisionally decided to fine Advanced £6.09m, following a healthcare-based ransomware attack in August 2022. However, the ICO statement…
LITIG gen AI benchmarking meeting – Key takeaways – Legal IT Insider
The generative AI benchmarking meeting hosted by CMS’ chief innovation and knowledge officer John Craske on 1 August generated significant engagement, with some key takeaways to shape the next larger,…
Charting Change in Legal Podcast, episode 28 – Listen Here! – Legal IT Insider
In this 28th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, editor and publisher of Legal IT Insider, discusses with leading legal analyst Ari Kaplan some of the latest large…
Definely secures £585,000 Innovate UK grant – Legal IT Insider
UK-founded legal tech startup Definely has been awarded a £585,000 grant from Innovate UK. The funding, which closely follows Definely’s $7m Series A in May, will support Definely’s focus on…
Webinar Replay: How to leverage Microsoft Teams Premium as your entry level Generative AI tool – Legal IT Insider
In this highly interactive webinar with senior executives from Symity and Microsoft, we looked at how law firms can leverage the new functionality in Teams Premium and how it can…
Litera acquires FileTrail to expand information governance capabilities – Legal IT Insider
Litera today (29 July) announces the acquisition of FileTrail, a global leader in information governance and records management. This is an expansion by Litera in the governance space, complementing Litera’s…
The Crowdstrike global IT outage – Early lessons learned – Legal IT Insider
We ran a quick fire poll on who was affected by the global IT outage on 19 July and here we take a look at the results, as well as…
Tiger Eye announces strategic partnership with Novaplex – Legal IT Insider
iManage partner Tiger Eye has today (25th July) announced a strategic partnership with Novaplex, a UK-based provider of software solutions for document creation and automation. Novaplex has joined Tiger Eye’s…
Build Legal Tech: Gaby Isturiz launches a go-to resource for the startup world – Legal IT Insider
Legal technology entrepreneur and investor Gaby Isturiz has launched a practical guidance and expert-led newsletter for people in the startup world who are interested in scaling companies. Build Legal Tech…
Exclusive: Global Top 100 law firm Clyde & Co to move PMS to the cloud with 3E – Legal IT Insider
Leading global law firm Clyde & Co will be moving its core financial and practice management systems to the cloud with Elite 3E, with Harbor as its implementation partner, we…
The problem with academic publishing – Technollama
My social media timeline has started filling up with angry reactions to the news that several academic publishers have been licensing academic works to AI companies for training purposes without…
Two-year-old Harvey raises $100m Series C and achieves unicorn status – Legal IT Insider
Gen AI startup Harvey has announced a $100m Series C led by GV (Google Ventures) with participation from OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, and SV Angel. The two…
Clio raises $900m in Series F investment – Legal IT Insider
Cloud practice management system provider Clio today (23 July) announced it has raised US $900 million, based on a US $3 billion valuation, in a Series F investment round led…
Superior Court of Los Angeles County suffers ransomware attack – Legal IT Insider
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County’s Court Technology Services (CTS) Division suffered a ransomware attack on Friday 19 July leading to it having to shut down the Court’s internal…