Law Fuel | Content for Get Smart feature In March this year, leading law firm MinterEllisonRuddWatts announced a market first for New Zealand – a joint venture to explore and capitalise on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) for legal services. Law Fuel sat down with the firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Mike Schubert to learn […]
The head of the largest law firm in the world, Dentons, believes that new technology will not lead to widespread job losses in the legal profession as many have feared and anticipated. The Times report that Joseph Andrews, heading a firm that is the largest in the world by the number of lawyers it employs,
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With all the talk of the effect of artificial intelligence and the manner in which it will reshape the future law firm, one Big Law firm has taken a fresh approach to handling the challenge – by asking the associates what to do. Bryan Cave started thinking about all this in May when their chief
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Michael Heron QC’s Complete Online Dispute Resolution (CODR) service completed what it believes is the first online arbitration in August, at a cost estimated to be 10 per cent of the cost of a court process. And the system is about to use artificial intelligence to make dispute resolution even faster, says Michael Heron.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The groundbreaking LawTech Bootcamp partnership between some of University of Canterbury’s brightest students and top New Zealand law firm Lane Neave has produced some remarkable new concepts. Over 40 Law, Business and IT students joined forces with legal experts to create technology-based solutions to modern challenges in the legal sector during the incubator-style weekend
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Prepaid legal services is yet another disrupter in a rapidly changing legal marketplace. As if e-law developments and artificial intelligence were not enough, the prepaid legal market is one that is expanding rapidly – and it is changing even faster according to one of the current players, LegalShield. ABA Journal provided an interview with
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Technology continues to disrupt the business of law – but now major law firm Allen + Overy are actively supporting the trend with the opening of a new tech space area they sponsor called ‘Fuse’. The Fuse space is being offered to startups involved in legal technology developments, accommodating up to 60 people involved
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A “prescriptive analytics” test with leading Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin is being developed with a software provider to help predict legal risk based on both data and the expertise of leading lawyers. The software provider, Veriluma, is seeking to “encode the mindset” of senior lawyers as part of the pilot program. Prescriptive
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ken Day* – Let’s face facts – many lawyers ‘of a certain age’ are just happy where they are with their tech skills. They are close to being Luddite in their aversion to new technology. But being tech savvy is more important than ever in the hyper competitive legal world. As the world changes
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Artificial intelligence is set to change the way the legal profession operates in a way that will revolutionize the profession. A recent ABA Journal article noted that “AI” is changing not only the way lawyers do business, but also how they think and how they interact with clients. It is a paradigm shift on how
