Category: Legal Innovation Blog

At the annual meeting of SIJU (Sw. Svenska föreningen för IT och juridik) yesterday, Mikael Haglund, CTO, IBM Sweden, held a very insightful and inspiring seminar on Robot Lawyers. Or “Excavators” as he preferred to call them, due to the current main focus to[…]

To say that AI is the number one buzz word in legal at the moment is to say the least. But there is still a big uncertainty about what it actually is and what it can do. A general misconception[…]

Several interesting surveys have been presented at LegalTech 2017, such as ILTA’s 2016 Technology Survey and the ALSP report by Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute, The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center and[…]

Andrew McAfee, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, started off the LegalTech part of LegalWeek 2017 with a visionary keynote on the things he’d learned since the publication of his book “The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress,[…]

This week we attended Sime, a two-day conference about the Internet and digital opportunities. One of the key takeaways from these two days was the importance of digitalization being at the heart of the organization and the business. For example, Mia[…]

In recent discussions about the potential disruption of the legal market there is a great interest for new technology to support such disruption. In this context, the blockchain technology is being discussed alongside machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data and[…]

Last week, the first ever Lexpo was arranged in Amsterdam with a focus on legal technology and innovation. The event brought together representatives from the legal sector with suppliers of innovative new technology, to discuss the future of the legal[…]

On 1 April, Jonas Ekfeldt held his dissertation defense on “Information technology evidence” at Stockholm University, Department of Law. The complete thesis is available here (in Swedish): “Om informationstekniskt bevis”. The thesis examines a phenomenon previously not researched within legal science in Sweden;[…]

After summarising Legal Tech New York as such yesterday, we would here like to add some more reflections from the event. One such reflection is that most law firms working with innovation and business development seem to focus on processes[…]

fter spending three interesting days last week at LegalTech New York, the largest and most important legal technology event of the year, here is a first part of two with our reflections and summary from the event. This event has more[…]

In the latest issue of Legal IT Today, the interesting question “What are the minimum technology skills required of a lawyer?” is asked. D. Casey Flaherty thinks that, even though different substantive areas of law demands different tech skills, the answer[…]

One of the buzz words 2015 was “Uberization” and the potential for a similar disruption of the legal market as Uber’s business model has caused for the transportation market. After all, as Mark A. Cohen points out in the article “Lawyers,[…]

Since the 2008 economic downturn it has been a general focus on cost savings on the legal market, especially for general counsels seeking to meet budget restraints and yet handle the increased legal complexity, compliance and risk prevention, to demonstrate[…]

As the year 2015 has come to an end, we would like to take the opportunity to share some of the highlights from our sixth year with VQ and to thank everyone that made it all possible. For us, some of[…]

A few weeks ago we attended Sime and listened to inter alia Christian Sandström, who made such a fantastic speech that we asked him right away to join our next VQ Forum as speaker. he topic Associate Professor Christian Sandström, aka “Dr. Death”, presented at Sime,[…]

Last week we attended Sime Stockholm, a two-day conference about digital opportunities and how to convert these into new business, but also how digitalization can be used to create a better world, to support human rights and to do good. This[…]

The second day of Sime started in a distinguished way with a presentation of the Nobel Prize and what characteristics the laureates had in common. Tobias Degsell, Curator at the Nobel Museum, pointed out that it was not their innovative ideas as[…]

Sime is a two-day conference about digital opportunities and how to convert these into new business. Here we will try to swiftly summarize our impressions from the first day of exploring the world of digital business and taking part of the[…]

The annual Altman Weil Law Firms in Transition Survey captures how the business of law is changing and how law firms progress on dealing with the rapidly-evolving legal industry. According to the 2015 report gross revenues increased for law firms in 2014,[…]

After an unprecedented global conquest, Uber has had some bumpy rides lately, with protests, complaints with the European Commission and a Californian Labor Commissioner’s decision ruling against Uber’s claim that drivers are independent contractors, not employees. The big question in[…]