Virtual Reality and Digitalization at Sime 2016
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[…]
How will blockchain technology affect the legal market?
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[…]
Report from Lexpo 16
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[…]
Information technology evidence in legal proceedings
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[…]
LegalTech NY 2016 – Part 2
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[…]
LegalTech NY 2016 – Part 1
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[…]
Minimum legal tech skills
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[…]
Legal AI
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[…]
The Less for Less Challenge
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[…]
VQ Year 2015 in Review
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[…]
Dr. Death on Disruptive Innovation
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[…]
Sime 2015 Part 3 – The exponentially changing digital world
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[…]
Sime 2015 Part 2 – How to adapt the business model to a digital world
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,[…]
Sime 2015 Part 1 – The wonderfully abnormal times
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[…]
Law firms in transition survey 2015 – profitability clearly linked to strategic changes
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[…]
Uber and the legal market
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[…]
Robotic intelligence entering the legal market
A small but growing number of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are now being trialled into the legal sector. The latest issue of the Partner Magazine[…]
The transformation of legal work
Technology is often connected with innovation in the legal sector. Now Legal Futures have released a new report – “Innovation Nation” – with the subtitle “How SME[…]
Legal document management trends
Documents is at the core of any legal business. Drafting, reviewing and collaborating on documents is a large part of being a lawyer. Revision after[…]
Jordan Furlong on the state of the legal marketplace
In a recent interview by Yves Faguy, senior editor of National Magazine, Jordan Furlong presented his view of the state of the legal market in[…]