Today it is exactly ten years since we started our journey with VQ with a mission to digitalise the legal sector. After heading the Knowledge Management department at Swedish law firm Vinge for eight years, we had gained a lot[…]
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Category: Legal Innovation Blog
Report from LegalWeek New York 2020
LegalWeek New York brings together the most innovative technology and legal thought leaders, both at the conference itself and at all other seminars, networking events and meet-ups hosted all over Manhattan this week. Compared to previous years, there was much[…]
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Tech Talk: Deconstructing Smart Contracts
This week LegalWeek is in town, and in addition to the actual conference itself, there are meetups and seminars all over New York. Yesterday, we attended a really interesting Tech Talk arranged by Artificial Lawyer and Cardozo Law School on[…]
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Legal innovation for real or by press release
In the latest issue of Legal IT Today (No. 28), some of the thought leaders on the legal market were asked about their opinion on innovation in legal, or more specific if we have seen the death of innovation in[…]
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The World in 2020
Yesterday, the Swedish business magazine Dagens Industri presented the Swedish version of The Economist’s report on The World in 2020, and arranged a future-focused day with leading representatives from the business sector, research and tech developers as well as the[…]
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Svensk AI – ny undersökning av AddAi och Novus
Finns det “svensk AI”? Ser allmänheten positivt eller negativt på utvecklingen? Blir det en politisk fråga? Ser man några viktiga samhällsfrågor kring AI? Dessa frågor var utgångspunkten för ett mycket intressant frukostseminarium anordnat av AddAI som vi deltog på idag med[…]
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Takeaways from ELTACon19
We have just had some very inspiring days in Madrid, attending the ELTA Ambassadors Think Tank and the European Legaltech Congress. It was so impressive to see how the European Legal Technology Association (ELTA) has grown to over 5,500 members in[…]
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A Comparison of Managed Legal Services in Europe
Last week VQ Founder Helena Hallgarn participated in a virtual workshop at the Bucerius Center Conference on the Legal Profession Autumn Conference, regarding a comparison of Managed Legal Services in Europe. Hariolf Wenzler, CEO at Schnittker Möllmann Partners, chaired the workshop[…]
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VQ Forum 2019 on the future of legal service
On 17 October, we held our tenth anniversary of VQ Forum in Stockholm. 200 law firm managers, general counsels and other legal market professionals from over 100 companies attended the day for discussions on the changing legal marketplace and the future of[…]
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Summary of VQ Forum 2010-2019
When we initiated the event ten years ago, it was an innovative way of highlighting the development of legal service from a strategic aspect and to create a new kind of platform where we could connect all people involved in[…]
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Nordic Legal Tech Day 2019
Today we attended the Nordic Legal Tech Day arranged by LegalWorks. It was an impressive number of startups and new legaltech solutions at display and a lot of inspiring discussions regarding the shift of the legal game. VC investor Elisabeth[…]
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To code or not to code, that’s the question
In a recent article in Lawtomated, “To Code or Not to Code: should lawyers learn to code?”, the arguments for and against lawyers learning to code, and whether this even is the right question to ask, was examined in a very pragmatical[…]
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How to choose the right AI tool?
AI tools are still the shiny new object in legal. But how can you thoroughly evaluate your needs and find the right tools to support them? It’s not an easy task, but VQ Forum speaker Friedrich Blase, has a lot[…]
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Report from Innovative Legal Services Forum 2019 – It’s Time to Get Started with Innovation
For the third time the event Innovative Legal Services Forum was arranged in Prague last week. The whole conference day focused on innovation from both a technology and a business view. Several speakers tried to define innovation since there is[…]
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Report from Tech Academy 2019
The potential of legaltech is clear to almost all*, but one of the main challenges is to find, keep and train the right talent that is tech-savvy and leverages the solutions. There is already a war for these talents going[…]
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Legal Tech Trends Report 2019
A new Legal Tech trends report was recently published on basis of a survey conducted by the legal industry software company ayfie amongst legal tech experts worldwide from December 2018 to February 2019. The report shows some interesting facts about[…]
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Global Legal Hackathon 2019 – report from the NYC event
The second annual Global Legal Hackathon took place this last weekend, February 22nd to 24th, with 6,000 participants in 46 cities all over the world, from Adelaide to San Francisco, spending 52 hours focusing on developing solutions for improving the[…]
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Max Tegmark on the Power, Steering and Destination of AI – keynote at Internetdagarna 2018
MIT physics professor Max Tegmark – also known as “Mad Max” for his unorthodox ideas ranging from artificial intelligence to the ultimate nature of reality – held the inspiring keynote session this year at Internetdagarna. As Max Tegmark pointed out,[…]
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Rapport från AddAI 2018 del 4 – digitala personer, en ny rättsfigur?
Den sista delen av Internetdagarna 2018 om Artificiell intelligens: det nya gränslandet, som anordnades av AddAI i måndags, fokuserade på den mycket intressanta frågeställningen om rättigheter för AI-system. I rättssystemet idag finns en uppdelning mellan juridiska och fysiska personer, men[…]
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Rapport från AddAI 2018 del 3 – AI och människan tillsammans
Eftermiddagspasset på Internetdagarna 2018 om Artificiell intelligens: det nya gränslandet, som anordnades av AddAI i måndags, inleddes med en diskussion kring hur vi människor ska leva tillsammans med de allt intelligentare maskinerna. När AI tar över allt fler uppgifter från[…]
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