LegalGeek has launched a new online webinar series, The Uncertain Decade, where Richard Susskind and Mark Cohen discuss the unprecedented challenges the legal industry is facing at the moment and give advice on how to adapt to the new landscape. The[…]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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