We are so happy and excited to present the key note speaker for the upcoming VQ Forum: Andrew Arruda! Andrew Arruda is a Canadian entrepreneur and lawyer, and a true legal technology pioneer. With a vision of changing the way[…]
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We are so happy and excited to present the key note speaker for the upcoming VQ Forum: Andrew Arruda! Andrew Arruda is a Canadian entrepreneur and lawyer, and a true legal technology pioneer. With a vision of changing the way[…]
Read moreThe last session we attended at this year’s LegalWeek was a good wrap-up of the event, when Daniel Linna, director of The Center for Legal Services Innovation at Michigan State University College of Law, told us about The Legal Services Innovation[…]
Read moreIn a very interesting workshop at LegalWeek 2018, Langdon Morris, Innovation Labs, talked about innovation; why it’s so important and why so many innovation projects fail. Today, we are living in a new kind of economy, where we are moving[…]
Read moreIn the opening keynote of LegalWeek 2018, Nicholas Bruch and Steve Kovalan, ALM Intelligence, took a look at the state of the legal marketplace and gave their view on the major trends based on their analysis of data from ALM[…]
Read moreThis week we are in New York for the annual LegalWeek conference (AKA Legal Tech New York) to get some inspiration and check out the latest legaltech developments. We will summarize our key take-aways from the week in different reports.[…]
Read morePå Stockholms Handelskammare anordnades idag ett spännande seminarium om internationell tvistlösning och dess betydelse för den svenska ekonomin. Annette Magnusson, Generalsekreterare Stockholms Handelskammares Skiljedomsinstitut, inledde med att poängtera vilken spetskompetens som finns i Sverige och hur vi är världsledande på[…]
Read moreArtificial Lawyer reported recently from the Nordic Legal Tech Day how the interest in the New Wave of legal tech, especially legal AI, is now a truly global phenomenon. Read the interesting article here: “Growing Nordic Legal Tech Day Celebrates Legal AI” As reported[…]
Read moreLast week VQ attended the exclusive Swedish-American Executive Women’s Conference arranged by The Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in New York. The theme of the event was “The Brave New World of Zeros and Ones – how to succeed when everything is going[…]
Read moreEn forskningsrapport om digitaliseringens påverkan på marknaden för juridiska tjänster har nyligen publicerats på uppdrag av Konkurrensverket. I rapporten visar Christian Sandström på digitaliseringens möjligheter och utveckling framöver med bl.a. artificiell intelligens, samt analyserar behovet av ny kompetens och ändrat[…]
Read moreAt 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[…]
Read moreTo 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[…]
Read moreSeveral 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[…]
Read moreAndrew 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,[…]
Read moreThis 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[…]
Read moreIn 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[…]
Read moreLast 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[…]
Read moreOn 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;[…]
Read moreAfter 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[…]
Read morefter 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[…]
Read moreIn 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[…]
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