Legal technology veteran Mark Bilson is joining Xperate as its chief commercial officer to lead its expansion into North America, in a major hire for the UK-founded legal software development startup.
Bilson previously headed revenue operations at Nexl and before that he helped Persuit to set up in EMEA. However, he is probably best-known for
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Simmons & Simmons to create six-strong LLM team led by Drew Winlaw
Simmons Wavelength partner Drew Winlaw has been appointed as global large language model lead at Simmons & Simmons to head a six-person team responsible for looking at generative AI for the UK top 50 law firm’s fee-earners, its business services teams, and for clients.
Winlaw co-founded Wavelength with Peter Lee in 2016 and joined…
The legal industry reacts to Amazon investing up to $4bn in Anthropic
Amazon and Anthropic this week announced a strategic collaboration that will see Amazon invest up to $4bn in the gen AI startup, massively accelerating the development of its future foundation models and making them widely accessible to AWS customers. Amazon said that it will take a minority investment in Anthropic.
As part of the expanded…
LexisNexis launches Lexis+ Ireland
LexisNexis Legal & Professional has today (26 September) announced the official launch of Lexis+ Ireland. It includes practice notes, precedents and checklists, legislation and Irish judgments, including the Irish Reports, which can be accessed through one search.
The new solution also includes Search Term Maps, which let users visually pinpoint key sections of content, cases…
Am Law 100 law firm Ballard Spahr selects NetDocuments
Am Law 100 law firm Ballard Spahr has selected NetDocuments as its cloud-based document management system following a selection process led by CIO Robert Holloway and external legal IT consultancy eSentio Technologies. According to our records, Ballard Spahr, a circa 650-attorney national law firm, is an iManage on-premises customer. eSentio will assist Ballard…
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Macfarlanes announces partnership with Harvey
Macfarlanes has become the latest UK top 50 law firm to announce that it is to roll out HarveyAI, the generative AI tool designed for legal work, as part of its AI strategy. The roll out follows a pilot programme undertaken earlier in the summer, carried out by more than 70 fee earners and knowledge…
CLOC and ILTA plan closer collaboration: A conversation with Joy Heath Rush and Mike Haven
ILTA’s CEO Joy Heath Rush and CLOC’s president Mike Haven discuss the importance of collaboration, as the industry faces new challenges that require a more joined up approach.
I’d love to claim that it was a stroke of journalistic genius that saw me interview Mike Haven and Joy Heath Rush together at CLOC EMEA in…
Pinnacle expands into APAC with hire of Ashurst head of financial systems
International legal technology consultancy Pinnacle has announced its expansion into the APAC region with the hire of Scott Sonter, who was head of financial systems at Ashurst in Sydney, Australia.
Sonter joins Pinnacle as principal consultant for APAC. A former solutions consultant, he joined Ashurst as 3E technical lead before moving into the role…