Tech-perplexed lawyers: We’ve enjoyed (not) seeing you this summer at the Legal Tech Non-Event.
Read on for a rundown of recent news from some of the companies that have joined us.
And as always, visit our Artificial Intelligence page for all of your tech-adoption needs.
iManage
iManage announced this month that leading global law firm Linklaters has selected iManage Work 10 for comprehensive, secure document and email management and collaboration. iManage is now the document and email management system of choice of all five of the prestigious “Magic Circle,” multinational, London-headquartered law firms. iManage Work 10 will replace Linklaters’ existing document management and email filing systems to deliver a single, unified platform to its 6,500 global professionals.
Linklaters selected iManage as its strategic partner following a rigorous market review and selection process. A trial that included a range of functional, integration, and performance-related criteria culminated in the adoption of iManage Work in the Cloud.
iManage announced in August the availability of its risk management products in the iManage Cloud, beginning Q4 2021. The choice of deployment model, whether on-premise or within iManage Cloud, provides flexibility that ensures legal and professional services organizations a best-class solution for sophisticated, secure risk management.
The dual offering allows organizations to leverage their preferred deployment, licensing, and maintenance model tailored to their unique business requirements. The approach also provides a streamlined migration path for organizations that want to move from on-premise to cloud-based solutions at their own pace, rather than forcing organizations to adopt change before they are ready.
Legalsifter
What impact will technology have on legal services in the future? Change is coming to the legal profession, perhaps the most meaningful change in history. A recent survey found that companies gave law firms only 5.5/10 on law firms willingness to adapt to new technology.
The NewLaw Academy spoke with 15 thought leaders in legal innovation to get a sense of what characteristics future lawyers will need to be successful. Among those interviewed was our own Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifter.
In a recent episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast, host Charlie Uniman, welcomed Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifter.
SimpleLegal
SimpleLegal announced in August the addition of optical character recognition (OCR) to its document management system (DMS). The new OCR feature allows users to read and search text characters of digitized files in an image format, providing thorough document searching and easier collaboration.
Documents are critical to legal practice, and corporate legal departments must have an effective document management system to be more efficient, increase productivity and mitigate risk. SimpleLegal’s DMS is built into its legal operations software, which means matter files are easily accessible within one system. Customers can find the information they need without uploading files into multiple systems or working from incorrect document versions. The addition of the OCR functionality enables attorneys and in-house professionals to search for keywords within all digitized files, returning all-inclusive results instantly.
Reveal Brainspace
Reveal Brainspace, the global provider of the leading AI-powered eDiscovery platform, recently announced that GoeDisco has engaged the AI technology powerhouse to provide superior, end-to-end solutions driving today’s forward-thinking legal organizations. It says that 90% of data in existence today has been created just in the last couple of years.
This means the volume of information that is relevant to the process has become so great that unless the tools used can quickly analyze data and find relationship out of seamlessly desperate content types you are going to be incapable to meet your disclosure obligations, leave alone making eDiscovery simple and predictable.
Onit, Inc.
Onit, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise workflow and artificial intelligence platforms and solutions, including enterprise legal management, contract lifecycle management and business process automation, has added new executive leadership for product management and human resources.
Mary Fuzat joins Onit as the Vice President of Product Management. With more than two decades of software leadership experience, her focus has been on customer-impacting leadership roles that include product management and integration, cross-functional team leadership and business process optimization.
David Gray brings more than 20 years of management and executive experience in human resources, with a solid background of progressive HR responsibility across Fortune 50, technology and financial services companies. As Onit’s Vice President of Global Human Resources, he turns a strategic vision to worldwide HR operations in areas such as staff development, performance management and employee morale.
Onit, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise workflow and artificial intelligence platforms and solutions, including enterprise legal management, contract lifecycle management and business process automation, today announced that the Houston Business Journal has included Onit co-founder and CEO Eric M. Elfman as an honoree for its Most Admired CEO Awards.
The awards recognize CEOs based on contributions to company success, civic involvement, career achievement and more. Hundreds of CEOs were nominated, yet the Houston Business Journal only selected 50 for this award.
