Well, if a lawyer was working on NDAs all day, as some do who are in
inhouse legal positions, then the answer is: yes, for sure.
Thinking about how these factors help the client's business, as well as the needs of
the inhouse legal team, can provide a deeper understanding of value — for example will a quicker response time allow a deal to be completed more quickly?
Applied AI developer, RAVN Systems, is rolling out a «self - service» facility for law firms and
inhouse legal departments to make use of its technology.
In our latest Talking Tech video, Charles Christian leads a discussion on eBilling, comparing and contrasting the experiences of the legal sector in the United States, with those of law firms and
inhouse legal teams in the UK and Europe.
It's also, as noted, a means to achieve greater efficiency and cost savings for
inhouse legal teams.
Aside from law firm clients, some of the leading AI companies have also worked with
inhouse legal teams at banks and as well with government
inhouse legal teams.
When you work for
the inhouse legal team at Uber, anything can come through the door.
For Donny Ching and his huge
inhouse legal team, 2017 represented an extended period of integration following the mega-merger between Royal Dutch Shell and British oil and gas company BG in 2016.
Fleming — head of legal since the # 5bn merger of BA and Spanish carrier Iberia in 2011 — has a 26 - strong
inhouse legal team covering employment, commercial, regulatory, litigation and competition, mostly based in the UK with a team of four in New York.
An audience of senior lawyers from law firms, chambers, and
inhouse legal departments voted definitively against the motion that «the European Court of Human Rights is Undermining Democracy» at the third debate in the Thomson Reuters Legal Debate Series last Thursday evening.
A secondment experience gives law firm attorneys a greater understanding of the law firm client's business as well as
the inhouse legal environment.
What
inhouse legal department isn't these days?»
Larger
inhouse legal departments (such as in HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, Credit Suisse and Citigroup to name a few) have gone a step further.
LawGeex sees its AI software as not trying to replace lawyers, but rather to handle the increasing volume of legally - related matters, such as lower level contract approval, that would otherwise consume much of
an inhouse legal team's time.
Given its size and breadth a company like Wesfarmers produces a significant number of NDA documents, which in turn drags on the time of internal executives and
inhouse legal staff.
LawGeex is best suited for midsized companies that have a sufficient volume of contracts to use the platform at least weekly and that have a small to midsized
inhouse legal team.
In 2011 Magnus founded
InHouse Legal Services AB.
All in all in it's a coherent AI product, that provides a native German NLP platform, the clause analysis and extraction the market has come to expect from AI companies, but also with risk assessment and «red line» capabilities that
inhouse legal teams may find very useful.
After all, Germany is a big economy — the fourth largest in the world — and home to some of the largest law firms and
inhouse legal teams in Europe outside of the UK.
Top stories include: CLOC to open Euro chapter — big news for
inhouse legal teams & their tech vendors + Peppermint has a bout of growing pains + the Insider launches legal tech startup initiative — who's hot & who's not?
That inevitably means that while a Nordic law firm, or
an inhouse legal team, can perhaps use an AI doc review system «out of the box» to explore English language contracts in a due diligence exercise, for example, moving onto Swedish legal documents will demand additional training.
Not exact matches
One of Canada's most experienced and respected
legal journalists, Gail J. Cohen is the former editor in chief of Canadian Lawyer,
InHouse, 4Students and Law Times and their associated websites and digital initiatives.
InHouse regularly explores regulatory compliance, risk management, labour & employment concerns, environmental issues, litigation, and managing
legal spend.
That said, she also noted the rise of
inhouse operations experts and the steady move toward industrialisation of the
legal world.
• CLOC, the Corporate
Legal Operations Consortium, to launch in Europe — this is very big news for
inhouse teams — and their tech vendors
He gets «law 2.0» and recently posted his insights on protective orders on
Legal On Ramp so that
inhouse lawyers could benefit from some recent experiences and help ensure their interests are protected.
The first conference was «Corporate
Legal Innovators», organized by the Economic Policy Group and had a focus on the views of
inhouse lawyers and General Counsel (GC).
Interestingly, two
inhouse lawyers from technology specialist businesses, Sean Thomas of HP Enterprises, and Rory O'Keeffe, Director of
Legal Services UK, Accenture, both stated their
inhouse teams had an interest in using AI, but that how they would use it was still not clear yet.
I have often made reference to the fact that, in my humble opinion, lawyers (both in private practice and
inhouse counsel) must become increasingly comfortable with using social media to promote not only their achievements and relevant or interesting best practices or developments in their
legal practice area, but also to build and grow their personal brand and networks.
Our publications — Canadian Lawyer, Law Times,
InHouse, and 4Students — are all represented in various social media be it Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or blogs like
Legal Feeds.
'' Lawyer Resigns Over Trousers Stained with Ketchup from InhouseBlog - News for
Inhouse Counsel Ketchup stain sparks international
legal news event.
In the first of four videos from the Canadian Lawyer
InHouse View 2018 series, sponsored by Fasken, Martha Binks, general counsel, director of
legal services and assistant corporate secretary of Allstate Insurance Company of Canada discusses the challenges she is dealing with for the year ahead, including growth of the business and regulatory demands.
Clients seem to have ever - greater, more novel and more complex needs that require
legal input, whether this is via
inhouse lawyers or external firms.
Selling
legal tech to corporate
inhouse teams is also not easy.
And then there are the
legal AI systems that many non-lawyers in companies use in areas such as procurement and sales contracts, in part so employees don't need to keep going back to the over-stretched
inhouse team.
It is releasing to the
legal community at large the style guide it developed to help its own
inhouse staff write
legal documents in plain English and avoid legalese.
In March, Canadian Lawyer
InHouse held a roundtable on e-discovery in Canada, sponsored by LexisNexis Applied Discovery, with a group of experts in the field from private firms, corporate
legal departments, and the judiciary.
The sixth annual
InHouse / ACC roundtable had the participation of
legal department leaders coming from a cross section of the business community.
Austrias first Future - Law Conference is dealing with the future impact of
Legal Tech on state institutions, law firms, the state sector and
inhouse law departments.
While the symbiosis between
inhouse and outside counsel provides
Legal OnRamp its fuel, the absence of immediate benefit may explain why sites that lack focus seem to falter.
Like
Legal OnRamp, a key focus will be on networking and knowledge - sharing between
inhouse and outside counsel.
The blog is geared towards
inhouse counsel and
legal and IT professionals seeking to keep abreast of the latest IT developments.
He is responsible for a team of
Legal Tech consultants and developers who help
Inhouse counsel to solve their challenges with
Legal Tech.
Canadian Lawyer
InHouse, a Thomson Reuters business, announced the winners of the first - annual Innovatio Awards, which recognizes the innovative work of
legal departments among Canadian businesses and their
legal service provider partners.
I am available on a part - time or as - needed basis, on - site or remotely, to supply all of the services normally provided by
inhouse or inside general counsel — everything from drafting and negotiating contracts, form agreements and policies to providing advice and services regarding your strategic planning, corporate governance, dispute resolution and
legal compliance issues.
Moss had originally been referred to Gucci in 2002 as an
inhouse hire by an outside firm (Patton Boggs) and had been practicing at Gucci since, rising to vice president and director of
legal services.
Previously, she practiced corporate commercial litigation in Vancouver for 14 years, worked
inhouse for 6 years specializing in
legal services management and, most recently, provided support to the Civil Justice Reform Working Group and the initiative to create a new set of Supreme Court Civil Rules in British Columbia.
Similarly, as an
inhouse lawyer, I was never impressed by clumsy attempts at corporate hospitality where I was invited to events that had little professional or personal interest, simply because I was in a particular position with an external
legal budget.
«In today's increasingly complex business,
legal and regulatory environments, we see in - house
legal departments of all sizes and in all sectors embracing innovation and improving the way they practise to better serve the needs of their organizations,» said Jennifer Brown, managing editor, Thomson Reuters Canadian Lawyer
InHouse.
@ ALM's
InHouse Innovates Super Conference in Chicago (November 2016), Michele presented «Driving Disruptive Innovation: Redefining How
Legal Departments Provide Value»