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Webinar: The GDPR is Upon Us — Prioritize Your Response

With the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline looming, now is the time to focus on the most important next steps to be in…

Legal Executive Institute January 17, 2018

New Webinar: Getting Up to Speed on GDPR and Addressing Third-Party Risks

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect on May 25, 2018, is the biggest development in European Union (EU) data protection law…

Legal Executive Institute December 21, 2017

View from the UK: How Best to Turn Law Students into the Lawyers of the Future

Improving and modernizing the state of legal education is on the mind of many legal reformers as law schools are increasingly being called up to…

Tom Bangay November 07, 2017

Legal Tech & Innovation Come of Age in London

LONDON — How will we know when legal technology is starting to leave behind the hype and exaggerated promises that seem to have characterized the…

David Curle October 24, 2017

Brexit & the Legal Market: a New Webinar

The Brexit process has reached an interesting phase, according to a new blog post from Thomson Reuters Legal UK & Ireland. Since the fifth round…

Legal Executive Institute October 23, 2017

View from the UK: Can Legal Educators Become Legal Innovators?

As legal industry sages try to figure out how best to improve the state of the legal profession, especially around its glacially slow adoption of…

Tom Bangay September 25, 2017

How Does the Legal Profession Address Seismic Shifts in the Profession?

The legal profession is being challenged on all fronts. Clients are demanding that work be done better, faster and cheaper. Advances in Legal and Reg…

David Curran September 19, 2017

Brexit: The View on the Ground Among UK In-House Lawyers

More than a year since the UK population chose narrowly, by referendum, to leave the European Union, in-house lawyers are coming to grips with what…

Tom Bangay September 11, 2017

View from the UK: We Mustn’t Bring the Gender Inequality of Law 1.0 into Law 2.0

On October 2, Brenda Hale will become the first female President of the Supreme Court of the UK, the first time a woman has served…

Tom Bangay August 16, 2017

Investment in UK Legal Tech Start-Ups Tops £16m, Says Thomson Reuters/Legal Geek Report

LONDON — Investment into UK start-ups focused on the legal technology sector (known as lawtech in the UK) has reached £16m, reveals Movers and Shakers:…

Legal Executive Institute July 06, 2017

New Video: ‘Brexit: Year in Review’ Chronicles Dramatic Period of Change for UK

In Brexit: Year in Review, a new video created by Thomson Reuters, viewers are taken through the whirlwind revelations of the past 12 months since…

Gregg Wirth June 26, 2017

Inside AI’s Black Box at ICAIL: Lawyers and Data Scientists Learning Each Other’s Languages

LONDON — Many legal practitioners, hearing the current hype around the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to legal problems, assume this is all new stuff.…

David Curle June 13, 2017