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With $40M Series B, LinkSquares CEO Sets Sights On The Impossible In Contracts Tech

With his contract-management company having just raised $40 million in Series B funding, Linksquares cofounder and CEO Vishal Sunak is aiming for some big goals, including “to build legal tech solutions that simply weren’t possible before.” In…

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Legal Ops Pioneer Mary Shen O’Carroll On Moving From Google To Ironclad

Mary Shen O’Carroll pioneered the field of legal operations during her 13 years as director of operations, technology and strategy at Google. She was also instrumental in forming the influential organization CLOC – the Corporate Legal Operations…

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The Legal Fellows Tackling Systemic Racism in Law

The past year has laid bare, in shockingly explicit detail, the racial inequities of the justice system. Now, and the Historically Black Colleges and University Law School Consortium have partnered to launch a fellowship initiative for 12 law…

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Defining the ‘Future Ready’ Lawyer, with Wolters Kluwer VPs Martin O’Malley and Dean Sonderegger

As the legal profession continues to transform and evolve, how can a law firm or legal department be “future ready”? What are the characteristics that define future-ready organizations and foretell their continued success?  Just out from…

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How An Idea Borrowed from Football Is Driving Law Firm Diversity

New findings show that law firms that piloted the Mansfield Rule have grown the racial and ethnic diversity of their leadership by more than 30 times the rate of other firms. These firms have also exceeded the norm in the rates at which racially…

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Ep 127: How An Idea Borrowed from Football Is Driving Law Firm Diversity

New findings show that law firms that piloted the Mansfield Rule have grown the racial and ethnic diversity of their leadership by more than 30 times the rate of other firms. These firms have also exceeded the norm in the rates at which racially…

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Founder Joshua Maley on the Theory of Theorem, A Different Kind of Legal Tech Marketplace

The past year has seen the launch of several legal technology marketplaces, but Theorem LTS aims to be something more — an integrated legal technology ecosystem to power workflow-driven tech adoption by law firms and legal departments, as well as a…

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The Unlikely Story of How An Insolvency Lawyer Built A Global Trademarks Company

There is an element of serendipity in the story of Nehal Madhani and his company Alt Legal. Even though he had been an insolvency lawyer who had never practiced trademark law, an early attempt at entrepreneurship — and at registering his own…

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How One Company Aims to Change the Paradigm for Law Practice Management

One of the most dynamic areas of legal tech right now is practice management, which has seen a surge of investments and acquisitions over the past year. And one of the companies that best represents that trend is Paradigm, which was founded two years…

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How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, With April Dawson

There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly,…

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