Technology

A solicitor who shot to prominence on The Apprentice has secured a further £344,000 investment in the app she has developed to help law firms communicate more effectively with clients.

Video hearings will not supplant face-to-face hearings in the majority of cases before the courts, even after their use is expanded, the deputy director of HMCTS has predicted.

Three Cambridge law graduates behind predictive analytics specialist CaseCrunch have gone their separate ways, it has emerged.

Litigation outcome prediction has taken a further step into the mainstream with a partnership between a major law firm and start-up crunching data on old cases.

A legal tech business spun out of a law firm run by a former City solicitor and his technologist brother has secured £3.1m in private equity investment.

MPs on the public accounts committee said today that they have “little confidence” that the court modernisation programme can be delivered.

The National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, yesterday published its first report on the growing cyber threat to the legal profession.

The company digitising trial bundles in courts has filed a patent application to tie blockchain security to its digital evidence software to ensure records cannot be altered.

“Seismic change” is on the horizon for the profession because of the direction of technology, a Legal Futures roundtable on the law firm on the future has heard.

The next year of the court modernisation programme will see digital end-to-end services for divorce, probate, and money claims for under £10,000.