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Pioneering online dispute resolution service launches divorce package
Friday, 21 March 2014A groundbreaking online dispute resolution (ODR) service is gearing up for live trials of its expanded 2.0 version, which will initially offer an end-to-end legal support package for divorcing couples.
Tags: online dispute resolution, Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Technology
Investment boost for legal research website targeting crowdsourcing to generate content
Wednesday, 19 February 2014A commercial legal research website is under development that aims to harness the power of crowdsourcing to generate content and become the starting point for enquiries by law student and lawyers. It has just received £60,000 in private investment.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Technology
Online legal service targets web commerce market with ‘law in minutes’
Tuesday, 18 February 2014A long-standing seller of legal documents is set to launch a venture selling simple packages of documents aimed at website developers and people running online businesses.
Tags: Online legal documents, Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, News, Technology
Crowd-funding investors queue up to back online legal advice service
Friday, 14 February 2014An online legal service aimed at small businesses and “democratising the law” has almost completed its second round of ‘crowdfunding’, raising more than £100,000 in less than a month as it targets ambitious expansion.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Technology
Law firm’s online legal document service bids to take on US-based giants
Tuesday, 28 January 2014An English law firm yesterday launched a home-grown online documents service that it claimed is the first product with the potential to rival those from the US legal document processing giants Rocket Lawyer and Legal Zoom.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, News
LegalZoom eyes acquisitions after taking major private equity investment
Tuesday, 7 January 2014LegalZoom – the online US legal services business that recently launched in the UK – has strengthened its financial position by selling a large chunk of the business to leading European private equity company Permira.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Technology
Revealed: LegalZoom soft-launches in UK as Rocket Lawyer outlines plans for major growth
Friday, 20 December 2013Online giant LegalZoom – said to be the best-known legal brand in America – has soft-launched its UK service with the aim of giving consumers and small businesses “a smarter way to engage with a lawyer”, Legal Futures can reveal.
Tags: Online Legal Services, QualitySolicitors
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Technology
Exclusive: US tech business bidding to re-engineer divorce process targets UK expansion
Friday, 13 December 2013A US company looking to re-engineer the divorce process through an innovative technology platform and process has laid out its plans to come to the UK, Legal Futures can reveal. Wevorce recently raised $1.7m (£1m) in new funding.
Tags: family law, Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
In-Deed brand acquisition aimed at building up online property panel
Tuesday, 10 December 2013The In-Deed conveyancing brand has been acquired by the owner of an online property panel – the final step in the dissolution of the country’s first alternative business structure (ABS) failure.
Tags: conveyancing, Online Legal Services
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor
Brilliant Law seals deal with top broker network
Thursday, 28 November 2013Alternative business structure Brilliant Law has scored a major affinity deal by teaming up with leading broker network Keychoice. Meanwhile, a law firm has received a £50,000 grant from the Welsh government to launch a legal e-commerce service.
Tags: Online Legal Services
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Technology
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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