For the legal world, ’back to business’ is very much what the last few months have been about. However, the number of Covid-19 infections in the UK and around the world are rising again, and it may be that the dynamic, full-throated recovery we were promised will again be delayed. […]

Perhaps it is because it is silly season, or perhaps it is the calm before the storm. After a period of intensity which began with the rapid move to online courts due to Coronavirus in March of last year, it has been a quiet summer for technological reform across the […]

When it comes to legal technology, the conversation often centres around who will offer the best iteration of a solution — who will master the software that allows firms to be more efficient without skimping on quality? Who will develop workflow strategies that mean the offices of a multinational law […]

Technological innovation in the legal services sector is happening right now. Not only that, the legal tech market — set to top US$25 billion in revenues by 2025 — is getting bigger all the time. This year, Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy had the highest ever number of […]

Sir Geoffrey Vos, newly in post as Master of the Rolls, has made ambitions for his tenure quite clear. Online civil justice must be made a success of. Digitisation of the county courts cannot come ‘a day too soon’, he has said. Sir Geoffrey acknowledges the sweeping changes that are already happening […]

Online courts are coming to be embedded in the way justice is delivered. Not only that, since the outbreak of Coronavirus, they have changed from a theoretical concept to a way of life for many lawyers. If sceptics are looking for evidence of such a claim, they can do worse […]

What sort of innovation does the legal world need both to progress and keep its clients happy? In a recent article, Richard Tromans argues that however disruptive new legal tech has been, in reality the legal services sector is settling into a complementary relationship where technology makes existing processes more efficient, rather […]

The phrase ‘remote working’ has taken on a whole new meaning. Over the last year across the globe employees, business owners and professionals have managed organisations and portfolios whilst being miles from their base of operations. In reality, their personal computer has become their base of operations. We have been […]

It was Confucius who said: life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. As governments around the world attempt to offer simplified, joined-up systems to their citizens for making their way through the legal process, one of the greatest opportunities they have seen for making it cleaner, […]

Evidence: a crucial element of the final decision in any legal case. But what constitutes evidence? Once upon a time it was a stack of papers to be pored over by solicitor or counsel, or perhaps a small amount of video footage or audio. But over the last 20 years it […]